FWIW, I agree that it is wrong to allow someone removed from a game for breaking the rules (missing more than the allowed number of moves), to get back in and face effectively no penalty. He may be allowed into OTHER games as long as he is not banned, but should be allowed back into the game in whic...

Here's the sandbox I use: http://gamesbyemail.com/Games/Politics/Judge

Click "clear board" and drag units to where you want them, then give them orders.

Thank you so much for doing this. I appreciated looking for my first entry in the Ghost Ratings.

To me its counterintuitive that what would normally be a bounce in Province A becomes a loss for me there because of a win in Province B.

Thank you for those references. It seems counterintuitive that I (as attacking Turkey) am penalized but losing Black Sea, only because I was successful in taking Sev.

How does this happen? Russia: Diplomacy The army at Warsaw hold. (dislodged) The fleet at Sevastopol move to Black Sea. (fail) (dislodged) The fleet at Rumania move to Black Sea. The fleet at Gulf of Bothnia move to Baltic Sea. The army at Budapest move to Rumania. (fail) How does the Rumania fleet ...

All games were apparently automatically paused. Can they now be automatically unpaused? At least non-live games.

No one REQUIRES you to check in every day. You CHOOSE to do so when you enter a game with a certain phase length, a certain number of excused missed turns, or a certain Reliability Rating.

I'm happy to switch to the four player variant: I/R, A/F, T/G, E by itself

Thanks Dioptre. I consider the rules set. Looking forward to the game starting.

Whatever the rules are going to be, I think all players have to agree that Dioptre (who started the game) gets the final call, but he should announce the rules publicly, here in the forum, before the game starts. After game starts, players are anonymous and we won't know who Dioptre is. Nor would it...

I tend to agree that the alliances could be better assigned. Russia, for example, starts with an extra unit, but that is counteracted by its having to defend both the south and the west. With Turkey as a guaranteed ally, there is none of this "arranged bounce into BLA" nonsense, and the Juggernaut g...

This game is up to 5 players now.

So is your position, based on your reading of Victorian history, that we today still talk about "The Hun" or "The Kaffir" as a monolithic generalized stereotype in the exact same way as the Victorians did? Or that the Victorians never used such language?

This is typical of Victorian English thought - that foreigners' personality traits could be discerned just by their identification as "the Australian", "the Canadian", "the Hun" or "the Kaffirs." This train of thought could not conceive of these people as having individuality or free will.

Bumping this up, hoping to get 4 more players for this cool-sounding game.

Minister, how are you posting here, but not entering your orders in our game?

It means that country has not entered any orders yet.

I think this is a cool idea.

Pity the guy that gets Germany.

I don't think you did anything wrong in joining a game for novices when you are more experienced. Your point level is open information and everyone can protect themselves accordingly. You may have run afoul by joining a game with your friend, if your off-game relationship with that person was not di...