For the benefit of those of you who have not experienced Diplomacy it can perhaps best be described as a game for seven players who hate each other. Happily the PBEM version seems to have been rather less heated and as far as I know all of the players are still on speaking - or at least emailing terms.
So my thanks once again to Michael for running the thing so well, my fellow players and all those who have commented and assisted during the game - not least my own occasional shadowy adviser Jerry E.
And so for the last time the good Sultan says:
"Blessings upon you and may your camels be ever fruitful."
Not everyone looks this good in a fez.
* He is certainly one of these things - and quite possibly both.
19 comments:
Pasha Tim
Well done sir! Fezzes are cool. But I wouldn't buy a used camel from you.
Cheers
PD
Sultan Gow,
Devious, cunning, conniving, dissolute, and inscrutable ... and a penchant for funny hats. Is this a description of your character ... or not?
If the Fez fits, wear it.
May your camels bear many calves and your wives many sons ...
Bob Pasha
I enjoyed the game, O Worthy Opponent!
Di Graspi
Fezes are indeed cool.
Remind me never to play poker with you, Tim. It wouldn't be pretty.
You did very well and it was a pleasure to have you at the table.
Cheers,
Michael
I see you in that Fez and I think of the Peter Lorre line "The Mummy Strikes" your well done
your supreme craftiness....)
Hi Tim,
I tried to think up something suitably Ottoman inspired but could do no better than echoing Bob's comment - I am glad to see that you were Turking in seriously though....
All the best,
DC
Peter Douglas
What? Not even this lovely little low-mileage camel guv? Only ever used by Mrs Sultan to go the the bazaar....
Stu Rat
Quite so - the hate comes later. About mid-game usually.
Bob Cordery
Only the silly hats bit really.
Honest
Edwin King
As did I - and thanks again for the use of your villa in Naples....
Michael Peterson
Actually I don't know how to play poker. But if I were you I wouldn't believe me either....
Don M
The Sultan thanks you for your continuing obsequiousness.
David Crook
With support like that how could I go wrong?
Turkey and Uncle England made a good team. Your trust in me was much appreciated and did you no wrong.
And you came so close to seizing Rome. That would have been a game clincher I think.
A great game, but not for the faint hearted or for people you have to live with afterwards.
All the best for your camels and I hope the red dye doesn't come out of your fez.
I came to Miniature gaming through Diplomacy. My initial contact with gaming was with the Boardman series og games in the 1960's!! Was in 3 different PBM games at once. But a (former) friend no longer speaks to me (since 1989) because I "stabbed" his Italy as Turkey in a Face-to-face game!! Some people just don't realize its a GAME!
Respect for even getting to the end of one of those epic Diplomacy games with your sanity intact, er hang on (cold war large scale armies come into mind), well done for finishing it ;)
Sun of York
A proper 'gentlemens agreement' I think. But who's going to trust us in such a game again?
Dick Bryant
As I recall, face to face games of Diplomacy were apt to get rather heated!
Geordie
I think that the good ship Sanity set sail some time ago. And was lost with all hands....
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