Diplomacy turn 3

Newspaper for turn 3

The purpose of the newspaper was to  put a faint "real world" echo of the game in to players minds to keep everyone engaged and entertained.

Diplomacy Game

Turn 3

Countries build or lose units at the end of the Fall turn of each year. Basically the second turn of the year which is always the even numbered turn.

The map below shows the map for the beginning of turn 3 after the builds at the end of turn 2.

The three new armies of Germany appear ominiously on the middle of the board. Russia, starting with 4 units, also now has 6 units and each other country has gained 1.  A glimmer of alliances start to appear, Germany Austria and Russia seem to have a cordon sanitaire to allow them to focus on other areas.

Outcomes of turn 3.

Austria has gained Greece and Turkey is beginning to look besieged by Austria, Russia and Italy. The Black Sea fleet of Turkey suffers the first retreat of the game being forced to retreat from the Black Sea to Armenia.


The Italian player entered into the spirit of the the times by issuing his diplomatic notes in a very stylish manner. This note to the Austrian Emporer was the beginning of negotiations for convoy of the Italian army in Tunis to Syria, this frst note mentions Smyrna but that was deemed unlikely to succeed.  We had an average of 40 diplomatic notes between countries each turn, not all were so colourful.

Diplomacy Game

Outcome turn 2


Things start to hot up as players vie for different provinces.

Austria and Turkey contest Greece. Two successful convoys occur.  One give Tunis to Italy and the other gives Norway to England. Germany has conquered 3 territories.

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Outcome of turn 1.

The essence of a Diplomacy game is the discussions between players in regard to alliances joint actions, no-go agreements and non aggression pacts. For the first turn we had 47 messages between the players, and that was spectaclular because in the first few turns most players were concentrating on taking unoccupied resource territories of the small countries like Belgium, Serbia and Greece, and not fighting each other.

Here you can see France has taken Spain, Austria has taken Serbia, and Germany has taken Holland.

 

The Times for the beginning turn 2

The paper reflects things that might have happened in the real world, mirroring what happened in the game. Each country will over time  have an atrocity story so the umpire is not picking on any partcular player, or country. It also has some other story lines for fun.

Diplomacy by email.

Diplomacy is a 7 player game of european domination beginning spring, 1901.

Of the seven players for this game all but one are club members.

There are 2 turns per year with the second turn ending in a build phase. The simplicity of the game itself is augmented by the negotiations which take place prior to similtaneous disclosure of movement orders, hence the name "Diplomacy". The negotiations are the core of the game. Negotiations are carried out by email messages between the players sent through the umpire. The idea is that no one knows which country is commanded by which club member.

This is the starting map on the home made board.

To start the diplomatic juices rolling a newspaper was written to set the scene and comment on future developments.
As the game goes on the map will reflect changing fortunes and there will be commentary, via the newspaper of the imaginary background. hopefully players will also make comments regarding the action.