It really goes to show how little the first players understood how to play italy and austria in the early stages of the game. The situation for an austrian player was seen as so desperate, and an italian attack was taken so much for granted, that the creator of the game proposes Vie-Tyr and Tri H as opening moves, forgoing galicia, Greece and probably any chance of victory in the first season of the game just to survive as Austria a little longer. It appears to me that no one was even considering that Austria could get 2 builds in 1901, let alone win unless the other players royally messed up. I find it very interesting that, even with these consideration, they didn't change the map to make austria more powerful, which was a good thing since Austria is very powerful, it just needed new players to establish the correct meta to make it a viable country.
Agreed, this is an extremely desperate meta for Austria. And now, of course, we see Austrian players regularly winning games in online play. I would go so far as to say Austria is significantly more powerful than Italy most of the time.
It really goes to show how little the first players understood how to play italy and austria in the early stages of the game. The situation for an austrian player was seen as so desperate, and an italian attack was taken so much for granted, that the creator of the game proposes Vie-Tyr and Tri H as opening moves, forgoing galicia, Greece and probably any chance of victory in the first season of the game just to survive as Austria a little longer. It appears to me that no one was even considering that Austria could get 2 builds in 1901, let alone win unless the other players royally messed up.
I find it very interesting that, even with these consideration, they didn't change the map to make austria more powerful, which was a good thing since Austria is very powerful, it just needed new players to establish the correct meta to make it a viable country.
Agreed, this is an extremely desperate meta for Austria.
And now, of course, we see Austrian players regularly winning games in online play. I would go so far as to say Austria is significantly more powerful than Italy most of the time.
Indeed, strategy...
I learned it from Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War.
is PlayDiplomacy hacked?
Yep. Starting to feel like negligence from them, to be honest.
I just started on there a few days ago.... Havnt played in awhile. Is there any other good option? I dont really like backstabbr