Hi, I'm the French player in this game, and the reason why there's a blurb right at the start of the video about not playing on your phone. DO NOT PLAY ON YOUR PHONE I did so thinking it'd be a great way to kill time on a long commute (train). It was actually fine up until right around 03, at that point I was having to change orders on the fly and I couldn't see both press and the board at the same time. After the NMR I was basically guessing what people were doing, putting in an order set, and praying the press went the way I wanted. There was a bit in I want to say 05-06 that I thought I had NMRed again since I went through a tunnel, but in hindsight autosave did work there and I ended up getting everything else in. As for the actual game: When I saw France my heart sank, I wanted to be one of Italy - Austria and basically wanted to be anyone besides France otherwise. From my perspective I had an immediately hostile England, and once the bounce in Burgundy happened they basically went silent, and were so for the rest of the game despite a few attempts to talk. So I basically had to gamble on Germany otherwise I was dead no matter how well I defended. I knew Russia was hostile to Germany, and I knew they were in Norway (I suggested that move), so in my view my best continuation was rushing for London Liverpool and praying I could go for something greedy against Italy because I had no shot at breaking past Burgundy. Also a quick correction, I was going to self-bounce Burgundy so Germany would have to risk Belgium by not doing what I wanted, they asked to instead bounce with me. You can see this from my press with Germany at 9:37. I will say it's hilarious that I got saved from an earlier German attack by simply not seeing that I had got stabbed. Makes it even funnier in my view. I think had I not walked out of Burgundy, I would have done worse playing on my computer than my phone here. Of course that got punished really badly in 04. I was talking with Austria and Turkey and they both wanted me against Italy, and I was like sure, I can move one army down to scare them a bit. Then I got stabbed like that, and in hindsight it's deserved. My continuation from there was "okay, I'll defend against Germany." And because I spent too long debating whether to move Marseilles to Gascony or Burgundy, I then NMR. I don't know if it's an issue on mobile or not, or if it was because I kept changing around my orders, or if it was an issue with my connection. But whatever way in hindsight my orders were just bad, and the NMR was actually better for me, as otherwise I would not have survived. From there it was just playing Italy and Germany off each other. Notably the Brest thing - in my mind, Germany sees that Brace in Brest-Gascony, and gambles on the non-guaranteed move. And I knew from the start that Gascony was getting cut and so the Brace wouldn't work anyways. And then I was like "oh moving to Helgoland is funny" and lost London for it. I asked to keep it at the very end since I knew that Germany wasn't going to Spain and Italy was covering Spain, but once I didn't see a bounce in Helgoland I knew exactly how I'd end up. I thought it was worth a shot trying to muddy the waters near the end, but when I said that I expected to be on 3, that was me telling Germany I knew Portugal was moving to Spain. All in all a very fun game, I was proud that I made it work given that I was on my phone, Blitz makes you think really fast, and I am very, very bad at that, but hopefully getting better! I'd like to think I did well by my metric, that being making things interesting. I'm still decently new, I played a bit four years ago, but I only really started playing when this channel popped into my recommended videos on my old account. Thanks to CaptainMeme for hosting and everyone else who joined the game, you turned a drab train home after a stressful day into a really fun Friday afternoon!
I was Italy in this game. For anyone wondering about the opening, it’s called the hedgehog scuttle. I first used it in the 2nd diplostrats gauntlet after Jamal Blakkarly proposed it, but only after the tournament did Jamal talk to Andrew Goff, who named it the hedgehog scuttle. I quite enjoyed both the move and the name so I figured I’d try it out again in blitz and it worked brilliantly. I do agree that it’s not generally a good idea for an Austria without knowing a lot about the board, but for an Italy, it severely handicaps any attack coming from Austria and still gets you a fourth center and an early alliance. So I was quite happy as Italy when Austria agreed to it.
I was Turkey, let’s see how bad this goes PLEASE DO NOT PLAY DIPLO ON YOUR PHONE I spent the entire first two years trying to stop the lepanto happing via press, and it turns out that everyone around there did not care, even to the point where Italy could have gotten closer to the win if they kept me alive as they lost a center from Russia after supporting me in. I now also feel really bad messaging meme during my cry for help as it just looks chaotic for him ;(
The speeding up of the video makes it seem worse than it was, haha - it's never a bad thing to send a message, if I didn't have time I'd have left it on read until I did!
We couldn't do a joint recording this weekend because the time when we're both awake overlaps exactly with the time everyone is setting fireworks off :D
Heya Cap: hope you're well and enjoying the new place. However: any chance of the Memorial DiploStrats™ DiploSiren® as either a channel member icon, or something of the such?
@@DiploStrats I screenCAPped this so I'll hold it to ya. Hehehe And don't fall into the trap of overthinking monetization aspects as a young channel, just giving some nice flair, early vid releases and like a sort updates is normally than enough for folks.. as the people who wanna throw you some bucks do it for what you already provide, not what's contingent on their additional money's worth.
Absolutely, and I think that might actually be a great continuation! I'm not 100% sure because it does mean the second Italian fleet has to go west to pick up Tunis, which isn't ideal versus Turkey, but locking up the Balkans a bit more feels like a good tradeoff for that.
@@optopesi2156Please just stop, this is a strategy game focused channel, of dudes most likely in their mid 30s+ and a demographic probably older IS NOT GONNA DO THAT. A suggestion of something like Werewolf/Epic Mafia using Discord members; co-op campaign of Shogun 2 Total War Fall Of The Samurai; a play by post version of something like RimWorld where everyone plays the colony for an in game year before passing it; Factorio is the closest to a survival/crafting game that's reasonably in the demographic for this channel. _If all you're gonna contribute is this over and over again, and just wanna watch some dudes who most likely either haven't, or have very little interest, in Minecraft.. just go look up the Old People Play Vidya type click bait videos._ I don't even know if you're actually watching these given you leave nothing else than literally, literally a copy and pasted plea for something that has no basis in optics, appeal or likelihood of success for a niche channel. This isn't friggin, 2012/2013 when everyone and their mum was playing Minecraft InfDev, or when 1.0 finally came out--its so saturated that it's a massive waste of time that 90%+ of the channel sub base will at best just not watch it, and at worst think Cap and Ezio are viewbaiting, giving plenty of reasons to rightly think that what makes this channel unique, would be gone. In short: can you suggest literally anything else, or engage about the game? What did you think about the German-Italy ending of this game for example?
Hi, I'm the French player in this game, and the reason why there's a blurb right at the start of the video about not playing on your phone.
DO NOT PLAY ON YOUR PHONE
I did so thinking it'd be a great way to kill time on a long commute (train). It was actually fine up until right around 03, at that point I was having to change orders on the fly and I couldn't see both press and the board at the same time. After the NMR I was basically guessing what people were doing, putting in an order set, and praying the press went the way I wanted. There was a bit in I want to say 05-06 that I thought I had NMRed again since I went through a tunnel, but in hindsight autosave did work there and I ended up getting everything else in.
As for the actual game:
When I saw France my heart sank, I wanted to be one of Italy - Austria and basically wanted to be anyone besides France otherwise.
From my perspective I had an immediately hostile England, and once the bounce in Burgundy happened they basically went silent, and were so for the rest of the game despite a few attempts to talk. So I basically had to gamble on Germany otherwise I was dead no matter how well I defended. I knew Russia was hostile to Germany, and I knew they were in Norway (I suggested that move), so in my view my best continuation was rushing for London Liverpool and praying I could go for something greedy against Italy because I had no shot at breaking past Burgundy. Also a quick correction, I was going to self-bounce Burgundy so Germany would have to risk Belgium by not doing what I wanted, they asked to instead bounce with me. You can see this from my press with Germany at 9:37.
I will say it's hilarious that I got saved from an earlier German attack by simply not seeing that I had got stabbed. Makes it even funnier in my view. I think had I not walked out of Burgundy, I would have done worse playing on my computer than my phone here.
Of course that got punished really badly in 04. I was talking with Austria and Turkey and they both wanted me against Italy, and I was like sure, I can move one army down to scare them a bit. Then I got stabbed like that, and in hindsight it's deserved.
My continuation from there was "okay, I'll defend against Germany." And because I spent too long debating whether to move Marseilles to Gascony or Burgundy, I then NMR. I don't know if it's an issue on mobile or not, or if it was because I kept changing around my orders, or if it was an issue with my connection. But whatever way in hindsight my orders were just bad, and the NMR was actually better for me, as otherwise I would not have survived.
From there it was just playing Italy and Germany off each other. Notably the Brest thing - in my mind, Germany sees that Brace in Brest-Gascony, and gambles on the non-guaranteed move. And I knew from the start that Gascony was getting cut and so the Brace wouldn't work anyways.
And then I was like "oh moving to Helgoland is funny" and lost London for it. I asked to keep it at the very end since I knew that Germany wasn't going to Spain and Italy was covering Spain, but once I didn't see a bounce in Helgoland I knew exactly how I'd end up.
I thought it was worth a shot trying to muddy the waters near the end, but when I said that I expected to be on 3, that was me telling Germany I knew Portugal was moving to Spain.
All in all a very fun game, I was proud that I made it work given that I was on my phone, Blitz makes you think really fast, and I am very, very bad at that, but hopefully getting better! I'd like to think I did well by my metric, that being making things interesting. I'm still decently new, I played a bit four years ago, but I only really started playing when this channel popped into my recommended videos on my old account.
Thanks to CaptainMeme for hosting and everyone else who joined the game, you turned a drab train home after a stressful day into a really fun Friday afternoon!
I was Italy in this game. For anyone wondering about the opening, it’s called the hedgehog scuttle. I first used it in the 2nd diplostrats gauntlet after Jamal Blakkarly proposed it, but only after the tournament did Jamal talk to Andrew Goff, who named it the hedgehog scuttle. I quite enjoyed both the move and the name so I figured I’d try it out again in blitz and it worked brilliantly. I do agree that it’s not generally a good idea for an Austria without knowing a lot about the board, but for an Italy, it severely handicaps any attack coming from Austria and still gets you a fourth center and an early alliance. So I was quite happy as Italy when Austria agreed to it.
You keep getting away with it? D:
I was Turkey, let’s see how bad this goes
PLEASE DO NOT PLAY DIPLO ON YOUR PHONE
I spent the entire first two years trying to stop the lepanto happing via press, and it turns out that everyone around there did not care, even to the point where Italy could have gotten closer to the win if they kept me alive as they lost a center from Russia after supporting me in.
I now also feel really bad messaging meme during my cry for help as it just looks chaotic for him ;(
The speeding up of the video makes it seem worse than it was, haha - it's never a bad thing to send a message, if I didn't have time I'd have left it on read until I did!
It took me 10minutes to realise Ezio isnt here. :x
"dude, let your co commentator get a word in shesh."
yeah, my bad.
We couldn't do a joint recording this weekend because the time when we're both awake overlaps exactly with the time everyone is setting fireworks off :D
14:40 I like how you change your mind on the message you want to send. Avoided an international incident there.
I'm not sure if you see the same view as we do when recording the video, but you can see the SC counts of each power below the map!
...I'm apparently blind
I just never looked there!
I SAW THAT, FILTHY FILTHY DESKTOP 47:07
_CLEAN YOUR ROOM CAP, OR YOU DON'T GET TO FACEROLL AS FRANCE_
I only ever use the search bar to open stuff, my desktop is purely there as engagement bait :p
@@DiploStrats "engagement bait"
Ssssssssure, I definitely believe you on this basis
Heya Cap: hope you're well and enjoying the new place. However: any chance of the Memorial DiploStrats™ DiploSiren® as either a channel member icon, or something of the such?
Channel member icon is a very good call, but that's not something I want to set up yet - if/when we do I'll use a siren icon!
@@DiploStrats I screenCAPped this so I'll hold it to ya. Hehehe
And don't fall into the trap of overthinking monetization aspects as a young channel, just giving some nice flair, early vid releases and like a sort updates is normally than enough for folks.. as the people who wanna throw you some bucks do it for what you already provide, not what's contingent on their additional money's worth.
About F01 Greece with that opening, could Austria support Italy into Greece?
Absolutely, and I think that might actually be a great continuation! I'm not 100% sure because it does mean the second Italian fleet has to go west to pick up Tunis, which isn't ideal versus Turkey, but locking up the Balkans a bit more feels like a good tradeoff for that.
vidoe idea meme and ezio minecarft lets play
@@optopesi2156Please just stop, this is a strategy game focused channel, of dudes most likely in their mid 30s+ and a demographic probably older IS NOT GONNA DO THAT.
A suggestion of something like Werewolf/Epic Mafia using Discord members; co-op campaign of Shogun 2 Total War Fall Of The Samurai; a play by post version of something like RimWorld where everyone plays the colony for an in game year before passing it; Factorio is the closest to a survival/crafting game that's reasonably in the demographic for this channel.
_If all you're gonna contribute is this over and over again, and just wanna watch some dudes who most likely either haven't, or have very little interest, in Minecraft.. just go look up the Old People Play Vidya type click bait videos._
I don't even know if you're actually watching these given you leave nothing else than literally, literally a copy and pasted plea for something that has no basis in optics, appeal or likelihood of success for a niche channel.
This isn't friggin, 2012/2013 when everyone and their mum was playing Minecraft InfDev, or when 1.0 finally came out--its so saturated that it's a massive waste of time that 90%+ of the channel sub base will at best just not watch it, and at worst think Cap and Ezio are viewbaiting, giving plenty of reasons to rightly think that what makes this channel unique, would be gone.
In short: can you suggest literally anything else, or engage about the game? What did you think about the German-Italy ending of this game for example?
What website was this played on?
Web diplomacy
Well won. Blitz can be hard.