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Diplomacy by Other Means - A Ken Burnside Production

Sun, 01/03/2010 - 21:25 — Paul Scott

Diplomacy by Other Means rules are available here:

http://www.adastragames.com/downloads/SFB/DbOM_Rules.pdf

Blank map is available here:

http://www.adastragames.com/downloads/SFB/DbOM_Blank_Map.pdf

To clarify the 'arbitrary' EW rules:

If it's allowed in tourney, it's legal here, with the following additions:

1) Erratic Maneuvers
2) Terrain modifiers
3) Scout lending of EW.

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Mon, 01/04/2010 - 01:35 — Purple_Drazi

Nice work, Ken!

Nice work, Ken!

Mon, 01/04/2010 - 15:41 — Ken Burnside

Thanks!

I still need to build the order entry spreadsheet.

A lot of this came from watching various parts of M&C go 'kerplow', but I've successfully run "Diplomacy as Strategic, Game X as Tactical" campaigns for Warhammer and Battletech.

Mon, 01/04/2010 - 17:27 — Ken Burnside

Map file with resource centers and terrain is now in place

Enjoy.

Wed, 01/06/2010 - 19:13 — Mudfoot

Nicely done

Lovely production values. Is there a key to the map anywhere? eg what are the blue hexes, the rainbow blobs, the pentagons, etc.

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 03:39 — Ken Burnside

Map Key

It was outside the 'area being snapshotted'

The pentagons are resource centers
The seven pointed stars with the arrow pointed up are pushstars (as referenced in the rules)
The hexagons made of 6 small triangles like a camera shutter are warp points

The diamonds are an ion storm. The ones in a circle have a 1 in 6 chance of rotating one space clockwise each turn.
The clumps of ovals are asteroids; the clumps with lots of ovals are heavy asteroid fields
The gas giants are gas giants
The 8 pointed rayed star with straight lines is a variable pulsar
The 9 pointed star with curved lines and a black center is a black hole

The blue hexagons are the 6 starting home sector.
The black hexagon is impassable.

I currently have 4 players, and am looking for two more...

Fri, 01/08/2010 - 18:43 — Ken Burnside

All slots are filled

We have the following players:

Robert Grey
Jason Gray/Dale McKee
Roger Rardain
Fred Kreller
Michael Baima
Francois Lemay

Alternates are

Tos Crawford
Peter Thoenen

Sat, 01/09/2010 - 19:23 — Purple_Drazi

That's "Jeremy Gray", Ken,

That's "Jeremy Gray", Ken, not Jason Gray. ;)

Sun, 01/10/2010 - 01:51 — Ken Burnside

Point...

Though I was trying to recruit Jason as well. Three Grey/Gray.

Loads of chaos and confusion. :)

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 01:09 — Ken Burnside

Order entry sheet is up

http://www.adastragames.com/downloads/SFB/DbOM_Fleet_Orders.xls

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 18:51 — Ken Burnside

Updated Map Sheet

And our first conflicts in the campaign going.