The Biggest Diplomacy Game Ever (Part 1)

[@sharpieman2035]

Ezio: So on this turn I decided on moves for 13 people as the tactical commander for the entirety of the North Meme: After yelling at Salt for half the turn and posting a Wee Hugh meme, I realized I needed to flee my homeland with my two allies

[@BS-bd4xo]

Het heet "Wij Hoog" godverdomme.

[@BS-bd4xo]

Niet eens over sprekend dat "wij hoog" niet eens een zin is. Geen idee hoe ze dat voor elkaar kregen.

[@owenkanaal3457]

@@BS-bd4xo 'alleen zijn we laag, samen zijn WE HOOG', it's explained in the video... x)

[@oliviapg]

Spending the first hour and 14 minutes talking about a blank map that doesn't even have starting units on it? This is basically the platonic ideal of DiploStrats videos

[@sharpieman2035]

And two sirens during that time as well 😂

[@mewr11]

"I am, indeed, a flat-earther. Don't quote me on that." - CaptainMeme, 2024

[@gazeboist4535]

Rude.

[@sirepic5763]

Hey everyone! I was the Azores player in the game but I'll probably be more known for the graphs and charts that will be shown in this series as I was the person who put those together throughout the course of the game. If you have any questions regarding either my position or the graphs, feel free to reach out! For those looking for the graphs, the download link can be found on the ImpDip 6 weeks of Chaos server.

[@sleepysnake544]

I really like graphs, thank you for making so many.

[@fanstar141]

cool graphs and cool pfp!

[@DiploStrats]

Thank you for making them! They'll be shown a lot more in the later episodes, but the link to it is also in the description for people who want to see them earlier!

[@easytiger6570]

Wheel failing to spin even once was hilarious

[@AlexanderNees]

As Venice it was really annoying, I think it's what killed me

[@audiosurfarchive]

It was spinning in another way, as was Ezio's/Viking press: perpetual spin cycle for that at least. The hilarious inefficiency of The Wheel's democratic system v. Vikings was darkly humorous. 😊

[@Xaintrix]

If only you could play Roundabout on loop as they play.

[@Nathanael_Forlorn]

Spoilers!

[@solsystem1342]

​@@audiosurfarchive Have you considered totally renegotiating your alliance structure every movement turn? I think that's really the best strat

[@Blumble]

Bumble (Helsingfors) here! This was sooo much fun to watch!! Spoilers (for this video) below - So, when I got stabbed there, Ezio fully called it correctly that I had thought I was bouncing with narva, etc. It was absolutely a stab. The reason why I defended Ezio at the tribunal was because I was heavily invested in the vikings at that point and figured the alliance would crumble otherwise. Remember, my job was transponder. I was online a ton for those few days and had been constantly spreading viking propaganda. People (the wheel) had been constantly talking smack on us and saying we would crumble, ezio would stab us, we would fall apart in a year, and I just wanted to prove them wrong. Basically, it was cope. I was coping. Hahaha By the by, the bumble religion mostly took off *after* I died. I'd been talking it up while I lived but being martyred really gave it fuel to burn for a while. Love all my "followers" but really they just made up a ton of stuff I never said or agreed with when I was gone hahaha. I lost control of the narrative ❤

[@Xaintrix]

You died for Ezio’s sins. Amen, bumble bumble.

[@KingOfCheesee]

>the bumble religion mostly took off after I died >Love all my "followers" but really they just made up a ton of stuff I never said or agreed with when I was gone hahaha Also the fact that you were betrayed by a follower and still defended him. The parallels to Christianity are HILARIOUS lmaoo

[@matthewsaari6577]

This is the greatest context I've read. Let me get this right, you were betrayed by a disciple. Chose to forgive his sins for the good of your people. Then in death became a religion that made claims about your vision for the game as excuses to do what they already desired. You are the story of most religions lol You may not have gotten a ton of the game. But your pre-game made this into a great story and you deserve a lot of credit for that.

[@Blumble]

@@matthewsaari6577 haha well we kind of forced Ezio to join the religion *after* killing me, so was betrayed by an alliance member, they only became a disciple after. Then Narva, who I really loved playing with despite her venom, really ran with the bumble narrative as a way to try and save their skin from ezio and make it so he couldnt just murder her. She declared herself the new pope and I went along with it and it went from there haha

[@matthewsaari6577]

@@Blumble this is my favorite narrative in the whole game so far.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Ezio would sell his own mother on the streets to go up +5 by Fall 02. Ezio got a bigger hunger for dots than Pac Man. Ezio the type of fella to hear about a Dip N' Dots and think he's gonna solo the board, not get some ice cream. If Ezio met your dog named Dot, he'd steal it on the spot and say you deserved the stab. 😂😂 I think his ire is hilarious and rightfully deserved, but I'd not have it any other way. Very ironic he's not much of an alliance player in ideology and yet ends up in leadership-esque position in this game. Y'all's dynamic is essential to this channel. 😅

[@DiploStrats]

See Dot take Dot -Ezio

[@audiosurfarchive]

@@DiploStratssee also: _"[...] you're FEEEEEELING the Dot.."_

[@tasnica2438]

Websites are just com now because Ezio took the dot.

[@audiosurfarchive]

@@tasnica2438 😅 wish I thought of that when I was riffing

[@silversaber6275]

Hey there, Baleares here! Something that wasn’t touched on in the video that happened in the first year was the Spanish situation, especially Valencia. After many initial negotiations, Gibraltar ended up getting supported into Valencia, as arranged by Barcelona, despite my attempts to keep them alive. In the fall, instead of Valencia taking my support against Barcelona, they chose to offer me support against Barcelona, dying whilst standing next to my undefended home center. This ended up leaving a much stronger 3 power Spain, but was a crazy sacrifice and the only instance that year of someone with no centers choosing to support instead of taking the open dot right next to them. I never forgot their sacrifice, and from their ashes, the coal (Spanish alliance) was truly forged.

[@DiploStrats]

The speed at which Elm moved hid so much of what happened down there from me. Respect to you for managing to keep up with being in that chat :D

[@easytiger6570]

37:06 Porto here. We agreed to make an Iberian alliance. But lip service was basically as far as our cooperation went, Portugal was focused on convoy and Spain was doing it's own thing

[@fratguide9835]

I love love love the multi-game fued between the Captain & Salt, meanwhile the entire time Ezio is like, “Salt is a cool dude. I don’t see why you’re so salty abt Salt”

[@thedarklizard9725]

Howdy there, Edin here. it was a real blast to play this game with you guys and I cant wait for the rest of the game to be covered (and to get yelled at by Ezio). Definitely the most fun ive ever had in diplomacy to date and it really was an amazing game. to clarify some things: - bumblism started out by some people impresonating each other on the pre-game which eventually led to a bunch of people putting bumble into their discord name, it was never really a true religion until after bumbles year one death (which was also a meme) - the world convoy started out from (I think) someone who wanted to be dagestan asking another person who wanted to ark support into aleppo either as a joke or because they mistook ark for one of their neighbors (idk which) and it evenualy grew into the world convoy. the best part is i dont think either of these player made it into the game but the meme still did. - Narva's popehood was decided by an election between me and her (which I lost) - wasnt I kinda a viking since before ireland stabed? I was never quite sure lol - I dont think oxofrd ever really turned against london in a move phase (that thing you were talking about was a last minute attempt by them to trip me up but it also caught poor london in it) but if you ever want at least some idea of the types of things happening on the isle I have a whole alliance chart thingy in my void of like the first 4-5 years (after that I forgot to update it) anyway glad to be in another diplostrats video this game was so fun, hope another one happens in the future (after a long break) and thanks for the shoutout :)

[@an0n065]

Hi Oxford here, I also commented explaining my take on my relations to you and London this turn, but basically, it was a mess because I said I was going to stab London and then I didnt and so no one trusted me

[@jago2503]

1:00:01 - "the fish didn't exist yet. We'll get to that later" - this game is amazing

[@morallyfoggy]

Hey, one of the GMs here. As far as Madrid not being allowed to waive, there was an announcement that NMRs would have builds put in for them to help the game run smoothly but there wasn't a discussion about purposefully waived builds.

[@cashewisanut4181]

hey there, tangier here. by nature of my position i couldn’t keep up with much at all in the north, so it’s very nice to finally see how that developed year 1, and i’m excited to see how future things came to pass up there. great playing with everyone there!

[@McMxxCiV]

Cool to see my simple off-hand comment about Ghent and Bruges influenced your choice!

[@McMxxCiV]

It is, by the way, indeed pronounced 'hoaghhh'. As the leader of the proud city of Ghent, you should have known that.

[@hellabisys]

Substitute Circassia here, you haven't seen me yet but you will! (curse that fleet build...)

[@crazycaracal9933]

Hi, original Circassia player here. Sorry for the fleet.

[@Belisarii1]

I have never seen your channel or heard of this game before, but you damn well better bet that I'm about to spend the next three and a half hours watching this video because the algorithm never misses.

[@Belisarii1]

The algorithm remains undefeated.

[@DiploStrats]

Praise the Algorithm

[@saril7968]

Warsaw here, it's been an experience. Edit: on the subject of Prussia building a second army, I believe I didn't say I was fine with it, my last statement was something like "I can't dictate what you are going to do, but I'm going to be unhappy if you build an army."

[@johnysmith942]

Hi, Freiburg here. Amazing video, can’t wait for part two. Just to add a little context from my point of view to someof the stuff that was explained: -Bremen and Rostock didn’t join the Wheel alliance as early as you mentioned it, the initial plan was to gobble them up along with the Bene, and take their dots for ourselves. So there would have been more chances for me to get a dot, which is one of the reasons why I pushed so hard for peace with the Vikings, there would have been less opportunities for that, had we went to war. They were placed under Wheel protection when tensions with the Vikings were at their highest, and we wanted to be sure that Northern Germany wouldn’t fall to them. I also wanted to preserve alliance stability, and thought people would be more likely to stick to the alliance if we focused on the original goal, which would have led to us growing stronger quickly, instead of being forced into a defensive position if war had happened. How well that worked, I guess we’ll see in part 2… P.S The Wheel alliance was definitely massive, but we never included Genoa or Dijon. As for Naples, that’s another story.

[@audiosurfarchive]

3:13:00 that exchange about Cap doing a shoutout to gain a negotiation advantage IS ABSOLUTELY hilarious, hahahahaha my wife and I are dying laughing about this. Cap REALLY FEELING the dot right now

[@MitchellBirt]

I was the Marseille player in this game. As it turned out, building a fleet was an ill-advised move. However, I felt I had to do it in order to secure my part of the French alliance. The Bordeaux player had his eyes firmly set on expansion by some as-of-yet specified means, so I attempted to dissuade him from attacking me by making myself less of a threat to him by building a fleet instead of an army. This proved to work for a while, as the French alliance had issues with the Dijon player right off the bat due to communication issues. The French alliance would focus on them for the moment. As they worked out how to proceed, the Iberian Peninsula momentarily turned into a thunderdome in Spring 1642 that I was deeply concerned with. The Bordeaux player understood the need to intervene to secure the southern border of the alliance, so I got involved in negotiations. At one point, there was a serious plan to convoy the Corsican army into Occitania to put the Barcelona player on notice with assistance from the Genoa player, if not convoy them directly into Barcelona with further assistance from the Baleares player. However, the situation evolved too rapidly to commit to such a course of action; by the next day, the situation had been resolved between the Spanish players. In the end, this resulted in a DMZ being established between myself and Barcelona in the Gulf of Lyon. This proved beneficial in the long run for the French powers, as the Baleares player would take Barcelona shortly afterwards, ensuring no single dominant power would emerge in Iberia to seriously challenge France for the rest of the game. By the time that situation settled down, however, the Dijon player had been forced out of their home center by the Paris player, setting me up to be forced out at the end of Fall 1642. In recognizing this, and seeing with exceptional likelihood that Dijon wouldn't be able to recover their supply center or simply march into Genoa unopposed, I communicated with him that he should just bounce the Parisian army in Dijon to cut his support to the Bordeaux army, thus keeping me in the game for the beginning of Spring 1643. If he wouldn't be making it to the next phase, he could still spoil the victory of the players that would have eliminated him. He gave his approval to this plan in the form of a salute emoji reaction at that time. When the Fall 1642 orders came in, however, he committed to taking Genoa anyways and _somehow_ got in unopposed. I still don't know how or why Genoa didn't try to defend their home center at the time. Regardless, my time was up, and the Bordeaux player was able to take my center. As far as I am concerned, despite the short time frame I was on the board for, I might have inadvertently served as a kingmaker in the region. As a consequence of my negotiation with the Barcelona player in Spring 1642, the remaining French powers were essentially free to act with near-impunity against its northern neighbors for the rest of the game as they consolidated further, while Iberia remained fractured and fighing amongst themselves and incursions from Morroco for the rest of the game. Not bad for my first-ever game, if I do say so myself. :)

[@half55-qo1tq]

The wheel members have been talking about attacking me firca while. And while Rome didn't commit to immediately attacking me, Trieste was seriously considering moving to Milan. If i get back into Genoa, while there is and army in Milan and potentially another army coming through Switzerland, i can never leave my dot, so getting a friendly army of Corsica to help would be impossible. I tried talking to Sarajevo about threatening Trieste to keep myself safer. I didn't believe Dijon waa still interested in the game or attacking me, so i decided i could risk leaving the dot open, to stay safer from the wheel.

[@torgor_]

there's a fascinating parallel between real life vikings who converted to christianity blazing fast in the middle ages, and our band of vikings who instantly become a church of bumble-ism or whatever it's called

[@an0n065]

The Oxfiles Part 1: 3:06:08 Hi Oxford here! I am so happy that I specifically caused "lets not spend too much time talking about Britain." Edinburgh (Edi) has a really good chronicle of everything that happened, so I hope they also share or any of my other lovely British Isles players, but I can try here to briefly explain what was going on for me, and why my motivations are so unclear 😂 I am a new diplomacy player and so although I had a ton of fun in this game, I also made lots of mistakes and learned a ton. Without luck and a conversion to bumblism leading to several popes brokering truces for me I definitely would have died. This was truly a crazy game! Anyways, even though I had worked with Edi and London in the Spring to kill Plymouth, come Fall I needed to decide which one I was going to work with because they were fighting. It seems obvious now that the best option would have been to create an alliance between all of us (maybe that happens later 😶), or at least choose one side and stick with it. But I was inexperienced and easily swayed this early on in the game. Initially I was working with Edinburgh to kill London by supporting Amsterdam into London and letting Edinburgh into Plymouth. Then London made a last minute plea to let them live in Plymouth which convinced me. So I changed my moves to supporting London hold in Plymouth, hoping my ally Amsterdam would still get into London. Instead nothing went my way: Ireland stabbed Edi by going to Iceland and London stabbed me by risking to bounce Amsterdam, letting them to go up to two and me feeling betrayed. At this point I had now secured my reputation as chaotic instead of inexperienced. I also had betrayed Edinburgh (by working with London), London (by willing to be so aggressive against them), and amsterdam (by renegging on our deal). Yes those are all my neighbors... whoops! Yet never resign in chess or diplomacy, we'll have to see in part 2 what becomes of me and the British Isles. 🇬🇧

[@MaxIsEast]

❤

[@J3Puffin]

This is such a good series, and I’ve only seen the 1st part :). The sheer density of the board, the memes, it’s so much insanity and so fascinating.

[@half55-qo1tq]

1:44:18 Holy Balkan Empire had already formed at that moment. They wanted to build fleets to attack Italy (builds were changed qith negotiation), work with Moldova in some way, and expand around Black Sea, which would probably lead them to conflict with Turtle alliance (Russia)

[@Hannibal-Barca]

Reykjavik, never forget

[@connermckeone4915]

He was the real iceland in my heart (I played oslo but was named Iceland for the lols)

[@MaxIsEast]

♥️

[@cygnusinfinity5126]

Narva trying so hard to be let into the Nordic (Viking) Alliance and constantly failing is so true to Estonia

[@BS-bd4xo]

Sounds true, but didn't narva in this game also shit on the vikings? Besides annoying ezio.

[@DiploStrats]

Eesti cannot into Nordic :'(

[@NoName-cp4ct]

Lux: OK it's more or less fair. It's interesting to hear a different perspective on going ons inside the Wheel. The part about the back and forth discussions, I wasn't really afraid of a stab when I argued for not attacking you, because the alliance energy was going strong (and I was getting a 2nd dot anyway). But I genuinely played for the benefit of the alliance as a whole at this point. I was seeing the Vikings+CW forming, and I also saw that it was very awkward for the Wheel to not step on its toes while defending. Besides, how the hell were we gonna build fleets with the Viking fleets in the area? I was a believer in the HRE at this point. Also while I'm here, I'll take credit for the convoy meme. I think I was thinking about Arkh opening and how it inevitably means killing Novgorod. And I said Arkh you should totally go to Aleppo, it can be done.

[@thecanadian9105]

This is insane. Thank you so much for posting these. I know I might only be 1 views, but these are my favourites (I still watched all your diplomacy videos, without being a player myself)

[@BS-bd4xo]

Same! (well almost. I have played a bit and only watched like half at most) I just love watching the diplomatic ties shift constantly, and then the mathematical strategy planning ofcourse. It's long, but I'm fine with that when I do smth else at the same time. Gooood I love variants. Already made a few variants maps (modified standard maps) myself.

[@thecanadian9105]

@@BS-bd4xo I have played a few times against the AI, but seeing these vids are so nice. I also love variants quite a bit, the game has so much depth. So glad to have found it recently

[@gazeboist4535]

I really want to give Dublin props for the stab, but they clearly already have all the props.

[@articasterisk]

hi guys, arkhangelsk checking in! this game peaked hard i loved every moment of it obviously, i didn't get much screentime in this video (or anything earlier on in the game for that matter) (i really didnt do that much lol), but towards the mid-late game, you might see me pop up a bit more :) wink wink also rip balkans and mediterranean and the entire east side of the board barely covered at all but to be fair you can only talk about so much with whatever corner of the board youre playing so if anyone wants to make videos covering these then theyd be so fun i want this series to be as long as it can get since theres just so much to talk about and i dont think that you can do this game proper justice unless you cover absolutely each and every single minute detail that happens but with what youve been given and your spheres of the world this is a great analysis into your positions and suffice to say i definitely learned a whole lot more than what was just going on in my corner which is always a welcome surprise cant wait for the rest of this series!!!!! itll be great i know it

[@solsystem1342]

Tunis here, player who ended up staying in one center for the longest (ignoring the island armies whicu couldn't do anything). Keep an eye on it with orders because I got bounced and/or ended up being attackrd and needed to be support held sooo many times. Also at one point I belive all of my living neighbors plus some other people around me had ended up defending me from eachother. :elmfire: 10/10 game

[@TheMan83554]

I have one correction Cap't. *I* suggested we translate our catch phrase to Dutch instead of Latin, you did so and said "The issue is that Dutch is ridiculous". That is all. A fantastic game all around.

[@sharpieman2035]

I've made it an hour in and we haven't even made it to builds yet, this is officially your best video ever! 😂😂😂

[@audiosurfarchive]

CaptainMeme: face of a thug, voice of an angel and a damn fine Diplomacy player. _So by averages, that makes him a decent bloke!_ Just messin around Cap, love to finally see this vid--I've been hyped

[@audiosurfarchive]

This is gutbusting by the end, Cap pulling up with the clout AND FALLING SHORT is hysterical. I am pumped at this point for what's next.

[@half55-qo1tq]

2:39:01 Corsica does go with the convoy, but I (Genoa) didn't do it, because i thought i was safe and Dijon had no intentions of attacking me. I did throw a support order to show that my intentions of convoy were real. But i wanted to stay in Ligurian to be able to convoy Corsica and stay safer from the wheel members. As far as i was concerned wheel members still had an eye on my center, and went back to discussing an attack on me after i called them out (several times)

[@half55-qo1tq]

Also it have had something to do with Sardinia offering me a support into Corsica, so i thought their unit was free to do something and they would take Corsica immediately if convoy succeed. So my other move was moving back to Genoa l, which would have worked better for me. I still wanted to keep option of convoy open, but was worse in almost every sence from by that time my perspective. And worst of of Trieste didn't even move to Milan, making my paranoia about the wheel pointless

[@TheGuardianEzio]

Oh I remember watching Ireland's stab video with no context and thinking it was quite funny.

[@DiploStrats]

What a lovely account name. -Ezio

[@G_Alamia]

23:40 “official” pre-game 1:14:00 builds 1641 1:48:10 spring 1642 movement 2:01:10 spring 1642 retreats and clean map 2:26:40 autumn 1642 movement 2:53:45 autumn 1642 retreats and builds 2:58:00 winter 1642 clean map 3:20:15 spring 1643 movement

[@Nathanael_Forlorn]

I'm surprised that I manage to watch this to completion within 24hrs, but I can't wait to see part 2 being uploaded. Great content, great commentary, great channel! I'm glad valefisk brought me here. Looking forward to the inevitable crossover episode coming! *_*

[@benclarke8014]

Hello From the original Spitsbergen, it was such a shame I had to be switched out since I was enjoying myself, but I missed one of the deadlines so got dropped :(

[@andrewmiles3997]

No! I was the replacement Spits. I hope I made you proud in the later years!

[@audiosurfarchive]

🔪 _"oh no, watch our for Ezio he's a big ole stabber"_ 🔪 Maybe.. just MAYBE.. Ezio, whose name alot associate with a character known for stabbing people.. has a rep for stabbing?? 😲

[@TheSouperShow]

I was the 82nd person who signed up. just barely didn't make it in :( would've loved to be a part of this game. it looked like so much fun

[@DiploStrats]

Next time!

[@TheH3LLP3R]

I think i remember commenting under the imperial diplo video that Ezio would love that map for the amount of stab opportunities. Good to see he has leveled up with the "stab" on helsingford. Telling someone to bounce in a confusing way, getting that way perma removed, then still moving to bounce knowing the move wont bounce. True genius on display 😂😂 The is great stuff overall. A part of me wishes you guys allies next to other, another part wishes you were direct enemies, and the final third part is happy with this as we get more context of the board! P.s. the day salt is able to legit team up with Ezio or Cpt Meme in a chaos/variant game is the day we see the fastest alliance sweep of a board with the filthiest stabs

[@VoidLeech]

Really been enjoying your guys' commentary lately. That's actually quite close on the proper attempt at 'hoog'

[@chancellor8797]

nearly spat out my cereal when you said salt was in this HAHA

[@robertscott7812]

I love baffled Ezio is with "We Hoog" lmao

[@DiploStrats]

I just saw people randomly saying we hoog, and had no idea what they were on about. I'm surprised it has a real origin. -Ezio

[@glowingfox704]

Part 1? PART 1?!

[@optopesi2156]

no power rankings? tut tut tut....

[@theflyingdragon4505]

Hey there from Kiev! amazing game

[@Sock-qv9wr]

"I am indeed a flat earther" - Capt. Meme 2024

[@half55-qo1tq]

53:24 I'm sure Rostock and Bremen would be happy to hear that and won't do anything about it

[@josobra2974]

Rostock here This started when I was asleep so this deal was already done This caused me and bremen to ally which migth also be a reason it did not happen

[@BobZeBuilder]

Hello from Sardinia. AKA I was Sardinia

[@glowingfox704]

We now need chaos on the full world map variant!

[@flare2209]

Hey, Game Master of the game here! ...don't count it out 👀 Join the server, we might do it in the future lol

[@josobra2974]

​@@flare2209see flare Everyone wants it

[@BS-bd4xo]

​​@@flare2209👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 How many players would that be?

[@flare2209]

@@BS-bd4xo in the current state of the map, 334 players!

[@jacksonbowen3576]

I had fully forgotten about the opening words of the video I had to go back and rewatch it after the reveal

[@Ratmo_beewee]

Omg I’m speechless Well done? Looking forward to part two cause god damn

[@Lumi-b4z]

Wilno here! Commonwealth forever!

[@jago2503]

Bumblism seems to be providing a shockingly good model of real premodern religious expansion...

[@AlexanderNees]

So glad I got to participate

[@iambicpentakill971]

Age of Empires flashbacks, "Start the game already!"

[@tommywalker6721]

Have you considered a global map with the same density of players? I’d love to join that!

[@josobra2974]

It is unlikely but it is not something to be counted out

[@half55-qo1tq]

1:31:12 I think that's a bit too many wheel members. I don't think Naples joined the wheel, and i while i (Genoan) did mention joining the wheel, i mostly wanted to not get murdered. I don't think i became even an observer there

[@FunnyManInAClownWorld]

We MUST defend the Burgertown, Ramirez!

[@basileusbasil4041]

1:36:06 HOLY SHIT, do not ever become an international diplomat.

[@The1Immortal]

Can't wait for pt 2

[@DiploStrats]

Part 2 is out!

[@The1Immortal]

@@DiploStrats Then I can't wait for part 3

[@epps8686]

this is the type of varient i can get behind, where is the next game, id love to play

[@DoubleTrouble-li5wi]

I love that this game had a religion which actually had some impact, I find that hilarious!

[@KarolOfGutovo]

Can't wait for the full earth chaos imperial diplomacy :)

[@audiosurfarchive]

2:11:23 oh boy Ezio is back on his Viking spin machine propaganda bit 😂

[@DiploStrats]

It's easy to slip back into character. Viking Pride! -Ezio

[@audiosurfarchive]

@@DiploStrats Minnesota, Open Wide!

[@BS-bd4xo]

I've been waited for this video. Edit: amazing

[@Flameserpent2518]

This is the greatest content

[@griffinhunter3206]

BAVARIAN WHEEL MOMENT

[@audiosurfarchive]

If you can, and I imagine this map certainly is, can you use a higher resolution export for the vid? I use YTVanced and can zoom manually anywhere I want when its all the way out: reckon you can do it at 1440p? Or even 4K for massive maps like this (assuming the map resolution is as big).

[@DiploStrats]

I can record at 1440p, but I'm a bit concerned that that'll make the territory names too blurry for people watching at 1080. That's kinda what ended up happening in the Hellenic video since Ezio was recording at that higher res.

[@audiosurfarchive]

​​@@DiploStrats??? That's strange: very counterintuitive as to me that doesn't make any sense, but I gotcha for sure if that's what happened in the past. It can look aliased/blurry to me as is, so not sure how a higher bitrate could be worse ideas put on as well. CQP(?) setting on OBS is the best imo, if not using Shadowplay.

[@BS-bd4xo]

That feature is also in normal youtube for everyone. I use zoom also A LOT for these videos. Unrelated but I'm a premium user btw. Used to use vanced, but I felt like its interface n stuff was not as good as vanced did it. Now I have submitted to my capitalist overlords to be a consumer slave sending them a constant stream of passive income.

[@c4ndl326]

Hi! I'm Cairo

[@c4ndl326]

"France is a little less active than everyone right now" ..meanwhile in the caucuses

[@c4ndl326]

early game south east from what I remember: I think HBE did form in the first year, probably even the first turn. just without a formal name. Daghestan, Aleppo, and Circassia didn't talk ever, Georgia is speaking a lot, and decides to try and work with their neighbours, who aren't talking, so what ends up happening, is that Georgia is trying to discuss for the lives of 4 people, with a bit of imput from Astrakhan. everything in the Caucuses other than Azerbaijan - Aleppo was not arranged, and was a stab. this is all from memory, and might be wrong

[@thegoosh6469]

Canal Bros (I was Constantinople)

[@c4ndl326]

@@thegoosh6469 Canal bros for life

[@isaacshultz8128]

See dot take dot

[@DiploStrats]

Dots are Tasty -Ezio

[@Blumble]

Blumb

[@Yoshi348]

I find it ironic that a person named CaptainMeme is losing at a diplomacy game for failing to put his belief in a meme.

[@AlexanderNees]

1:43:43 Ezio makes some very Trieste points here

[@Lorekeeper_GGuy]

~ 46:00 TBF, thats entirely in-character for Scotland

[@thedarklizard9725]

Glad to know I played my part perfectly lol

[@dymaxion3988]

The whole concept of the Bavarian Wheel reminds me of Uzumaki by Junji Ito for some reason

[@personguy8697]

im still fucking pissed that i didnt get to be part of this. i was only a couple minutes late to signups!!!!! what the FUCK!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!

[@DiploStrats]

Next Time!

[@gazeboist4535]

3:06:00 'Tis a silly place.

[@Ethan-cz8xq]

Your name's CaptainMeme and yet the memes were your downfall...

[@AlexandrianCodex]

Bremen

[@isaacshultz8128]

Part 2 when 😮

[@DiploStrats]

Hopefully Wednesday!

[@isaacshultz8128]

@@DiploStrats :D

[@isaacshultz8128]

​@@DiploStratscan you go through power rankimg both wihin the vikimgs and generally in tje world

[@MaxIsEast]

totally unbiased Irish perspective otw! (very biased)

[@joshdavis3743]

Start the game already!!!!

[@Driesipops]

Does anyone else have problems with very annoying high pitched squeaky noises when ezio talks?

[@benallen4591]

thats just his voice

[@DiploStrats]

Ya I hear them here. I'll take a look at my mic, again. -Ezio

[@isaacshultz8128]

1:43:46 still not past turn 1

[@andrewkelley9405]

O_o this game makes my brain hurt

[@MaxIsEast]

oh em gee

[@thedarklizard9725]

Hmm you look familiar, do I know you from somewhere

[@josobra2974]

​@@thedarklizard9725that is ireland in case you are serius

[@thedarklizard9725]

@@josobra2974 I’m not lol

[@hotman_pt_]

Bro where have I landed? I have no idea what you are all talking about

[@DiploStrats]

It's diplomacy! Stay awhile, and listen :). -Ezio

[@iambicpentakill971]

I'm enjoying your channel, but one suggestion I have is not to tell us what happens before you show the moves/results. i.e. Tell us the plan, show us that it did or didn't work, and then talk about what happened and why.

[@DiploStrats]

This is something I'd really like to do with this format, but it's kinda difficult when there's so much going on and so much to cover each phase. I feel like if we leave everything on the pre-phasing cliffhanger, we're going to forget to come back round to some of it afterwards... I'll see if I can lean more into that style in ep2 anyway though :D

[@americannightmare425]

This is how they do it normally, but because this is a MONSTER of a game to recall, and due to their personal involvement, you should expect some bouncing around.

[@wolfizee6516]

spoilers: corsica won

[@c4ndl326]

Sorry (I'm Cairo)

[@wolfizee6516]

Anyways, 2:39:08 I can confirm that what happened here was that Genoa *supported* me in rather than convoying me, resulting in the failure Apparently, this was intentional on the part of Genoa as they didn't think Dijon would walk in

[@Enter_Tanman]

Go vikings!

[@pumblechook1505]

🐇

[@Pi-eipp]

Hey I was in this kinda (I was dahgestan)

[@eumaies]

Nah not the biggest by a long shot. I played global diplomacy with friends it was epic.

[@DiploStrats]

On province count it's definitely not the biggest - this is actually a smaller region of a much larger map called Imperial! But player count is the claim and I think that one is correct - 81 players is quite a lot for a diplomacy game :D