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15:15
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@Undo Autumn retreats and winter builds; spring orders and retreats coming right up
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This is such an awesome game
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The end game is so different from the early and mid game, too
Air
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15:34
Here's the end state from Game I, for comparison:
Oct 27 '15 at 0:25, by Emrakul
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I don't recall what year that was in the game but I am amused to see that it has been nearly 9 months since then.
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16:28
Oh man, nine months?
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Jeez.
Air
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20:10
You could almost imagine that the situation at the end of Game I led improbably to the current situation in Game II, except for England still having a unit
very improbably
 
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user61230
23:25
The look real similar, actually, you're totally right.
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I wonder if there's a pattern there in how Diplomacy games break down.
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I mean, there's definitely a choke point between France and Germany, and another one between Austria and Italy.
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A Lepanto is common enough that - maybe - we can explain why the border between Italy and Austria goes largely untouched.
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Which means that the most probable dynamics at the start of the game seem like they're between (Turkey, Austria, Germany, and Russia) as well as (Italy, France, England, and Germany)
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On the East, one country ends up taking the North, including Germany - either leftwards or rightwards - and the other ends up taking the South, either Austria or Turkey.
user61230
23:27
So I wonder if the game state passing through one of these three-positioned splits is actually not only common, but probable.

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