In undergrad about 8 or 9 years ago, a friend brought an old version of the board game in and we played part of a game (we didn't have time to finish). After that, we talked endlessly about starting a game but it took until 2004 for us to organize one online. So I played FtF first, but only a partial game, and the rest of them have been online in one form or another.

Technically, I have a game from five years ago where the GM just stopped responding...longest Diplomacy game ever?

haha. This is funny. I thought that you actually hated the site. Well, I started by playing the actual board game with my friends in high school. We would devote a night and play through a game. Now that I am in college, I still play the board game, but I now mainly play on this site because it is less time consuming.

Ban HIM! Ban HIM! he turned me into a newt! how dare he utter such words of tyrany! So if you are a person who hats this site and should get banned you are a multiaccounter.Well if you hate this site and you also hate diplomacy. and what do you do with diplomacy? you play it. and you also play instuments? and what do you do with instuments? you play them in a band correct? yes yes and what do you do with a Band you fight and break up right? and so you also fight and break up with girlfriends correct? yes yes So logically if you have a girlfriend you are a multaccounter. and thus sould get BANNED, correct? BAN HIM!

A newt huh? At the risk of rehashing somebody else's material, did it perchance get better?

Always loved board games but always had trouble finding people to play with and when I stumbled across this game and fell in love with out i search online and here it was phpdiplomacy.net (angelic choir and softorgan in the backround and suddenly light breaks into the room and we are blinded in awe).

Well if i was a newt then how could I crush all at diplomacy?

I started playing in high school. A few of us used to get together and play. I haven't played ftf in a while, but hopefully I will again soon. I think I just googled diplomacy and found this site. =) I <3 it. =D

"I had a dream about winning as Italy the other night- what's wrong with me?"

Whats wrong with you?
Italy can never win - there is where you err... :)

I'm starting to hate it, too... I've only ever drawn Italy, Austria or Turkey. I'm starting to think it's rigged.

In all seriousness, I picked up a copy of the board game last year and got hooked. My problem is finding people to play against IRL.

Actually, it is rigged--It's just rigged to make it LESS likely that you'll pick a country you've just played. You're very unlucky indeed, then. : )


I found my father's copy a couple years ago, read the rules, thought it was the most boring game in the world, and then forgot about it. Then last February a friend told me about this site and convinced me to play a game. I've loved it ever since.

i played for the first time at gen con (gaming convention here in the US) a little over a year ago. i played as italy and won by an 's' when austria failed to support a german move into my center. after that, we were super hooked and started our own site which never got off the ground and i came here.

im a huge game fan so im hooked for life (something my wife hates)

discovered it first year of college.
got my first face-to-face, but lost as germany and eneded up drunk.

played online a bit later...

Someone I know from another online game, who played a lot of FtF himself, was looking for people to join a game with him here and I thought I'd give it a shot. After a couple of days and a lot of mistakes, I got completely addicted and now I think it's the best thing I've ever played (apart from Baldur's Gate...).

I had played the traditional tabletop variant for several years before discovering this site.

Tabletop / face-to-face play is very different, because you can often see who is talking to who.

Saw a friend playing it online one day, and did a little research on a lark. Found numerous webdiplomacy sites, and settled on this one, the one most obviously superior to all the others.

I've learned how to play when I was about 15 (a long, long time ago) on the old wooden blocks board game (the one where the directions said France was light blue, but the blocks were a sickly pale green). I immediately (okay two or so years later) taught the game to a group of friends and quickly got to the point that I could not survive a game becasue their first order of business was to take me out and then play the rest :-/ I found this website earlier this year after playing on another on that was not near so good.

**Side note my WWI history class in college was a breeze because of this game and a flight simulator called "Knights of the Sky". I barely had to study at all.

I played first at a camp, but too many people and so there were two of us to a country, I was turkey and we were doing pretty well, moving up the Balkans and such, and then my team mate wrote the orders down wrong and cost us 3 SC's in one turn, I was so disgusted I left the game, So I don't know how it ended. Then I searched this website when I got home, fell in love, and have had an off and on relationship with this site ever since. This Saturday I'm organizing my First FtF game in 3 years at my house, I have 5 for sure players not counting myself. One other is a maybe, If you live in Fort Myers florida let me know and you should come play. I promise pizza and soda. :)

I started playing Diplomacy in high school about 20 years ago. (wow, that was painful to write...) Anyway it turns out my dad and uncle had played so I ended up getting my uncles old copy with the wooden blocks. Played it off and on during college. Since it was hard to find 7 people to play for an extended length of time I stopped playing. This summer a friend found this site and now I waste a lot of my company's time by being here!

I'd never played diplomacy before someone introduced me to this site this past Feb; and admittedly, it's been quite addictive for me. I'm trying to better balance out real life/diploming life, and like grumble, I waste a reasonable amount of my company time here. However, I intend to acknowledge Diplomacy with helping on my "Personal Influence" leadership competency. That justifies it, right?

Played a couple of games at Uni (xx years ago) and thought it was an interesting game. Discovered the FB app about 2 years ago, and got hooked. Then ported over here a few months back.

I'd never heard of the diplomacy board game before and accidentally stumbled on this site while looking for turn based strategy games and was immediately addicted to the game.

@grumble - try having had your 25th high school reunion this past summer, I started in 8th grade about 30 years ago.

I had the most INSANE world history class four years ago or so, sophmore in HS... it really was like a mini-UN.

I'm a Jew, pro-America and Zionist.
Right next to me is this kid from Afghanistan that hated Jews and Israel.
Behind me, a calm, laid back Americnan-gamer type.
In front of me, the black guy in the class (he was about the only black GUY... a few girls, but they never talked, so he was representative of them.)
The Asians sat across from us on one side of the room.
Next to them on that side, the Hispanics.
White girls clustered together.

It was NUTS- this was a world history class, and we had a young teacher, an awesome guy who encouraged debates... and did we have them!

On EVERYTHING!

So when we got to WWI, we pulled out Diplomacy to play. I got elected by my classmates mostly by winning over the shy girls and a few jokster guys (I'm good at doing this) and because I knew history backwards and fowards.

I was England...
France- The Muslim kid.
Italy- A cheerleader, good grades... basically a WASP.
Germany- Blonde, brooding, quiet... fun girl to play against, the darkhorse
Russia- Leader of the Lady Hispanics
Austria- Leader of the Guy Hispanics
Turkey- The American Gamer kid

And we were OFF.

My navies are off and running, the Scands, Belgium, and then finishing off Russia while Turkey lapped up Austria (the Hispanic Guy and Girl tried to ally, but had a huge fight, and came to Turkey and I, respectively... and we both knew to stab.)

Holland.
Moscow.
Denmark.
All of France (the guy has one navy left.)
Portugal.

It's looking like a huge clash, Turkey and I are huge, he's a land power, I have more fleets than the rest of the board combined... the others are suing for peace, but I'm not having it, I say, no peace with the Muslim kid, not after all those Holocaust jokes and talk of destroying Israel (and this was just before the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, so it was heated all right.)

And then it happened- WASP girl in Italy started SUPPORT HOLDING that one French navy in Portugal.

She said peace for all... wouldn't let me get him...

I spent TWO YEARS, four full turns, just trying to take that sucker out...

And then, along comes 1917, the teacher's had enough- America "enters" the war, so he just takes all the units agains me.

I had 14 centers- I had 6 when I called a draw... and the Muslim kid was still in Portugal.

But I was addicted, and joined the site. :)

Epilogue:

Two years later a frien of mine,a Jew, BEGGED me to help her in Diplomacy in her class; she was Italy, and two turns in had managed to someow gain Tunis and lose Venice. To make matters worse, a good friend of mine was playing as Turkey, and was the Napoleon on the board- taking EVERYTHING and steamrolling towards Italy.

Two years ago I would've tried to meet him head on with allies.

This time I fucked with a kid's head.

France was this paranoid kid, somehow he was leader but his whole group questioned him. It was so easy to play on his fears, play on the anger of his #1 (who hated him) and get orders messed up, and done MY way. French fleets (to the HUGE surprise of the teacher, since I wasn't "supposed" to help) suddenly sailed away from the deathgrip they had Italy in and sailed to what I called a hostile England. He bought my "if we go, you'll be killed by Turkey!" line perfectly, and there's the support... and my friend in Turkey couldn't believe I was holding him, and now resistance was building against HIM- his window of opportunity had shut, he would not win the board. To cap it all, by the time France's paranoid kid realized he'd been had, his navies were so far away they could't get anywhere close in time- and, much to EVERYONE's amazement (and my friend in Turkey's anger, he wanted me to help him just conquer everyone) Italy shared a good draw.

Isn't Diplomacy fun? ;)