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Description
WIP silly map for a Diplomacy variant.

Topology based on Erlen Janbu's South America 5.1 map for five players

Started working on a "quick and dirty" Diplomacy variant... Over half a year ago, although most of that is just not working on it. Got into the groove again recently.

Two major additions: variable nation powers and team-based "govenments" (and currency related to those).

At the start of the game, the first players choose their nations and a player power. The player powers change the basic ruleset slightly, like extra movement powers or fighting powers etc.

Then they choose a polity, the government type they want their nation to be. Each nation is a team of people, who play a subgame that decides who is the Leader. Polities include: Republics (voting for the leader), Feudal States (the nation is actually a small alliance of nations), Autocratic Pyramids (people try to be the King of the Hill and play a small Diplomacy variant in a hierarchical pyramid), Plutocracies (the richest guy is the leader; you get money from owning planets and harvesting them at the right time or by owning virtual stock in other Nations), Kleptocracies (stealing subgame), Assassinarchies (the Leader tries to stay alive while the others try to find where he is hiding during the Night of the Festival), Bureaucracies (all the duties of the Leader are apportioned to all team members), and etc.

I am trying to create a game that can be played with a wide number of players. Team members are really there to be backup players in case the normal Leader doesn't send in their orders, and the government subgames are meant to be a fun little game to stop it from being boring. At its greatest, this would basically be a pretty huge megagame type experience, at its smallest (with no government games "active" because there's only one player per nation involved) a small five-player Diplomacy game.

Description
WIP silly map for a Diplomacy variant.

Topology based on Erlen Janbu's South America 5.1 map for five players

Started working on a "quick and dirty" Diplomacy variant... Over half a year ago, although most of that is just not working on it. Got into the groove again recently.

Two major additions: variable nation powers and team-based "govenments" (and currency related to those).

At the start of the game, the first players choose their nations and a player power. The player powers change the basic ruleset slightly, like extra movement powers or fighting powers etc.

Then they choose a polity, the government type they want their nation to be. Each nation is a team of people, who play a subgame that decides who is the Leader. Polities include: Republics (voting for the leader), Feudal States (the nation is actually a small alliance of nations), Autocratic Pyramids (people try to be the King of the Hill and play a small Diplomacy variant in a hierarchical pyramid), Plutocracies (the richest guy is the leader; you get money from owning planets and harvesting them at the right time or by owning virtual stock in other Nations), Kleptocracies (stealing subgame), Assassinarchies (the Leader tries to stay alive while the others try to find where he is hiding during the Night of the Festival), Bureaucracies (all the duties of the Leader are apportioned to all team members), and etc.

I am trying to create a game that can be played with a wide number of players. Team members are really there to be backup players in case the normal Leader doesn't send in their orders, and the government subgames are meant to be a fun little game to stop it from being boring. At its greatest, this would basically be a pretty huge megagame type experience, at its smallest (with no government games "active" because there's only one player per nation involved) a small five-player Diplomacy game.