Original Creator

Fred Hyatt. Follow THIS LINK to read an article by the late Gene Prosnitz.

Latest update to this page: July 25, 2004 (added links to sample games).

Sample Games

(Sometimes I feel like) Fletcher Christian (a completed game, run in The Abyssinian Prince)
Harem Scarem, a game with 3 players, each playing 3 powers, run to help me get the GMing of this monster under control.
A Merry Mixup, which ran in The Abyssinian Prince, In a little subzine I call Hoi Polloi.

Basic Rules

The basic operating rules are the same as those in the Diplomacy rulebook, with the exception of the variant rules listed below. The game is played on a large map, encompassing the entire world.

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Printable version 1, a blank map as a PowerPoint file.

Printable version 2, a PDF file. This has the starting positions and build centres shaded.

Another blank map, this one in PDF format.

A larger blank map, in PDF format, set to print on 2x2 pages. This should help with some of the harder-to-read province abbreviations.

Here is a list of allowed moves (for use in a Judge, for example). Added March 31, 2005.

Here is a CSV list of the regions and abbreviations. Added NEW March 31, 2005

Comments, errata, etc., contact me.

My home page, which is a collection of Bad Pets lists and assorted humour can be reached by clicking on the link.

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Opening Positions

The powers and their opening positions differ from the standard, as one would expect. They are as follows (Colonies are in italics):

Austria: A Vienna, A Budapest, F Trieste, A Surinam, F Tahiti.

China: A Peking, A Xian, A Wuhan, F Amoy.

England: F Edinburgh, F London, A Ecuador, A Nigeria, F Malaya.

France: A Paris, A Bordeaux, F Toulon, A Dakar, A Quebec.

Netherlands: A Antwerp, F Hague, A Florida, A Angola, F Melbourne.

Ottoman: A Izmir, A Jerusalem, A Baghdad, F Istanbul, F Hawaii.

Portugal: A Lagos, F Lisbon, A Alaska, A Brazil, A Goa.

Russia: A Moscow, A Omsk, A Kiev, F St. Petersburg (SC), F Vladivostok, A Cape Colony.

Spain: A Madrid, F Valencia, A Mexico, A Somalia, F Manila.

The game starts in Spring 1750 (A change from Spring 1751 which I'd had before -- May 11, 2003).

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Variant Rules

1. Note that the provinces on the eastern edges of the map are the same as those on the western edge. Thus, a fleet could move from Bismarck Sea to South Pacific Ocean to Peru, and vice versa.

2. Those islands that are marked as "neutral supply centres", as well as Island Colonies, may be occupied by an army. An Army dislodged from an island centre may retreat to another island or a mainland province by convoy, provided that there is a Fleet available to make the convoy and that the convoy does not exceed one sea-space. The retreating army and the convoying fleet must be of the same nationality. This rule applies ONLY to Armies dislodged from island centres. For the purposes of this rule, England and Australia are not considered islands.

3. There are certain supply centres that are colonies. Colonies are building centres for whichever Power owns them. For instance, if Ecuador (originally English) is captured by Austria, then next Fall, Austria can build a unit there. They start under the control of the Power with a starting unit placed there. The colonies are: Alaska, Quebec, Florida, Mexico, Ecuador, Surinam, Brazil, Dakar, Nigeria, Angola, Cape Colony, Somalia, Goa, Malaya, Manila, Hawaii, Melbourne, and Tahiti.

4. There are three special supply centres that may be used for building purposes by specified Powers. The centres and Powers are:
Crimea: Russia and Ottoman
Naples: Spain and Austria
Nanking: China
The centres may be used for building only after being occupied. For all other Powers, these centres function as neutral supply centres.

5. The Arctic Ocean and the continent of Antarctica are impassible.

6. The arctic coast of Siberia is passable to Fleets. That is, the moves F Siberia -> Ural and F Ural -> Siberia are legal.

7. A victory shall consist of ownership of 50 Supply Centres or by concession vote. In order for a concession proposal to be approved, the proposal must carry a three-fourths (3/4 or 75%) majority of all Supply Centres, excluding any that are neutral or owned by a power in Civil Disorder. Thus, with all supply centres occupied, Powers controlling 102 centres can end the game by voting to do so.

8. Several land areas have two coasts. The complete list is as follows:

1. East and West coasts: Arabia, Hanover, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Papal States, Siam, Yorkshire
2. North and South coasts: Finland, St Petersburg, Suez
3. Other combinations: Bulgaria (east, south), Colombia (north, west), Egypt (east, north)

Fleets moving from Naples to Papal States, Yemen to Arabia, Malaya to Siam, Istanbul to Bulgaria, Denmark to Hanover, London to Yorkshire or Edinburgh to Yorkshire must specify to which coast! To be technically correct, one should always specify to which coast of a multi-coast area one is moving a fleet.

9. Denmark, Sweden and Istanbul have only one coast, as in the regular Diplomacy. However, Black Sea is not directly connected to Eastern Mediterranean Sea, nor is Helgoland Bight directly connected to Baltic Sea.

Names and Abbreviations of Areas in Colonia VII-B

Name	Abbrev	Continent	Is a SC?	Original Owner
Adriatic Sea	ADR	Sea	No	.
Afghanistan	AFG	Asia	Yes	.
Alaska	ALA	North America	Yes	Portugal
Algeria	ALG	Africa	No	.
Amazon	AMA	South America	No	.
Amoy	AMO	Asia	Yes	China
Andaman Sea	AND	Sea	No	.
Angola	ANG	Africa	Yes	Netherlands
Antarctic Ocean	ANO	Sea	No	.
Antwerp	ANT	Europe	Yes	Netherlands
Arabia	ARA	Asia	No	.
Arabian Sea	ARS	Sea	No	.
Arafura Sea	AFS	Sea	No	.
Aragon	AGN	Europe	No	.
Argentina	ARG	South America	Yes	.
Armenia	ARM	Asia	No	.
Ashanti	ASH	Africa	No	.
Azores	AZO	Asia	Yes	.
Baghdad	BAG	Asia	Yes	Ottoman
Bahia	BAH	South America	Yes	.
Baltic Sea	BAL	Sea	No	.
Barents Sea	BAR	Sea	No	.
Bavaria	BAV	Europe	Yes	.
Bay of Bengal	BBG	Sea	No	.
Bay of Biscay	BBI	Sea	No	.
Belem	BEL	South America	Yes	.
Bengal	BEN	Asia	Yes	.
Benin	BNN	Africa	No	.
Bering Strait	BER	Sea	No	.
Bhutan	BHU	Asia	No	.
Bismarck Sea	BIS	Sea	No	.
Black Sea	BLA	Sea	No	.
Bolivia	BOL	South America	Yes	.
Bordeaux	BDX	Europe	Yes	France
Borneo	BOR	Asia	Yes	.
Bosnia	BOS	Europe	No	.
Brazil	BRA	South America	Yes	Portugal
Brittany	BRI	Europe	No	.
Budapest	BUD	Europe	Yes	Austria
Bulgaria	BUL	Europe	Yes	.
Burgundy	BUR	Europe	No	.
Burma	BMA	Asia	Yes	.
California	CAL	North America	Yes	.
Cambodia	CAM	Asia	Yes	.
Canaries	CAN	Sea	No	.
Cape Colony	CAP	Africa	Yes	Russia
Caribbean Sea	CAR	Sea	No	.
Caucasus	CAU	Asia	No	.
Central Atlantic Ocean	CAO	Sea	No	.
Central Pacific Ocean	CPO	Sea	No	.
Ceylon	CEY	Asia	Yes	.
Chile	CHI	South America	No	.
Chinghai	CHG	Asia	No	.
Circars	CIR	Asia	No	.
Colombia	COL	South America	Yes	.
Congo	CON	Africa	Yes	.
Coral Sea	COR	Sea	No	.
Crimea	CRI	Europe	Yes	.
Cuba	CUB	North America	Yes	.
Dakar	DAK	Africa	Yes	France
Denmark	DEN	Europe	Yes	.
Diego Garcia	DIE	Asia	Yes	.
East Atlantic Ocean	EAO	Sea	No	.
East China Sea	ECS	Sea	No	.
East Indian Ocean	EIO	Sea	No	.
East Mediterranean Sea	EMS	Sea	No	.
East Pacific Ocean	EPO	Sea	No	.
Ecuador	ECU	South America	Yes	England
Edinburgh	EDI	Europe	Yes	England
Egypt	EGY	Africa	Yes	.
English Channel	ENG	Sea	No	.
Ethiopia	ETH	Africa	Yes	.
Fezan	FEZ	Africa	Yes	.
Fiji	FIJ	Oceania	Yes	.
Finland	FIN	Europe	No	.
Flanders	FND	Europe	No	.
Florida	FLO	North America	Yes	Netherlands
Gabon	GAB	Africa	Yes	.
Galicia	GAL	Europe	No	.
Ghana	GHA	Africa	Yes	.
Gibraltar	GIB	Sea	No	.
Goa	GOA	Asia	Yes	Portugal
Gobi Desert	GOB	Asia	No	.
Grand Banks	GRA	Sea	No	.
Greece	GRE	Europe	Yes	.
Guam	GUA	Oceania	Yes	.
Gulf of Aden	GAD	Sea	No	.
Gulf of Alaska	GAA	Sea	No	.
Gulf of Calilfornia	GCA	Sea	No	.
Gulf of Guinea	GGU	Sea	No	.
Gulf of Mexico	GME	Sea	No	.
Gulf of Panama	GPA	Sea	No	.
Gulf of Siam	GSI	Sea	No	.
Hague	HAG	Europe	Yes	Netherlands
Hanover	HAN	Europe	Yes	.
Hawaii	HAW	North America	Yes	Ottoman
Helgoland Bight	HEL	Sea	No	.
Hesse	HES	Europe	No	.
Honduras	HON	North America	Yes	.
Hudson Bay	HUD	Sea	No	.
Huelvas	HUE	Europe	No	.
Ifni	IFN	Africa	Yes	.
Ionian Sea	ION	Sea	No	.
Ireland	IRE	Europe	Yes	.
Irish Sea	IRI	Sea	No	.
Istanbul	IST	Asia	Yes	Ottoman
Iwo Jima	IWO	Oceania	Yes	.
Izmir	IZM	Asia	Yes	Ottoman
Japan	JAP	Asia	Yes	.
Java	JAV	Asia	Yes	.
Jehol	JEH	Asia	No	.
Jerusalem	JEM	Asia	Yes	Ottoman
Kalahari	KAL	Africa	No	.
Kamerun	KAM	Africa	Yes	.
Kashmir	KAS	Asia	No	.
Katanga	KAT	Africa	No	.
Kazakhstan	KAZ	Asia	No	.
Kenya	KEN	Africa	Yes	.
Khandesh	KHA	Asia	Yes	.
Kiev	KIE	Europe	Yes	Russia
Korea	KOR	Asia	Yes	.
Kwangtung	KWA	Asia	No	.
Lagos	LAG	Europe	Yes	Portugal
Laos	LAO	Asia	No	.
Leon	LEO	Europe	No	.
Libya	LIB	Africa	No	.
Ligurian Sea	LIG	Sea	No	.
Lisbon	LIS	Europe	Yes	Portugal
Lithuania	LIT	Europe	No	.
London	LON	Europe	Yes	England
Louisiana	LOU	North America	Yes	.
Madrid	MAD	Europe	Yes	Spain
Mahratta	MAH	Asia	Yes	.
Malagasy	MAL	Africa	Yes	.
Malay Sea	MLS	Sea	No	.
Malaya	MLA	Asia	Yes	England
Manaus	MNS	South America	No	.
Manchuria	MAN	Asia	Yes	.
Manila	MNL	Asia	Yes	Spain
Manitoba	MBA	North America	Yes	.
Massachusetts	MAS	North America	Yes	.
Matto Grosso	MAT	South America	No	.
Melbourne	MEL	Australia	Yes	Netherlands
Mexico	MEX	North America	Yes	Spain
Mid-Atlantic Ocean	MAO	Sea	No	.
Missouri	MIS	North America	No	.
Mongolia	MON	Asia	Yes	.
Morocco	MOR	Africa	Yes	.
Moscow	MOS	Europe	Yes	Russia
Mozambique	MOZ	Africa	Yes	.
Nanking	NAN	Asia	Yes	.
Naples	NAP	Europe	Yes	.
Natal	NAT	Africa	Yes	.
Nepal	NEP	Asia	Yes	.
New Guinea	NWG	Asia	Yes	.
New Zealand	NWZ	Australia	Yes	.
Nigeria	NIG	Africa	Yes	England
Nizam	NIZ	Asia	Yes	.
North Atlantic Ocean	NAO	Sea	No	.
North Pacific Ocean	NPO	Sea	No	.
North Sea	NTH	Sea	No	.
Norway	NOR	Europe	Yes	.
Norwegian Sea	NWG	Sea	No	.
Nubia	NUB	Africa	No	.
Numidia	NUM	Africa	Yes	.
Ohio	OHI	North America	Yes	.
Omsk	OMS	Asia	Yes	Russia
Ontario	ONT	North America	Yes	.
Oregon	ORE	North America	Yes	.
Panama	PAN	North America	No	.
Papal States	PPS	Europe	Yes	.
Paraguay	PGY	South America	No	.
Paris	PAR	Europe	Yes	France
Patagonia	PAT	South America	No	.
Peking	PEK	Asia	Yes	China
Persia	PER	Asia	Yes	.
Persian Gulf	PNG	Sea	No	.
Peru	PRU	South America	Yes	.
Philippine Sea	PHI	Sea	No	.
Poland	POL	Europe	Yes	.
Polynesia	PYA	Sea	No	.
Prussia	PSA	Europe	No	.
Punjab	PUN	Asia	No	.
Quebec	QUE	North America	Yes	France
Rabaul	RAB	Oceania	Yes	.
Recife	RIC	South America	Yes	.
Red Sea	RED	Sea	No	.
Rhineland	RHI	Europe	No	.
Ross Sea	ROS	Sea	No	.
Rumania	RUM	Europe	Yes	.
Sahara	SAH	Africa	No	.
Samoa	SAM	Oceania	Yes	.
Sargasso Sea	SAR	Sea	No	.
Savoy	SAV	Europe	Yes	.
Saxony	SAX	Europe	No	.
SE Atlantic Ocean	SEA	Sea	No	.
Sea of Japan	SOJ	Sea	No	.
Sea of Okhotsk	SOO	Sea	No	.
Siam	SIA	Asia	Yes	.
Siberia	SIB	Asia	No	.
Silesia	SIL	Europe	No	.
Sinkiang	SIN	Asia	Yes	.
Solomon Sea	SOL	Sea	No	.
Somali Sea	SOS	Sea	No	.
Somalia	SOM	Africa	Yes	Spain
South China Sea	SCS	Sea	No	.
South Indian Ocean	SIO	Sea	No	.
South Pacific Ocean	SPO	Sea	No	.
St Petersburg	STP	Europe	Yes	Russia
Subic Bay	SUB	Sea	No	.
Sudan	SUD	Africa	Yes	.
Suez	SUE	Africa	No	.
Sumatra	SUM	Asia	Yes	.
Surinam	SUR	South America	Yes	Austria
SW Atlantic Ocean	SWA	Sea	No	.
Sweden	SWE	Europe	Yes	.
Switzerland	SWI	Europe	No	.
Szechuan	SZE	Asia	No	.
Tahiti	TAH	Oceania	Yes	Austria
Taiwan	TAI	Asia	Yes	.
Tanganyika	TAN	Africa	No	.
Tarawa	TAR	Oceania	Yes	.
Tasman Sea	TAS	Sea	No	.
Taureg	TAU	Africa	Yes	.
Texas	TEX	North America	Yes	.
Tibet	TIB	Asia	Yes	.
Timbuktu	TBK	Africa	Yes	.
Timor Sea	TIM	Sea	No	.
Togo	TOG	Africa	Yes	.
Toulon	TOU	Europe	Yes	France
Trieste	TRI	Europe	Yes	Austria
Tunis	TUN	Africa	Yes	.
Turkestan	TUR	Asia	No	.
Uganda	UGA	Africa	Yes	.
Ural	URA	Asia	No	.
Uzbekistan	UZB	Asia	No	.
Valencia	VAL	Europe	Yes	Spain
Vancouver	VAN	North America	Yes	.
Venezuela	VZA	South America	Yes	.
Venice	VEN	Europe	Yes	.
Vienna	VIE	Europe	Yes	Austria
Virginia	VIR	North America	Yes	.
Vladivostok	VLA	Asia	Yes	Russia
Volta	VOL	Africa	Yes	.
Wake	WAK	Oceania	Yes	.
West Atlantic Ocean	WAO	Sea	No	.
West Indian Ocean	WIO	Sea	No	.
West Indies	WIN	North America	No	.
West Mediterranean Sea	WMS	Sea	No	.
West Pacific Ocean	WPO	Sea	No	.
Western Desert	WES	Australia	No	.
Wuhan	WUH	Asia	Yes	China
Xian	XIE	Asia	Yes	China
Yellow Sea	YEL	Sea	No	.
Yemen	YEM	Asia	Yes	.
Yorkshire	YOR	Europe	No	.
Yukon	YUK	North America	No	.
Zambia	ZAM	Africa	Yes	.