Eden’s Diplomacy Dossier: Overview
Want to take your Diplomacy game to the next level? Start here with a veteran’s take on the game. Learn the best way to win with each power!
Want to take your Diplomacy game to the next level? Start here with a veteran’s take on the game. Learn the best way to win with each power!
Solo wins aren’t earned. They’re gifted by people who throw due to frustration, trivial errors, or just not knowing the positions needed to stop one.
“What is the purpose of a scoring system?” We can’t evaluate scoring systems without addressing how there are multiple competing purposes behind them.
After reading BrotherBored’s gunboat journal, I am inspired to give this practice a try on my own.
During the Nexus gunboat Diplomacy tournament in summer of 2020, I tried to implement ideas I have learned from BrotherBored’s blog and Diplomacy Dojo.
It is common knowledge to anyone who has played a few games of gunboat that, if you draw Russia, you are destined to an uphill battle. The real blame in the whole situation actually lies on the greedy and misguided English.
In this article I discuss the most advanced Diplomacy tactics. These are useful in getting ahead on the competition, and some are just plain fun!
Two-Tier Scoring is a proposed new scoring system that is a hybrid of draw-based, center-based, and lead-based scoring.
Your Bored Brother’s argument for Draw-Size Scoring is built around a flawed understanding of the Sum of Squares system