Announcing: TFS Diplomacy

Hello and welcome, to this post in which I am announcing I will be hosting a game of Diplomacy. Diplomacy is a game wherein there are seven players, each of which assumes a country in Europe during the years leading into World War I. It’s a fascinating game to me because you’ll not triumph solely with superior strategy or upon any roll of dice. No, to get ahead in Diplomacy, you need to do honest to goodness diplomacy with other players. You must anticipate who is working with who, who will move what in the next round to where, and if you can trust your ally to proceed with the plan because they very well could stab you in the metaphorical back.

I’ve been involved in two games so far, once as a player and once as an arbitrator. Both games were a lot of fun; it’s a unique game. So, I’m going to go ahead and host one here on TFS. “Community Bonding,” I might say, but I may be lying because Diplomacy is a game where someone will be betrayed. That would be one player betraying the trust of another within the context of the game. As such, to avoid drama, please only ask to join if you are prepared and willing to accept that maturely.

I will be using the website backstabbr to handle the game. Doing it manually- resolving the moves correctly, is a pain to do so I’m not going to do it. The game’s participants will make an account on the site, join the game, and submit their moves within the limited timeframe they have to do so. This period may be a week or may be less, but it’s not going to be more than a week. As such, please only ask to join the game if you can reliably make moves as often as that. Further, the game may potentially stretch over the course of months depending on how quickly everyone can submit moves, so be aware of what you're signing on for.

Further, for the game’s participants, it may be worth designating someone else who may make moves in your absence. If no moves are submitted, all armies hold, and that’s not ideal.

In any case, if you have any questions or would like to take part, post on this thread. No one who hasn’t posted in this thread will be on the list, regardless if you PM me or not. Once things are started a bit, I’ll keep a list here of who has signed up. When it comes time to play, I will use a random selection tool to pull seven names.