The Longest Game of Diplomacy Ever Played | 1931 - 1940 

Because of your comments about the French fleet that had been in Syria (which indeed is currently in Yorkshire), I decided to make a list of the movements of all units in this game, and here are some results: * There are 2 units that have been disbanded without ever moving, an Austrian army in Vienna and one in Trieste * The unit that moved the most is the French fleet in Clyde. It has moved 31 times. It was built in Brest, and has been as far as Barents Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. * The most moved army is the Russian one in Rumania. It started life in St Petersburg, made 28 moves and has been to Bohemia and Serbia. * Italy's moving back and forth has caused fleet Apulia to have made 24 moves yet only been in 8 territories. It has moved into Naples 6 times, 4 times from Rome and twice from Apulia. * The most moved unit that isn't on the board any more are the German starting fleet, which made 24 moves in the Baltic and the North Sea areas, finally being disbanded in the Baltic Sea, and a Russian army that started in St Petersburg and was disbanded in Budapest after having visited such places as Norway and Tyrolia.

You guys almost nailed it on when the French player was replaced. At some point between Spring 1938 and Spring 1939, TBroadley was replaced by a teammate, who we are pretty sure was Lando Calrissian.

I know this is an old series, but I'd love to imagine the people in the provinces just having a whole host of flags stashed away and changing them out every few years or so depending on who took over. I also like imagining new draftees having joined the army with their grandads who haven't seen home in 40 years now

I realize this is an older series, but wanted to leave a comment in support of the existence of Diplomacy on YT. Great analysis, interesting stuff, cant wait to see it drag on for 60 more years

I am a person two hours into the fourth episode of the longest game ever marathon who hadn't heard of the convoy paradox before, Ezio. Consuming unreasonable amounts of content for games I don't even understand that well is my proudest hobby.

"I think people who are at part 4 of the longest game there's ever been have seen the convoy paradox before" nope! Been learning everything watching this series. Never seen diplomacy before, but this and your commentary has been fascinating.

Coming in 3 years later to be added to the group of people who heard about the Convoy paradox for the first time here. Granted you probably also didn’t expect someone to be watching this after previously only seeing 3 games of Diplomacy. Watched Valefisk’s two videos playing it, then watched your analysis of his more recent video, then watched your analysis of a Chaos variant game, and now I’m here. Makes for nice background discussion while I’m working.

You are correct that Italy was playing for California! There were actually two separate California teams during the 2012 World Cup, "California A" and "California B". California B was eliminated during an earlier stage of the tournament, while California A consisted of Mujus, myself, and several others (one of whom will play a big role in this game later on). Funnily enough, I live in the Pacific Northwest now, so had this tournament started later I might very well have been on Turkey's team instead!

It got interesting for a moment, but then everyone went back to the usual "everyone attacks the strongest player untill someone else is the strongest player".

So this is when everyone gets to start using airplanes right/J

We're back with part 4! Completely unrelated to this series, but if you haven't - go check out the Diplomacy Broadcast Network. They put out consistently amazing Diplomacy content, and their most recent stream in particular was amazing (not just saying that because I was in the game they covered!). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CfZkb_IhryA.html

Always good to see one of these being uploaded!!!

The spring 1936 moves definitely are not the convoy paradox

I have never even heard of this game but I am watching all of this series, Thnx for the convoy paradox explanation. 2:06:30

Awesome video! I've been looking forward to it. For what it is worth, I like you guys doing power rankings.

Just finished the last episode yesterday. Great timing!

Please continue the power rankings. It is so exciting to see how you think things will go in the future alongside the analysis of each season. I have also been running a spreadsheet with how the power rankings change over time and it is really cool to see the trends.

I am two hours in to the 4th episode about the longest diplomacy game ever played and I have not heard about the convoy paradox. In fact I've never played a game of diplomacy.

I need that 17-16-1 in my life lmao

When you guys talk about public press, do you mean there was only one chat thread and all the players could see it? So like Russia can see everyone talking about how they're going to kill him?

Wrong I am watching this video series and have never seen the convoy paradox before this point.

bookmark 2:30:00