I already wrote about the variants I would prefer (depending on player number) here: https://phuks.co/s/Diplomacy/11297
I'd be willing to GM next. Whether as a dedicated GM, or as a GM-player, would depend on the final number of players who want a re-match, and what variant they'd prefer.
One change I would do is week-long turns. The 2-3 days per turn felt a bit rushed, especially with players who didn't respond right away and/or had to be caught in IRC to squeeze a reply out of them.
I'm setting myself up as tie breaker and also voting for 7 Islands so we can move on.
I will later use an online dice roller to decide who gets which country. It is the Metstubchen roller with the code "FD2-2017", directly linked here. I'm giving the link out a few hours before I roll so that you can see I am not switching to a different code if I don't like the result.
Order of players, each assigned to a result on the D7 (I will later use a successively smaller die and collapse as countries are assigned):
Countries will be given out in alphabetical order:
I also support not supporting PMYA's idea, which was originally a support of my idea supporting playing different nations.
Those responsible for the original supporting have been sacked.
Too bad, it would be nice if we had some more players available. C'est la vie.
The Zeus maps' top-down view is rough for me to come to grips with. Of the ones presented, my vote is therefore for 7 Islands even though I'm dubious about its balance. I assume the rules are otherwise the same, except with the SC count being raised to 41 from 34, that 21 SCs are now required for the win?
21 SCs to win and otherwise no rules changes is correct.
OK, we are now at 6-7 players, and I don't think it will get any better.
That gives us room for the following variants:
I'd prefer to run one of the 7 players variants as-is, rather than to hack up a variant to accomodate 6.
Please vote for your preferred variant.
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