Sun
04-Jun-2006

sunny diplomacy

Tom, Alex, Neil, James, Kal and Tom's friend Simon all came round to the flat yesterday, and we sat on the roof terrace in the hot sun all afternoon playing Diplomacy. With seven players it was an excellent, tight and tense game. Tom as Russia was doing pretty well, but was suddenly attacked from all sides and fell mightily around the seventh year. James and Alex as Italy and Austria-Hungary had a loose alliance going, but began to backstab each other as Neil, playing Turkey, began to overrun them both. Kal was France and forged an early deal with England, which was soon broken. He held his own for most of the game though. Simon, as England, and me as Germany had a long term alliance which worked very well, though probably more to my advantage than his, until he stabbed me and took Belgium around the fifth year. The bastard! It was looking like Germany and Turkey were heading for a big battle between them for the ultimate prize when we wrapped up the game after five hours of solid play...