31 May 14 UTC | Spring, 1870: GameMaster: Please remember that negotiations before the game begins are not allowed. |
01 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1870: Info: This is a choose your country game. |
01 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1870: GameMaster: China voted for a Draw. If everyone votes Draw the game will end and the points are split equally among all the surviving players, regardless of how many supply centers each player has. |
01 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1870: Little early for a draw, eh? |
01 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1870: How about this one for the next game: http://www.vdiplomacy.com/variants.php?variantID=36 It's Germany in 1648 |
01 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1870: Seems interesting. I'm not sure if I prefer scattered games like that to the base game (or similar consolidated ones). |
01 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1870: Looks fun. I would be up for trying it next game. |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: Why do I have 6 supply centres but only 5 troops? I'm a complete noob. |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: You didn't build in the build phase (which just passed). |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: See the units with stars? Those are the newly built ones. |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: To be fair, this platform is confusing as fuck, even for us Dippy veterans. |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: Ah right, is there another build phase any time soon? |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: There are three phases: Spring, Autumn and the build phase, in that order. Between these are retreat phases, if need be. We just left the build phase and are now in the Spring phase. Next is autumn and after that is the next build phase. |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: Ok, seems pretty simple, thanks |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: Difference between 'move' and 'support move'? |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: You use 'support move' to lend additional weight to 'move' moves. This way, you can displace enemy armies. |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: (Unless, of course, they have support, too - in which case you need to arrange more support yourself.) |
05 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: Support hold defends a unit in place against a support move |
06 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: Well this has been a fun introduction, something tells me Russia wasn't the best first choice. |
06 Jun 14 UTC | Spring, 1871: Better than China or Britain. Not as good as Japan or the Netherlands. |