I was just reading about board games and came across Diplomacy, I thounght it looked cool so I found a place to play it online.

I'm sure the board could have been recreated, but I'm guessing the teacher just used it as an excuse to end the game -- a lot of the students weren't very good at the game and weren't too keen on the idea of getting a grade for playing it poorly.

Honestly, I'd already written down the positions before somebody knocked over the pieces. But I didn't exactly want to volunteer that information, as I was already considered kind of a nerd, so I just let it slide and began playing with friends.

My dad had a board (from his college days) and taught my brother and I how to play it. The two of us used the play the two player variant and I consistently got my butt kicked. I took the board when I went to college, taught a bunch of friends to play, and started playing by e-mail. Played a few games that way and found my way here.

Trying to convince my brother to join up and play...

heard about this on an internet forum i frequent. me and some online friends played a game here and i havent stopped since like may 28th........

curse you live games!!!!!!!

Like Onar, I started in what we called ConSim (for Conflict Simulation). We'd play Dip and minatures and A&A and a variety of other games. It was run by the military history teacher, a Vietnam Vet who clearly had some remaining issues from his days as an intel photographer riding in unarmed (but escorted) helicopters over VietCong territory. He talked of crapping his pants one day when one of his escorts (a couple of Cobras) suddenly did a midair turn on a dime, accelerated and dove, firing his missiles right under his OH-6A . Turns out an enemy craft had been hiding below and had snuck up on them.

I stumbled across the PC version of Diplomacy put out by Paradox in a GameStop bargain bin a few years ago. It sounded like Risk, so I gave it a try.

Family Reunion. :)

I was bored at work one day and googled something like 'strategy or diplomacy game' and this and playdip were the first two sites that came up. I had never heard of diplomacy before. :)

My dad had played it with a university prof when he was in university, and randomly one day bought a set on e-bay. But he never played it, so I took it and played the game with some friends of mine. It got mixed reviews from my friends ("It's totally unbalanced!" "Being Germany is impossible" "I lost therefore the game sucks *whine*") But I liked it, and began playing online.

Older brother tried to teach me to play when I was too young to really be able to play. I really liked the idea of no dice or chance and everyone submitting orders at the same time. Then when I started at my current company 15 years ago there were others that played by email internally and I got in on it and loved it as much as I expected. We only played a few games and I didn't really get going until I found this site.

High School Strategy Club, Lol.

I found it at my grandma's house.

Someone produced if at a school war-games club 30+ years ago. I still remember being stabbed by my best friend! But it fit me hooked. After first game I had a hex version of map inside my school folder with unit counters held on by blu-tack. Then a long pause until I discovered online Diplomacy about 10 years ago. Since then I have taught it to my son and his friends. Oh how I laughed as I watched kids experience being stabbed for the first time. The circle is complete.

fit = had

Damn predictive text and my fat fingers.

Too busy raising kids and working to play any games at all---then I finally had some time and saw my son had this really cool looking board he studied and then rushed online to see what hapenned. I thought it looked pretty interesting and he ended up teaching me how to play Now the circle is complete (backwards!)

First saw it at friends house and played as aus. A rookie as aus. Lasted 2 rounds.

My education professor had us play it in Seminar 2.

My brother taught me the game when I was in high school.

Was bored on wikipedia and typed in 'Grand Strategy Game', diplomacy was listed and then found it was free online here.

My friends and I used our teacher's board in WHAP when we had a free day. After we learned, we found this site and have been playing since May!

I played a FtF game at GenCon about 25 years ago. I signed up for PbM Diplomacy (2 weeks per turn) while I was there. The PbM-GM had a stamp with red ink which he used on each envelope - it was the outline image of a man with a knife being plunged into his back!

I read about it on another forum and I decided to try it.