The Embassy

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. Having discussed Dippyists in the previous post, I'm going to move on to pseudo-Dippyists, those who play Diplomacy but not the way it was meant to be played. I'm not going to get to hung up on saying more here... read on. The Carebear I mentioned Carebears in a previous post .  Carebears are players who follow the philosophy of Drawmongery.  Drawmongery is a philosophy that places a draw on equal parity with winning.  I'm not going to go into this as being a perverted philosophy here because I'm going to analyse it in another post, but it is.  Extremely perverted. Here, we're talking about Carebears, the players themselves and the way they play.  What can you expect from a Carebear? Well, they're lovely... in a playing sense.  They're not bad p...

In Diplomacy, you - the player - are in control of your own units and, ultimately, you can do with them what you like.  Nobody can tell you how to play the game, assuming that you're playing within the rules.  This means that the different approaches to the game that players show can't be outlawed. In this post I am going to discuss three philosophies behind the way people play Diplomacy. I think that if everyone followed the same philosophy I do, they'd enjoy the game just as much as playing to their own philosophy.  Actually, I think those who play a certain way would enjoy it more.  But I would, wouldn't I?  If I didn't like the way I play, I'd be particularly stupid to keep playing that way! There is only one principle that everyone should be following: have fun.  Diplomacy , no matter how competitive, is a game and games are meant to be fun.  If you're not having fun, then you need to change your approach or change the game you're playing. ...