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Post:	< 8488 >
Subject:	< Unknown >
Topic:	< Variants >
Category:	General >
Author:	FuzzyLogic
Posted:	Jan 13, 2009 at 8:48 am
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FuzzyLogic

Order of the Alliance

Resolve - steadfastness to ones allies and refusal to abandon the effort. These traits mark the Knight of the Alliance through the shifting allegences of the game. Although the allies may change, the Diplomats resolve remains constant.

Order of the Alliance

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Sep 06, 2005	USA, Illinois

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Hey Steve, is there going to be an honorary SC for my home city of Lisle?

You should post the map tho, or at least a link to it. I'd be interested to see the layout you've come up with. Go to www.dipwiki.com and create an appropriate entry there, since you can upload files, add some text, etc.

My initial suspicion is that being from Chicago, I know that our geography is really boring. One big flat plain, with a lake in the corner. How will that geography make for the need for fleets, convoy action, etc?

There are many cities that I'd consider interesting layouts... San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, Seattle, but they all have lots of rivers, inlets, peninsulas, straits, etc. So I think the biggest challenge with a Chicago map would be making it diverse enough.

This message is in reply to post 8485:

So I got this idea a couple of weeks ago to create a Diplomacy game based on the map of Chicago and its suburbs-each Suburb or neighborhood in the city would have its own space, people would play as one of the 'burbs or 'hoods.
I finished the map. I haven't assigned SCs or starting zones yet, but it's pretty big (290 Land Spaces, 31 Sea Spaces), so I would like some feedback. I'm thinking Chaos builds, and having each person just start with 1 SC.
1. Would anyone be interested in playing it when it's set?
2. How many players/SCs would be needed? I saw an article on DC a while ago about the ratio of spaces:SCs, but I can't find it now.
3. Would anyone want to look over the map, and see if there are any glaring deficiencies? (This is my first attempt at Variant design, so I don't see any, but who knows...)
4. I'll also probably be taking suggestions for which should be SCs. I live in the NW suburbs, so I know which of those are important enough to have SCs, but the North and South, and some in the City I don't know as well, and I don't want to have the board imbalanced, just because I know one area better.

Thanks!

Steve Caponigri

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Chicago Dip (scaponig) Jan 13, 07:47 am

Unknown (FuzzyLogic) Jan 13, 08:48 am

Unknown (scaponig) Jan 13, 10:26 am

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