Last night my floor started the first round of the game Diplomacy. For those of you who are like me and had never heard of it before, Diplomacy is like a more advanced version of risk. Instead of relying on army numbers and dice rolls Diplomacy is based strictly on strategy. It's also played with 7 countries (France, England, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia and Turkey) and the map is only Europe. So you can imagine that things get interested really quickly.
Since hearing about the game early last year, I found myself a copy of the computer version to try and figure out how to play. So any of you that know me know I went into the game with hopes for what would come of the first turn. I'd like to just say that playing against human opponents as opposed to a computer is MUCH more exhilarating. Well, it was either the human opponents or the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack that I requested playing in the background (holy crap that shit gets your blood pumping).
At this point I already know that talking about the game wouldn't be of much interest to anyone who hasn't played it. So what I will tell you is that we've only played one round and there's already been a serious amount of attacks against other players. What will get more exciting is when the betrayal really starts.
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