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Ways to play board games on a computer

• Board Game Arena

  • Mostly non-wargames but they have Unconditional Surrender

• https://www.brettspielwelt.de/Spiele/?nation=en

  This seems like it’s mostly(?) eurogames.

  Lists:

  • https://wwwboardgamegeek.brettspielwelt.decom/Spielewiki/Carcassonnepage/On-line_Games

  • https://wwwboardgamegeek.brettspielwelt.decom/Spiele/geeklist/140673/exhaustive-list-board-games-you-can-play-online-fr

• 18xx.games

• boardgamearena.com

  • Mostly non-wargames but they have Unconditional Surrender

• boardgamecore.net - Only four games: Antiquity, Food Chain Magnate, Wir sind das Volk!, The Great Zimbabwe

• boiteajeux.net - Mostly eurogames

• brettspielwelt.de - Mostly eurogames.

  • https://www.brettspielwelt.de/Spiele/Carcassonne/

  • https://www.brettspielwelt.de/Spiele/PuertoRico/

    • I’ve heard good things about this.

• https://www.rally-the-troops.com/

  • This one is my favorite.

  • This one has very user-friendly implementations of some very-highly-regarded board wargames on it.

    • Columbia block wargames: Julius Caesar, Hammer of the Scots, Rommel in the Desert, Richard III, Crusader Rex

    • Levy & Campaign wargames: Nevsky, Plantagenet (not ready as I write this but in progress)

    • COIN wargames: Andean Abyss

    • Pax Pamir

• Tabletop Simulator

  • Wargames

  Simulator

  • Wargames

• https://vassalengine.org/

• tabletopia.com - This has a huge number of games.

  • List: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/271532/historical-war-games-tabletopia

  • https://tabletopia.com/games/1944-race-to-the-rhine

  • https://

  vassalengine

  • tabletopia.

  org/

  • com/games/air-land-and-sea

  • https://

  www.yucata.de/en

  • Seems to be mostly euro-games.tabletopia.com/games/blitzkrieg-nippon

  • https://wwwtabletopia.yucata.decom/en/GameInfo/FewAcresOfSnowgames/castle-itter

  • https://wwwtabletopia.yucata.decom/en/GameInfo/KingOfSiamgames/napoleonic-20-waterloo-20

  • https://www.yucata.de/en/GameInfo/Sekigaharatabletopia.com/games/pavlovs-house

• yucata.de - Mostly eurogames.

  • A Few Acres of Snow

  • King of Siam

  • Sekigahara - This is one of the highest-rated wargames on BGG.

How to ease into using Vassal

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• Boardgameblogger - War Games

Diplomacy

Misc. Thoughts:
- In casual games it seems important to keep your eye out for players who are likely to remain in alliances for longer than they should. The same thing happens a lot in casual games of Risk.

Questions to Answer:

• What is the smallest functional game that you can make? In other words, if I wanted to have as few players as possible and as few territories as possible, but I also wanted to not violate any of the original rules, how many territories / players would I have?

Analysis of Simple Situations:

2-player games

2-square game:
If each player starts with one square and there are only 2 squares, the game will be a stalemate. [Is there any way to generalize this observation?]

3-square game
If the winning condition is to get 2 squares, this game should be a stalemate with perfect play (the pieces should bounce every time they try to move into the middle territory). However, with an imperfect opponent one player could win by convincing the other player to not

Misc Links
The Diplomatic Pouch Zine
PlayDiplomacy.com Forum Discussion - Diplomacy Game, Scoring and Game Theory
LessWrong.com - Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory
David Rosen - Diplomacy and International Relations Theory (Part 1)
David Rosen - Diplomacy and Game Theory (Part 2)
Wikipedia - Edi Birsan (apparently one of the best Diplomacy players)

Demis Hassabis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/shee ... erId,2659/
YouTube videos about him: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... sabis&sm=3
YouTube - Systems Neuroscience and AGI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjG_Fx3D0o0

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