nah it's all good, I found an ancient manuscript depicting the 15th century rules on an archaeological expedition, so it all worked out

Wow, so was it depicting the European or Arabic rules?

Either way its such a nice opportunity

No, no you fools. This is the Ancient Egyptian variant. My Ra Sun Boat parks in Bohemia and dares anyone to mock it!

@Fasces- it's pretty nice it was written by the emissary of the King of France to the Ottoman Empire so it contains the European, Turkish, and Arabic rules
sadly I have been unable to find the chinese rules

Chinese rules? I didn't even know there were rules written for the far east, but then again Marco Polo might have presented the game to the Yuan dynasty in his travels to the far east, its tough to say.

Maybe AncientMemories could enlighten us.

Well, before I started to play I checked a certain John Smiths' book, who seems to be the expert of the game, and it is written on the pages 202-254, that my moves are strictly following the rules, just read it carefully.

I was talking about the internationally accepted Combined Rules of course, not about the useless old ones.

Diplolmat -

Everyone knows the "Ancient Egyptian" variant was only written in 1992 in an attempt to rebuild the popularity of the game. Sadly, it was such a flop that virtually no one even considers it a true variant anymore and it is universally shunned by the Ankara Crescent community. The fact that you wish to play it (and apparently have played it before!) says much about your skill and knowledge of Ankara Crescent. I recommend you call AncientMemories and get a real copy of the rules to learn the real game.

Adalephat - Yet more proof that you've never played before. John Smith? The expert? That'd be like calling me the "expert" of Diplomacy. While I"m sure a John Smith played Ankara Crescent at one point, there is no evidence he was an expert nor have I ever seen a book written by him espousing these "Combined Rules" you speak of. Are you sure you're playing the same game?

Indeed.

But I started this thread, so we play MY variant.

You never stated this was playing with some off version of the rules, but simply ankara crescent.

If you wanted to play with your own rules, you should have called it 33 crescent.

Fine, we will play the bloody '84 edition. The one with the wormhole from Iceland to Syria remember. But since Eastern Med got nuked its useless now!

When was the East Med nukes?

All I remember was Constantinople being nuked, and then Adelphate cheating which sparked this whole debate about rules.

And wormholes never officially made it into the rules, but was proposed in 1957, and was further discussed in the Moscow convention of 84.

'84. I said so. The Iceland one made it in remember. There was the whole debate in '87 in switzerland about it too. Remember the Arab league via Syria protested immensely but it passed

All right, I admit I've never played Anakar Crescent, and this book of John Smiths was in fact written by a Rumanian iron-miner.
Btw I nuked East Med...

and I nuked Con because the conflict over it upset my hippy army

IT IS NOT CON FOR THE LAST TIME IT SHOULD BE ISTANBUL! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsRuurcTTSk

look at the diplomacy map, I can't see instanbul on it...

Well, it has several names, I listed some of them in a previous post.
For your sake it will be called New Istanbul after my worker rebuilded it...

:D

F Switzerland - Vienna. No one will see it coming.

The '84 edition still allows the Laika Loop-hole yes? I convoy Mos-Syr via Sputnik 2.

pff, I lost Vienna...
Con convoy Sev to Vienna

Something hidden launches a tactical nuclear missile at Vienna.

Heres the most brilliant of all! Fleet Vienna-Vienna. :D

I will save vienna by destroying the nuke with SDI

Tidal Wave hits vienna

While you guys are focused on Vienna, Serbia-Budapest seems like a wise move.