Austria is fun, so I'll go ahead and disagree even though I have no idea how to brew coffee.

Austria is fun if you spend 1901-1903 in a cold sweat.
I've been doing pour over coffee (with a special stovetop kettle for hot water and a little swirly pour thing) and it tastes better then my previous coffee methods.

*if you like to spend

This is nice.

I brew my coffee by paying money to Dunkin Donuts

And then I add an equal volume of cream, 5 sugars, and artificial coconut flavoring

If poor Valis dies and an autopsy is done, all they will find is an equal volume of cream, sugar, and artificial coconut flavoring.

At least they'll find a heart in us, OB.

"I'm sorry, sir. We dissected OB, but all we found was this stone."

To be fair though, artificial coconut flavoring is NICE.

Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O Never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.
― W.B. Yeats

Austria is fun. try these moves.

F Vienna to Adriatic
A Trieste to Venice
A Budapest to Silesia

Budapest to Silesia. Genius.

Yea its a reenactment of the Roman invasion of the Goths.

I call it The Cure.

I think you need to use the 1977 Barnum and Bailey modification rules for that opening brainbomb. In that version, the game comes with elephants.

is that fleet in vienna on wheels?

If it were on wheels, it could hardly move into the Adriatic, could it?

i feel like the guys from TopGear solved this years ago.

All our fleets are Amphi Tanks

There is a 1SC faction in North Africa called the Barka. They can go thru the black spot on the map, and Sicily is a SC, as is Sardinia... ooh these r cool ideass

Clearly the Austrians discovered the technology for those awful tour boat-cars in Florida a century early

Im making a wacky variant currently for dip. I make maps for part of my Art. I plan to incorporate weather and terrain into diplomacy. And units can freeze to death or starve.

They have those already. They are called hex and counter war games and Diplomacy used to be considered their special little brother

Plug in 1960s percolator for regular coffee and stove top percolator for espresso at home. French press (no, not a Dip variant) at work. My favorite coffee shop does pour over at their cafe and at the farmers market. Variety!

And usually black. Don't pollute your coffee.

The best stove-top coffee is with a Bialetti Moka Pot. Much better coffee than a percolator.

Ah yeah, I love my Moka Pot. I don't know why I called it a perc. Best home espresso.

French Press. I've never liked the bitter, watery flavor of percolator coffee. Other contraptions are way too expensive considering my casual interest in coffee drinking.

Heh, Valis. I have some of those Avalon Hill Bookcase Games, too.

BB, Machiavelli was an interesting Diplomacy successor that may well utilize some of the elements you may be going for. Check it out.

Putin: Try making cold coffee - 1 cup ground coffee, 1 litre cold water in your french press - put in the fridge for 24 hours, then plunge and pour into a bottle. Keep for up to 1 week in the fridge.

It's delicious, and making coffee this way doesn't extract the acid, which means that it won't stain your teeth over time (or anything you spill it on).

like undergraduates' psets?

I collect Bookcase games. It is rare to find someone to play one with me.

INSTANT COFFEE FROM THE JAR/TIN NO WATER JUST SPOON IT DIRECTLY INTO MOUTH A SIP OF MILK AND A TEASPOON OF HONEY...

Ohhhhh yeahhh....

The 6 step way to make the world's best coffee:

1) Boil some water
2) Pick up your coffee making device
3) Throw it away
4) Add boiling water to a teapot along with some teabags
5) Wait a good few minutes
6) Pour into cup, add milk to taste, and enjoy.

You. I like you.

I drink like 4 cups of each a day. its winter. gotta stay ancy

A guy at work makes stovetop coffee and it tastes like tar.

Anyone care for a Nescafé?

I hate coffee. Come get me.