Forvthat matter, most would view the Bohemian crusher as possibly crazy but the opening of it doesn't look that crazy. And if Italy does a crazy opening by what I would omagine is your definition, he has no shot at an SC nor does England and they both take two moves to reach an open SC but everyone else has one bordering a home SC.

No, I mean ridiculous. Examples would be bouncing your units, moving to useless places, etc.

I'm running a Gunboat for Idiots right now with the stipulation that opening moves cannot be in the top ten openings on Vaftstats.

Real original idea though. I always thought über conservatives like yourself would rather die than get a free ride off someone else's work. But what do I know?

No, 2nd, they just don't want people to get a free ride off of theirs. It's a double standard.

This is about press, not gunboat. Good ol' cutthroat capitalist competition of ideas obviously.

I actually didn't know you had a gunboat with the same idea, as I am not a mindreader.

It's a reasonably well-established variant series one of its iterations was advertised on this forum not so long ago.

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It's really fun for two turns, then it just becomes a regular Diplomacy game. Whoever had the "worst" moves in the beginning often has the worst game and gets killed. Bad moves also tend to work out better for certain powers, like France or Russia.

From 2WL's thread ( http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=972363&page-thread=1#threadPager )
"Anybody who opens with a "real" opening will be ganged up on and beaten, followed by a six way draw."

From this thread:
"Anyone who opens with a "real" opening will be ganged up on and beaten, followed by a six way draw."

Also from this thread:
"I actually didn't know you had a gunboat with the same idea, as I am not a mindreader."

I am wondering if Sbyvl36 is really Fareed Zakaria.

Wait, there are "real" openings? Damn, I should probably read about that!

Mapu: Mute.

You're going to have everyone muted pretty soon if that puts you past a breaking point.

Thank you, bo_sox. That's my first ever interaction with this guy. lol

Sbyvl is the new TC.

Sbyvl doesn't hold a candle to TC. He's probably a lot like TC in elementary school.

As an anti-government spending advocate, Sbyvl, I'm surprised you enjoy Diplomacy so much. After all, building all those new fleets and armies costs money, and that money has to come from somewhere, right? It doesn't just appear out of nowhere. I mean, Bulgaria doesn't have that high of a GDP, so it can't possibly cover the costs of building Turkey a second fleet. Same with Norway. Fucking peasants. Now, I can see taking Belgium or Holland, but Greece? Come on, are you kidding me? Lazy jerks.

Dude.. no place in Africa could ever cover an Italian lepanto fleet.

Not even Italy…

I have an idea for Austria's opening. They could simply hold position. I think I had an Austria do that in a game once upon a time.

And no, he wasn't a CD

Cool story.