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Welcome to WebDiplomacy Egathetos. I hope you enjoy it here. Avoid, like the plague, threads that intermittently pop up here advertising fake IDs, paintings and other merchandise. They usually get shut down quickly. Read the rules about the site thoroughly. Use the forum as you have to seek advice. Be very careful in the forum about discussing ongoing games. And have fun.

Mitchell just wants to keep all the oil painting and lighting fixtures for himself. They are in limited supply.

don't listen to Lethologica he doesn't really play diplomacy

Thank you Mitchell. I have to say that I am catching the bug.

Is it allowed or not, to discuss games in the forum? I assume that it is not.

If confused by who to listen to, look for posts by accounts with the checkerboard pattern next to them. That indicates the person is a Moderator and is a more reliable source than most - so Valis here, for example. As Lethologica and Valid said, a unit support holding another unit both supports another unit and acts as a hold for itself.

Discussing games in the forum is only allowed for full press games. For those games, it may or may not be a violation of etiquette. In general, I would avoid posting about full press games in the forum while they're happening unless you (a) need another player or (b) have agreed with the other players that posting on the forum is okay for that particular game.

"5. Do not attempt to circumvent press restrictions

Because press in gunboat games, rulebook press games, and public press games is restricted, discussing them on the forum while they are being played can jeopardise the fairness of the game and, if done by a player in the game, can classify as working around press restrictions. Even in an effort to draw or cancel a game, posting about an ongoing gunboat game is prohibited. If a player is stalemated and refuses to draw or refuses to unpause a paused game, please email the moderators at [email protected]."

Lol - Valis, not Valid. Although an interesting slip to be sure.

You cannot discuss active games in the forum if you are in that game and Press (communication) is limited in that game. Generally, it's bad form to discuss a game you are playing in outside of the Global interface within the game, but technically allowed if you could send press anyway. Of course you can use the forum to recruit players for game, say to replace someone who drops out. See the rules for full details: http://webdiplomacy.net/rules.php

"As Lethologica and Valid said, a unit support holding another unit both supports another unit and acts as a hold for itself. "

- well, theoretically not, a unit can't hold and support hold at the same time (since when it is attacked it will 'cut' the support hold and only hold) so if we want to be totally correct (and nit-picking) we need to say:

a) a unit can only follow one order
b) the order of a unit can be a support hold of another unit
c) if the unit who gives a support hold is attacked (even when it is only one unit attacking and this unit, that is attacked, get more than one support hold), it cannot support hold another unit and defends itself, ergo defaults to just holding itself (selfish little unit). So it drops the order you gave it and follows its own order of 'holding'.

Isn't it so?

All the behavior in (c) is part of the meaning of a 'support hold' order. The semantic concession to a unit's inability to actually execute two orders at once is where slypups says, "*acts as* a hold for itself."