Christmas 2024 Diplomacy

About this episode

The hosts discuss various topics related to Diplomacy, including a Christmas episode, user error, and game variants.

The guys suffer from user error while catching up for our Christmas episode. Seasons greetings everyone! Intro and Diplomacy chat The guys introduce the episode and why this is the second recording of it (0 mins 15 secs) Ken describes his own homebrewed ale before it gets their creative juices going on the most incredible Russian opening ever (2 mins 30 secs) The greatest Diplomacy solo challenge (8 mins 50 secs) Ken talks about the "Return of the Mac" game (15 mins 15 secs) He goes onto discuss the December 2024 God Save the Zine edition (apologies Ken accidentally says it was in Diplomacy World) on page 23 by Ian Bond - a Tetris like way of looking at the Classic board (16 mins 40 secs) Ken discusses how Ian's design reminds him of what's achieved in the variant Alacavre, which looks like a fantasy map but has exactly the same connections as a Classic board. That said Ken then points out the stats for this variant are totally different to Classic statistics, which shows how habitual we are when we approach the Classic Diplomacy board (21 mins 20 secs) They go onto creating a new game of Alacavre for Diplomacy Games podcast listeners - just pop over to vDiplomacy, create an…

Topics covered

• Christmas episode
• user error
• homebrewed ale
• Russian opening
• Diplomacy solo challenge
• Return of the Mac game
• God Save the Zine edition
• Alacavre variant
• geographic linguistic differences

Keywords

• Diplomacy
• games
• podcast
• Christmas
• Alacavre
• Tetris
• geographic differences

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Tetris, Classic, Alacavre, Classic Diplomacy, Diplomacy Games, Diplomacy, Machiavelli, homebrewed ale, Classic Diplomacy board

Books & works: Diplomacy, Return of the Mac, God Save the Zine, Diplomacy and 2024, Diplomacy Games

Places: Australia, Brisbane, Chile

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