Does anyone know where I can get a good, but not too big, Diplomacy mapping program for Linux? -Mike http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Bookstore/6519...
Michael Cuffaro
m_cuffa@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Nov 19, 1999 10:47 pm
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Mike, I know nothing of Linux, but I can recommend that you suss out the Diplomacy Pouch http://www.diplom.org/ . Specifically I would recommend visiting ...
Peter J Richardson
pjrich@xxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
Nov 19, 1999 11:33 pm
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To the CAT23 community, I'd like to start our first serious chat discussion on the new lists with a subject that many of you know its near and dear to my...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 22, 1999 5:03 pm
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Well, maybe I'm merely being picky, but it seems like 6 months was plenty of time back in 1900 for news of an invasion or battle to make it's way across...
William Highfield
magicfan@xxx.xxxx
Nov 22, 1999 5:50 pm
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Mike, Thanks for the compliments. As for your statement...I'm not argueing that someone wouldn't know what their own armies were doing. But wether the Archduke...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 22, 1999 7:32 pm
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Scott, You make good points but history proves they are invalid. In fact as far as WWI Germany was on the outskirts of Paris before the French could muster...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 22, 1999 8:42 pm
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Scott, ... No, I am not famaliar with it...tell me more(I love ALL games, especially wargames). If you are talking about their complexity I really like the ...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 12:35 pm
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Answers below...denoted by '***' ... From: "Scott Troemel" <packrat@...> Reply-To: "Scott Troemel" <packrat@...> To: "David Watson"...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 1:10 pm
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This Victory game kinda sounds like a version of AH's North Africa(or was it Africa Corps),...anyone else know what I'm talking about and help me out with the...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 1:19 pm
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David, I think AH's "Quebec" had the same type of variable strength tile-type units. It was a mildly popular tournament game in the early 70's, haven't seen it...
Mike.Ashland@xxxxx.xx...
Nov 23, 1999 3:14 pm
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Mike, Well, I'm ashamed to say I never really got passed the first scenario. (The smallest board piece~hanging head~) I used to have a friend and we did...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 5:12 pm
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Look if this topic wants to talk about monster wargames (and why not) did anybody ever attempt SPI's Campaign for North Africa? All the reviews I read were...
Nigel Pepper
nepper@xxxxxxxxxxxx.x...
Nov 23, 1999 7:01 pm
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I think the only way we can make a realistic version of diplomacy is to get some real world experience. This variant will use the modern map. Shortly after...
bph7@xxxxxxx.xxx
Nov 23, 1999 7:31 pm
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Holy crap...sounds like a 'real' campaign. ... From: "Nigel Pepper" <nepper@...> Reply-To: "Nigel Pepper" <nepper@...> To: "Mike...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 7:39 pm
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... glitch ... You also have to ask, how much notice do you need. The two "STABs" within my memory span were the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands in 1982,...
Peter J Richardson
pjrich@xxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 9:52 pm
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Actually, I think Churchill had more than enough time to give the Americans notice. Supposedly, the British had cracked the Japaneese codes and had known...
Michael Cuffaro
m_cuffa@xxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 10:27 pm
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Pete, Did you receive my replies to this through the Gchat? Englands foreknowledge is only conjecture and what Conspiracy Theorists take for fact. Regards, ...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 10:39 pm
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There is also some that believe 'higherups' in the US DID know of the attack. Thats why only obsolete battleships were caught in the harbor and not one...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 10:46 pm
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I would say that being as how the fleet was stationed there even an hour would have been nice. ... From: Peter J Richardson <pjrich@...> To:...
Scott Troemel
packrat@xxxx.xxxx
Nov 23, 1999 11:07 pm
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... This was actually my point. I do not think that in the early hours of a Sunday morning you could have got a fleet mobilised and out of the way. In any case...
Peter J Richardson
pjrich@xxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 11:40 pm
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... Well then, at least we were consistantly incompetant, as well as Pearl Harbor, those last few weeks of 1941 also included the Japanese Conquest of much of...
Peter J Richardson
pjrich@xxxx.xxxxxxxxx...
Nov 23, 1999 11:22 pm
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Oh NOW you pipe in! So what was the name of that AH game fought in North Africa that dealt with supply. (I'm just too lazy to dig out my copy)... Dave ... ...
David Watson
royaldiplomat@xxxxxxx...
Nov 24, 1999 12:33 pm
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David, This is simply not credible. If it were not for the fact that the Japanese were very nervous about a counterattack, they would have launched a third...
Mike.Ashland@xxxxx.xx...
Nov 24, 1999 3:00 pm
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Oops! You are most probably correct, my senility is starting to kick in. The game in question is in storage somewhere along with a whole bunch of others which...
Mike.Ashland@xxxxx.xx...
Nov 24, 1999 3:13 pm
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This is the sort of thing which brought a lot of us to Diplomacy in the first place. I seem to recall a game called Red Star Falling, or some such thing, the...
David Cohen
david_e_cohen_pc@xxxx...
Nov 24, 1999 8:19 pm
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Agreed to all. ... about ... and ... activity ... way ... of ... we ... the ... firm ... were ... Harbor. ... [earlier messages in string snipped]...
David Cohen
david_e_cohen_pc@xxxx...
Nov 24, 1999 8:21 pm
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Like most new concepts in warfare, the move from the status quo is often as slow as molassas in January in Alaska. The same can be said of the Tank. It took...
Ray Setzer
mczet@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 24, 1999 6:33 pm
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Ray, I hesitate to step in where my ignorance will show too transparently, but I had to comment on your reference to Patton implying that his success with...
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