In a surprise move, The Mad Padre has called an end to his Play-by-Blog Diplomacy game. The closing situation was as follows
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| Prior to adjustment - France was about to loose two units, England and Turkey to build |
We'd been playing blind. Michael has just announced the players' names
- England (Score 12 and the Winner) - Mark Haughey (owner of the Sun of York blog).
- Turkey (Score 11 and Runner Up) - Tim Gow (owner of the Megablitz blog)
- Italy (Score 7 and Third Place) - Me!
- France (Score 4) - Thomas Nissvik (owner of the Learning by Doing blog)
- Germany - Pat G (owner of the Irregular Warband Fast blog)
- Russia - Robert Audin (owner of the Fiends in Waistcoats blog)
- Austria - AN Other.
It was my first game of Diplomacy and I must say that I enjoyed it a great deal. That was no doubt down to the spirit of the players and above all to Michael's umpiring skills. Thank you all!
I'm mentally exhausted!
I hope we all get an accounting of the behind-the-scenes manipulations of the Italian government during the game. I am very curious what drove some of the decisions made.
ReplyDeleteToo bad it had to end prematurely.
A well deserved 3rd place and congrats on your prize as best role player. :)
ReplyDeleteI played Diplomacy a couple of times as a teenager, but barely remember how it works. It's certainly been fun reading the good Padre's blog over the past few months, especially the various reports.
Well deserved Edwin I pegged you early on as the power behind the Italian throne.
ReplyDeleteCongrat's on the 3rd place Edwin!
ReplyDeleteThank you all.
ReplyDeleteJonathan - I've sent a 'View from Rome' post to the Padre in case he wants to do some post-morteming (he's implied so). That should address my more dubious decisions, but if you want anything specific answering, fire away!
Well done Italy!
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