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Diplomacy: the art of saying "Nice
doggy"
until you can find a stick-- Wynn
Catlin
The Society exists to play Avalon Hill's Diplomacy, a tactical board game. Each of the seven players take the part of a Great Power at the start of the 20th Century: Austria-Hungary, England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia or Turkey. The board is shown above.
Your aim is to become the dominant power in Europe. But to do this you will need to persuade -- and sometimes deceive -- your rivals into helping you achieve your military objectives. You are given three armed units to start with, each an army or a fleet. By annexing first neutral (yellow) territory, then that of your rivals, you gain more resources to construct new units.
Diplomacy can be played on any map, and we have a number representing different areas of the world in different historical periods, including variants designed here in Cambridge. The Diplomatic Pouch WebZine gives a more detailed outline of how the game works.
During full term we normally meet weekly to play Diplomacy or its variants. This term meetings will be held alternatingly on Mondays and Tuesdays at 7:30pm in the Fisher building in St John's College, beginning. If you're interested in playing, contact the committeeat soc-dip-committee[at]lists.cam.ac.uk.removethis, or just turn up at one of the meetings. To get updated information about our meetings you can also subscribe to our e-mail list.
Copyright © 2007 Cambridge University Diplomacy
Society.
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Inc.
Diplomacy is a trademark of The Avalon Hill Game Company.
These pages were last updated on Monday 21 January 2008 by Johannes Nordström.
Thanks to the SRCF for
providing the web space.