HOW To WIN As ENGLAND In DIPLOMACY / 60 STRATEGIES And TIPS From Umbletheheep

This video will teach you how to win as England in the board game Diplomacy. We go over the best openings, the best alliance options, and 60 strategies you need to win. Today we’re honoured to have the founder of the Diplomacy Briefing with us to help us learn to dominate with England.

Umbletheheep has been tearing up the tournament scene in 8 games as England in the last 2 years. He has soloed 1 of those, and topped 6 of them. He was last year’s Nexus Cold War Champion, and most recently, he had a strong finish on the DBNI’s invitational top board. He is getting a real reputation for how he plays England. Today, we’re going to get an inside look at how he has been so successful.

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0:00 England
0:28 Welcome
0:51 English Success
2:06 Challenges as England
3:54 The English Channel
6:10 DBNI Channel
7:10 The Verdict
10:13 When Does it Work?
12:14 The Northern Opening
16:01 Best Alliances
23:43 England/Germany
27:14 Western Triple
31:34 Mid and End Game
33:23 Turkey
34:33 Countering England
35:36 The Briefing
37:18 Final Thoughts

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[jakobmcdonald]

another very informative and easy to digest video! I just subscribed to the diplomacy briefing and I look forward to tapping into the community finally

[Pendragondnd]

OOOO, I love that line about how to break up alliances. "You want them to feel like they are getting the short end of the stick"

[nestornovatore]

I wish they had talked about england's relationship to austria. i see them as a much more viable longterm ally than turkey. austria is rarely in a position to contest you in the med.

[trevorcoleman]

These are amazing. As a new player they are equal parts informative, inspiring and terrifying.

[sshrdlu]

I spat out my tea when you guys said 'Yauwrk-shaiyur'. It's 'Yorkshuh'. x

[JustAllinOneResource]

Thank You Legendary. Liked, and Shared as always.

[kirksellman]

Helpful tips. Thanks for making this video.

[timezone]

I just got to play with umbletheheep in a recent tournament game on the diplomacy tournament
I didn't know it was him until the end of the game where we all sat for a video chat.
I was turkey and he was england, Russia and england both got 14 centers in the end but I got to live up to the draw with one center.
The game ended with 6 of us drawing and Germany had completely gone.

[DiploStrats]

Seems like that England player at 6:12 could sure use some of these tips XD
Excellent video as always!

[janbartos]

any tips on where to play the game? what is that game in the video? thanks.

[Karlallmusic]

Next: France with David Hood or Andrew Goff? or Russia with Peter Macnamara/Goff? or Turkey with Morgante/Goff? I guess I just want to hear you talk to Goffy at some point...

[theoklein]

i need Vale and MagictheNoah to do a collab

[benmecfslc]

Its odd to refer playing as UK as England - Whilst when the game came out geographical ignorance sometimes led to people forgetting England is just part of the UK - now it feels just an error.

[AnimePigeon]

37:18 seems to cut off Umbletheheep slightly and transfer into the final segment - editing error?

[darthparallax]

I've started by viewing
Austria
Germany
Italy

It seems to me that all of the advice for Britain is the easiest to collapse under the moves that will likely happen following the other videos.

*Austria and Italy both seem like they can reliably play for time by manipulating 1 German Army or more, perhaps tangling with each other, and even a RT Alliance shouldn't disrupt that idea, because as the most obvious threat on the board England and Germany will just plain believe it because it's true and help disrupt whatever goes on against Russia. Italy can talk to England and Austria can talk to Germany at least.

Germany is the most advantaged Central Power for the early game and just has to fear too much success but they have lots of options.

EG seems like a lot of problems get caused as soon as Germany makes its first fleet. Which why wouldn't it.

EF isn't as scary as RT, but it's just as suspicious.

Obviously the better you are at talking to people you can make lots of things work, but if I'm trying to figure out how to convince someone who begins paranoid, it seems like England is contained with France and Germany doing normal things.

Italy isn't scary, Germany is, but France has 3 supply centers right?

It just seems that bouncing off of England's fleets can easily be done while the real tension is Munich and Tyrolia which England can't offer doing much except start promising to stab people.

[tomfox]

Ok we need to address this! England=🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Britain=🇬🇧 Its not Austria, it’s Austria-Hungary, and yes it’s very important to make the distinction. Turkey doesn’t exit yet! It’s the Ottoman Empire! It’s not Holand, it’s The Netherlands 🇳🇱 Britain needs more Mediterranean support, I.e Gibraltar, Malta! Add Bulgaria as well! It would be, very fun! 2 supply’s 1 army, 1 fleet. Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, provinces. Sofia and Varna are the supplys!

[gabrielesalera]

to make it short :

if either Germany, Russia or France play like stupid babies England wins

who would have thought that?