I'm not going to pretend I remember when I got my first Diplomacy game. It was that long ago that, if I attempted to name a year I'd get it wrong. It was published by Avallon Hill, though, and a typical UK/European board. Russia was purple, England pink, France... well, what colour do you call that? 'Blue' seems to do a disservice to blue. I was young enough that the closest I got to playing the game was with family. This normally meant the 6-player version and involved me, my brother Steven, my parents, Uncle Alan and Auntie Margaret. Dip games were few and far between because we also had Treasure of the Pharaohs, Game of Life, Monopoly (yawn), Anti-monoploly, Alarm... Board games were great. There was one occasion when we got a 7-player game, one Christmas when Auntie Barbara was there. The problem was that it took a long time to explain the rules to a new player. I don't think we got very far into the game. My game wa...
A blog about the boardgame Diplomacy.