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Discussion article for the meetup : Small Berkeley Meetup WHEN: 25 April 2012 06:30:00PM (-0700) WHERE: 2071 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA This will be a small meetup. This will be the last joint dinner with the MPHD folks! We will be meeting at Taiwan Restaurant on University Avenue. Discussion article...
Discussion article for the meetup : Big Berkeley Meetup WHEN: 18 April 2012 06:30:00PM (-0700) WHERE: 2011 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA WHEN: 18 April 2012 06:30:00PM WHERE: 2011 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA This will be a joint dinner with the MPHD seminar folks. We'll meet at Biryani House on Shattuck...
This will be a small Berkeley meetup. We will be meeting at Oxford St Starbucks and then proceeding to a local restaurant for dinner.
We will meet at 7:00pm at the Oxford St Starbucks. This will be a big meetup.
We'll be meeting at the Starbucks on Oxford St and then probably going somewhere to get food. This will be a small meetup.
Tomorrow there will be a big Berkeley meetup. We will be meeting at 7:00pm at the Starbucks on Oxford St (2128 Oxford St, Berkeley, CA).
This will be a small meetup. This will be the last joint dinner with the MPHD folks! We will be meeting at Taiwan Restaurant on University Avenue.
WHEN: 18 April 2012 06:30:00PM WHERE: 2011 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA This will be a joint dinner with the MPHD seminar folks. We'll meet at Biryani House on Shattuck Ave.
The Grand Alliance gambit pretty much forced the hand of the RG. I think that you did the right thing in attacking me, given the ranking system. The convoy was in your self-interest and I don't begrudge it too much, in retrospect. If you had succeeded I could see you as being the third party to the draw instead of me.
Small chat played an important part in the my relations with both you and Italy. It formed a bond strong enough that I chose to continue to support Italy for a while longer even after Hugh signaled strongly that he wanted to ally. This was an early... (read more)
If you'd warned me that you were supporting Italy into Serbia to sow confusion, then I wouldn't have been so bothered. But even so, I think you needed to pick sides between Italy and me that season. You looked like you had picked Italy, so I was correct to warn the West about IR.> quoted text
This sums up my mistake pretty well. My deception had no purpose and I gained nothing from it. I attribute this to the way that I was compartmentalizing negotiations at the time. The agent in charge of Turkish negotiations considered us as already allied, and wanted to signal accordingly. Self-deception is a wonderful... (read more)
In 1906 I wrote a note to myself to remind me to ask if you had leaked our chat logs from that year to Germany. This was around mid-January.
Part II
In the South, my general plan had been to ally with Turkey until Italy was reduced to four or five centers and then offer to save him from the Juggernaut by offering him a place as a junior partner in a Russian-Italian alliance.
This was a strategy that I had used often in my high school, where the players are generally of lower caliber and don’t use TDT. Once I have reduced an enemy to the size when he can no-longer fight as an independent power, I offer him survival in return for the use of his units. In our group we call this “puppeting”. This offer... (read 753 more words →)
I play Diplomacy in the same circles that Alex does, and I agree with his analysis. It never ceased to amaze me how long the Turkish-Austrian and British-German alliances lasted in Game 1.
You were placed in a hard situation by France's builds, not just by your commitment to attack France. I thought it was similar to how Turkey and Italy's fleet builds in the East made fighting me difficult. There was no way you and France could ally against Britain, so he could pick and choose who to ally with.
I was worried early game that you and Britain would kick me out of the North while I was preoccupied in the South, and then gobble up France, but that never materialized as Britain played around in Denmark and Holland.
I have to agree with Hugh's analysis that war was inevitable, given my strength... (read more)
Part I
The first half of this post will cover up until Winter 1903, focusing on the East. I will have the rest up by tomorrow night.
As Alex Mennen has noted, he and I know each other in real life. The major effect that this had on the game was the exchange of information early game and my late-game switch to mainly telephone based communication to reduce the credibility of French leaks. We have played Diplomacy against each other among our high school friends, so we both had a good estimate of each others’ strengths and weaknesses. We had no meta-game commitment.
The opening impressions I got... (read 918 more words →)
They don't have the units in place, but they can put them in place rather quickly. South of the Alps they can order:
F Ionian Sea S F Tunis H; F Tyrrhenian Sea H; F Tuscany S F Tyrrhenian Sea H; A Rome-Venice (which will then support A Piedmont); A Piedmont H;
They could stalemate North of the Alps fairly easily. It is impossible to hold St Petersburg. Munich and Berlin may be defensible, if the Eastern Powers guess correctly, but if they can at least hold Berlin they can form a stalemate similar to John Beshera's Position II north of the Alps. A Munich retreats to Bohemia and Warsaw moves up to Prussia,... (read more)
I retreat to A Denmark to Sweden.
Summer 1907
One reason Harry might not use the killing curse is that he wants to avoid the slippery slope that Mad-Eye warned of--once a wizard has used the curse once, it becomes easier to do so in the future.