I thought it might be fun to have a look at some types of player you're likely to come across when playing Diplomacy . Well, OK, it's not all fun in this series... but I'll do my best. Finally, the people who really shouldn't be playing the way their playing no matter what. Sorry, but none of the people here ought to be playing Diplomacy . The Davian Davian behaviour in animals is, basically, necrophilia. Davian behaviour in Dip players isn't quite as strange, but it isn't great, either; it's still flogging a dead horse. There are times in Dip games where the game is over. Usually there are two sides: sometimes it will be a Grand Alliance stopping a single player from winning; other times there may be two opposing alliances preventing each other from making progress. The key to this situation is that, without someone doing something stupid, the game has ended. These are deadlocked games. A Davian is a player will who refuse...
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