https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/
A game that gave me many hours of pleasure and pain.
A game that gave me many hours of pleasure and pain.
Lol, at all the people getting mad. If they lost because of only two players then perhaps they should have played their own hand better.
Seems fairly interesting but not something I would ever play.
This American Life also featured the same tournament, from the point of view of a player who brought a professional diplomat along on the first day.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/531/got-your-back
I'm not sure you understand the game of Diplomacy. Have you ever played it?
It has much less to do with "your hand" as it does working with other people and hoping they don't screw you over.
It's probably a lot like the social aspect of Survivor tbh.
You play Diplomacy?
No I have not played it and my point was that the article makes it seem like this one guy won because he played one ally, a rookie. The other players complain that this rookie is taking them all down with him. If it is that easy to beat them all then they need to get better was my point.
It's not that they were being taken down, it's that they scored fewer points for a six-way draw than for a five-way draw, and a person with one unit left has little business being part of a draw, against competent opponents.
Fair enough. The article just does a very poor job of showing this.
I got the idea from the article just fine. I don't think the article did a poor job of showing it.
This American Life also featured the same tournament, from the point of view of a player who brought a professional diplomat along on the first day.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/531/got-your-back
You play Diplomacy?
I did, back when I was able to spend hours on a game. Do you? Think we could get a game going around here?
I did, back when I was able to spend hours on a game. Do you? Think we could get a game going around here?
Count me in if you want to start a jazzfanz game! Haven't played in years, though.
I can't even get a decent chess game going, this game is WAY more time-intensive.
I might consider it though if there were enough interest.
I haven't played in a long time and I'm not sure it's for me any more, but I'd do it if there was a group and the key factor, I had time.
I was way more interested in Axis & Allies but had the same issues of not being able to find enough people to play for hours and hours.
Risk is much shorter and still had difficulty finding people to play that.
These days I don't have time to play much of anything, let alone something that will take hours.
I wish, it would be fun.
No I have not played it and my point was that the article makes it seem like this one guy won because he played one ally, a rookie. The other players complain that this rookie is taking them all down with him. If it is that easy to beat them all then they need to get better was my point.
Contrary to Darkwing's opinion I don't think the article was very clear. I know the game a bit and I think the only reason I got as much out of the article as I did is because of that.
Toby and Buffalo were not interested in any six-way draw. Their proposal? Kill Chris Martin and split it up five ways instead. More points for everyone!
Let's just all agree to a 4-way draw right now and it will go down as the fastest game of Diplomacy of all-time.