The Lapland Lurch Opening Overview

Here's my overview of the Lapland Lurch opening for Russia, which Mark Berch describes here: diplomacy.fandom.com/wiki/The....
My general links are as follows:
Ruthless: Path of Conquest:
www.royalroad.com/fiction/726...
floridamandiplomacy.wordpress... / discord
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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.

[@sleepysnake544]

Comment for the Floridian Empire’s longevity.

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Four more years! Four more years!

[@oscaro3977]

Me too

[@JeffTaylor-tr7my]

Would negotiating Gulf of Bothnia be demilitarized like T and R might agree for the Black Sea ever make sense? Not as opening but say in the face of a strong F and E vs. G?

[@floridamandiplomacy]

I think so. I think there are certain critical spaces that should be a subject of negotiation like this, and Bothnia is definitely one of them.

[@Cappy-Bara]

Comment for the Florida Empire

[@floridamandiplomacy]

The Emperor commends you for your loyalty.

[@jackbonhomie]

I feel like you should have played a game against yourself for this video to clearly demonstrate the tactical reason. You're making a video, not a podcast, so you may as well use it.

[@josephjagusah8668]

this is more or less in line with his format. you're thinking of chess analysis, which works because your opponent only has a few good moves at any time, and if he makes a bad move that's not really your concern.
in diplomacy, some other player could throw a move out of nowhere that no one was expecting which for some reason completely throws your plan out of the window.
and on a mechanical level, it's actually pretty hard to play diplomacy moves. you're moving multiple pieces at once, the drag and drop of chess analysis isn't quite applicable.

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Yeah. Very occasionally, I have tried this playing a game against myself thing, creating a Backstabbr sandbox to demonstrate something. But it's a big pain, so if I have a game or two where the tactic has been demonstrated, I will pretty nearly always prefer to use those.

[@Arkangel630]

@@floridamandiplomacy Maybe a mix of both would work out well? Use sandbox to showcase an example of the move being talked about then proceed to show the games if available.