lol cut the first three

im serious though im so lost sometimes. :P

I agree completely, I think it took me about 150 games before I learnt how the Support/Hold function worked ...... the easiest and quickest thing to do is ask away, it saves time and people here I'm sure will give you good help or advice

BIMCOR is a good one.

um explanations guys?

@nigee I get the support/hold. I grasped the game quickly. I don't mean the game terms I mean the terms used by the players. ex: whats so special about gunboat?

gunboat - no press :-)

and press means?

You can send messages (wilson means public messages only while "press" tends to refer to all-messaging OK games)

so gunboat is no messaging, Wilson only public and press means messaging allowed for all?

DMZ - demilitarized zone; used to make an agreement between players not to move into a specific province or set of provinces.

NAP - non-aggression pact; two players generally agree not to attack each other

NMR - no moves received; a player misses the turn and all his units hold

I know the Russia-Turkey Alliance is called the Juggernaut (stumbled upon that through experimentation) but are there special names for any other ones?

Western Triple/WT is EFG. Central/Axis Alliance is GAI. Those are both popular ones.

btw interested in a quick low stakes game?
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=109759
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AEFGIRT are the first initials for each nation. You'll often see them.used as shorthand especially when referring to alliances like EFRT which makes a nice crusher alliance.

I see

CD - Civil Disorder, if a player NMRs twice (misses two goes) then their country can be taken over and it will say LEFT against their country name. You can still play again even if you have LEFT as long as no-one has taken over your country.

never heard of wilson - but often wondered why nobody called it that way ;) you may also find the expression public press (btw. where does the expression press come from?).
i c/I C = I see.
sry = sorry
sorry = contemplated stab…

Oh, the other term that you'll be expected to know is a Lepanto - an Austrian/Italian strike against Turkey that's so common that I'd be suspicious of anyone who didn't know what it meant. It's worth looking up. (e.g. bing.com)

lolol

I know most acronyms of social media but webdip is using some terms I dunno lol

nice to know. thanks al

MM = MadMarx = HWMNBN

HWMNBN = "High Webdip Maestro, Not Bolshoi, No"?

WWMMD

What would MadMarx do? A question I try to ask myself every turn.

@draug: "alliances like EFRT which makes a nice crusher alliance."

Indeed. No way out of that one ;-)

If you Google "diplomacy alliance" you'll find a site called "the diplomatic pouch" which has very good explanations about the different alliances.

When I create anonymous games, I make a point that people should not name anyone's name, so slyster immediately started referring to me as He Who Must Not Be Named.

Old Voldy's gone moldy - peeves lol

Diplomatic Pouch used to run pbm (play by mail) games (and later pbemail games) and that is where the term "press" originated ... public messages (press) could be submitted along with moves for distribution to all players. Private messages were also somewhat restricted by the format/processing approach and typically only one round per phase. This is also where "grey press" (non-attributed authorship) and "black press" (faked authorship) first originated.

Black press always seemed epic to me. Never got to play it though.

@cardcollector: browse this site for a few evenings and you will be up to date. It's an old site, but since Diplomacy is timeless it's still valid: http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/

Another important nickname to know is the Lepanto, referring to a joint Italian/Austrian attack on Turkey via East Med. Also, be sure to memorize the abbreviations of the different provinces on the map. Many people still refer to them in the abbreviated versions, and some oldkoolers like myself still use capitalised for sea regions as was once the fashion.

Thx a lot, VB. I didn't know the grey/black press schemes – so the distinction of "public" press now makes a lot more sense… what a pity, it can't be used here.