No one does commentary like Bill.

Thank you for your contribution to this game. Your photoshops are always welcome. Perhaps you will give me devil horns and a pitchfork next time.

1901 - An Illustrated History (by the Ghost of Diplomacy Past)

CAN'T FIND A BETTER MAN

After being mercilessly and repeatedly betrayed by Tony last game, Damian has returned for a second helping. He dreams in color, he dreams in red...

SUPER BARNARD BROS. SWING SOME PIPE

A successful feint leads the Barnard twins to multiple builds and a tranquil Western flank. As Luigi says at sexual climax, "Yahooooooo!"

Winter 1901

Builds are highlighted in yellow.  A nice touch if I do say so myself.

Austria-Hungary

Army Vienna, Army Trieste

England

Army London

France

Army Paris

Germany

Army Kiel

Italy

Fleet Naples

Russia

Army St. Petersburg

Turkey

Fleet Symrna

Sorry for the delay.  Now we are all on the same page.  I will keep to the 24 hour deadline from this point forward.  Submissions for Spring 1902 are due by midnight Friday Jan. 2nd.

Missing Player...

I have the builds, they are processed, minus Tom.  I feel that we should wait for him, as it has been very snowy in NY the past few days, and he has school and such.  Therefore, we will suspend Diplomacy for 1 week.  I am away for the next few days.  I'll be back Sunday.  I'll process without Tom if he does not respond by the time I return.  Sorry about the delay.  Have a nice Holiday.

Results Fall 1901

The moves...

Austria - Hungary

F Albania -> Greece
A Serbia S F Albania -> Greece
A Budapest S A Ukraine -> Rumania

England

A York to Norway with convoy
F North Sea convoy York to Norway
F English Channel to Belgium

France

F Mid-Atlantic to Spain (NC)

A Paris to Brest

A Burgundy to Belgium

Germany

F Denmark -> Sweden
A Munich -> Burgundy
A Berlin -> Silesia

Italy

A Trieste -> Albania

A Apulia -> Tunisia

F Ionian Sea Convoys A Apulia -> Tunisia

Russia

A Ukraine -> Rumania
F Black Sea S Ukraine -> Rumania
A Warsaw -> Silesia

F Gulf of Bothnia -> Baltic Sea

Turkey

A Bulgaria -> Greece
A Ankara -> Constantinople
F Constantinople -> Agean Sea

The results...

Summary of 1901...

Austria-Hungary commands 5 centers and may build 2 units.

England commands 4 centers and may build 1 unit.

France commands 4 centers and may build 1 unit.

Germany commands 4 centers and may build 1 unit.

Italy commands 4 centers and may build 1 unit.

Russia commands 5 centers and may build 1 unit.

Turkey commands 4 centers and may build 1 unit.

No retreats, winter builds are due by midnight Sunday December 21st.  

Map #1 it is

The results of the poll, map #1 is our winner.  

Reminder, submissions for the fall 1901 are due midnight PST friday.

If they are all in by then, I'll process them early saturday morning.

I have posted a new poll for how to proceed for the holiday and spring 1902.  Should we delay things, or should we continue as usual?

The map

I have received a lot of feedback about the map I used to post the moves.  So I have decided to give everyone 2 options.  They are posted below.  Please vote for which you like the most and I will use the winning map for all future posts.

Map #1

Map #2

Results Spring 1901

Austria - Hungary

F Trieste -> Albania
A Budapest -> Serbia

A Vienna -> Budapest

England

A Liverpool ->York
F Edinburgh -> North Sea
F London -> Enlgish Channel

France

F Brest -> Mid-Atlantic

A Marseilles -> Burgundy

A Paris supports Marseilles -> Burgundy

Germany

A Berlin -> Prussia
F Kiel -> Denmark

A Munich -> Burgundy

Italy

A Rome -> Apulia

F Naples -> Ionian Sea

A Venice -> Trieste

Russia

F Sevastol -> Black Sea
A Moscow -> Ukraine
A Warsaw -> Prussia

F St. Petersburg(sc)** -> Gulf of Bothnia

Turkey

A Constantinople -> Bulgaria
F Ankara -> Constantinople
A Smyrna -> Ankara

**If SC/NC is not included, or is incorrect in future moves, the unit in question will hold.  Fair warning to all.

And the results of all this...

No retreats this round.  Submissions for Fall 1901 are due Friday night, Midnight PST.

Please submit all moves to the diplomacy email Diplomacy@superteacher.us

Waiting on the East

I have received submissions for all countries except Russian and Turkey. And so we will begin to wait. I will begin to look over the current submissions now.

To all those who tried to contact me by email over the past few days, here in Maine we had a nasty ice storm. We had no power for a day or two, and now that we have it back, my email server is down, so I apologize if it appeared I have not been responding to you.

I appeal to the council of most respected world leaders:

Craig and I would like to team up to co-manage the glorious mother country of Russia. We would like all of your approval before we commence full-fledged in our glorious pursuit of European domination.

Deadline slowly approaching

Just a quick reminder that this Friday @ Midnight PST, 3AM EST, is the deadline for spring 1901 submissions.  Please submit promptly to:

Diplomacy@superteacher.us 

Color Schemes:

Used this with Paint, how do people feel?

Color Scheme

Oh, and if you don't like the color scheme, then post something different, and I'll use that for the future.  Just beware, I'm limited to paint, so if you use another program to generate a masterpiece, I won't be able to duplicate it.  Otherwise, we'll stick with this drab version I've created.

A decision has been made

Well, the results are in, and they are a 50/50 split for simply replacing Chris, or doing a redraw (minus Chris).  It turns out that Chris has been quite ill for the past several days and his focus has not been on all things diplomacy, but rather a quick road to recovery.  Since our votes were a split, I have decided that Owen's vote will act as the tie breaker, since he is the reason we are able to move on.  And so Owen's vote was for a redraw.  Although I wanted to play this game out, I feel that it is in our best interests to start anew and not put Owen at a severe disadvantage.

And since I have so much time on my hands, I have done the redraw, and it is as follows

1 - Josh - Italy

2 - Leo - France

3 - Matt - Austria-Hungary

4 - Owen - Russia

5 - Tom - Turkey

6 - Damian - England

7 - Tony - Germany

8 - Bill

9 - Craig

The offer still stands for those not selected to team up with a player.

Since we are at a mid week, I will set the deadline for move submission for Midnight PST (3AM for all us east coasters) on Friday Dec. 12.  For the first year, we will not declare civil disorder, but after then, the 24 hour grace period will go into effect.  Moves submitted after that deadline will not be accepted, and the country will go into civil disorder, unless arrangements are made with me prior to surpassing the grace period.

If moves are submitted prior to the deadline, I will process them sooner.

At this point I believe everyone knows everyone's email addresses, but if you are looking to communicate with me, please use amartin@mail.une.edu.  I will not be looking at my hotmail address on a regular basis since it is full of spam.  A good game to all, and to Bill and Craig, hope you get a draw next game.

Maps of the Dogs of War

I found these wonderful satirical maps of Europe circa WWI and though you all would appreciate the ravenous and cutthroat nature of the cartography. Enjoy.