I just want to post that I’m really enjoying the Aberation game!! At first I thought it was too big and would lose subtlety but I was wrong! It’s fun. 
Youse guys are funny–thought I’d pipe up to tell ya someone else reads your thread occasionally.
Also, I’ve been reading Edward Lear limericks to my kids. He has one for most every dip country. Here’s a sample:
There was a Young Lady of Turkey,
Who wept when the weather was murky;
When the day turned out fine,
She ceased to repine,
That capricious Young Lady of Turkey.
It is about to get significantly smaller by Winter of this year.
Abe, if you had God on your side, you wouldn’t be in this predicament!!
God, lno, same thing.
Your letters said that I did have God on my side.;j
(I am loosening my firm anti-smilie stance this one time because it just seemed appropriate here)
(Smilie executed on general principles)
And what about ME Clarissa? I’m the Emperor of Byzantium! The Eastern Church! And look what’s happening to me!
That’s the trouble with you fundies. You just can’t play nice with the other fundies.
“Mommmmmm!! Jimmy stole my dogma!!”
“Now Jimmy, give that back to your brother or no book burning for you tonight.”
Adjudication in Dip 983, Spring 1901.
Two years, two betrayals.
Question for the emissaries from God: can do you have to spend time in purgatory for the way you play a diplomacy game?
hopes not
Don’t sweat it. Your condemned the first time you even play. So why play nice after that? We’re all on our way to aitch ee double-hockey sticks one way or the other, right?
Well, the opening moves in the 983 game seem pretty staightforward. Most games don’t seem to get really interesting until 1902, do they?
Has anyone else been following the game “Hyperdip” on Jonathan Chance’s web site? That one’s been rather fun to watch; they’re up to 1911 and Italy’s up to 16 centres, but he may be stuck. My guess is Italy can’t get the last two, but the entire eastern front is such a mess that it’s hard to tell.
(Can you tell I’m a little bored right now?)
Actually, i have been watching that, and it looked to me as if Italy should have it wrapped up in 2 years or less.
After all, Italy is the Great Power of Destiny. Who could hope to defeat her?
Wankers
That is all.
W.
Waverly: well, that was…cryptic.
White Lightning: I don’t know. The Italy in “Hyperdip” is bottled up pretty tightly in the Med, Munich isn’t falling any time soon, and in the east Russia has that pesky army in Galicia. Even assuming he keeps Rumania and doesn’t lose Vienna or Budapest, what’s the 18th centre? Munich? Portugal? Moscow? Maybe Warsaw, if he moves those armies in Venice and Rome through Austria captures Galicia…
Fun to watch, anyway.
See! God is on my side.
Everyone else can surrender anytime, now. I promise peace to Europe! And good Polish food, just like what the old ladies at the church make- kielbasa, holupki, pierogies (home-made, not frozen) and plenty of beer. We’ll have a party.
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You will be traveling OTB if Hungary has anything to say about it. And for this you turned down the Duchy of Valencia. Tsk.
I call them the cockroach battalion. You can’t kill them.
I hope there’s no hard feelings. I just feel that Hungary’s long term ability to pay their upkeep is greater.