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Online Game Basics for Players Who Love Political Strategy
Plenty of readers who write to us know every province in Europa Universalis IV but have never played it against another human.
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Martin has played political strategy and simulation games for twenty years, from Diplomacy by mail to modern election simulators. He writes about what those games get right about campaigns and what they flatten.
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Plenty of readers who write to us know every province in Europa Universalis IV but have never played it against another human.
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Somewhere around my fourth postal game of Diplomacy, waiting eleven days for a photocopied adjudication to arrive, I realised...
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The first time I lost a simulated presidential race while winning the popular vote, I was furious at the game.
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I have read patch notes for twenty years, starting with text files bundled in strategy game downloads, and I now read them the...
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Few online games let players change the rules by vote, and fewer still have kept it going for more than a decade.
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Most strategy games punish hesitation. The political ones I keep returning to do the opposite: they quietly punish the player...