Dinos and Megalodons Diplomacy Commentary

[@thommaddo]

this variant is so interesting! never seen it before. would love to see more AARs like this!

[@thommaddo]

and a blog would be cool too! would be interesting to read your thoughts on all things diplomacy

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Thank you very much for both comments, Thomas! Based on the reaction I'm getting, I think it's very likely that you will see more AARs like this. I wish I could do a poll to see how much interest there is in the blog idea. I don't think it would be too difficult to adapt many of my video scripts into blog posts, and there'd be room to include some ideas that might be hard to make into videos. I'm very glad you're interested, though, and I feel I am more likely to do it now.

[@thommaddo]

@@floridamandiplomacyglad to hear man! i think KZbin does have a poll option if you felt up for it

[@floridamandiplomacy]

It does, but that's only available for creators who have more subscribers.

[@thommaddo]

@@floridamandiplomacy haha ok understood :)

[@christopherhanson146]

I loved seeing how the Versailles variant works! Thanks for sharing, and congrats on the solo!

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Thank you for commenting, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I was pleased to get a Versailles solo; they have been a little hard to come by, since I usually play Versailles with Big Gun.

[@buttersurge8047]

Thank you for showing this, please more of this variant and others

[@floridamandiplomacy]

I'm really glad you enjoyed it, and I will see what I can do :)

[@guntherbedson9761]

Great AAR FloridaMan and an exciting game. Interesting to see how you made excellent use of the major/minor pairing. Also moving northwards is unusual for Turkey on the Versailles map, the more "natural" route is westwards through the Balkans and Med. I guess Italy was a fairly solid ally most of the time (except that sneaky move to the Aegean, which he later retracted) so this is a good example of choosing the right ally rather than the traditional direction. All in all a very good video, fluently spoken in your inimitable style with that faint hint of underlying irony. Well done!

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Thanks, Gun. I'm glad you enjoyed it! Italy was indeed a pretty solid ally in this game. I think Italy/Turkey can work well for Turkey in the standard map, too, although the conventional thinking of the game would seem to be heavily against it forming. Most importantly, I wanted to release a Versailles AAR around the same time that I released the Versailles interview.

[@guntherbedson9761]

@@floridamandiplomacy - I just checked out the game and who was playing. There were some sharks in there, your ally Strategus amongst them. A thrilling game!

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Thank you for giving it a look. I was very pleased I managed to scrape by despite the presence of those monsters. It was fun!

[@josephcohen734]

Dude this was awesome. Super cool variant, honestly seems more fun than the standard game (but also more stressful, so I guess there's that). Certainly WAY more possibilities for alliance combinations and the idea of "standard openings" seems basically impossible. Would love to see more.

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Glad you enjoyed! I absolutely plan to make more variant videos (and especially Versailles, which is probably my favorite or at least my second favorite of the variants I've tried). I think Versailles is more fun than standard, a lot of the time, although for me, they're very close to each other in quality. I think you're pretty correct about "standard openings" going out the window. The other variant I really like on PlayDiplomacy right now is War in the Americas, so I might make a video on that map sometime after I finish releasing my videos on the game "Perigord."

[@josephcohen734]

@@floridamandiplomacy Cool. I found your vids while the channel seemed dead so now I'm excited for basically anything you make.

[@floridamandiplomacy]

@@josephcohen734 Thrilled to hear it :) and I'm glad to have such an interested and engaged set of people watching.

[@danielnemirovsky3570]

I really enjoyed this aar, this varient's very interesting.

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Thank you, glad to hear!

[@charliestokes4520]

Another great video

[@floridamandiplomacy]

Thank you very much!

[@shilohmagic7173]

3:59 you say Greece is cursed with a fleet, rather than an army, but that's an army, not a fleet. 4:03 oh.

[@justicebrewing9449]

Fun game :) congratz on the big win!

[@wildbabyjoaquin]

Loved this video, but what do you think of maney making another video on the imperial diplomacy map? as well as being fun to play and watch, I wonder if it might be interristing to use the minor power rules to make the imperial diplomacy game more interristing?

[@floridamandiplomacy]

First of all, thank you! Second, we ran the Imperial Diplomacy game on VDiplomacy, which made running it easy. To have major and minor powers on that map would be pretty complicated (though I agree it would be fun). It would require someone to GM, and we'd also have to figure out how to run it while keeping who controls each minor power a secret initially (which is a big part of the point of minor powers in Versailles).

[@oscaro3977]

Great video, great variant.

[@floridamandiplomacy]

It really is! I need to revisit it.

[@wildbabyjoaquin]

Also comment for the algorithm

[@noahnorris5830]

Look at Modern Diplomacy II on webdiplomacy.net Best variant online, and its more fun than classic

[@floridamandiplomacy]

I'll give it a look, thanks!

[@fightingfanproduction]

who disliked?

[@floridamandiplomacy]

That's what I tend to ask myself, too. There are never any answers... I also try to ask myself how to get more people to like, but the only reliable method I've found is to get more people to watch the video.