The rules on the site state that support can be given to HOLDING units.

However, normally I believe support can be given to any unit that DOESN'T MOVE. (see http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/resources/rulebooks/2000AH4th.pdf)

So if I order two units to support each other and one is attacked (and the attack is supported), what will happen? The site rules suggest that the attack will succeed (can't support a unit that wasn't holding), however normally it wouldn't do so.

Please help. (Soon).

Thanks in advance.

In this game: http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4222, last night I decided to move my Portugal Fleet to South Coast Spain, while moving the fleet at North Coast Spain to Portugal. At the time, I didn't think of it as a bounce since both fleets were not directly crossing movement, but it was interpreted by the adjudicator as bounces, which makes sense when I woke up this morning. I just want to make sure that it is actually a bounce.

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When you're looking at the chat screen on an individual game, is all the chat interaction supposed to show with or without scroll bars?

we're going to quit for a bit, since we dont have reliable access to a computer, and we're both busy alot

we'll start again when we have more time

sorry for the cd

later boys

I was wondering what people's thoughts were on draws in PPSC games.

Hello again all!
I'm back, and raring to go. (Interesting word, raring- derives from a form of 'rear', presumably in the sense of a rearing horse... but anyway).
Could someone give me a brief overview of what improvements (if any) have been made since I was last around, which I think was shortly after the introduction of the points system?
I must admit, I was astounded to find I was still ranked well within the top 100...it seems the good only get better and the others don't rise...

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That caught me attention while I was in Poland - the way Stalin forced the Poles to rebel or be labelled as defeatists, then stopped his armies a few hundred meters away to let Germans crush them before moving in - Facing less of a defence in the city as well as preventing any future Polish resistance.. The bastard was a true diplomat.

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Anyone else having major problems with the site. I'm having a hell of a time getting orders in. As manay games as I'm playing this will take me the full 24 hours just to get my orders in.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4418

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The other players France, Germany and Russia will confirm.

Kestas, Please draw this game Italy (pokemon trainer) should confirm shortly.

A little news...

this is turkey asking for a draw.
soon france and russia should also post.

Scenario: you put your time/efforts to play Diplomacy because you consider it rewarding and interesting. You disapprove metagaming, because in your opinion it comprimes the honesty/fun of the game (you believe everyone should start with same potential chances to win a game, then as game develops odds are going up or down).

In a particular game, you are playing Austria. You could have crashed Russia, but from previous games you learnt that, once Russia is gone, Turkey is a genie out of a box and the doom starts. So, instead of trying to destroy Russia, you let him stand as deterrent against Turkey.

Then Turkey accuses Russia and you of metagaming.

QUESTION: considering Turkey is an experienced player, at least according to his rank, what would YOU think?

a) Turkey is a smart, Machiavellian player. Using bogus complaints to move your focus away from the game. What a great player!

b) Turkey and Russia are up to something, and staging a fake disagreement. God saves me from allies, than I will take care of enemies :-)

c) Turkey is in immature player. He really believes what he says!

d) None of the above. Please enlighten me with your opinion!

In case this case falls in cluster "A", I will not add any additional message to the original ones. But I would love to know what you think about this.

I am very new to this game, but from viewing the finished ones, it seems like Italy almost never wins? Also, it seems like Austria wins the most, followed by Turkey, Russia, England.

In the game http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4374&msgCountry=Germany

shouldn't the attack from STP to Barents Sea have failed by the rules?

I thought the rule for disbands for a country in CD was the farther away from home SCs. I am currently in a game where Austria is in CD. At the end of Autumn, he had 2 SCs at Trieste and Vienna. He had 3 armies in Galicia, Albania and Trieste. Trieste was disbanded. Why?

I have requested to build later, does the option to build in Autumn automatically ask me? if what do I need to do... thanks in advance

the situation is like this:
I am playing france and i have an army in spain. i want to occupy portugal but this turn is sping 1902 in order to set portugal as a supply center does my army need to stay there for another turn? or my occupation in spring is just enaugh?

has anyone heard the song "Viva la Vida"? i was just thinking about it and realized it we could write a great diplomacy-related parody of it; i've already got a few lines:

"I used to rule the word,
fleets would move when i gave the word.
Now in the morning i scheme alone,
scheme with guys i used to own..."

"...Be my puppet, my sword and shield,
My figurehead in a foreign field.
For some reason i can't explain,
since i joined, there was never,
never an honest word,
Even when i ruled the world."

also, maybe someone here who can sing could post it to Youtube. or they might record it at the FTF game in the UK.

In the game "New Trade" Russia had fleet GoB support Sweden to Baltic Sea and fleet Baltic Sea was supporting another move, but was unsupported. This should have displaced fleet Baltic Sea. But it didn't.

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http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4265

Shouldn't my attack from GoB -> Baltic Sea stopped them from convoying an army to Livonia?

If not can someone explain to me why it did not?

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