Oh, it's on vdip. duh.
And that looks awesome!

Although very, very confusing

Oh, it's cool, it wuold be great to play it :D

Own it. Best thing about the game is all the wooden blocks you get, which I now use with one of my Diplomacy sets that came with plastic pieces.

Yeah, this variant was published as a seperate board game years ago.

I've seen it mentioned many places on-line. Some how I misremembered it as an expansion ti the regular board. I guess that's a different, more recent variant.

France controls 'French-IndoChina' ie Vietnam; England controls India (and Aden); Turkey controls the Ottoman empire; Holland controls the Dutch east indies ie Indonesia; China, Japan, and Russia control themselves - the Trans-Siberian railway doesn't work due to a bug.

Best version of diplomacy, is the one with painted metal pieces. Which i highly recommend. (though i don't think it is available anywhere, i may have access to a copy)

You like the one with the metal pieces? Ick. I own it but have never played a game with it. The wood pieces are much more functional. Also, the board for that Hasbro version is too small and too dark.

I like the metal pieces. I saw recently that they are identical to the Monopoly battleship and cannon, though, ha ha.

The metal pieces do look nice on the new board, the one that comes with cardboard counters, but the board they came with is small and hideous. Plus, the box for that version is huge. Not really portable.

For my money, there's no substitute for the blocks. When you're adjudicating by hand, it's very easy to turn the blocks upright to indicate support. With the metal pieces, I suppose you would lay them down. Not nearly as fun.

So long as we can agree that the cardboard counters are the worst.

At last, common ground.

I'm probably biased since that's the version I own, but I doubt that I would prefer wooden blocks or plastic tokens. As for the board, I agree it isn't very pretty. From the pictures of boards I have seen uploaded on-line, I prefer the map where Siberia and Ireland are labeled in addition to Switzerland.

It's a shame that they used such shoddy cardboard pieces for the "50th Anniversary Edition". It seems like they were just interested in putting out something cheap to cash in on the pent up demand after the game was out of print for several years

Yah, but the board from the new set looks really nice. Some of the spaces, like Rome, are way too small, but it's pretty to look at. With proper pieces on it, that is. I won five sets: Two of the classic blue Avalon Hill bookshelf box sets, one that came with plastic stars and anchors but now has my Colonial pieces in it, and another that has the old glossy wooden pieces; the black long-box Deluxe Diplomacy set from 1992 or so; the Hasbro metal piece set; and the new one. I use the Deluxe Diplomacy set most often, typos and all.

Not won, have. I have five sets.

This is the 'board' I was talking about:
http://www.diplom.org/Online/maps/map_c.gif
I guess it's not actually a board after all.