Links to Utilities and other Gaming Sites

More will be added as and when I get a list.

• Stewart Cross' diplomacy adjudication program. This can be downloaded free from HERE. [Now uses our upgraded map.]
• Paint Shop Pro 3.12 - a free dowload. The program the GM team uses to change their bmp map files to gifs.
• www.dipwiki.com: - Community driven resource for all things Diplomacy: Strategy, publications, hundreds of variants, more.
• Realpolitik: A very nice Diplomacy adjudication program, from Jim Van Verth, can be downloaded free from Jim's site here. The games are adjudicated quite simply by moving the icons on the map. Neat.
• ALB & GSB: A very nice site from Ally Bain and his son Graeme - good content and sound diplomacy advice. At the moment shows diplomacy and Ally's hobby of fish, fishtanks and killer fish. But he has other hobbies up his sleeve which he'll soon be putting up. Well worth a look.
• Campo di Marte [Field of Mars]: A long time paper zine which has now turned to the internet and email gaming. Italian of course, and run by Fabrizio Mattei and Vladimiiro del Sorbo. My Italian is not very good [er, nonexistent] so I can't tell you everything it offers, but it does run Diplomacy. It must be reliable as the paper zine has been going for 13 years, so worth giving it a look.
• Fiendish Games: An excellent site, not just Diplomacy, but Railway Rivals, football management games, their own 'Breaking Away' game, and others.
• diplomacy-archives.com: A large site run by Stephen Agar. Definitely a site to go to for the Diplomacy enthusiast. Archives of Diplomacy history, lots of articles on tactics and strategy, and much much more. And while you're there it's worth downloading and taking a look at Steve's PBM zine Armistice Day.
• Keith Thomasson WebPages: Another large gaming site, giving details of his web service 'For Whom The Web Rocks', the PBM hobby, and his zine 'For Whom The Die Rolls'. Keith is also the new PBM hobby Sopwith Statistician - giving lists, details and Ace status of all players in the Sopwith games. [A busy site]
• The Diplomatic Pouch [or DipPouch for short]: I couldn't begin to describe this site enough to do it justice. It has everything [as far as I can see] on what needs to be said and done about all aspects of the Diplomacy game. Another site that is a must for the diplomacy enthusiast.
• GamesWeb from Dave Lunn I think. A very nice site selling every boardgame under the sun. Dave offered us a 5% commission on referrals resulting in sales, but I suggested what about offering a discount to players from my site. Dave hasn't got back to me on this idea, but I just had to put this link up anyway as his site looks too useful for any of you to miss. Try it and see.
  THE DELUXE EDITION CAN BE FOUND HERE: The blurb says: "The new boardgame features all metal pieces for Fleets and Armies and comes with markers to identify which power controls which supply centers. The board has been gorgeously repainted and the rulebook has been rewritten with color examples to make rule adjudication simpler. "
• The Stabbed: Jens Forsgård [Webmaster] and Olle Lundberg (both playing on Dip2000) have created a diplomacy site as a project for their school - focusing on variants. A nicely laid out frame site that shows a lot of promise. If you're into Diplomacy variants it might be well worth giving this site some support, because I don't know of too many other variant sites out there to choose from.
• Diplomiscellany contains the Model House Rules for Non-Judge E-Mail Diplomacy; home pages for several variants, including Conquest of the Americas, Maharajah's Diplomacy, Mandate of Heaven and Western World 901; and several Diplomacy-related articles, links to Diplomacy/Gaming resources, and other materials.