Re: Next week's survey - Favorite Variants

I looked at the description; it does look interesting. Do 
the players know how many SC's there are altogether?


Babak Talebi a écrit :
> 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
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> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Martin Gilbey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Steve,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Et al,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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:-
>>
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin Gilbey
>>
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