* Note - I sent this to the wrong email alias earlier this week.  Apologies!  It is posted on the DC site, but I'm not too sure everyone has read the community portion there recently.
 
Below is my introduction.


Hello,


Greetings - I look forward to playing with everyone in this game.  A bit about my Diplomacy history.  I just started playing Diplomacy again after about a +7 year hiatus.  Back when I did play in my first go around, it was off of the email newsgroup called Cat23.  It's since morphed, I believe, into www.diplomaticcorp.com.  A friend of mine who used to also play on Cat23 forwarded an invite for the Winterblitz 2010 and that's how I got re-acquainted with Diplomacy and the DC site.  I played my first game earlier this year, and was fortunate enough to play in a game with our GM Dirk.  It was this connection that has brought me to this game.  I've never played a variant of Diplomacy other than Colonial Diplomacy and Gunboat, so I look forward to this game.  I love the idea of the connected map plus the balanced nature of the powers and struggles.  And I look forward to having a very dynamic map where each player needs to contact every other player - not just be focused on a particular theater.  To be frank, the complexity of this variant both excite me and worry me - I hope I have the intellectual horsepower to keep up with all of the moving parts!


A bit about me.  I'm in the San Francisco bay area with two young kids, so hopefully they won't tire me out too much (and allow me to think straight!).  I don't know any of the other players other than our GM.  Just one last note of thanks to Charles for creating this variant and Dirk for hosting the game.  I've shied away from other Diplomacy sites that use judges as I think they tend to attract more casual players that are less committed to the game.  Thanks you for the volunteer work and service to the DC community/players.


Sun