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Wargaming => The Modern World => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on October 04, 2018, 10:44:21 AM
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https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/classic-review-diplomacy/
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Diplomacy has a rep for causing friends to no longer be friends. I never played it though. I guess you need to have friends in the first place. :(
Actually I did, but we played Axis & Allies to death back in the day, which had it's own brand of back-stabbing.
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More than a few times the board was flipped while playing A&A back in the day. Of course, we did the same thing during games of Monopoly...
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We play Diplomacy to death in high school. Never lost a friend over it. We're all just untrustworthy basturds… >:D
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Until recently I still had a board from the 1960's, although the pieces had long since gone. The armies were plastic artillery-shell shaped and the fleets little wedge shaped ships.
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Never had a table flip in Diplomacy. Guess my lot was too passive-aggressive. Mostly if someone got butt-hurt, they'd either go nuclear and make whatever lopsided deal they could to hand the game to anyone except whoever it was who back-stabbed them or they'd just go entirely limp and plan nothing for their moves.
(I confess that I once flipped the A&A board while in high school. I attacked a convoy of 3 transports with 6 fighters and lost all six planes. I think I sunk one ship....maybe...)
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I had a dubious early game strategy in A&A as Germany where I'd invade England in a very early turn. It pissed off the guy playing the British (which I don't blame him because he maybe got one or two turns in before Germany crushed them, lol).
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Were there any zombies in that A&A game? :whistle:
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Just the idiots around the table playing it.
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I had a dubious early game strategy in A&A as Germany where I'd invade England in a very early turn. It pissed off the guy playing the British (which I don't blame him because he maybe got one or two turns in before Germany crushed them, lol).
That was a viable strategy if the Brits left one or both of the German battleships intact on turn 1. Germany could build a shit ton of transports around a battleship and look to invade the UK early. It wasn't my standard move for Germany, but sometimes it was worth a shot. If you could get those UK production dollars on turn 1 or 2, it became very difficult for the Allies.
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Glad I wasn't the only one. It failed more often than it succeeded, but knocking the UK player out early and having their IPs pretty much meant Russia was going to get flooded under a tide of Panzer pieces.