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Setup Diplomacy should best be played by 7 players. Every player chooses one of the 7 major powers in Europe: England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia and Turkey. All Players start with 3 or 4 supply centers and these are called 'home centers'.
Description of Avalon Hill's Diplomacy
1999, the year Avalon Hill's Diplomacy was released on Windows. Made by Meyer Glass Interactive Ltd. and published by Hasbro Interactive, Inc., this strategy game is available for free on this page.
Comments and reviews
Trek2021-02-081 point
Do we know if there is a version of this game that will work on Windows 10? I have it on CD but it won't run on my Windows 10 PC.
John2019-04-020 point
I have the original game on a CD. Is there any way for the game to run on Windows 10?
Capt. Obvious2018-06-302 points
Possibly one of the greatest board games ever. highly underplayed and unappreciated; with many people playing more simplistic games such as RISK.
This game is best played against other players, with the greatest enjoyment from the max of 6. All games eventually boil down to 2 players so even a head to head game can be enjoyable in a strategic sense, with a unique resolution system for conflicts. This is the simple aspect of the game. One has armies represented by a single cube, and navies, represented by a single rectangle. Only one army or navy can occupy a zone at a time, and battles are resolved by strength of supporting units.
eg. I have an army in Edinburgh and wish to capture enemy occupied Wales. My single unit cannot capture as there is a 1:1 ratio of strengh, and get pushed back (if possible) to my starting position. However if I support my Edinburgh army with an army positioned in Liverpool the ratio becomes 2:1 in my favor, and my army moves in, removing the enemy army from the board, or pushing him to an adjacent territory. I then receive additional armies at the end of the turn depending on the number of territories I still hold, thus expanding my military. As I said: simple. It is interesting in the aspect that all orders are issued by players in secret at the beginning of the round and resolved at the same time. You really have to be able to analyze the board and predict what other players will try to do in order to make any progress at all. Simple mechanic, with complex strategies. Most excellent.
However where this game really shines is the diplomacy aspect. Alliances can be formed in secret or in the open, and involve supporting each other's units or strategies in the upcoming round(s). ie. I support your fleet in the North Sea vs. Germany if you support my army in Sevastopol vs. Russia. But since conflict resolution occurs at the end of the orders phase, you never know if your 'ally' kept their word or not. The key to winning is to betray your ally at key moments. Hence, Diplomacy.
I have played the computer version of this game and it is reasonably playable single player as the AI doesn't need to be very sophisticated to be competitive, but is definitely best vs. actual players. If I remember correctly it does have a play by email option if you have strategic minded gamer friends.
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Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress..The Colonial Diplomacy variant of diplomacy follows the most of the rulesas standard diplomacy with a modified map, and (someday) with 3 optionalrules which can be set on or off at the GM's desire. The game is the firstcommercially published true simple Diplomacy variant.
Variant Rules:
1) Except as noted below, the standard rules of play for Diplomacy apply.
2) There are 7 great powers. The starting units are as follows:
B-BRITAIN
C-CHINA
F-FRANCE
H-HOLLAND
J-JAPAN
R-RUSSIA
T-TURKEY
3) There are three optional rules
4) CEBU looks like a body of water with islands inside of it, which isaccurate. It is analogous to Kiel, Constantinople or Denmark in thestandard diplomacy.
Diplomacy Game Convoy
5) The Caspian Sea, Lake Baykal and any other unnamed space isnot passable.
6) There are 58 supply centers. The victory criterion is possession of 30supply centers at the end of any Fall retreat.
Damian marley mr marley zip. 7) The game begins in 1870.
8) This version of Colonial is based on the Moulmein Convention, so landbridges have been added between Otaru and Akita, and Sakalin and Otaru.Note that this may not be implemented on your particular Judge, so thatany moves generated by Realpolitik using these land bridges may not beaccepted.
Province Abbreviations:
All land province are abbreviated by the first three letters of the province,except the following:
Sea Space abbreviations are less obvious, but there is a pattern.
All sea spaces which take the form Sea of #Something or Gulf of ##Somethingtake the abbreviation so# or go#. For example, Gulf of Manaar is 'gom' andSea of Japan is 'soj'.
All sea spaces which take the form ###something Sea or ###something Gulftake the abbreviation ###s. For example, Persian Gulf is 'perg' and SuluSea is 'suls'.
All sea spaces which end in Ocean or no water designation (such as LowerPacific) are abbreviated by their initials. For example, Lower Pacific is'lp' and West Indian Ocean is 'wio'.
If there is no conflict, you may be able to use initials even if the searules say otherwise. For example, the Okhotsk Sea is 'okhs' but 'os' willalso work.
Optional Rules
The Trans-Siberian Railroad
Even though the Trans-Siberian Railroad was opened in 1903, it plays an important role in Colonial Diplomacy (1870). The Trans-Siberian railroad (TSR) stretches from Moscow to Vladivostok, and can only be used by the Russian player. It is used to move from any space along the railroad to another one.Orders are written with the TSR as a 'first target' for the move. The move of A Mos to Vla is written: 'A Mos - TSR - Vla'.
Units using the TSR may travel 'through' other Russian units along the TSR. However, if a unit of another nationality blocks the way of a unit using the TSR, the TSR unit will stand off as normal at the place it is blocked.Example: Russia moves A Mos - TSR - Vla. China moves A Mon - Kra. There will be a stand-off in Kra. The chinese army bounces back to Mon. The russian army stops in Omsk.
Units using the TSR can attack another space (with support, if needed) along the TSR if
1. The province is unoccupied at the start of the turn2. The province is occupied at the start of the turn, but is made empty by other moves during that turn.
This means that if Russia orders a unit to Vladivostok from Moscow and supports it, the Chinese army in Vladivostok will still not be forced to retreat as long as it holds in Vladivostok. Units using the TSR can not attack occupied spaces. It is still a legal order, since China may leave Vladivostok in the same given turn. If the unit stays, the Russian army will end up in Irkutsk.
Egypt and The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal allows fleets to move directly from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, without first passing through Egypt. This is only possible if allowed by a unit standing in Egypt. This unit must start and end the turn in Egypt in order to make the fleet move legal. The move must also be granted permission by the unit standing in Egypt. This is no big deal if for example Turkey has a unit in Egypt and a fleet in the Mediterranean which he moves to the Red Sea. But if another power wants to use the Suez canal, the unit in Egypt must specify that it gives its permission.
This is done by simply writing a support order for the move. F Egy s ENGLISH F REDS - MEDS.
Egypt has the same function as Kiel, Constantinople or Denmark in standard dip. It is concidered having a continous coast towards both the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a British home supply center. It counts as a supply center for any country except China. If China is in possession of Hong Kong, it counts as a non-supply neutral territory.
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