I’ve sent you a couple of emails, but I haven’t gotten a reply. Am I in? I want play.
I was hoping to wait to make the announcement when both are filled.
But I’ll take care of it today. And yes, Alan, you’re in.
Well I think you are going to have to limit your domination to Europe.
There are other parts of the world?
Nothing too important but then again you are also forgetting about Switzerland.
Switzerland is at least geographically, if not geopolitically, part of Europe.
Oh, I’ll dominate Switzerland too. You just wait and see.
Oh yeah? These guys might have something to say about it.
Yep but you can’t conquer it in Dimplomacy.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
–George Bernard Shaw
Hello all and welcome to the first ever SDMB Diplomacy Tournament.
By your skill, cunning, and raw ability to lie with a straight face one of you will emerge the ultimate victor with Diplomacy bragging rights until the next tourney (whenever that is).
Getting yourself on someone’s good side gives your knife the best possible access to his back.
–Manus Hand
I’ve set up the pages for the games here: http://www.wooleysark.com/dip
Note that I’m trying to keep both games on the same schedule. Tamper with that at your own risk.
Spring 1901 orders are due at 9AM Eastern US Time on Wednesday, November 30, 2005. Feel free to get orders in earlier but even following that you can change them until the deadline.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
–Finley Peter Donne
I can be contacted with rules questions most days and I’ll gladly answer. Strategy questions I’ll dodge. I do heartily recommend you get to know this site:
The diplomatic pouch is the single best source of information on diplomacy available. The rookies among us should use it well.
You may begin negotiating…now.
Diplomacy: The art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
–Wynn Catlin
I was just thinking to myself the other day… I don’t think that I’ve ever played Italy (I don’t recall ever having played France, either, but maybe next round).
Good luck to everyone!
Just to have a recap in this thread:
Game 1:
**
Germany: Kyyrewyyoae
France: Wevets
England: Lno
Turkey: Treis
Italy: Shibboleth
Austria: Priceguy
Russia: CapnPitt
**
Game 2:
**Germany: Omniscient
France: RTFirefly
England: Malacandra
Turkey: Alan Smithee
Italy: Saoirse
Austria: John Corrado
Russia: Munch
**
I don’t know that much about the folks in my group, yet, but that second group looks deadly.
Beware the dwarf!
Deadly? ::blanches:: Ah well, I’ll just have to hope.
And as I once said to Manus Hand, “Stab me? Ha, you may never be good enoak!”
woohoo! Italy!
Ah, Europe on the dawn of the twentieth century!
Age of Reason & Enlightenment! Epitome of all that is Civilized and Orderly! Bearer of the White Man’s Burden!
…what could possibly go wrong?
You know Manus?
The Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey (aka France) is in the house. The question is, who will he surrender to? Will it be one of his neighbors, such as England, Germany, or Italy? Or will it, in some bizarre twist, be to a Great Power on the other side of the board, such as Russia, Turkey, or Austria?
When it comes to the French, you can never tell. But you can at least be sure that they will taunt you a second time, even as they’re surrendering to you. That’s how they are.
What is this? Some sort of oddball Firesign-Python-Marx thing?
My head hurts.
I think the phrase “Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey” originated with The Simpsons, and was popularized during the run-up to the Iraq debacle.
The rest is just riffing off that, although the “taunt you a second time” is from Monty Python.
See? Nothing to it.
Greetings, fellow rulers, chieftans, magistrates, mugwumps, panjandrums, kahunas, kingpins, nabobs, emperors, potentates, tyrants, dictators, big cheeses, and patricians!
I apologize for the untimeliness of my diplomatic epistles. Communication has been disrupted by the recent celebration of our great national holiday. This day is marked by feasting and jubilation throughout the great Ottoman Empire. So far beyond compare are these feasts, and so great in glory is this day above all others, that I believe in time the mightiest of nations will indulge in celebrating this festival, no doubt diguising it and adapting it so as to appear as part of the national mythology of that country. But the wise will know the truth–this holiday will be among the treasures bequeathed to the world by the magnificent Ottoman Empire: The Day of Celebration in Recognition of the Greatness of the Ottoman Empire and Its People, or, as it is colloquially known, “Turkey Day”.
Now that Turkey Day is over and I have returned from travelling among my people, I again have access to the channels of diplomatic communication. Those among you who await my missives will soon receive them.
Padishah, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Caliph of Islam, Sovereign of the House of Osman, Sultan of Sultans, Khan of Khans, Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe,
Abd-ul-Smithee I
Well, not in the biblical sense, but we exchanged an email once upon a time when I got into a game on www.diplom.org.
England, eh? Haven’t played England for years…
Dang - that’ll teach me to take a break from the Dope for a week!!
Email sent, just in case a vacancy arises or a third game starts…
Grim