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Complaining about austria not focusing turkey after stabbing them as italy is peak

1:07:33 Meme - "Builds: army Rome... Spring 1907, go!" Ezio - "What?!" this was funny

the english channel subplot was truly riveting. a will-they wont-they story for the ages.

I'm impressed it took until 1908 for him to miss a build

Cap, you silently circling provinces with the cursor was very helpful!

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

I'm glad my inability to sit back and do nothing helped in some way :D

Refusing to believe fleet Adriatic could exist.

The English channel shenanigans was probably the funniest thing I've seen in Diplomacy.

@nether_bat

2 ай бұрын

FLEET MAO TO PORTUGAL FLEET MAO TO PORTUGAL FLEET MAO TO PORTUGAL FLEET MAO TO PORTUGAL FLEET MAO TO PORTUGAL FLEET MAO TO PORTUGAL

@Sock-qv9wr

2 ай бұрын

You can even hear him giggling about it. Iconic.

"See dot, take dot--or it's: hear dot, *NOT SEEING* the dot, _you're feeling the dot."_ Excellent as always lads

As someone who watches a bit of diplomacy but has never actually played, this is incredibly impressive

I’m amazed. Even if it isn’t as hard as it might seem, it’s still incredibly impressive, the sheer game understanding on display is incredible. Great work! Also, this was super fun to watch. The explanations accompanying Ezio’s understanding were great, really helped understand what’s going through his head.

I lost it when he forgot about Greece being empty and then realized the turn after

53:55 Can't really blame Ezio for not seeing Tyrolia to Vienna here, but it wasn't mentioned at the end, and for some reason this made me love the video. He seems a bit down trodden, and yeah he gets pushed back, but this would have lessened the blow significantly. (Not that he needed it, it seems)

I find it oddly amusing how a NC STP Fleet can get bounced/removed by a SC STP Fleet. How? Clearly they put the ships on rails and have them fight on land... just Diplomacy things 🤣

@psmax6801

2 ай бұрын

I think the "realistic" explanation is that when a fleet moves into a coastal province, the ships are docked in a port and the soldiers on board disembark in order to control the province - so when two fleets bounce in NC/SC, the soldiers on both sides go on land, then they run into each other, and then they go back onto their ships. This lines up with one possible explanation of how convoys across multiple fleets work: the army goes onto the ships from the first fleet, the soldiers from the first fleet move onto the second fleet etc... until the soldiers from the last fleet go onto land and turn into an army. But since the game is not super realistic in the first place, your explanation is just as valid!

@nether_bat

2 ай бұрын

@@psmax6801they use long range artillery

43:47 - 43:55 - Ezio nearly losing his marbles from hearing that build 😂

I've been looking for a game where Italy is winning, so yay. He's rly good at doing it blind, tho you hear every units position in every round so it's not as bad as chess. Also I would never survive these videos if it wasn't for the zoom-in feature of youtube.

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

...KZread has a zoom feature? I never knew this!

@deandrew1767

Ай бұрын

​@DiploStrats only on the mobile app as far as I know but it's a blessing for me too when I'm not on a bigger screen

Damn, after that massive world map game as Bornu, this regular diplomacy map feels... naked XD

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

Yeeeeep. When I played my first big variant it took me about 4 years to go back to the standard map again for exactly that reason :D

Pronunciation guide: Silesia: sigh-LEE-zjee-ah zjee as in the Z in seiZure Galicia (from polish): gah-LEETS-yah Galicia (from spanish): gah-LISS-yah Pretty similar overall, the various pronunciations lead to confusion.

Definitely wanna see you give this a try, Cap And make sure: For final orders review read an inactive unit as PROV/UNIT HOLD to at least give a chance of fixing a miss Always start with Navy Always read West To East Should be easier and fairer and could probably crank the difficulty

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

I do think these suggestions would make it more fair, but the idea of this challenge was to make it quite brutal - we only added the final orders review to allow for catching obvious misorders after the test run had a fair few of them, it isn't supposed to give any intel on the actual boardstate. I imagine if I do it, making it easier won't be a great look, so we'll probably keep it as is!

@audiosurfarchive

16 күн бұрын

@@DiploStrats These are ideas for actually playing a LIVE game, Gunboat namely, or Blitz. 😊

This would be fascinating with a full board of humans and press. The players can talk to each other, but might not know where their units actually are, likely winding up gaslighting themselves (and each other) unintentionally. Or intentionally, actually. Could be fun to see someone get stabbed by an ally lying to them about the location of their units.

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

I suspect if there was press, everyone would talk out what happened and figure out the boardstate very quickly - it *could* lead to cool strategies around pretending armies are where they aren't, but I think it probably wouldn't, unfortunately. So if we did do a full board I'd keep it as gunboat (but a full board is an idea I love!)

In Autumn 1905, Italy could have retreated into an Austrian center but didn't. Perhaps the Austrian bot saw this as goodwill, which could explain why Austria moved its units away from Italy in Spring 1906.

What a cool idea! This won me over as a subscriber. Before, i was not sure whether i was only interested in Valefisk Matches being analysed or also other content, but now i can be certain. So entertaining! He did really not look at a board and not write anything down? The madman.

This was very entertaining to watch, I was impressed with how Ezio was able to keep track of where his units were almost perfectly. I would love to see a game with reversed roles!

This was stunningly entertaining. Next, Captain Meme, right? Thanks so much for another superb piece of Diplomacy content.

Meme: "Builds: army Rome." Ezio: "Okay..." Meme: *fighting laugh* "Spring 1907, go!" Ezio: "What?!?" Funniest clip right there

this looks like something Valefisk would do. I love it. Still think one of yall in vale's group would be hilarious

Well played, impressive memory from Ezio.

All four of Galicia (three syllables), Galicia (four syllables), Silesia (three syllables), and Cilicia (four syllables, pronounced the same) exist. The two on the Diplomacy board are Galicia (four) and Silesia (three). Galicia (three) is in Spain, and Cilicia (four) is in Turkey. Good luck remembering that ;)

@josephjagusah8668

16 күн бұрын

Note that there is also a galicia in turkey.

@johnnygillam3975

16 күн бұрын

@@josephjagusah8668 Usually "Galatia", with not quite the same pronunciation, but yes, you're right.

1:57:30 in russian these places are "Галиция" and "Силезия", so i would say Galicia the way you said it here with a "sh", and Silezia with a "z"

Loving the vids lads, keep it up!

A intresting slant on normal dippy, and ... well, just intresting!

As someone with no experience in Diplomacy whatsoever and has not finished the video, Ezio's position looks really good in 06.

Fantastic format, and very impressive!

@DiploStrats

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! -Ezio

Nice idea, thanks a lot RPanda! ❤

Would love to see this tried against other humans, although then you run into having to wait for them to submit their orders. Still could be interesting though.

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

Would require me to actually edit to cut out the dead time... but seems like a video idea worth that :D

In the future if you want to differ between silesia and galicia. For silesia, you can pronounce the "si" like you would in the word silence. Or add a more hybrid z and sh sound to the sia part. For Galicia, if you dont feel like changing silesia, you can pronounce the "ci" with a more sss sound kind of like how you would say yes in Spanish and then the a at the end would just be pronounced the same as before

Very impressive!

It would be a fun variant if all 7 powers were blindfolded like this

This is such a good video idea! Love it!

the lepanto is very good at cracking turkey's defenses, huh?

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

There's a good reason it's a named opening! It's an excellent strategy for that, yes (although as Ezio mentions in the video, it can be painfully slow)

This is really cool! :>

id love a chance to do this type of thing as well. i did it some in chess but never thought to do it in diplomacy. fantastic video

very cool video Idea but I would prefer if you got a third person to relay orders so you and ezio can play the country together and have more banter about the game position. I don't play diplomacy though so that might be too easy.

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

I suspect it's too easy with two strong players talking things through, yeah... Although I'd really love to do something like this where we could banter. I need to come up with some ideas for harder variants of this to counterbalance that, maybe!

Hey new fan of the channel! Do you do fan submitted games, I just finished a beginner level game with my friends and I wanted to see if you'd help us improve with commentary!

@DiploStrats

Ай бұрын

Hey, thanks for watching! You can send games to us at diplostrats@gmail.com, although I can't guarantee that we'll review them just because there are quite a lot in the backlog. But if it ends up being a possibility we will (or we might do a video going through a bunch of games a bit faster in future)

And I thought blindfolded chess was hard!

I don't understand why the double supported Irish Sea to English Channel kept failing; I suppose that there must be some rule that I'm misunderstanding/misremembering, most likely related to the unit in the English Channel being bounced in London. Could someone explain?

@LeeSpork

2 ай бұрын

The supports were being cut by other units trying to attack the supporting units

This was kind of awesome, how did he manage to recall the position of all those units.

Would you be interested in analyzing a game I've been advising a friend of mine in? It's gone utterly wild - I think you'll like it.

@DiploStrats

Ай бұрын

I can't guarantee we'll commentate it - we have quite a lot in the backlog - but if you send the link to diplostrats@gmail.com I'll take a look!

Ezio fiddna lock in--I can't imagine Captain couldn't not abuse his mute button from not laughing so damn much and I'm currently up to Fall 1905 EDIT: wow despite bot mess ups that was super impressive! Well done

The Jeff Key experience

nice

Oh man

4:50 WAIT CAN FLEETS CONVOY WITHOUT EVER TOUCHING SEA? Is convoy kiel to sweden thru DENMARK real???

@entrer1

2 ай бұрын

What convoy are you talking about?

@LeeSpork

2 ай бұрын

The rulebook says "A Fleet in a water province (not a coastal province) can convoy [...]", so no.

You said three times that Finland supported Norway into St Petersburg but it was Norway supporting Finland into St Petersburg.

@DiploStrats

2 ай бұрын

Oops. Well, I'm glad the bots were pretty stalemated up there and it didn't impact much!

I'm confused, England was moving into the channel with 3 fleets and France only had 1 defending, how was it able to hold?

1:22:37 How did Ezio take Budapest if Russia supported it?

@ansyyxux

2 ай бұрын

Bud was moving so the support hold didn't work

@easytiger6570

2 ай бұрын

​@@ansyyxux I see, thought it was supporting Serbia Thanks

Ok now can you pretend you don't know this game and make a 5h long video about it?

Don't worry about ur pronunciation. It's not as noticeable as Karthik's pronunciation of Tyrrhenian Sea! kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z5homsSmlqfUYrg.htmlsi=QRB_wgCDVC05sf5a

For me it's GAI-leash-ee-UH SIGH-LEASE-ee-uh A difference of sh and c sounds Keep in mind I have a Southern Gulf Coastal US Accent

Observing the difference between E and I is most important, and "yod coalescence" should either affect both words or not: SIL*E*SIA /sɪl*ˈiː*ʒə/ ʒə ~ zjə GAL*I*CIA /gəl*ˈɪ*ʃə/ ʃə ~ sjə.