11 Comments so far ↓

• spelk // Sep 24, 2009 at 1:59 am

  Now thats what you need to do with TMA’s Dominions game! :)

• spelk // Sep 24, 2009 at 2:04 am

  …with the associated pointy ears and monkey masks!

• Scott // Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21 am

  Where did the cool 3D pieces go? My copy of Dip, long gone, had wood pieces. Or did it?

• Otis // Sep 24, 2009 at 1:32 pm

  My friend had one with 3D metal pieces. We barely ever played though because it was impossible to get the people together.

• Troy // Sep 24, 2009 at 1:34 pm

  I’m quite sure the cardboard chits are new. Certainly cheaper to produce.

  Diplomacy is one of those games that requires a lot of friends who don’t mind being stabbed by people they trusted and a lot of time. Six hours – the video maker’s allotted time – is much too short for a resolution unless a couple of veterans are playing with noobs.

• Chris A // Sep 24, 2009 at 3:57 pm

  The hats are a fantastic idea… if our group played with any sort of regularity at all, I’d be on a mission to collect the lot for the next session.

  There are a bunch of piece variations for different editions of the game (mine is the older plastic symbols version), check out the BGG gallery for a look:
  http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/thing/483

• Scott // Sep 24, 2009 at 4:30 pm

  This video really makes me want to get into web Diplomacy! Even though I owned the game forever ago, I think I only played once or twice for all the reasons Troy pointed out.

• spelk // Sep 24, 2009 at 5:16 pm

  Perhaps we need to setup an FoS/TMA Web Diplomacy group and give it a go?

• Alan Au // Sep 25, 2009 at 2:41 pm

  The hats are great! I’m also remembering why I don’t play Diplomacy in person anymore.

• Dirk // Sep 25, 2009 at 3:10 pm

  Here’s a good site to play at; I got started earlier this year there and its pretty addictive. This is a game that is quite decisively best played by email:

  http://www.diplomaticcorp.com

• skshrews // Sep 27, 2009 at 11:03 am

  A great turn-by-turn review of Diplomacy. This is what is missing from the game review circuit.

  AH’s “General” used to have great turn-by-turn game reviews. These were by far the most interesting articles the magazine offered. You can learn more about a game from one such article than 10 standard reviews.

  I would happily pay to see more such features.