DIPLOMYSTERY: An Alliance Analysis / Game to 1934 in 12 minutes / Gunboat Tournament Game
79This game lasted longer than any I've ever seen - 1934. This video looks at how the alliances shifted to enable 6 / 7 powers to stay alive until 1923. It examines how the game balances when a leader takes off, and when powers made a run for the win. This was a gunboat game (but I didn't discover that fact out until after I narrated and analysed it.
There's a lot in this game that I didn't comment on. If you see other interesting maneuvers or strategies at work that I didn't comment on, please add your thoughts in the comments. I'd love to hear what you're seeing. Also, if you played in this game, please let me know what I missed from an insider's perspective.
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This classic game of pure negotiation has taken many forms over the years.
The first The Avalon Hill Game Co version has perhaps the widest release, but Avalon Hill Games, Inc. re-released the game in 1999, complete with a colorful new map and metal pieces. In 2008, Avalon Hill released a 50th anniversary edition with a new map and cardboard pieces representing the armies and navies.
In the game, players represent one of the seven "Great Powers of Europe" (Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy, Russia or Turkey) in the years prior to World War I. Play begins in the Spring of 1901, and players make both Spring and Autumn moves each year. There are only two kinds of military units: armies and fleets. On any given turn, each of your military units has limited options: they can move into an adjoining territory, support an allied unit in an attack on an adjoining territory, support an allied unit in defending an adjoining territory, or hold their position. Players instruct each of their units by writing a set of "orders." The outcome of each turn is determined by the rules of the game. There are no dice rolls or other elements of chance. With its incredibly simplistic movement mechanics fused to a significant negotiation element, this system is highly respected by many gamers.