Noam Brown
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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And this is where the interesting aspect of the game comes in because you can support your own units into territory, but you can also support other people's units into territories.
And so that's what the negotiations really revolve around.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
That tension is absolutely core to the game.
The fact that you can make all sorts of promises, but you have to reason about the fact that they might not trust you if you say you're going to do something, or they might be lying to you when they say they're going to support you.
So the game was created in the 50s.
Yeah.
And from what I understand, it was JFK's, it was played in like the JFK White House, Henry Kissinger's favorite game.
I don't know if it's true, but that's definitely what I've heard.
So the story that I've heard for the creation of the game is it was created by somebody that had looked at the history of the 20th century, and they saw World War I as a failure of diplomacy.
So they saw the fact that this war broke out as the diplomats of all these countries really failed to prevent a war, and he wanted to create a game that would basically teach people about diplomacy.
Um, and it's really fascinating that like in his ideal version of the game of diplomacy, nobody actually wins the game because the whole point is that if somebody is about to win, then the other players should be able to work together to stop that person from winning.
And so the ideal version of the game is just one where, where nobody actually wins.
And, you know, it's kind of has a nice, like wholesome take home message then that, you know, war, war is ultimately futile.
So I think the general consensus is that France is the strongest power in the game.
But the beautiful thing about diplomacy is that it's self-balancing, right?
So the fact that France has an inherited advantage from the beginning means that the other players are less likely to work with it.
That's true, yeah.
So Russia starts off with four units while all the other players start with three.
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