Try French units in Pie and WMS. I find that is very wffective in discouraging a Lepanto.

Ugh.

A win is a win. A draw is a draw. While there are differences of opinion as to the relative value of each, it is either disingenuous or nonsensical to conflate the two.

Player 1's move succeeds 2v1v1. A plurality, not a majority, will do.

Good suggestions, and there is a chance you could pull it out. That said, things are obviously not looking good. If, ultimately, you go down, my advice is to die well. Do not go gentle into that good night. Throw yourself against whoever pissed you off the most, if it makes you feel better. Make eve...

A fairly minor set of further modifications to v2.1. Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia are combined in just plain old Mongolia. Ferghana is merged into Mongolia. Taklamakan, a new non SC province, is separated from the southern portions of Dzungaria and the former southern Ferghana, This was done to...

Arrogance gets you stabbed, too. Everything in moderation, in Dip as in life, is often though not always for the best.

Dawn of the Enlightenment is now MUCH closer to final form. I will skip noting purely cosmetic stuff (name changes, border adjustments which don’t change adjacency relationships) and just go through the material changes. Here are the changes in no particular order—hopefully I haven’t forgotten anyth...

Not specifically about the game of Diplomacy, but the military classics can greatly improve strategic, tactical and diplomatic (small 'd') thinking. My suggested reading list (some of which are MUCH easier to find than others), in no particular order: A Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi. Book ...

Damn straight. Opening theory has its place, but Dip ain't chess. The personalities of the other players and the in-game situation and relationships are far, FAR more important.

The longest running big 'zines on line are the Pouch and Diplomacy World. Start at the first issue of each and plow through.

Specific, in-game considerations trump any general advice, but in general, lie only when the lie is necessary to materially advance your interests. The less you lie, the more surprising, and therefore the more effective your lies are likely to be. And as to the quality of the lies, the communication...

To expound on my point, simplicity, in addition to being boring, is the enemy of the solo, unless you are talking about a final push where the player attempting to solo has reduced matters to a purely tactical exercise. You want inefficiency (where inefficiency means other players turning in subopti...

All other things being equal, and they never are, if you are trying for a solo, it is best if no one gets killed at all.

A unit cannot cut support on an attack on itself. So the attack would be successful The exception being if the supporting unit is dislodged by the attack. For example: Russia: A Ber-Kie F Bal-Supports A Ber-Kie A Pru-Ber France: A Mun-Ber F Kie-Supports A Mun-Ber Since F Kie is dislodged 1v2, its s...

Annoyance does not cause me to be more likely to stab someone. Not at all. But it does make it more enjoyable to stab them.

Absent some other specific circumstance, a unit entering a province has no effect on a unit leaving that province.

90kicvesb wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 17, 2019 6:25 am

A unit cannot cut support for an attack on itself. Army C is dislodged.

Actually it can, if the attack succeeds in dislodging the supporting enemy unit.

I tell the truth as much as I can, as often as I can. It makes the lies SOOOOOO much more effective!

Tugster wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 25, 2019 1:19 am

David, my real name is Doug Burgoyne.

Doug, old buddy! How the hell are you? Always nice to see another Cat23/ACD veteran with his hand still in it!

I'm sorry but when I played back 70's and 80's, seems the game was played with more honor. You didn't have to lie to win. The game was more like chess and you had to think about moves not simply lie. Has the ability of the average gamer dropped so low, that lying to gain the advantage has become th...