Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

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Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Beneficial Insurance » Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:31 am

Similar to all the above, but I recieved this gem from knilgau recently. It was in the form of a paragraph but it boiled down to this:

Use your words first.

Try and be diplomatic before you try and send you armies/navies to steal someones stuff.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by KalelChase » Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:42 pm

Similar to the dots and lines above, one advice that changed how I look at the game is...

"Diplomacy is the art of getting the other players to move their pieces away from you."

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by hthefourth » Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:03 am

A thought from John Cleese: delay making creative decisions.

In Diplomacy terms: formulate multiple strategies and ruminate on them until the moment when you have to choose between them. If you're clever you can do this without having your press sound wishy-washy.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Doug7878 » Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:45 am

... I should say AFTER one of my early games ...

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Doug7878 » Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:44 am

Advice given to me by Hellenic Riot in one of my first few games on webDip:

1. Play against your opponent's two best move sets (ignore the many inferior moves he could make).
2. When evaluating your opponent's options, take into consideration the ending position each will leave him in.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Octavious » Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:29 am

I despair of some of the notions our overseas cousins have picked up over the years...

The fancy way to skin a cat is exactly the same as the non fancy way, except one does so whilst wearing a smoking jacket and holding a glass of claret.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by VillageIdiot » Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:15 am

The non-fancy way is to tie one end of string to doorknob and the other end to the cat's skin and slam the door.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by VillageIdiot » Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:11 am

Balki Bartokomous wrote:
Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:55 am
VillageIdiot wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:32 pm
If There's Two Ways To Skin The Cat, Pick The Fancy One 
the fancy one is less expected
What is the fancy way to skin a cat? Also, why are you trying to fake someone out about how you are going to skin a cat?
Using a magnetic hypersonic resonance decapacitor, deplete invisible bond holding together cat's skin molecules.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Balki Bartokomous » Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:55 am

VillageIdiot wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:32 pm
If There's Two Ways To Skin The Cat, Pick The Fancy One 
the fancy one is less expected
What is the fancy way to skin a cat? Also, why are you trying to fake someone out about how you are going to skin a cat?

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by VillageIdiot » Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:32 pm

If There's Two Ways To Skin The Cat, Pick The Fancy One 
the fancy one is less expected

A deal is a deal. No more, no less.
take deals serious, but a deal is not a contract and if it no longer makes sense break it

Have at least one friend and one enemy.
friends are important, players without enemies make neighbours nervous

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Octavious » Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:26 pm

Don't enter orders when drunk

Don't take the game too seriously

If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by David E. Cohen » Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:29 pm

Macca573 wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:25 am
David E. Cohen wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:46 am
Play every game of Diplomacy as if it will be the last game of Diplomacy you will ever play.
I would disagree. If it's your last game, you have no reputation to uphold, you can be a ruthless as you want. After a while, you'll get known as a mega-backstabber.

I disagree with your disagreement. :lol: Its more about effort than anything else. Leave nothing in the tank. After all, one never knows if the second part of the statement might be true.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by desdemona22 » Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:22 pm

I offer two more esoteric pieces of wisdom:
1) Play gunboat games if you are busy in real life (they take a lot less effort...)
2) Get creative and take chances with support moves if the opportunity presents itself, you can sometimes baffle an opponent when they are trying to bounce, turning the tides of the game (usually gunboat)

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by TheMadMonarch » Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:25 am

David E. Cohen wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:46 am
Play every game of Diplomacy as if it will be the last game of Diplomacy you will ever play.
I would disagree. If it's your last game, you have no reputation to uphold, you can be a ruthless as you want. After a while, you'll get known as a mega-backstabber.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by David E. Cohen » Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:46 am

Play every game of Diplomacy as if it will be the last game of Diplomacy you will ever play.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Rhinos » Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:32 pm

This advice may seem like common sense, but it's followed less often than it should be.

"Win when you can, draw when you must, and survive by any means necessary."

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Octavious » Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:21 am

God doesn't play dice. Neither should you
-Albert Einstein on the virtues of Diplomacy

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by fourofswords » Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:24 pm

"A move that is certain to be executed is worth a dozen gambles". - fourofswords

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by Josef IV » Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:38 pm

I am a new player so I can say what (I think) helped me – the advice could be “Study Diplomacy”. Experience from games helps of course, but by just playing and playing, you can make the same errors over and over again.

Go out there, read the huge game journals by BrotherBored, listed to Captainmemes 10 hour video, browse through the editions of Diplomacy Briefing, turn on the DBN, etc. etc. The rules teach you how to move the pieces, these resources teach you how to think about the game.

Re: Best Piece of Diplomacy Advice

by azcat1990 » Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:02 pm

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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