Re: Next week's survey - Favorite Variants

Thank you Martin for that vote of confidence...

Thanks to the Variant Bank - the rules for CivDip survive yet -

http://www.variantbank.org/results/rules/c/civdip.htm

To my knowledge only 3 games of this variant were ever played - with me
having GMed in one, and having played in a second (where I got demolished to
my embarrassment ;P)

It is a pretty tough and time consuming game to GM (maybe two GMs should be
used - I don't know) because each player has to receive individuated maps
every season and the GM has to keep track of what each civ sees, all trades,
etc. but absolutely worth the time and effort because the GM gets to see
everything and watch as the various 'nations' blindly look for new SCs to
conquer and have theirs taken by surprise attacks from the dark.

The game is of course inspired by (arguably) the best PC game ever devised -
Sid Meier's Civilization (I through IV).

If ever a brave soul was to decide to GM this variant (Martin - can it be
true?)- I want to be the first to sign up :)

Babak





On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Martin Gilbey <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Steve,
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> The re-appearance of Babak Talebi on the Cat23 NGame list prompts me to
> nominate his CivDip as my favourite Variant. I would otherwise have
> suggested Seismic Diplomacy, however, having penned some 'version 2
> rules' for this, I feel this perhaps precludes me from doing so.
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> Et al,
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> In fact, if anyone has hitherto unseen Diplomacy Map (not too complex)
> that they would like to see the light of day, send me a copy of it at
> 'mgdip AT yahoo DOT com' and I will run either of the following games
> (according to popularity) on that map:-
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> a.      CivDip (- Effectively this is 1899 combined with Fog of War).
> b.      CivDip with Seismic V2 orders (- Complete rules will be
> written-up for this).
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> Regards,
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> Martin Gilbey
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