Diplomacy Games

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