SDMB Newbie Diplomacy game

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, when’s Winter adjudication, and, more importantly, when will Spring orders be due?

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When our noble GM has the time presumably - probably my fault since i’ve only just got my disband in (had an emergency as work).

Just because you are traitorous infidel scum doesn’t mean you can be impatient… :wink:

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Ha! Pagan! :wink:

(Hope everything’s okay at work… Tony Blair’s website get a DOS attack?)

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nope:

  1. otherDept with incompetent techies

  2. bright idea about otherDept using an automatic query on myDept system

  3. Something bearing a striking similarity to an Alderson Loop

Personally i think you may have planned it to distract me from my new dip situation. :wink:

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Had no idea that there was a name for that. What an ignomious legacy young Alderson has left for himself. Of course when I was in University MSAccess hadn’t been invented yet (I think), so Mr. Alderson hadn’t had time to get his name in the textbooks. Around here we just call it “f*cking up”.

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Must admit it didn’t come up in my History degree either. God knows where i heard it but it stuck in my mind - and it has a jargon-file entry so it must be right… :slight_smile:

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Here’s my rough ranking of the powers:

  1. Austria – 5 units pounding away at Turkey. Many options for the 2 builds. Forces are concentrated and working together. No second front. Good job, Shib!

  2. France – 5 units split on 2 fronts. Nice job charging across the Rhine and into the Mediterranean. The builds will help to strengthen fronts or provide a home guard. But angering 3 people at once is not a good idea.

  3. England – Forces are well concentrated. Could clear out Scandinavia or Germany soon, or could change directions.

  4. Turkey – Forces are strung out; Italy’s Lepanto provides something else to worry about. It’ll be hard to finish off Russia without losing home centers.

  5. Italy – The Lepanto comes a bit late, allowing France time to deploy a Mediterranean fleet. You’ve got two fronts to deal with. On the bright side: You’re not last! If you can hold off France long enough to gain some more builds, you’ll be well set.

  6. Germany – Good news is that your forces are compact and can work together. Bad news is that you’re dropping to 2 units. Good news is that France’s stabs may be eir undoing. See Jonmarzie’s assessment.

  7. Russia – The northern fleets could yet link up. The southern army is little more than a bargaining chip right now. Regain a home center (there’s a few options to do this) and you might come back; people have been known to rally from this far back and win the game.

Dip veterans, what do you think of my assessment?

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I like the Austrian bit! :wink:

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I bloody don’t!

seethe…seethe…

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My good news is that I’m not last?

I’ll join garius in seething…

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tell you what soup, as my ally in seethiness how about we try one of those reverse lepanto things…

oh.

um.

Shibb, would you mind pretending you didn’t hear that?

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The new map is out with adjustments. Webpage is updated, and the new deadlines are as such:

Deadlines:
Spring 1904: Wednesday, March 12th, 5PM
Fall 1904: Saturday, March 15th, Noon
Winter 1904: Sunday, March 16th, 5PM

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I may be seething, garius, but not THAT seething. :wink:

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Didn’t hear what?

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Sorry, Il Supe, that came out wrong.

I’ve done my research at the Dip Pouch. Italy has a bad habit of being left behind when the battles really get going. Italy often starts out slow; the question is how to speed things up.

As I see it, your country has some good options for growth. The trick is to get those centers and have that growth.

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If anyone wants to see a strange endgame, look here. I got it in a general Cat-23 email. A ring of Turks!

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Wow, if I’d known you could do that I would have never stabbed Turkey. Garius, will you have me back?

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There’s the destinctive stench of the forging of knives this Spring.

Ah, I love the smell!

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Knives?

And here I was trying to outfit my troops with guns. Silly me.
Hey, Turk, care to discuss Moscow again?

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awwwwwww man, but i like Moscow - it has really pretty buildings and everything.

Soup He built a Fleet in Trieste and an Army in Vienna - what does Shibb have to do?? put a note through your frikkin’ door???

And Shibb, its too late now, there’d be no trust in our relationship, and how can i be with you if i can’t trust you.

Sorry but we both have to move on.