Russian Blitz Diplomacy Commentary

Here's my after action report on a game I played on WebDiplomacy, which I've renamed "Russian Blitz."

My links are as follows:

Ruthless: Path of Conquest:

And credit for any subtitles belongs to Perygl, for Romanian, to pompodopompom, for French, and to Sploack, for Italian.

This video is about the game of Diplomacy, an American strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 based on the European Great Powers in the years leading up to World War I. The game was the favorite of John F. Kennedy and Henry Kissinger. Seven (7) players control the respective powers of England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia, and Turkey and fight for world domination (control over Europe), using negotiations, diplomatic skill, tactics, and grand strategy to establish covert deals, attack mutual enemies, and backstab established allies. A "stab" is the word for betraying your ally.

TL;DR: Diplomacy is basically Risk without the dice, or chess with seven players on a world map.

[picklezlunch]

This is some of the best Italy gameplay I have ever seen.

[KQM]

This was a very fun watch! I hope the algorithm gives it some love. Excited to give the novel a look as well—I've been looking for something new to read ^^

[realityisenough]

Interesting introduction to this "game". When you were introducing the video, I thought you were meaning you were a geopolitics diplomacy analysis channel or history channel. Cheers

[sleepysnake]

Comment for the algorithm. I do agree that you were mostly doomed when you took over.

[spoopymarmalade]

i don't have anything interesting to say but comment for engagement ^^

[jacobfunk]

I was told to subscribe and I’m a sheep