Combat Mission: DIPLOMACY

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Been dabbling with this for a while ... spent some time working on this map and also with all the reading about WW1 I've been doing lately, I thought I'd have a bash at designing a campaign fusing the board game DIPLOMACY and Domination and CM into a mega-campaign for the control of EUROPE.

Would there be any interest in this?

Two player teams like in CM:Risk (nationalities of CM forces will be assigned by random -- except for Germany and Britain) ... battles all executed as CMBN/CMFI quick-battles (parameters will be set up in the rules) ... naval and strategic warfare abstracted. (naval warfare, submarine warfare and strategic air may be included)

Behind the scenes diplomacy, alliances and back-stabbing will be key ... each country/empire will have different production & resource capacities.
It'll work similar to Risk, in that teams and players will have time to sort out their diplomacy/alliances ... then build and move armies/fleets, base strategic warfare assets and order attacks all at the same time - the GM will then process these and all battles will be played out as medium CM QB's on medium maps. (maps will pre-assigned to each territory -- details to be still worked out.

Here's a sample teaser map ... British & German navies clashing in North Sea ... France has occupied Belgium, while Italy and Germany have allied against France and are invading ... the Italian & French Med Fleets are fighting for control of Gulf of Lyon.
Austria-Hungary is undecided and keeping out of it ... Turkey decides to make a grab for Bulgaria -- Russia is mobilising to counter this advance...

europa-DIPLOMACY-tease.jpg~original


I have added in naval bases (naval warfare and control of seas will be key to launch amphibious invasions)
-- capitals are in place ... still need to add each country's secondary cities and main industrial area like the Ruhr. Also, some territories will get terrain -- such as Mountain/Forest etc.

If there is enough interest in this ... I can keep developing this further (it would only go into action if I am sure I have enough time) ... making the battles QB's will save a lot of time.
 
Sounds like Fun to me - I would be happy to be involved...
 
Rico said:
Been dabbling with this for a while ... spent some time working on this map and also with all the reading about WW1 I've been doing lately, I thought I'd have a bash at designing a campaign fusing the board game DIPLOMACY and Domination and CM into a mega-campaign for the control of EUROPE.

Would there be any interest in this?
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Of course I'm interested.

But asking this question here is very much like asking a drug addict "Would you like some more <insert favourite drug here>?". ;)

Maybe we should wait until at least Rikonovo has been finished, otherwise we might face overload. But in the grand scheme of things this should be brilliant, especially since it fuses all the WW2 CMx2 titles in one narrative / context.

So definitely a YES, but maybe take your time, there's no rush.
 
Mad Mike said:
Of course I'm interested.

But asking this question here is very much like asking a drug addict "Would you like some more <insert favourite drug here>?". ;)

Maybe we should wait until at least Rikonovo has been finished, otherwise we might face overload. But in the grand scheme of things this should be brilliant, especially since it fuses all the WW2 CMx2 titles in one narrative / context.

So definitely a YES, but maybe take your time, there's no rush.
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I agree -- need to wrap some other stuff first ... I am looking at a slow development ... with some testing and proper preparation... just gauging interest to see if it'll be worth it to put more effort into it.

The base layer of this map could also be used for a new quick-moving old-style DOMINATION: Europa 44 ... if Diplomacy idea doesn't take off. :)
 
LOL I had a similiar idea based on the Axis and Allies board game. But the was a to big of a project :(
 
Love the look of this. Count me in if you need any more players
 
Been doing a bit more refining on this ... balancing act between simplicity and flavour ... been doing some hypothetical test-games to see if the maths behind the production points, supply and unit purchase costs.... etc etc..

Two sneak preview screenshots...

Britain dominating the north and the high seas ... having invaded Scandinavia and eliminated or neutralised the French and German fleets.
The Royal Navy massing in the Skaggerak in preparation for a British invasion of Denmark?
Somehow Belgian and Dutch neutralist has been respected -- no idea how ;)

europa-diplomacy-tease2.jpg~original


Meanwhile the Italy and Turkey alliance manage to dominate the eastern Med, capture Egypt and the Suez canal ... and looks like the Italians have evil designs on Malta.

europa-diplomacy-tease3.jpg~original


Work in progress ...
 
Alright. Well here is the map I want to use for the CMx2 Axis and Allies game. Still need to work out any details :)

Map made by @RichtigDG_Map_AA_zpsa46c3990.png

EDIT: this will be a future project so I'll leave it to this for now in this topic.
 
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