Diplomacy

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Rules

• Begining

  • In the beginning of the game every country on the board has three pieces witht he exception of Russia (who has four pieces)
  • Every piece begins the game in a teritory of it's "home country" that also contains a blcak dot representing an industrial complex.
  • Some unclaimed teritories begin the game with industrial complexes but no military pieces. Such territories are not controlled by any contry.
  
  

• Turns and Movement

  • One year consists of two seasons (rounds): fall and spring
    • The game begins in the year 1900 with the fall season
    • New pieces are built at the end of the spring season
  • Every piece has one "movement potential" durring a season
  • In a turn any piece may move, support, pass, or transport
    • Move: the peice moves into an ajoining territory
      • armies may only move on land
      • navies may move into a water territory or into a territory that shares a common land boundry and a common sea boundry
    • Support: any piece may use it's turn to "support" another piece. Every piece that supports another piece adds a magnitude of one to the piece that it is supporing. If an enemies piece takes over the territory of a peice that is supporting the support is cut and the piece supplies no support that turn.
    • Pass: The piece makes no movement durring the season.
    • Transport: The moving of an army accros water by using the turn or one or more navy
      • Only navys can transpot
      • The navy transporting uses its movement in doing so
      • The army transported is not allowed to move once it lands
      • An army may be transported across more than one water territory by more than one navy.
  • At the end of the spring turn the number of pieces and industrial complexes that a country controlles are equilized either through destruction of pieces or building of pices.
  
  

• Building Pieces

  • New military may only be built in the "home territories" of any given country.
  • Pieces are only destroyed when a country posseses less industrial complexes than militaries or a piece can not legally retreat.
  • A player building a piece decides wheather the piece is an army or navy.
  
  

• Object

  • The object of the game is to controle the industrial complexes in over half of the territories on the board.
  
  

• Game Play

  • A turn beginns with the writing of orders for that turn.
    • Every player writes his/her orders at the same time
    • Communication/coordination/diplomacy between players is the name of the game
  • When all players have their orders prepared the game pieces re moved according to military supiriority
    • If a piece moves into an unocupied teritory unchallenged it takes that territory.
    • If two peices move into an unopened territory or a piece moves into a territory occupied by another piece the pieces are sent back to their possitions at the beginning of the turn.
    • If a piece supported by another piece moves into a territory containing a piece with less support then the invading piece takes controll of the teritory and the defending piece is forced to retreat to an open teritory.
    • If a player makes illegal or illogical moves durring the turn his/her pieces act as if they passed.

Players

• Russia (white):

  • Warsaw [a]
  • Moscow [a]
  • St. Petersburg [n]
  • Savastapol [n]
  
  

• England: (blue)

  • London [n]
  • Liverpool [a]
  • Edinburgh [n]
  
  

• Germany: (black)

  • Munich [a]
  • Berlin [a]
  • Kiel [n]
  
  

• France: (tiel)

  • Paris [a]
  • Marsellies [a]
  • Brest [n]
  
  

• Italy: (green)

  • Venice [n]
  • Naples [n]
  • Rome [a]
  
  

• Turkey: (yellow)

  • Constantinople [a]
  • Ankara [a]
  • Smyrna [n]
  
  

• Austria-Hungary

  • Vienna [a]
  • Budapest [a]
  • Trieste [n]