Sounds like true chaos.. I can't imagine that it would be possible for someone to be able to win.

In what sense would the player who *started* as Turkey still actually be "Turkey" if he was controlling England's units and some other player was controlling Turkey's units??

No, no one has done this, yes it would be possible, though a decent amount of work for a mod to manage. If you get enough interested people email [email protected] and we'll work something out.

Is the rotation order deterministic or random?

Jmo,

This may be a good game for the Dummies.

As "turkey" controls the other countries, he'd do so in a manner beneficial to Turkey. He also would get the build/disband/retreat phases for his own. Also he'll get his own cycle naturally.

Maybe only the fall turn would cycle?

I feel it would very much amp up the Diplomacy required so you would need to influence so many more aspects of the game. Alliances would be even more crucial.

Oh hmm, I was thinking a country swap every year, though the dummies would be another way to go about it.

Order or rotation being, 1-7 (alphabetical). You still own your "home" country.

Turkey, when they control Russia, may move out of the DMZ. Italy, when they control Russia may move back in DMZ. etc... for that turn Turkey would be propositioning Italy to keep out of Black Sea..

Maybe too confusing!

This sounds like utter nonsense to me, I'm afraid. Good luck to anyone who tries it!

the problem is, if turkey is winning with 17 SC and ive got turkey but cant get 18, and the next guy would for sure get it, im completely sabotaging so the next guy cant win

I think the point is that each person is one country and one country only. They want that country to do as well as possible. However, each year you switch which countries' orders you put in. So you would be playing for the best of your one country the entire time, and your press would be for that too. A solo for country x is a win for the person who originally had country x, not for the person who 'controlled' it when the orders were put in. I think it's an interesting idea, rather complicated, but interesting. I think you would have to control your country more than 1/7th of the time though.

so it will probably turn into a draw. Not uncommon

I would NOT be a fan. Last thing I'd want is to pass control if my emire that I worked hard for just to see that position screwed. This game would have no real sense of ownership.

SD, yeah you get it.

There's a board game called Pandemic where a phase in the game's turn (Epidemic?) will randomly & possibly exponentially grow the viruses. This is a similar concept of trying to achieve your goal with an external influence actively fighting against you.

Maybe best for f2f, if at all.

I've played a sort of similar thing before:

Everyone submits orders for every unit. The order that has the greatest number of votes is the one carried out.

Honestly, I would be far more interested in playing mendax's proposed version than the one you suggest ag7433. I think the game would end up stalemating far too quickly, and would be rather frustrating.

The voted moves thing interests me because you can try to mess up another alliance's moves, but they can also lobby with players to try and protect the moves.

This would be really hard to keep balanced, but its an interesting idea. If the rotation order was set in stone nations like Russia or Austria would have bigger advantages (or disadvantages) as they would have more neighbors and would be able to more directly affect their home territories, whereas England or Turkey wouldn't have as much influence.

And it doesn't seem like anyone has any incentive to play in a non-trolley way, especially if there is a set rotation order. If I know that France won't control me as England for another few years, I may as well just screw with him as much as possible in the mean time.

And if the rotation order is random, that brings up an even more obvious problem with the game just being completely stupid. What if I'm England and I move Turkey 3 turns in a row?

An interesting idea to consider, but it doesn't seem like it'd make practical sense.