It seems like the best strategy for dealing with carebears is to:
1. Identify them
2. Pretend to be one and form a "carebear alliance"
3. Stab them at the end for the win.
Why can't that work?
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- Tue Feb 08, 2022 7:37 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Strategy
- Topic: The Carebear Conundrum
- Replies: 108
- Views: 32359
- Wed Feb 02, 2022 9:17 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Strategy
- Topic: How to break a stalemate line
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7567
Re: How to break a stalemate line
I think you had a chance to solo. If Western Med was supporting Spain, there is nothing you could do to take it, but since Spain only had 1 support, I would have taken it from Mar, giving up Mar temporarily. That would force-disband a French fleet from Spain. Then you could take back Mar from Spain ...
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:09 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: Cutting support against self
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5767
Re: Cutting support against self
The dislodged unit can't support the move, so the armies would bounce in Bulgaria.
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 5:25 pm
- Forum: New Games
- Topic: seeking players for gunboat with EOG discussion so we can improve
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28739
Re: seeking players for gunboat with EOG discussion so we can improve
Just a suggestion here. It might be useful to keep some notes (even a journal) throughout the game so that by the time we get to the end we actually remember what we were thinking earlier. At least I'll need to do that.
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:00 pm
- Forum: New Games
- Topic: seeking players for gunboat with EOG discussion so we can improve
- Replies: 132
- Views: 28739
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:09 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: Gunboat Stats
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10167
Re: Gunboat Stats
Great stats! A few things I found, though I'm not sure if all of these numbers are statistically significant? In PPSC games (all prior to 2017), Turkey was the best power (.23 avg share) In 2017-2018, France and Turkey were about tied for the best (.19) with Germany 3rd (.16) In the last 2 years, Fr...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:03 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Official webDip Holiday: On the first day of Xmas, my zultar gave to me
- Replies: 150
- Views: 81672
Re: Official webDip Holiday: On the first day of Xmas, my zultar gave to me
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- Sat Dec 05, 2020 11:31 am
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: You've Never Used Turkey's Best Opening
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7319
Re: You've Never Used Turkey's Best Opening
Thank you for this article. I've been close to posting a question about Turkey's diplomatic options. It seems to me too often his three neighbors are just trying to knock him out early.
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:07 pm
- Forum: New Games
- Topic: Variant rules game for players who like co-operation
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6628
Re: Variant rules game for players who like co-operation
I just found this thread recently. I wonder how did the game go? Is there any interest in trying a similar one? I'm thinking of some variation to the previous one: 1. Play on a 10-player map (Modern Europe or America) with 5 teams 2. Each player knows who their teammate is but the teams are otherwis...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:54 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Bots don't seem to ever want to stop a solo and get a draw
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7663
Re: Bots don't seem to ever want to stop a solo and get a draw
Any plans to retrain the bots with the latest game data? There has to be a lot of bot games where players soloed against them that could help them up their game a notch.
- Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:39 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: All Diplomacy Scoring Stinks
- Replies: 81
- Views: 22801
Re: All Diplomacy Scoring Stinks
I also had some criticism of the original article. It might be related to RJ's but probably coming from a different angle. Maybe I don't really understand how you could separate utility points that motivate in-game goals and skill points that guage relative ability of players in Diplomacy. Assuming ...
- Sat May 09, 2020 12:10 am
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: Shared wins?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9442
Re: Shared wins?
On the other hand, that is impressive diplomacy play for the senior partner to talk him into that.
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:52 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: 1v1 Puzzles
- Replies: 86
- Views: 20221
Re: 1v1 Puzzles
Would it be correct to interpret the solution for puzzle 3, "probability 1" as you are looking for some strategy by France that should allow him to win eventually? So Austria would have to continually guess right to perpetuity to stop it?
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 8:47 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: Two Tier Scoring
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22809
Re: Two Tier Scoring
I mainly just think there should be a more moderate scoring system between the two extremes we have today. On the one side DSS gives the same points to all draw participants. Number of centers completely doesn't matter. On the other extreme, SoS rewards large powers and penalizes small powers. In ma...
- Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:38 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: Two Tier Scoring
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22809
Re: Two Tier Scoring
Puscherbilbo's idea should be fairly easy for the masses to grasp and not too different from what I was proposing. But I think SoS can be at times hard to predict (without a calculator) how centers changing hands are going to affect the score, so PPSC would be better. In my opinion an 11-center powe...
- Wed Jan 01, 2020 4:51 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: Two Tier Scoring
- Replies: 62
- Views: 22809
Re: Two Tier Scoring
I think I would like this system as an improvement over the current options. One thing I'm not sure about is if you should disincentivize whittling down the draw so much as to allow the top player the same score regardless of draw size. After crunching some numbers I think my own preferred system mi...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:31 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Official webDip Holiday: On the first day of Xmas, my zultar gave to me
- Replies: 157
- Views: 56107
Re: Official webDip Holiday: On the first day of Xmas, my zultar gave to me
I got removed from the list. 1. Chaqa 2.Tobieee911 3. Roadhog 4. qrzy 5. chluke 6. hhgttg42 7. Teacon7 8. KalelChase 9. Doug7878 10. Nikola Maric Eto 11. teccles 12. Ssorenn 13. Dargorygel 14. Prince William 15. yavuzovic 16. Peregrine Falcon 17. Yigg 18. TrPrado 19. Temasek22 20. damo666 21. e.m.c^...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:06 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Official webDip Holiday: On the first day of Xmas, my zultar gave to me
- Replies: 157
- Views: 56107
Re: Official webDip Holiday: On the first day of Xmas, my zultar gave to me
1. Chaqa 2.Tobieee911 3. Roadhog 4. qrzy 5. chluke 6. hhgttg42 7. Teacon7 8. KalelChase 9. Doug7878 10. Nikola Maric Eto 11. teccles 12. Ssorenn 13. Dargorygel 14. Prince William 15. yavuzovic 16. Peregrine Falcon 17. Yigg 18. TrPrado 19. Temasek22 20. damo666 21. e.m.c^42 22. ND 23. CommanderByron ...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:48 pm
- Forum: Diplomacy Advice
- Topic: New YouTube Content
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5358
Re: New YouTube Content
Thanks for your contribution to online Diplomacy training. Although at first I was disappointed to find out it was mainly for beginners because I don't consider myself quite a beginner any more, I found a few lessons in it for me. I found your use of convoys in the early game interesting. I think I ...
- Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: Tournaments
- Topic: Introducing the first ever webDiplomacy Terminator Tournament!
- Replies: 274
- Views: 111294
Re: Introducing the first ever webDiplomacy Terminator Tournament!
This was an early pre-upgraded Bot game also with Turkey opening against Russia.
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=247371
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=247371