Practice Game Diplomacy 1600--DipAE02

This is the practice game for the benefit of new players so that they can understand how to move and the pace of the game.

We will play one complete year, from Spring 1600 to Spring 1601. At that year we will start the game with the real country designations.

Realpolitik
If you don't have Realpolitik, you can download it here: http://realpolitik.sourceforge.net/

Think of this program as a boardgame set that enforces the rules. It is very important to have; it will help you understand the rules much faster.

You need to install the 1600 variant. The RP files for the 1600 variant:
1600 RP files

Extract the files to the 'Variants' folder within the Realpolitik directory.

If you need help using the program, don't hesitate to ask. I am currently preparing some tutorials for the program, and you will see them here soon.

Country-player table
This is countries' designations for the practice game.

Ottoman Empire     Emperor Barbarossa
Poland     glce2003
Denmark JaliscoLancer
England Kilikya
Russia     Maju
Habsburg Mixcoatl
Sweden     morticia
France     Rider
Spain     thediplomat

Order Ettiquete
Try to send orders at the time that you receive the results of the last turn. This will keep the game going and make it more enjoyable for you.

You can always send another set of order before the deadline. If you do so, make it obvious to me that they are a second order by putting in the subject line of the email: "set number #" with the number of the set there. I will use whatever set number is bigger to process your order.

How to write orders
Each turn starts with an order. Write the order of the moves of your units in the following way:

<Unit Type> <Starting Location>-<target Location>
Army Castille-Navarre

To hold your army or fleet in place write
<Unit Type> <Starting Location> HOLD
Fleet Gascony HOLD

To support a move write
<Unit Type> S[UPPORT] <supported Unit Type starting location>-<target location>
Army Novgorod S Army Moscow-Tula

Feel free to use abreviation: A-army, F-fleet, H-hold, S-support. To get the proper abreviations for spaces on the board, please consult the information in Realpolitik by clicking Window->info.


Missing player rules

To make the move of the missing player more fair, I want everyone to send me your desired moves to the Ottoman Empire as if you controled it. I will count each order as a vote.

In case of a tie, I will randomly select the move of the most popular orders. If I only get one order for Ottoman Empire, I will use it. So it is in your best interest to send Ottoman orders too

Edited by hugoestr

i see your deadline is sunday...it won't be a problem now but i am always up in the yayla on weekends and never connect

Why did you give so long deadlines for the practice game? 2 days per turn should suffice. We just need to find out how to move the units and so on, no diplomacy expected. 

Well. it is just two/three quick turns with just game cards moving and nothing else.. i don't believe that any battles will occur.

Hopefully the year-round micro-game will have most of these situations. We will definitively move around and build at in the winter turn. Supports are likely to happen but if you want to try order the following:

A Finland - Ingria
A Estonia supports A Finland Ingria

I can then order A Novgorod - Ingria and you win the battle (2 vs. 1). This is a good example of support.

Convoys are less likely to happen. But it is up to the players that have fleets. In any case they can't happen before the fall, because fleets must be in sea provinces to be able to convoy. Order F Stockholm-Baltic Sea, and I'll tell you how to convoy in the fall.

Retreats are another thing that may not happen in the first year. When a defending unit is defeated by a stronger attack, it is declared to be dislodged and it must retreat to any adjacent vacant province to which it can move normally (no convoys, fleets must follow coasts/seas, armies can't enter seas). Aditionally that province must have not been the scenario of a battle in that turn. When a unit can't retreat it is automatically disbanded. You can also voluntarily disband it in this case.

The GM will provide for special short retreat turns when needed.

I'm never sure if a fleet convoying an army also supports it?

That is really three questions.

Does it support automatically (not unreasonable)?

Does it support if ordered to 'convoy and support'?

Can it not support at all?

 

 

Originally posted by gcle2003 I'm never sure if a fleet convoying an army also supports it? That is really three questions. Does it support automatically (not unreasonable)? Does it support if ordered to 'convoy and support'? Can it not support at all?

The last one: one unit can only do one thing at a time and any unit can only do one of these four things: hold (default), move, support or (eXclussive OR) convoy (only fleets).

If you order a unit to do two diferent things it will do nothing (misordered).

So, no: convoying fleets cannot support in any case.

If it works out, then your army moves to prussia, and your fleet stays at Baltic Sea. If another country does the same thing the nnothing will happen.

If you would convoy it to Livonia then on the next turn you could attack with the army prussia, supporting the army with your navy.

Originally posted by rider If it works out, then your army moves to prussia, and your fleet stays at Baltic Sea. If another country does the same thing the nnothing will happen.

Well, not exactly: a battle happens. This has some importance if a nearby unit has to retreat: you cannot retreat to the scenario of a recent battle, as everything is supposed to happen +/- simultaneously).

what is and how do you "blitz"?