Diplomacy game

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.