This is an odd, odd game. Lotsa fun to watch, though. Will England and Russia bury the hatchet in their time of crisis? Will Turkey hold off the Austrian horde? Will anyone in France or Germany ever get their mail delivered properly ever again? (“c/o Gunter Bischoff, 23 Diplostrasse, Munich, Germany…no wait, France…Russia?..damn, where the hell am I?”)
And what will Austria do with those sweet, juicy builds? And Italy gets a build, too…will the detente hold?
Take over the world, most likely. You know those crazy Hapsburgs! 
We have retreats and adjustments posted (and in your email box).
The Fall 1903 map has been updated with the retreats and new ownership of bases.
Winter 1903 builds and disbands are due at 5am. Everybody’s either got to add or subtract units except Germany. So get 'em in!
Comments from the uninitiated:
It looks like someone took a shotgun to the map, and wherever a pellet pierced it they called it France. From Portugal to Munich, Liverpool to Gulf of Lyon, the sun never sets on the French Empire. But will Germany and Italy take the bits within reach? Are the French destined to spend the rest of the game in the ex-British Isles?
Will Italy try to double cross Austria while Austria is busy smiting the Turks and sticking their boot up Russia’s ass? What will the lone white ship do?
I’m thinking an animated Dip map would be even better if it added two more frames: one that showed all attempted orders, and one that showed what actually went through.
sigh I’m the GM, I should do it, tell me how, RT, JC?
I resemble that remark. I’ve still got one whole home SC. I’m lulling the other powers into complacency.
At the usual place.
And as mentioned in email, we have a proposal on the table to declare Austria the winner of Dip 1040. (This is legal; see the “Short Game” paragraph in the rules.) We need unanimity, of course, for such a proposal to pass: 7 votes in favor, no votes against, no abstentions, no missing ballots, no hanging chads, nobody punching ‘Buchanan’ when they meant ‘Austria’. Voting will take place between now and tomorrow morning at 6am EDT. I’ll announce a result then, or earlier if there’s a result earlier.
Diplomacy for Spring 1904 may continue during the voting.
Dave - there’s obviously a few steps involved:
For #1, we’ve been using RealPolitik. Download it and run it through its paces with the moves that have been made in 1046 so far.
For #2, you copy Web pages onto your own computer, and edit them as needed. Since you’ve got the index page and a basic Spring 1901 page for 1046 already, that should get you going. But you can copy the Dip 1040 pages and edit them, or whatever.
To edit, Nate does direct HTML editing. I get grungy with that only as needed; Netscape Composer is your point-and-click, drag-and-drop webpage editor, and will do just fine in all but exceptional instances. (Like if someone uses a table as a header to another table, like Nate does. ;)) It’s about as dificult to use as Word or Excel.
For #3, you need access to webspace, and FTP software on your computer (which should already be there somewhere) to upload it there. Talk to Nate if you want to keep working in the file I’ve already set up in his space; that’s between you and him. Otherwise, the file can be copied elsewhere.
The biggest space requirements are for the maps. In JPEG form, which is the smallest workable form, they take up about 100K apiece. The rest of the HTML for each page takes up just a few K per page. If your ISP gives you 4 meg of free webspace, you could put a middling-length game there with no problem.
I’ll be busy the next day and a half, but after that, give me a call and I’ll try to fill you in on more of the details.
Ah.
Looks like ol’ RT forgot a line of code.
The map can be seen at:
Thanks, JC! I’ll link the (correct) map into the webpage when I get home.
Try it now.
And the voting results are in, in sufficient quantity: the game continues. No winner by acclamation.
Dip 1046 is adjucated. I’m thinking of changing the name from “George” to “France and Russia’s Excellent Adventure”.
Ok, all my comments are stupid now. Note to self: don’t comment until the end of the year.
Eagerly awaiting the German good news/bad news,
Ben
RealPolitik, which I use for adjudication, produces a map each turn with arrows showing all the orders and supports, then another one fuzzing the arrows of the orders that failed, then finally the map of the resolved position.
I only post the last map in that sequence, but it would be easy enough to include the others in a screensaver, PowerPoint presentation, or what have you, that flipped through all the maps in sequence.
Wikkit, I should add that you can create such an animation for yourself. Just download RealPolitik (see the link in my post to Dave a few posts back), C&P each set of moves from the Dip 1040 page into NotePad or whatever, and feed them into RealPolitik in their proper order, following the instructions for proper format. That would give you all the maps; then you’d just need to put them into PowerPoint or a screensaver.
What? No talking?
Shibb! All is forgiven!
Dip 1046 Winter02 has been adjucated.
Shibb!
Come back!
Shibb!
I’m around but on my work computer which is apparently having trouble with Yahoo! mail and Fantasy Football (anything that requires logons in Yahoo!) again. But you are starting to make me feel like Shane.
Um…When is the next due date for orders in 1040?