This summary of the rules for the basic game is adapted from “Teaching Diplomacy: A 5 Minute Teaching Guide” by Edi Birsan. It covers almost all of the principles of the game. You probably have questions, the entire rulebook is on-line and there are several Quick Guides in the Forum which go over the commonest trouble spots. 1. Seven gamers symbolize the foremost powers of pre-WWI Europe: Austria (red), England (orange), France (darkish blue), Germany (beige), Italy (inexperienced), Russia (purple), and Turkey (gentle blue). 2. The map is divided into named “provinces”. There are three sorts of provinces: inland, coastal and water. 3. There are two varieties of items, “armies” and “fleets”. Armies can move (or retreat) to inland and coastal provinces, fleets to coastal and water provinces. 4. Just one unit will be in a province at a time. 6. Units mix their drive with “support” orders. In conflicts, the unit with the most combined power wins. 7. There are 34 “supply centers” (provinces marked with stars).

Powers begin with three or 4 provide centers, their “home centers”. 8. To win, a power must control 18 provide centers. If all the gamers nonetheless in the game agree, a game can finish with survivors sharing equally in a draw. 9. Each “game-year” proceeds by means of five phases: Spring Orders & Retreats and Fall Orders, Retreats, & Builds. Retreats and builds phases are skipped if no participant has orders to be made. The game starts with Spring 1901 Orders and ends when there is a winner or a draw is declared. 10. Players talk 1-on-1 or in teams utilizing the messaging methods throughout any phase of the game. 11. Orders are entered secretly for each section and revealed and resolved for all of the powers simultaneously at the tip of the part. 12. Chances are you’ll give orders to your entire units. Move to an adjoining province. Armies in a coastal province may transfer to a non-adjacent coastal province if convoyed.

Fleets in a coastal province could only transfer to provinces adjoining to the coastline. Support. A unit holds, including its drive to a different unit. A unit can solely support an motion in an adjacent province to which it may have moved. Convoy. A fleet in a water province holds, convoying an army. Convoys may be by one or a series of fleets. The first fleet must be adjoining the moving army, each fleet in the chain have to be adjacent the prior, and the last fleet should be adjoining the vacation spot. 13. Chances are you’ll support and convoy another powers items. 14. A unit ordered to maneuver cannot be supported to carry. A unit ordered to carry, assist, or convoy could also be supported to carry. 15. If models of equal pressure transfer to the identical province, they “bounce” and neither advances. If one of the items has better force, it advances. 16. Units ordered to one another’s province with equal power bounce and don’t change places (except one is being convoyed.) Three (or more) models can rotate positions.

17. A unit with a move order that’s bounced retains a force of 1 to defend towards an assault in the province where it began the phase. 18. A unit can solely be forced out of its province (“dislodged”) with larger pressure than the unit plus all of its assist to hold. For example, a unit transferring with two supports versus a unit holding with one help, a pressure of 3 vs. 2, dislodges the holding unit. 19. Support is “cut” if the supporting unit is attacked from any province except the one where help is being given. Cut help shouldn’t be added to the pressure of one other unit. 20. Dislodged items haven’t any impact on the province the place the unit dislodged it got here from. Support orders from dislodged models are all the time lower. 21. A dislodged unit can nonetheless lower help or cause a bounce in a special province from the one the place the unit that dislodged it got here from.