Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

[scooter]

oh Lord, can we just stop talking about it? The most important point on the german chariot/barb axe issue is the word Sulla used "trivial." this whole argument is silly because there is almost 0% chance this affects our game either way

+1. This is less significant to the outcome of the game than those stupid initial greeting messages I basically use a template for.

[kjn]

Guess how the Germans moved their chariot this turn?

[Cyneheard]

By the way, knowing this team I think there's a STRONG chance they play the turn without even checking their email on time and this whole thing doesn't matter.

Even better - diplo points but no in-game consequences.

Called it!

[sooooo]

Guess how the Germans moved their chariot this turn?

Nice

[antisocialmunky]

Guess how the Germans moved their chariot this turn?

Nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...VyQipO4miw#!

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

By the way, knowing this team I think there's a STRONG chance they play the turn without even checking their email on time and this whole thing doesn't matter.

Even better - diplo points but no in-game consequences.

Called it!

[Nicolae Carpathia]

[scooter]

YESSSSS. See guys, perfect outcome. They lose their chariot, we maaaaybe get hypothetical brownie points for trying to warn them. EXACTLY AS PLANNED.

[antisocialmunky]

Just like real life

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pujol.html (NSFW: language)

Now Juan Pujol Garcia was like the Dungeon Master of World War II – he passed along the stories he wanted the Germans to hear, and they reacted to his information without questioning the reality of it. While this surely had its bonuses, never was Pujol's more important to the Allied war cause than during the days leading up to the Allied invasion of Normandy. During Operation Fortitude – the counter-intelligence project designed to mislead the Germans regarding the location of the Allied landing sites – Pujol's primary responsibility was to convince the Germans that the amphibious landings were going to come at the beach of Pas de Calais rather than Normandy. He accomplished this by convincing the Nazis that the Allies had 25 more divisions stationed near the departure zone than they actually did – basically conjuring half a million soldiers out of thin air in some crazy crap that makes David Blain look like a punk street performer. Then he convinced them of the Pas de Calais landings in a series of messages culminating in an incredibly epic climax – four days before D-Day, Hitler cancelled a large-scale transfer of German soldiers to the Normandy coast. This info was based largely on intel provided by Pujol and his insane balls-out spy network. Omaha Beach was already a pretty hellacious clusterbone, and another couple hundred thousand German machine guns might have made the entire operation a failure, but as it stood the Allies got a foothold in mainland France and started the long process of pushing the Nazis all the way back to Berlin.

So yeah, that's kind of a big deal. You'd think that lying your ass off and feeding misinformation that would lead to the defeat that would mark the beginning of the end of the war in the West would get a super-spymaster fired, but Pujol, as we've seen, was really fucking clever. Two days before D-Day he mailed a letter saying that he'd discovered the truth and that the invasion was coming at Normandy. Of course, back before e-mail transmitted information directly into your brain on a series of YouTubes, mail actually took time to be delivered, and Pujol was certain to make sure that the Germans didn't get the note until it was already too late. The German Abwehr was like, "ok dude wish we'd heard this sooner," but they STILL kept him on as a spy. Not only that, but they were so convinced that he was a loyal hero to the cause that even in December 1944 – five months after the deception at Normandy – the Germans awarded him the Iron Cross.

It was the second medal he'd earn for bravery as a spy. He'd already received the Member of the British Empire award in June.

Germans...

[spacetyrantxenu]

nice story. I wonder if he ever wore both medals at the same time for the novelty -- there can't be many people who earned commendations on both sides, whatever the reason.