Solo Win Tip #7: Make Friends, then Choose Enemies
How can you cooperate with one ally without estranging the other? How can you have your cake and eat it too? I know a technique that makes this possible!
How can you cooperate with one ally without estranging the other? How can you have your cake and eat it too? I know a technique that makes this possible!
BrotherBored gives specific, power-by-power advice about how you might want to alter your play style to suit the power you’ve been assigned.
There’s no “character select screen” in Diplomacy. But you can “choose your character” by adapting your style to match your assigned power.
“Top players are good at sowing chaos on the opposite side of the Diplomacy board, but I have no idea how to approach this.”—Patreon Patron
What do experienced Diplomacy players know about Italy that beginners don’t? Perhaps they know the Adventure Strategy!
If you use these techniques, the players so influenced will not feel deceived. They may not even perceive that they have been manipulated.
Draw a connection between Marshall Rosenberg’s book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (1999) and how to approach press better in Diplomacy.