Shogun Diplomacy

Starrman

General

23 Jul 06 09:34

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

Joined: 27 Jan 05
Moves: 90892

24 Jul 06 07:54

Originally posted by nook7
l have been to a great number of castles around Japan, so l am hoping my inside knowledge may help me :-)

Have you adopted your "ninja" avatar in anticipation?

nook7

Joined: 14 May 03
Moves: 89724

24 Jul 06 07:57

l was thinking more of the reflective Samurai or Warrior Monk (Total War)

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

Joined: 27 Jan 05
Moves: 90892

24 Jul 06 08:14

Originally posted by nook7
l was thinking more of the reflective Samurai or Warrior Monk (Total War)

Have you watched Ran, Kurosawa's King Lear? It's a beautiful depiction of Japanese warfare set in the same period as this game.

nook7

Joined: 14 May 03
Moves: 89724

24 Jul 06 09:02

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Have you watched Ran, Kurosawa's King Lear? It's a beautiful depiction of Japanese warfare set in the same period as this game.

Yes, l have studied watched & studied a number of Kurosawa films - Great movie.

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

Joined: 27 Jan 05
Moves: 90892

24 Jul 06 09:03

Originally posted by nook7
Yes, l have studied watched & studied a number of Kurosawa films - Great movie.

Any other books or films you'd recommend as background to this game?

I really like the small scale of this one. Confined to an island not spread out across a continent or a world.

nook7

Joined: 14 May 03
Moves: 89724

24 Jul 06 09:11

You cant go past Musashi for starters - there are a number of good biographies of the big 3 (Tokugawa Ieyasu, Nobunaga and Hideyoshi). l have visited Ieyasu's tomb in Nikko a few times as he was the first Tokugawa Shogun and l think worthy of a pilgramage!

Starrman

Joined: 19 Nov 03
Moves: 31382

24 Jul 06 09:51

I've heard back from the GM and he says he's happy to run a game for us, we need 20 players, of which we seem to have 10 already.

Huck, were you in or not? I couldn't tell.

Crowley

Not Aleister

Control room

Joined: 17 Apr 02
Moves: 92561

24 Jul 06 14:17

Originally posted by Starrman
I've heard back from the GM and he says he's happy to run a game for us, we need 20 players, of which we seem to have 10 already.

Huck, were you in or not? I couldn't tell.

Will I be crushed because I didn't play the other games?

If not, I'd like to give it a try...

Starrman

Joined: 19 Nov 03
Moves: 31382

24 Jul 06 14:38

Originally posted by Crowley
Will I be crushed because I didn't play the other games?

If not, I'd like to give it a try...

No, there's a lot of people here to help and if you ally with an experienced player, it's in their interests to teach and encourage you. I'll put your name down.

rbmorris

Vampyroteuthis

Infernalis

Joined: 13 Apr 04
Moves: 103634

24 Jul 06 17:53

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Any other books or films you'd recommend as background to this game?

I just finished reading Shogun. Definitely worth picking up.

huckleberryhound

Devout Agnostic.

DZ-015

Joined: 12 Oct 05
Moves: 42584

24 Jul 06 18:06

Ok, count me in. When do i need to download the diploware?

What about royalty status?

Starrman

Joined: 19 Nov 03
Moves: 31382

24 Jul 06 18:30

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
Ok, count me in. When do i need to download the diploware?

What about royalty status?

I'll let you know more when we've got the people, but you can downoad it now.

mochiron

The Don

Nihon

Joined: 23 May 05
Moves: 166325

24 Jul 06 18:37

Originally posted by Starrman
I'll let you know more when we've got the people, but you can downoad it now.

hi. i am iterested as well. how much time will this take up per week? lets say average hours per week?

MIODude

me, not you

CaNaDa

Joined: 25 Nov 04
Moves: 46658

24 Jul 06 18:38

I'll join you guys for shogun as well.. i know zilch about that time period in Japan though, but oh well.. probably isn't needed anyways

cadwah

¯\_(^.^)_/¯

Joined: 25 Sep 05
Moves: 55289

24 Jul 06 18:42

Originally posted by mochiron
hi. i am iterested as well. how much time will this take up per week? lets say average hours per week?

I normally spend about an hour when I first get a turnfile through, then just band about a few emails during the week and spend maybe 30 minutes updating my turn with any changes in plan. Not a great deal of time to process the turn, more in diplomacy.