Diplomacy zine -- Tiny red issue From: Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 23:30:30 +0000 Issue #65 of ELECTRONIC PROTOCOL: Spring '07 of the game PANZER (BNC number 1989H) THE GERMAN MONSTER CONTINUES TO GROW! AUSTRIA: A VEN SA TURKISH TRI-TYR ENGLAND: F ECH-NTS, (A HOL-KIE), (A LIV-PRU), A MOS-STP, F NAO-NWS F NTS-HEL, F NWS-NOR, A STP-FIN FRANCE: F GOL-PIE, (F ION-ALB), A MAR-GAS, F NAP-APU A ROM SA AUSTRIAN VEN-VEN, F TUN SF TYS-ION, (F TYS-ION) GERMANY: F BAL SA MUN-KIE, A BER-PRU, A MUN-KIE, A PAR-BUR A SEV-MOS, A SWE-DEN, A TYR-MUN, A UKR SA WAR-WAR A VIE SA TURKISH TRI-TYR, A WAR SA BER-PRU TURKEY: F AEG-GRE, A ARM-ANK, A BUD-TRI, F CON-BUL(sc) F EME SF SMY-AEG, (F GRE-ALB), (F SMY-AEG), A TRI-TYR Press: John Murray will be on vacation from Fri. 5/26 through Mon. 5/29. Summer '07 of the game PANZER (BNC number 1989H) Nothing happened. Autumn and Winter '03 of the game MAELSTROM (BNC number 1989AA) One player is late, look for results tomorrow. Fall '03 of the game RED STORM (BNC number 1989AB) (GM is MaryFW@cup.portal.com) Due next Sunday May 28th at 10:00pm Eastern time. Summer '04 of the game PEARL HARBOR (BNC number 1989AV) (GM is Adams@multiflow.com/Steve Adams) Italy retreats A Trieste to Venice Spring '03 of D-DAY (BNC number 1989AW) (GM is MaryFW@Cup.portal.com) Only one correction: Greece is a Turkish supply center. I keep either not listing it or listing it wrong. :( Spring '03 is due next Sunday May 28th at 10:00pm Eastern time Autumn and Winter '01 of NAVARONE (BNC number 1989AX) (GM is Pwoodruf@orion.cf.uci.edu) NAVARONE Builds for WINTER 1901 AUSTRIA: A Bud ENGLAND: F Edi, A Lon FRANCE: A Par, A Mar GERMANY: F Ber, A Mun ITALY: A Rom RUSSIA: A StP TURKEY: F Smy ***************************************** Press: ******* NOT AN INVASION, SAYS CZAR Saint Petersburg (Novosti News Agency) Czar Hannu V{is{nen today released the following statement: Our move into Austria should not be considered as an invasion of Austria-Hungary. Due to the postal strike in Austria-Hungary our diplomatic mail could not be delivered, so we decided to travel to Vienna in person to negotiate with the Austro-Hungarian Emperor. Unfortunately an Austrian army in Trieste prevented us from entering Vienna, thus hampering our peaceful efforts to resolve the conflicts in the Balkans through negotiations. We expect that the Austrian Emperor takes appropriate action to punish the commander of the Trieste army. ************************** Pete's Points: Rajeev Jog (England) has requested a half-week extension (to 10 PM EST Wednes day, May 31); vote on it. Votes on two-week moves remain at 2 to 2; the vot- ing period (on these questions) will end Sunday. Note also the temporary address for England: zumel@cory.berkeley.edu. Eric's Points: The half-week extension passes since I am giving this game a one week delay until June 4th. Note that there was extremely little possiblity that a half-week extension vote would have passed. Dave Edmunds, the honorable ruler of France is having serious e-mail difficulities, he seems to be able to receive mail, but can't send it. If his problems persist over a week then he will be replaced, but I hope everything can be fixed. Finally, note that NMRs are illegal in all my games, Pete forgot this when he gave Dave an NMR. People will be tracked down or replaced, but never NMRed. This rule is especially important for this international game. Spring '01 of BLITZKRIEG (BNC number not known) (GM is Dougi@astro.as.utexas.edu/Doug Ingram) (GM for Fall and Winter '01 is John_E_Murray@cup.portal.com) Spring moves due Sunday the 28th at 10 PM Eastern time. GM comments: I am also now using a mailing list to directly mail this zine to all players, let me know if you are not getting it directly! I am looking for players as well as GMs, let me know if you would like to be a player! Taken from Diplomacy World #42: AUSTRIA'S WIN WITHOUT A FLEETING CHANCE By James Woodson, Ensign, USN as told to Larry Peery We've talked about Austria's naval potential and, I suppose, it's a classic case of making a mountain out of a molehill. Still, it is a possiblity. The other side of the coin also deserves an examination. So let's look at a real FTF game won by the then newly commissioned Ensign James Woodson, USN. It was a PEERICON, or perhaps a BEETHOVENCON---I forget which---a few years ago. James was lucky enough to draw Austria as his country assignment and naturally that evoked gales of laughter among the players in the game. Winter 1900 was the usual; reams of lies and lies. Spring and Fall 1901 were typical. James built a fleet in Trieste in Winter 1901, along with an army in Vienna as I recall. And then it began. The game went on and on because games at PEERICONS and BEETHOVENCONS always do. There are no time constraints per se. If a game takes 15 game years or 15 hours to complete, so be it. James did well, slowly at first and then with an increasing momentum that became a flood of ketchup on the game board. First he stabbed his friends and then he stabbed his enemies. But one thing stood out as the game progressed, James wasn't using many fleets. I knew James was getting serious when he came to me after five or six hours of play and said, "Do you have another Dippy game? We need another set of pieces." Naturally, I was curious but not alarmed. Every competent Dippy host always has at least seven Diplomacy sets on hand. So I found him another set and went about my hosting duties. Hours passed. Then James tracked me down again and said, "Do you have another Dippy set? We need more pieces." Well, by now I was down to my plastic pieces, a Canadian set that must have been designed by a color blind interior decorator, and my Gang of Four set in Chinese. I was also curious. So I found another set, gave it to James, waited a few diplomatic moments, and casually wandered over to where the game was going on. It was simple. The gameboard looked like a Big Mac that had had a massive thrombosis, or been attacked by a band of Killer Tomatoes. There, scattered all over Austria, Turkey, Russia, and Germany were no less than 16 Austrian units, each and every one an army. There wasn't one Austrian fleet to be seen. Drawing James aside, I asked him sotto voce, "Where's your fleets?" "Well the first one got blown up by one of my no longer existant foes." "But what about the second one you built in 1902," I asked. "Well, when I saw a good thing going, I just kept it going. So I had an ally blow that one to bits," James said. "Besides I needed another army." "You had 16 armies and no fleets and you needed an army? I asked incredously. "It's simple, he said. "It's called economy of scale." Well, James went on to gain two more black dots, build two more armies, and ended up with 18 centers, 18 units, and 18 armies on the board. Today, years later, I still don't have all the right red armies back in all the right boxes. There's the red wooden one with the bright paint, the red wooden one with the dull paint, the red plastic one that looks like a dum dum, and the red flag that looks like Madame Mao. I am enjoying moderating this zine, keep that mail coming! Eric Klien Up