Diplomacy game opening!

From: Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com

Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 03:40:20 +0000

Taken from The Gamers Guide to Diplomacy:

"DIPLOMACY is a game of intense competition.  It is not a "nice" game
... that is, it is a game where some vices become virtues.  In real
life we don't lie to our friends, nor betray trust, nor attack
without warning.  We do in DIPLOMACY.  Often.  The First Commandment
in DIPLOMACY is 'Thou shalt covet they neighbor's supply centers.'"

I have just organized game #12, the players are:

Ron@synthesis.com/Ron Lay
Tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu/Tom Tedrick
Matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu/Matt Crawford
Princeton!polygen!dan/Dan Miller
Gdm@cs.cmu.edu/George Michaels
Fiend@utaphy.bitnet/Daniel Allcock
Sinhaa@sscvax.mcmaster.ca or sun!uunet.uu.net!maccs!anand/Anand Sinha

I am now ready to organize game THIRTEEN!  My lucky number.  If you
are interested in being a player send e-mail to
Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com.  Include the following in your e-mail
message:  Home phone number, work phone number, home address, and
country preferences.  If you have any suggestions for names
for the games, send them to me also.  Previous games have been called
Bunker Hill, Gallipoli, Panzer, Maelstrom, Red Storm, Pearl Harbor,
D-Day, Navarone, Blitzkrieg, and Operation Overlord.

I also have openings in a variant that I am calling 1958 Diplomacy.
That is, we follow the original rules for Diplomacy, down to putting
armies on top of fleets when convoying!

People on my waiting list are: daybell@aludra.usc.edu, okamoto@hp-
ses.hp.com, jog@hpperf1.hp.com, wilson_c@oxy.edu,
hplabs!pacbell!cpro!meadow!bill, jf30@andrew.cmu.edu, and
darkstar@cti.as.arizona.edu.

I am currently checking with the BNC to see if I would be allowed to
bypass the two people per state limitation by having a game with all
seven people from the same state.  This would help eleviate my
backlog of California players.  Although a few more game starts would
solve my problem just as nicely.  (Our backlog is 5 people at the
moment and I will be starting another game within a week.)