Diplomacy Games podcast: Episode 87

Venue: Indooroopilly Hotel, Brisbane

Drinks of choice:

Kaner: Orchrd Crush cider by James Squire

Amby: Balter XPA and Ridoch shiraz

The guys catch up for some drinks and a chat around their current Diplomacy endeavors and games.

Intro and Diplomacy news

The guys talk about their drinks and venue (0 mins 10 secs)
They were hoping to play a face to face game on Sunday but have failed to get the numbers again (3 mins 45 secs)
They also provide an update about their now non-attendance at PoppyCon in Melbourne, the first post-Covid face to face tournament in the world (4 mins 40 secs)
Amby discusses ideas on how to drum up more people to come along to a game (9 mins 50 secs)
Kaner gives a shout out to Peter McNamara on his victory at the DBN Invitational (14 mins)
He discusses some of the upcoming virtual tournaments (16 mins 50 secs)

Amby gives an update about his online games – a Mate Against Mate game called Happy Australia Day and his Imperial Diplomacy II game Pointy Pointy Stabby Stabby. Kaner discusses unit icons (18 mins 30 secs)
He discusses his Europa Renovation team game where he’s playing as Austria (24 mins 30 secs)
They move onto an anonymous Divided States game they’re both in, avoiding discussing who is who, but doing a breakdown of everyone’s openings. And in the process probably getting a few bits of geography wrong (29 mins 20 secs)

Divided States opening

Kaner moves onto his games, starting with his webDip World Cup gunboat game where he was part of a three way draw as Austria. You can follow their discussion around key phases by going to the map history page (53 mins)
They grab some more drinks and its onto another win by Kaner as Turkey on a Classic 1897 map. They discusses the random fun bonkers of Italy in the game, paying attention to Fall 1905 (1 hr 7 mins 5 secs)

Italy fall 1905

Amby asks Kaner what he’s getting out of playing gunboat at the moment (1 hr 18 mins 20 secs)
The guys wrap up the show (1 hr 20 mins)

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Thanks as always to Dr Dan aka “The General” for his rockin’ intro tune.