New Diplomacy Game Variants Updates for Treaty Ports (China 1900) and Europa (Europe 1901)
Diplomacy-game fans can enjoy Treaty Ports' great fluidity, little stalemate possibility, and the intricate imperial webs that will tax your diplomatic skills to their limits. Diplomacy hobbyists can appreciate islands named "Alliance" and "Manus." History fans can enjoy Treaty Ports' 19th-Century imperial details (the individual treaty ports, the Kaiser's imperial fleet and Tsingtao colony, etc.), the 20th-Century World War II details such as island-hopping provinces (Wake, Tarawa, Truk, Peleliu, Saipan, Iwo Jima, etc.), and the 21st-Century territorial disputes (Spratly Islands, Pinnacle Islands, Tsushima Islands, Kuril Islands, etc.). Beer lovers can appreciate provinces named Tsingtao, Kirin, and Sapporo.
The current Treaty Ports version (v2) eliminates the SC in Hollandia and adds SCs in Okinawa of Ryukyu Islands, Alliance Island of Kuril Islands, and Karafuto (the last being a new province). Although nominally part of Japan and Russia in 1900, the Ryukyus and Sakhalin/Karafuto are more of China's crumbling empire (so fit the variant theme) and the Kuriles saw Russo-Japanese disputes, American whalers, and an Anglo-French military expedition during the Crimean War. V2 also merges Rabaul with Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, merges Ulan-Ude with Chita, and makes Cebu a hub connecting both sides of the Philippines. These and other changes greatly increase American-Russian-Japanese interactions in the north, increase German-Japanese and other interactions in the center, and even can increase German-British-French interactions in the north (using MCR/MCP against Karafuto or Alliance Island, just like the real Anglo-French did in the 19th Century).
The Europa variant now allows Tunis-Spain/sc and North Africa/ec-Syria.
I am considering combining Europa and Treaty Ports into an 11-player variant.
Visit the Diplomacy game variants site for maps, details, and Realpolitik downloads.
SD
Friday, September 25, 2009
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Diplomacy Variant Treaty Ports News to June 2007
3/27/07: I corrected a few adjacencies in Treaty Ports so feel free to download the new Treaty Ports Diplomacy Realpolitik variant files from the Dossier Dead Drop.*
6/17/06: The first two playtests of the Treaty Ports Diplomacy variant* went well and the game performed as designed. In one game, France swept through Tibet and Central Asia to Mongolia.
Also, I corrected a cosmetic error so that "Angkor and Laos" properly show as a single province (in the old version, the RP adjacencies played correctly but there was a line through the province).
2005: Download Treaty Ports Diplomacy variant Realpolitik (RP) files from the Dossier Dead Drop* (use the Edit feature to implement the Special Builds). Important: I don't know if RP has a limit to the number of items in its variant folder but loading both versions of Treaty Ports initially caused a hang until I removed some other variants that I don't use.
Given the economic nature of the historical Trearty Ports, Speed Treaty Ports might be a prime candidate for a Payola version.
I am working with Manus Hand to develop special builds for Diplomatic Pouch.
* If you already are viewing the blog in the website's frame, the Dead Drop download link is in the left frame.
6/17/06: The first two playtests of the Treaty Ports Diplomacy variant* went well and the game performed as designed. In one game, France swept through Tibet and Central Asia to Mongolia.
Also, I corrected a cosmetic error so that "Angkor and Laos" properly show as a single province (in the old version, the RP adjacencies played correctly but there was a line through the province).
2005: Download Treaty Ports Diplomacy variant Realpolitik (RP) files from the Dossier Dead Drop* (use the Edit feature to implement the Special Builds). Important: I don't know if RP has a limit to the number of items in its variant folder but loading both versions of Treaty Ports initially caused a hang until I removed some other variants that I don't use.
Given the economic nature of the historical Trearty Ports, Speed Treaty Ports might be a prime candidate for a Payola version.
I am working with Manus Hand to develop special builds for Diplomatic Pouch.
* If you already are viewing the blog in the website's frame, the Dead Drop download link is in the left frame.
Diplomacy Variant Europa News to June 2007
7/16/06: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* have a corrected adjacency for BAL-STP/SC. Thank Spartan for discovering it during his game.
3/14/06: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* have an improved Deluxe map for easier reading and Spartan (Whispering Gallery forum ID) found a stray alias in the MAP file so both "hol" and "net" now work as abbreviations for Holland (Netherlands). Thank you, Spartan.
9/08/05: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* is fully functional with point-and-click orders and flood-fillable supply centers. REASON: Realpolitik's Region Tool (a design tool, not part of the players' version) did not work so I first manually wrote the RGN file code to provide a version that is fully playable by loading text orders. I since devised a semi-automated system to add the hot zones and flood fills so the current version is full-featured.
Attention: Anyone who downloaded Europa 9/04/05-9/05/05 and has trouble should download the latest version from the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop.* REASON: Apparently, a simple copy-paste update from a web page into the text file causes Realpolitik to hang. The same information typed from scratch into the text file works fine.
See Documentation for full release notes. Get Speed Europa files at The Dossier Dead Drop.*
* If you already are viewing the blog in the website's frame, the Dead Drop download link is in the left frame.
3/14/06: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* have an improved Deluxe map for easier reading and Spartan (Whispering Gallery forum ID) found a stray alias in the MAP file so both "hol" and "net" now work as abbreviations for Holland (Netherlands). Thank you, Spartan.
9/08/05: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* is fully functional with point-and-click orders and flood-fillable supply centers. REASON: Realpolitik's Region Tool (a design tool, not part of the players' version) did not work so I first manually wrote the RGN file code to provide a version that is fully playable by loading text orders. I since devised a semi-automated system to add the hot zones and flood fills so the current version is full-featured.
Attention: Anyone who downloaded Europa 9/04/05-9/05/05 and has trouble should download the latest version from the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop.* REASON: Apparently, a simple copy-paste update from a web page into the text file causes Realpolitik to hang. The same information typed from scratch into the text file works fine.
See Documentation for full release notes. Get Speed Europa files at The Dossier Dead Drop.*
* If you already are viewing the blog in the website's frame, the Dead Drop download link is in the left frame.
Friday, June 15, 2007
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