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Author:FuzzyLogic
Posted:May 07, 2010 at 11:36 am
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Wow.

The Youngstown game is the most popular of the many Diplomacy variants.

That's quite a statement. I'd like to know where the writer of that article came up w that. It's certainly not as popular (2 games) as say Ancient Med (6 games) or Colonial (8 games) in terms of activity here at dc.

The original Youngstown variant was pretty pathetic. The rendering for Realpolitik was choppy, with hard to understand off-board locations. A couple years back tho it was redone, and the new one is actually quite nice. I would say it's really good since the redo.

In my opinion, the desire for it comes from the two most popular games, Standard and Colonial. It simply bridges the gap between the two.

This message is in reply to post 16087:

Not one of my favorites by a long shot, and I suspect not really the
most popular as the DipWiki claims either.
On 5/6/10, variants(at)diplomaticcorp.com wrote:
Dknemeyer posted in Variants. The message was...

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Why is Youngstown such a popular variant? I'm not suggesting it shouldn't
be, but it seems to rank up there as one of a handful of variants people
talk about a lot and show interest in. Is it the colonial nature of it? The
fact it accommodates a lot more players? Or...? Just trying to catch the
fever.

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There are 11 Messages in this Thread:


YOUNGSTOWN ANYONE? (lilybeau) Nov 21, 06:29 pm

YOUNGSTOWN ANYONE? (AceRimmer) Nov 21, 09:33 pm

YOUNGSTOWN ANYONE? (FuzzyLogic) Dec 07, 08:48 am

YOUNGSTOWN ANYONE? (lilybeau) Dec 08, 07:48 pm

PLEASE SOME GM START A YOUNGSTOWN GAME (lilybeau) Jan 25, 09:20 pm

YOUNGSTOWN ANYONE? (FuzzyLogic) Jan 25, 09:46 pm

YOUNGSTOWN ANYONE? (sgttodd) Apr 29, 02:31 pm

YOUNGSTOWN ANYONE? (dknemeyer) May 06, 02:24 pm

YOUNGSTOWN ANYONE? (Kenshi777) May 06, 02:46 pm

Youngstown Anyone? (FuzzyLogic) May 07, 11:36 am

Youngstown Anyone? (Kenshi777) May 07, 01:54 pm

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