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Thanks for playing! Match was a bit of the pain in the ass, but I had fun never managing to cooperate with you once. It was an honor to play with you 🫡.

I was looking at this guide again due to my first French game starting. I basically won by taking all of Italy and Turkey. England my longest ally owned Portugal, Bel and Hol, and Scandinavia. I basically only won because England waited until the last possible moment to attack me and built nothing but fleets.

LETS GO

The one issue that I have with this opening that you didn't mention is that if England makes a standard opening (ie - nwg and nth) then they're in position to support a convoy to Norway and because of your army in St Pete are more or less obligated to do that. This means that if they had been planning on focusing more on the continent and trying to, say, convoy to Belgium instead, you're denying them that option, essentially forcing England to put all of their units focused on Scandinavia and therefore fighting you. I agree that it can still work if you have Germany on side, but it essentially requires it, since now England is committing its units against you and is likely to offer Germany whatever it can to bounce you in Sweden.

Happy stabbing

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Franco-German alliance or as I call it, a deal with the Devil for Germany. You think you got set, but the Devil will still claim his due later down the line!

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Been a Dip player since the 1970s, pbm (play by mail, postal). Dropped out of hobby 20ys plus, now trying to get bck in...

I got into Diplomacy during your recent break, and watching through your back catalog has been an incredibly fun and useful experience. I credit a lot of my current obsession and rate of improvement to you.

I absolutely enjoy the alligator pick accompanied by the intro as a Floridaman. The implication that the alligator is the Floridaman doesn't escape me!

This is good stuff, I really enjoyed getting a different viewpoint after watching the Bornu perspective. I enjoyed your dynamics with Mr. Poland. It would be awesome if you could get a colonial perspective (a big one versus Poland's comparatively modest overseas investment), or the Inuit. Having a more navally based perspective, that really emphasizes the differences in sea-lanes here compared to many diplo games would be great! Also, just as a suggestion for the "like and subscribe" segment in the middle, I would suggest you make it a more mock "announcer" style bit, lean into it a bit more, "Hello, this is your regularly scheduled broadcast from the Florida-Man Ministry of Propaganda, reminding you to do your civic duty by SMASHING that Subscribe button! Compliance is mandatory." or something along those lines. Keep up the good work!

Not the fly jumpscare

Being a corner power with the ability to poke your nose into other people's business. Russia truly gets the benefits of both central and corner powers!

More information for thought, planning and ploting...what version is this one?

Been a while, but I have a new map with the cat an diplomacy rules

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I know this incredibly late but I think you have triggered a response from greece by moving your army to illyria.

This variant, I am extremely interested in playing in the next year, but where?

Great video, I have subscribed.

Good thing you're back, don't know how you do it but your diplomacy narration is the only one that doesn't make me sleep in 30 seconds

Florida maaan!

You're the Poland?

I've been missing this content.

I've missed this channel, happy to see it's back

Nice, world maps always make for the most chaotic games

7:42 That was my game of russia recently ;(

I really like this map

This will be good. Smashing that notification bell!

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He's back!!!

Isn't this the same game that Captain Meme played recently?

Exciting.

I'm gonna be harsh, people doing good with Austria is less about them being good at the game and more about everyone else having less than 1 braincell people, rightly so, freak out about Turkey getting a hold of all the Balkans, but somehow they don't do that, even though the position is absolutely the same, and that is, a heedgehog that can attack and defend at the same time without worries it's stupid for an Italian or Russian player not getting Triest / Buda out of that alliance, but yet they don't and it is just so stupid "yeah sure I'm gonna let you go + 4 and with concentrated armies, I'm gonna +3 with stretched thin armies, I wonder how that will end up for me" it is just that stupid

One thing I can notice about you is you are very indecisive in most your games and instead of just trying to make a decision you instead flip flop with non decisions and end up falling behind.

Funnily enough, I'm no Diplomacy super-fan, I in fact kinda hate playing the game due to having backstabbery in horror, whether I do it or it happens to me. I do, however, find the strategy behind it endlessly fascinating, and your content is quite great in that perspective. Just a pretty damn good analysis of the game, one I can digest without having to actually experience the game...

I must put your knowledge into my first game 😔 France looks likely to betray my trust and fleet up the med due to Germ/UK defensive pact and pressure towards Russia likely. Austria is my friend and Russia seems to want to take Turkey with us. This is just my guess going from Sprint 1901.

I'd like to see more Espionage Diplomacy in addition to more variant maps overall.

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Yeah, I feel like the early army build definitely trapped you here. A fleet build would have been more flexible, though perhaps more threatening to Italy initially

The thing I don’t like about 1900 is no impassables. Switzerland and Ireland being neutral are important for balance.

It was a nice change to have a touch of RP flavor to the diplomatic manuvering. I also like seeing a variant map and ruleset. But while it would have been nice to learn about the rules for flying units from the video (instead of the comments), the one major complaint I have is not about that but about not (always) showing the map while retelling your diplomatic experience. I had to constantly go back and forth in the video, trying to remember what was said/seen in order to get a understanding to the situation; in a few cases I simply accepted not grasping as much as I'd like, but for the most part I ended up stubbornly taking a lot of extra time to get through the videeo.

8:15 wait how did you build a fleet in Macedonia? Its not your home centre

I feel like Athens is pretty much in an impossible situation in this map since it can be reasonably attacked by every single power, even in classic Austria is safe from France and England, and Germany is safe from Turkey(and usually Italy)

Carthage, the france, just had to not piss off its brittain in rome. It failed to do that. And it became useless.