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This abstract of the rules for the basic game is tailored from “Teaching Diplomacy: A 5 Minute Teaching Guide” by Edi Birsan. It covers nearly all of the principles of the game. You probably have questions, the complete rulebook is online and there are a number of Quick Guides in the Forum which go over the most typical trouble spots. 1. Seven players symbolize the main powers of pre-WWI Europe: Austria (purple), England (orange), France (dark blue), Germany (beige), Italy (inexperienced), Russia (purple), and Turkey (gentle blue). 2. The map is divided into named “provinces”. There are three forms of provinces: inland, coastal and water. 3. There are two types of items, “armies” and “fleets”. Armies can move (or retreat) to inland and coastal provinces, fleets to coastal and water provinces. 4. Only one unit can be in a province at a time. 6. Units combine their force with “support” orders. In conflicts, the unit with the most mixed drive wins. 7. There are 34 “supply centers” (provinces marked with stars).

Powers begin with three or 4 supply centers, their “home centers”. 8. To win, a power must management 18 provide centers. If all of the players nonetheless in the sport agree, a sport can finish with survivors sharing equally in a draw. 9. Each “game-year” proceeds via five phases: Spring Orders & Retreats and Fall Orders, Retreats, & Builds. Retreats and builds phases are skipped if no participant has orders to be made. The sport begins with Spring 1901 Orders and ends when there is a winner or a draw is declared. 10. Players communicate 1-on-1 or in teams utilizing the messaging methods throughout any part of the game. 11. Orders are entered secretly for each phase and revealed and resolved for all the powers concurrently at the top of the section. 12. You may give orders to your entire units. Move to an adjoining province. Armies in a coastal province could transfer to a non-adjacent coastal province if convoyed.


Fleets in a coastal province could only move to provinces adjacent to the coastline. Support. A unit holds, including its pressure to a different unit. A unit can only help an motion in an adjoining province to which it could have moved. Convoy. A fleet in a water province holds, convoying an army. Convoys will be by one or a series of fleets. The first fleet must be adjacent the transferring army, every fleet in the chain have to be adjoining the prior, and the final fleet have to be adjoining the vacation spot. 13. It’s possible you’ll support and convoy another powers items. 14. A unit ordered to move can’t be supported to hold. A unit ordered to carry, support, or convoy may be supported to hold. 15. If models of equal force move to the identical province, they “bounce” and neither advances. If one of many models has greater power, it advances. 16. Units ordered to each other’s province with equal drive bounce and don’t swap places (unless one is being convoyed.) Three (or extra) items can rotate positions.

17. A unit with a transfer order that is bounced retains a force of 1 to defend in opposition to an assault in the province where it started the section. 18. A unit can only be pressured out of its province (“dislodged”) with greater force than the unit plus all of its assist to carry. For instance, a unit moving with two helps versus a unit holding with one support, a pressure of three vs. 2, dislodges the holding unit. 19. Support is “cut” if the supporting unit is attacked from any province except the one where help is being given. Cut assist just isn’t added to the force of another unit. 20. Dislodged models have no impact on the province where the unit dislodged it came from. Support orders from dislodged models are at all times minimize. 21. A dislodged unit can nonetheless reduce assist or cause a bounce in a unique province from the one the place the unit that dislodged it came from.