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Topic:	< Variants >
Category:	General >
Author:	FuzzyLogic
Posted:	Jan 13, 2009 at 9:10 pm
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FuzzyLogic

Order of the Alliance

Resolve - steadfastness to ones allies and refusal to abandon the effort. These traits mark the Knight of the Alliance through the shifting allegences of the game. Although the allies may change, the Diplomats resolve remains constant.

Order of the Alliance

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Sep 06, 2005	USA, Illinois

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Hey Steve,
First impression - Oh my god that's a lot of provinces! It would take forever to play out, and the number of players that would go into that game would be somewhere around 15-20.

As for the concept of fleets being possible, sure they're possible cuz of the rivers, but an army is better in almost every case. Cuz armies can move everywhere fleets can move, plus they can move away from the rivers. Up in the north, sure, I could see an odd fleet being useful in a lake, but aside from the starting fleet players get, I just dont see much of a decision what to build.

A good person to talk to about the heavy land-based games would be Jerry, since his Star Trek variant, I think uses only armies. To see how it's working, or what he'd change.

I dont think the lake spots are too big... I think the others are too small.

If you want centers in the eastern waters, why not make off-board locations? You could put an off-board box for Gary, IN (which borders Indiana Coast and SCLM), and another for Grand Rapids, MI, in place of "To Michigan". Those are definitely two industrial powerhouses of the region.

This message is in reply to post 8485:

So I got this idea a couple of weeks ago to create a Diplomacy game based on the map of Chicago and its suburbs-each Suburb or neighborhood in the city would have its own space, people would play as one of the 'burbs or 'hoods.
I finished the map. I haven't assigned SCs or starting zones yet, but it's pretty big (290 Land Spaces, 31 Sea Spaces), so I would like some feedback. I'm thinking Chaos builds, and having each person just start with 1 SC.
1. Would anyone be interested in playing it when it's set?
2. How many players/SCs would be needed? I saw an article on DC a while ago about the ratio of spaces:SCs, but I can't find it now.
3. Would anyone want to look over the map, and see if there are any glaring deficiencies? (This is my first attempt at Variant design, so I don't see any, but who knows...)
4. I'll also probably be taking suggestions for which should be SCs. I live in the NW suburbs, so I know which of those are important enough to have SCs, but the North and South, and some in the City I don't know as well, and I don't want to have the board imbalanced, just because I know one area better.

Thanks!

Steve Caponigri

There are 5 Messages in this Thread:

Chicago Dip (scaponig) Jan 13, 07:47 am

Unknown (FuzzyLogic) Jan 13, 08:48 am

Unknown (scaponig) Jan 13, 10:26 am

Unknown (scaponig) Jan 13, 08:04 pm

Unknown (FuzzyLogic) Jan 13, 09:10 pm

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