Liberty Cup Round 2

Here's my after action report on Round 2 of the 2023 Liberty Cup!
My links are as follows:
Ruthless: Path of Conquest:
www.royalroad.com/fiction/726...
floridamandiplomacy.wordpress...
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ko-fi.com/floridaman
And credit for any subtitles belongs to Perygl, for Romanian, to pompodopompom, for French, and to Sploack, for Italian.
This video is about the game of Diplomacy, an American strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 based on the European Great Powers in the years leading up to World War I. The game was the favorite of John F. Kennedy and Henry Kissinger. Seven (7) players control the respective powers of England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia, and Turkey and fight for world domination (control over Europe), using negotiations, diplomatic skill, tactics, and grand strategy to establish covert deals, attack mutual enemies, and backstab established allies. A "stab" is the word for betraying your ally.
TL;DR: Diplomacy is basically Risk without the dice, or chess with seven players on a world map.

[@kcfdz]

One note about the final few years: once you stabbed Austria, there were discussions about trying to get Russia to be as big as possible knowing Bill's score wouldn't count for the tournament. A little bit meta, but it was a consideration that affected some thinking.

[@floridamandiplomacy]

That makes a lot of sense. I'm sure Bill was having a lot of fun with that. I do think it was kind of unfortunate that we had a game where one player had nothing to win or lose except bragging rights. Kind of messes up the tournament incentive structure.

[@sleepysnake544]

I agree with your conclusions for the game.

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Thanks for the thoughts, snake!