Diplomacy game opening! From: Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1989 01:46:38 +0000 I am organizing games #28+ of Diplomacy, I am currently looking for GMs (for regular and variant games in both my electronic and postal zines), GM standbys, player standbys, scribes, and players. I specifically need a GM to take over a 20 player variant that is down to 7 players. We now have nearly a million games going (well, close to a million) and I need all the help I can get to run things smoothly. If you would like to help out in a bureaucratic position, let me know. I have plenty of paper shuffling jobs that need to be filled! Remember to give me your home phone number, work phone number, home address, and country preferences when you sign up for my waiting list! REGULAR Diplomacy game waiting list: john_edward_scardamaglia@cup.portal.com/John Edward Scardamaglia ames@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu/Ralph Ames dispatch@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu/David Walker u92_jreagan@stevens.bitnet (Need country pref) demon@eve.wright.edu/Brett Kottmann (Need country pref) 1914 waiting list: ucsd!bjarrett/Brooke Jarrett snarr@chemistry.utah.edu/Benjamin A. Snarr The 1914 variant of Diplomacy is based on an article in The General. (The General is published by the manufacturer of Diplomacy to give you an idea of how good this variant must be!) This game is much more realistic than regular Diplomacy, you even can get bombers starting in Winter 1917. GUNBOAT waiting list: 3 players. Note that I am having authorization problems in contacting one of these players! (Please respond you-know-who.) In this variant you don't know who your opponents are, you only communicate through press. BLIND DIPLOMACY waiting list: akuo@scam.berkeley.edu/Augie Kuo ronin@cory.berkeley.edu/Sam Parazette caeco!i-core!acrylion!herring/Dustin Fehr jzzr@cc.utah.edu/Dave Francetic In this variant, the locations of all pieces are secret. You discover the locations of enemy pieces when you attack them or are attacked by them. You also discover the location of enemy pieces by spying. Each country begins with 2 spies, in any home centers. You lose a spy if you lose your capital, and both spies if you lose all your home centers. You gain a spy for each enemy capital you take. Spies that are destroyed are replaced each year in a home center. Each spy may: move, hold, or counter espionage. Spies themselves are completely invisible -- they may move through any space regardless of the presence of other units. Spies are never dislogded, and can only be destroyed by counter espionage. A spy performing conter espionage kills all enemy spies in the area. If two spies both CE the same area, both die. If a spy survives, it provides complete information on the unit occupying the area and its actions in the just completed turn. CLASSIC DIPLOMACY waiting list: daybell@aludra.usc.edu/Donald Daybell mik@otto.lvsun.com/Mike Widner rolee@hmcvax.bitnet/Roderick Lee In this game we follow the original rulebook and board from the 1958 edition of Diplomacy. In this game you actually place armies on top of fleets to convoy them (at the rate of one unit per turn) and have neat places such as Mesopotamia and Persia. My favorite change is that Switzerland is a neutral supply center! ******************************************************************** READ THIS ABOUT STANDBYS! ******************************************************************** I need standbys for players and GMs. Particularly GMs. Player standby list ------------------- uunet!microsoft!paulc/Paul Canniff tedward@cs.cornell.edu/Ted Fischer edbailey@walt.cc.utexas.edu/Ed Bailey GM standby list --------------- tedward@cs.cornell.edu/Ted Fischer ******************************************************************** OTHER POSITIONS ******************************************************************** A scribe types articles so I can reprint them in this zine. I will supply xeroxes. Let me know how many pages you wish to type. Let's keep my wrist out of a brace! Scribes ------- sccs6016@iruccibm.bitnet/Geaorid Casey. uunet!microsoft!paulc/Paul Canniff hardlj@druwa.att.com/Larry Hardouin mikeb@ee.ubc.ca/Mike Bolotski as3615@yuorion.bitnet/Dave Hedman An e-mail wizard helps people with e-mail problems. E-mail Wizards -------------- george@cs.cornell.edu/George Boyce A chapter checker helps makes sure that a chapter is running smoothly. I.e. that it is being published and that the games in it are also being published. Chapter Checkers ---------------- dwarf@cory.berkeley.edu/Ron Youngquist (Checker of Chapter One) A guest publisher takes the results of 5 games and publishes them in a chapter, twice a week. Guest Publishers ---------------- daybell@aludra.ucs.edu/Donald Daybell (Chapter One) tedward@cs.cornell.edu/Ted Fischer (Chapter Two) Guest Publisher Waiting List ---------------------------- goebel@emunix.emich.edu/Matthew Goebel ********************************************************************* Up