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The guys catchup with David Hood and talk about his role in DBN's Deadline News and much more. Plus a bumper amount of Diplomacy news and an Around the grounds. Enjoy! Intro The guys discuss their drinks and venue... which apparently they've drunk at before. They discuss their rule on not recording in the same venue twice and whether it counts if the bar has changed hands/changed names (0 mins 10 secs) They quickly jump into the interview with David Hood (3 mins 15 secs) Interview with David Hood They guys welcome David to the show  before Amby asks about how he got into the game (3 mins 20 secs) Kaner asks about how David got involved in the Diplomacy Broadcast Network. David acknowledges the great work being done by Brandon Fogel, Zach Moore and Bryan Pravel and that he's just the recruited "talent" before he discusses his thoughts on the DBN (5 mins) Kaner asks how a typical Deadline News broadcast comes together (8 mins) Amby asks about David's suited up style on Deadline News before asking about t

The guys interview Legendary Tactics, receive a variant question from Brother Bored and continue their Juggernaut game. Intro The guys discuss their drinks, the big draw card for recording the show and venue.  (0 mins 10 secs) They discuss the upcoming interview with Legendary Tactics and question from Brother Bored (3 mins 15 secs) Interview with Legendary Tactics They guys welcome Legendary Tactics (LT) to the show  (4 mins 10 secs) Amby asks about what got Legendary Tactics into Diplomacy (4 mins 40 secs) He goes onto discuss the Legendary Tactics Youtube channel (6 mins 10 secs) Legendary Tactics flips the table on the interview and asks Kaner and Amby about what got them into the game and the podcast (7 mins 15 secs) Amby asks about who's behind the Legendary Tactics channel and discusses their involvement in Diplomacy (11 mins 40 secs) They discuss the Canadian Diplomacy scene and face to face (15 mins) Amby asks where LT finds the time (16 mins 45 secs) LT discusses what you need techwise to

The guys wrap-up the Media Wars game in an interview with Brother Bored, Legendary Tactics & CaptainMeme. They go onto talk about gender bias in the online game, broken websites and Kaner's final pitch to be elected President of the United States. Intro The guys discuss their drinks and venue. They talk about the amount of content being put out by the players, particularly Brother Bored, Legendary Tactics & CaptainMeme before kicking off an interview with them  (0 mins 10 secs) Media Wars: Interview with Brother Bored, Legendary Tactics & CaptainMeme Apologies from Amby, I thought my mike was muted at various stages, so if you hear cutlery on a plate, that was me... sorry! Amby welcomes Brother Bored, Legendary Tactics & CaptainMeme to the show. He mentions why he didn't include the other players due to how disorganised the interview would likely be (3 mins 30 secs) He reflects on whether the Media Wars game was meant to be winner take all, rather than allowing a draw (which Brother Bored

The guys catch up with Dave Maletsky about eCarnage and what's happening with the World Diplomacy Championship. Plus talk about Diplomacy news and discuss variant development. Intro The guys discuss their drinks and venue. Amby mentions how he met well known Diplomacy player, Peter McNamara at the Fox very early on in the podcast (0 mins 10 secs) Amby introduces an interview with Dave Maletsky about November's Carnage - now eCarnage - and the roadmap ahead for the World Diplomacy Championships (4 mins) Interview with Dave Maletsky about eCarnage and the WDC Amby asks about what's happening with this year's Carnage (6-8 November 2020) due to Covid (5 mins 20 secs) Dave discusses how this year's Carnage - being all online so called eCarnage - is running two rounds in the US and two rounds in the Asia-Pacific using different scoring systems, and how player' rankings determine a final ranking for the Top Board (6 mins 50 secs) Dave flags the need to formally register and the need for a small entrance fee (9

The guys interview renown Diplomacy variant creator David E. Cohen before they test out an alliance for the ages: The Juggernaut. Intro The guys discuss their drinks and venue (0 mins 10 secs) They introduce the interview with David E. Cohen (3 mins 40 secs) Interview with David E. Cohen The interview starts badly with lots of technical issues - both in the initial connection and also the quality of the recording. Bear with us listeners, slightly normal service soon returns. That said there are chair squeaks and other background noise throughout the interview at our end (4 mins) Eventually their perseverance pays off as David explains his process for creating variants (7 mins 30 secs) Kaner asks where the idea for Known World 901 came from. David explains where it came from and how it fitted in with Western World 901  (8 mins 20 secs) Amby asks about the process of bringing together multiple maps into a single new game eg Maharaja coming together with Spice Islands to create an East Indies variant (9 m

Under the never-ending clickity-clack of the train line, the guys catch up in a brewery for a little Diplomacy chat... and the odd drink or two! Intro The guys introduce the show, the venue and their drinks (0 mins 10 secs) They talk about surfing, waterskiing and serenity (2 mins 45 secs) Around the grounds They flag there may be a bit of train noise in the background as they're near a rail line. Kaner asks Amby how his games are going. Amby talks about the Big Hitters game (5 mins 20 secs) Amby discusses his offer to GM a Winning game for players in the Winning thread (7 mins 15 secs) Amby goes onto discuss how badly he's doing in the Cloak and Dagger series, being played on a Modern Europe map (10 mins) He then discusses his (surprise surprise) elimination from the Media Wars game and how the other players are going (12 mins) Kaner in Quarantine Amby thinks he stuffed up the recording (he didn't) before giving a drinks update (16 mins) Kaner discusses the impact of his workplace being shutdown du

The guys interview renown alternate history author Harry Turtledove about his love of the game Diplomacy, Amby laments his Liberty Cup gameplay, more Media Wars chat and a Declaration of War experiment. Interview with Harry Turtledove The guys introduce the show to new listeners as they may be Harry Turtledove fans. Harry is a renown alternate history author (0 mins 10 secs) Amby and Kaner give a super quick crash course on what the game Diplomacy is all about (1 min 45 secs) The interview starts with the guys welcoming Harry to the show and ask how he got into writing alternate history (3 mins) Kaner asks about one of the characters in Harry's Supervolcano trilogy playing Diplomacy with his friends, and what his experience is with the game Diplomacy (8 mins) Amby asks about Harry's thoughts on taking the role of different players. Harry discusses the perspectives you take in the game and how that compares in novel writing looking through the lens of other players (12 mins) Harry discusses how he still

The guys grab some beers and discuss a bunch of Diplomacy stuff including the Diplomacy Broadcast Network, Amby's Media Wars game and losing streak. We play "Where's Kaner?" and get back to some good old Diplomacy chat. Diplomacy news The guys discuss their beers, the venue and playing some face-to-face Diplomacy there in the future. Amby suggests a game on 9 August [Note: due to a flare up in Corona again, we've put that plan on ice] (0 mins 10 secs) Kaner discusses being in stitches after watching the Diplomacy Broadcast Network's first Deadline monthly news. They talk about getting some of the people from DBN on the podcast (7 mins 40 secs)   They have a Covid update at their end before going back to discuss Deadline news again, with Kaner's idea of it having reporters (11 mins 15 secs) Media Wars After some new beers Amby starts discussing his Media Wars game (18 mins 45 secs) The players are all involved in producing online media content, and the players are (21 mins): Amby from the Diplomacy Gam

The guys interview Zach Moore for a play-by-play breakdown of his Boston Massacre game with Amby. They discuss some games they're in, Kaner's Squirrel Diplomacy variant idea and an unusual England-France alliance. Intro The guys discuss their beers, including an earlier cheeky pint by Kaner. Plus more boom box guy discussion and Australian money (0 mins 10 secs) Interview with Zach Moore Amby gives some context about the interview, which is a play by play discussion with Zach Moore about a Boston Massacre game they were both in (6 mins 30 secs) Amby welcomes Zach to the show. Amby played as France and Zach as Austria. They discuss the lack of collaboration between them (8 mins 20 secs) Amby talks about the Western Triple he got in (11 mins 20 secs) He asks Zach about his thoughts on Russia and Turkey's opening, Amby reflects on how this caused Italy and Austria to stick together and how the Western Triple solidified (13 mins)                                                  

Kaner & Amby interview Martin Bruse, creator of the Android Duplicity app. A bit of Diplomacy chat and an update on Amby's variant development plans. And who is that boom box guy? Intro The guys discuss their beers, the ban on dancing and everything else being totally open now there's practically no Coronavirus in Queensland (0 mins 10 secs) Kaner & Amby are recording two episodes back to back in different locations 3 15 Interview with Martin Bruse, creator of the Diplicity app They begin to introduce their interview guest, Martin Bruse, the Android app developer of Diplicity (3 mins 45 secs) The interview starts with Martin telling the backstory of creating Droidippy and how his plan evolved into Diplicity (5 mins) Kaner discusses how easy it was to download and use for his Android app. He asks Martin how  Diplicity can also be used for iOS, computers etc. However your push notifications are done as email if not using the Android app (9 mins 30 secs) Amby asks about the migration of players fr

The guys interview Oliver Lugg, a Diplomacy loving guy who has created an awesome Youtube video about the game. They also discuss stupid greedy vs smart gains, the Western Europe 1300 variant and Amby's Diplomacy variant development plans. Intro & news The guys are recording at Malt, a serious proper bar. Kaner quickly picks on Amby's handwriting. Then they get onto drinks. Amby laments a little Covid weight gain (0 mins 10 secs) Interview with Oliver Lugg: Diplomacy Youtuber extraordinaire The guys give a full disclosure that the interview with Oliver Lugg is being recorded after they actually catch up (4 mins) Kaner & Amby welcome Oliver to the show about the quality of his Youtube video on Diplomacy - for podcast listeners, press pause now and watch the video for context: (7 mins) Amby asks Oliver how he got into the game (7 mins 45 secs) Kaner asks about within the video whether Oliver was in a scene in the video playing the game (12 mins 15 secs) Amby brings up whether there was a mathe

The guys interview prolific Diplomacy writer Brother Bored and discuss other Diplomacy stuff including the Scottish Clan Wars variant before Amby stuffs up. Intro & news The guys are still at Red Hook (a back to back recording) (0 mins 10 secs) Interview with Brother Bored The guys introduce the interview with Brother Bored, who plays as swordsman3003 at webDip (2 mins 40 secs) Brother Bored discusses how he got into Diplomacy  (3 mins 30 secs) He talks about how the flexibility of online Diplomacy really worked for him, how he got competitive about the game and how he started teaching his friends about how to play (6 mins) He discusses how this got him into blogging about Diplomacy so he could share his learnings, initially around gunboat. You can read his Diplomacy teaching blogs at brotherbored.com/diplomacy (8 mins 30 secs) Amby asks about how Brother Bored addresses different learning styles in how he writes his Diplomacy content. He touches on his Gunboat solo win guides , stalemate lines and

The guys are back to drinking face to face as Australia starts coming out of Coronavirus lockdown. They interview Chris Martin about his Diplomacy Academy videos on Youtube. Plus they discuss Kaner's big points draw in EU IV and more. Intro & news Isolation is starting to lift in Australia as the guys introduce their venue and drinks for the episode (0 mins 10 secs) They discuss the pronounciation of the vDip player ingebot, who stabbed & killed Kaner in his public press State Your Business Divided States game. Amby discusses ghee.  Kaner asks about Amby's quarantine beard (2 mins 45 secs) Interview with Chris Martin about the Diplomacy Academy The guys introduce the interview with Chris Martin (5 mins 30 secs) Chris discusses his year long break from Dip, before coming back strong this year with a strong focus on his Diplomacy Academy at Youtube (6 mins) Amby asks about Chris' views on the creative impact of Coronavirus on the hobby (8 mins) Chris talks about the use of Backstabbr, Discord and

The guys take a deep dive into different Classic Diplomacy boards. Amby now owns three and so does Kaner, so we compare and contrast them all! Intro & news The guys are getting closer to isolation being lifted with talk that the pubs will be open soon. They then discuss their drinks and Amby's Larry can (0 mins 10 secs) Kaner asks about Amby's quarantine beard (3 mins) Tournaments seem to be all online with Amby considering participating in DixieCon, but unfortunately the timing is really bad in Australia (4 mins) Diplomacy board talk Rob Schone who's attended some of the Brisbane games, is moving back to New Zealand for a bit and gave the show two of his board (5 mins 50 secs) One is the 4th edition from 2000 (with metal playing pieces), which was the same version bought from Matt in an earlier show (7 mins) Kaner has three boards - two official and the magnet set he created. His main one is a larger scale canvas printed board that they use when playing in Brisbane. Kaner shows his other board (50

The guys are still stuck at home. Amby discusses playing in the Minnesota Diplomacy Club's online game and an around the grounds with Kaner getting a really good draw while Amby is eliminated from the Order of the Dragon. Intro Its been so long since the guys were in the pub they can't remember how to start the show. Kaner is missing pubs and massages. They discuss their drinks and Kaner prepares his tunes (0 mins 10 secs) Amby plays with the Minnesota Diplomacy Club online Amby logged on at 7 am that day to play in one of the Minnesota Diplomacy Club's Discord/Backstabbr games. He played in game two as Russia and channeled his inner Melissa Call.  (7 mins) Amby said it went well until the mid-game. He was part of a 5 way draw which was based on a sum of scores system (9 mins 30 secs) A number of players like Amby weren't local members of the club (12 mins 45 secs) Kaner asks about the technology and how the logistics all worked (13 mins 30 secs) Amby discusses the strategy he used as Russia and what t

With Coronavirus still rolling, the guys interview kevdog8, rannjohnson and Dr Recommended on Amby's soloed Undivided States game - the biggest SC count of all time. Plus lots of current games discussed. As much fun as you can have at home during self-isolation! Intro The guys introduce the show from home with all pubs still closed due to Coronavirus. They discuss their drinks and Kaner's doomsday drinking den (0 mins 10 secs) Amby talks working from home and Diplomacy. Kaner gives his take (2 mins 45 secs) Amby asks what Kaner's been up to Diplomacy wise. Kaner discusses his new Diplomacy white board inspired from the Diplomacy Briefing (5 mins 40 secs)                                         Amby puts on some tunes with DJ Luter One (8 mins 55 secs) Undivided States interview Kaner talks about the Youtube video he's made of the Undivided States map (below). You can also see each map as the game turns progressed on vDip. Amby (who soloed as New York) gives his thoughts on the v

Like most of the world the guys are stuck at home thanks to the Coronavirus. They interview Garry Sturley and Andy Harris on attending the MaccCon tournament while effectively in lockdown. Plus a bit of a games and variant development update. Intro The guys introduce the show from home due to pubs all being closed due to Coronavirus. They try to replicate the feel of being in a bar  (0 mins 10 secs) They talk the local government elections and Amby's vote for Kaner (7 mins 20 secs) Kaner sends Amby a text - a whiteboard version of Diplomacy (8 mins 45 secs) They talk about Amby's poncho antics and the special one-off release of a Patreon episode for everyone stuck at home (10 mins 40 secs) Interview with Garry Sturley and Andy Harris on MaccCon and the Coronavirus They introduce the interview (12 mins 20 secs) They all discuss accents (13 mins 20 secs) They discuss Andy's location in Jersey in the Channel islands (16 mins) Amby asks about the MaccCon tournament and how Andy participated remotely with

Kaner and Amby are hammered. They give their take on Day 1 of PoppyCon. Released first on Patreon, we wanted to share this with all you in lockdown going crazy due to the Coronavirus. Hope you, your family and friends are well. The guys discuss Day 1 of gameplay at PoppyCon in Melbourne Amby complains its cold (1 min 15 secs) Amby gets tangled in a poncho (2 mins 35 secs) They discuss Austria getting eliminated from 5 SCs to zero in a single turn (3 mins 30 secs) Kaner was tempted to wipe Amby off the board in game one. Amby (Germany) was included in the draw with 1 SC, Kaner (England) ended in the draw with 8 SC (4 mins 45 secs) The Kaner asks Amby about his "How about we go get a beer" moment in game two when Amby (Turkey) was attempting to reconcile after stabbing Tim (Russia). Amby ended up in a draw with 9 SCs. Kaner wasn't in game two  (6 mins 10 secs) Kaner reflects his highlight of the game with the German army in Berlin taking the slow road to Norway. He also discusses Peter MacNamara's come ba

The guys make it to Melbourne for PoppyCon and discuss their plans for the tournament, an interview with host Melissa Call, and follow up interview with multi-WDC winner Andrew Goff and Melissa, before a wrap up of Amby's Divided States game and more. Intro, news & their thoughts on what to do at the tournament The guys introduce the show, making it to Melbourne before the Coronavirus really started impacting. They introduce their drinks, venue and Kaner asks Amby what is game plans are for the PoppyCon tournament. Kaner goes onto give some history lessons about Victoria  (0 mins 10 secs) They give some local history (4 mins) They talk a little Coronavirus (6 mins 30 secs) Kaner discusses his three build England plan for the tournament. Amby asks about the prospects of a four build Russia and getting a bluewater Russian fleet in the Med to take Tunis in 1903. They go on to talk about how face to face games lend themselves more to crazy alliances happening compared to online (8 mins 55 secs) Intervie

The guys talk Corona Virus, Primaries, the new Mongolian Empire variant, current games & much more. Intro and news The guys introduce the show and quickly get into discussions around what's going on in the world (0 mins 10 secs) Amby explains why Hitler had a funny mustache (1 mins 45 secs) They discuss the Super Tuesday primaries and how their presidential campaign is going. Amby explains why they've got such a good chance of winning the election (2 mins 25 secs) They belatedly intro the bar and drinks, before Amby explains his vote winning strategy (4 mins 20 secs) The guys give a hat tip to our latest Patreon - Zachery Moore from the Minnesota Diplomacy Club - who'll be our Secretary of Convoy Operations when we're elected. If you want to contribute and become a Cabinet Secretary when we're elected and get our exclusive extra Patreon episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/DiplomacyGames (9 mins 10 secs) Amby delivers a shit sandwich, advising the Canetoad Classic tournament in Brisbane is being p