Is D Marie Antoinette?

Interesting format. I've never played it that way, with the other powers' units on the board and holding. I imagine that would make it a very different game. For example, could France support-hold the German army in Munich, and then Austria would need 3 to dislodge it?

Really? In FvA I find France's ability to build fleets on two different coasts is a very powerful resource. True, but Austria has other advantages. It sits next to the Balkans/Turkey and has access to a free stockpile of 7 SCs. Austria often wins by grabbing 18 centers before France can deploy its ...

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GAL was ordered to move, so the 3 support-hold orders all failed. A support-hold order is only valid if the supported unit doesn't move. That meant an attack from WAR with a force of 2 against a defense on GAL of 1, and the attack succeeded. If GAL had been ordered to hold, it would have been 2 agai...

Austria has a slight advantage in FvA, yes. I have heard 55/45. It's probably a bit more than that when the players are evenly matched.

I really like the old map. I’m used to “read the board” like that and cannot get used to the new one. The fact that I can’t see the whole map on my phone screen doesn’t help… Is there a way to mangais the access to the old big map with the middle button? Second this ^^^ For whatever reason, I can't...

[/quote] Do you think there was any difference at all in the performance before / after? [/quote] At first I thought so. The after version seemed improved. But then, after 2 more games, I'm not sure. It's not easy to separate out the poor opening from sub-par play generally. In 1v1, if one player ge...

Kestas, Fairbot2's overall record since you made the AI switch is only 15 wins and 20 losses. Plus a bunch of draws (mostly incomplete games). Is it possible for DORA to perform that badly? The DORA AI paper (Bakhtin et al. 2021) says DORA won all 13 games as Austria and 73% as France against top F...

Looks like you knew more than its opening. This and other data are leading me to doubt my original conclusion about the new AI. I don't see how a sophisticated AI on the level of DORA gets smoked like that. Or like this: https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=550545#gamePanel https://webdiplomacy...

FYI the AvF bot is currently down, going to replace with the DORA configuration over the weekend That's great news, Kestas. I'm already looking forward to my thrashing(s) at DORA's hands! Well let's not count our chickens.. but I'm running the new config now, interested to see if you notice a diffe...

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Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:48 am

FYI the AvF bot is currently down, going to replace with the DORA configuration over the weekend

That's great news, Kestas. I'm already looking forward to my thrashing(s) at DORA's hands!

Kestas, I don't think Fairbot2 is the same AI as the old (2021-22) Fairbot (now "FB"). There's the opening. Fairbot2 has played that Russian/Albanian opening in all 21 of its games as Austria. Even beyond that, it's not super-difficult to predict Fairbot2's moves and outguess it. FB was brutal on th...

I've run into the issue of the bots doing nothing after I've selected 'Ready'. Am I correct in understanding that the bots get 72 hours to make their moves? If yes, why? You have 72 hours to make your moves. The bots make theirs more or less immediately. The bots were down for a stretch a day or tw...

Is this your essay or ChatGPT's?

This is called the Russian Opening (Albanian Variation) in FvA. Both my 2017 openings tier list and RoganJosh's (better) 2020 tier list put it at the very lowest tier that's still considered viable in high level play. Very interesting. In your 2017 article, you say, "This opening is strictly worse ...

Kestas, this is excellent, thank you for spending the time to get this up and running again! I've started a game against Fairbot 2, and it seems like the old "FB" so far. It's only 1902, so a bit hard to tell. One difference I've noticed already, it seems to want to play a strange opening as Austria...

I'm not sure how I missed this post, but I'm happy to provide some feedback on the new Fairbot. It's not broken, first of all. In fact, it's response time is quite a bit faster. The old Fairbot would often take 10-15 minutes to enter orders in the mid-to-late game stages. The new Fairbot enters orde...

It seems to me they have toned down the bot's skill level considerably. The old Fairbot (FB) was close to unbeatable. It played over 5,000 games and won 80% of them. It drew another 12%. I suspect the majority of those draws were games it would have won had they continued to a solo or stalemate. The...

^^^^^ This.

If you go to Games / My Games, the new game you created should be there.