The ARDA System for Classifying Diplomacy Variants

C. Europe 1900-1919 - Modifications of the Basic Game
(with changes to both map and rules)

ca. Alternative world, different great powers

ARDA	Variant	Designer	Players
ca01	Aberration III (Imperialism XIII)	Rod Walker	9
ca02	Turnabout Diplomacy	Fred Davis	7
ca03	Aberration III-A	Simon Szykman	9

cb. Changes to both map and rules (average complexity)

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players	Notes
cb01	Persian Variant I		Martin Janta-Polczynski	7
cb02	Scheisskopf Diplomacy II		Donald Wileman	7
cb03	Stab-Happy Diplomacy		Scott Rosenberg and Matt Diller	7
cb04	Variation C		Bob Johnson	7
cb05	1958 Diplomacy		Allan Calhamer	7
cb06	Overlapping Seas III		M.J. Polczynski	7
cb07	Quasi-Classical Diplomacy		Martin Janta-Polczynski	7	(includes cb08)
cb08	Pseudo-Classical Diplomacy		Martin Janta-Polczynski	7	(included with cb07)
cb09	Simulation Dippy II		Shargin and Miller	35
cb10	3x3 w 2 wild card players		H. Naus??	4
cb11	3-Man on 9-man board		??	3
cb12	LiMa I		Jean-Paul Macedoni, Colin Hemming and Michel Liesnard	7
cb13	Multiplomacy	Rules	Colin Hemming	7
cb14	Persian Variant II		Martin Janta-Polcyznski	7
cb15	Woolworth Diplomacy II-A		Glenn Overby (included with cb16)	5
cb16	Woolworth Diplomacy II		Glenn Overby (includes cb15, cb17, cb18)	5
cb17	Woolworth Diplomacy II-B		Glenn Overby (included with cb16)	5
cb18	Ten-Man Diplomacy II-R		Glenn Overby (included with cb16)	10
cb19	Woolworth Diplomacy II-D	Rules	Glenn Overby and Fred Davis	5
cb20	N.I.E.S (New Improved Extra Strength) Diplomacy I (Colonial Diplomacy II)		Mark Keller	7
cb21	N.I.E.S. Diplomacy II		Mark Keller and Fred Davis (requires cb20)	7
cb22	Saharan Diplomacy (I)		Bahjat Sharif	7
cb23	Saharan Diplomacy II		Bahjat Sharif and Fred Davis	7
cb24	LiMa Ib	Rules	Liesnard, Macedoni, and Hemming (includes cb25)	7
cb25	LiMa IIb	Rules	Liesnard, Macedoni, and Hemming (included with cb24)	7
cb26	Guerrilla Warfare II	Rules	Andy Tringham and John Marsden	7	Requires map for Abstraction II (cb29)
cb27	Frauke’s Beer River Diplomacy		Scott Hanson	7
cb28	Aberration I		Fred Davis and Rod Walker	7	(ex “cd01”)
cb29	Aberration II		Fred Davis and Rod Walker	7	(ex “cd02”, included with cb28)
cb30	Abstraction II	Rules	Fred Davis	7	ex cd10
cb31	Dual Space Diplomacy (Overlapping Seas I), (ex “cd04”)		Fred Davis	7
cb32	Dual Space Diplomacy w		“Gibraltar rule” (Overlapping Seas II) Fred Davis and Martin Janta-Polczynski (order with cb43)	7	(ex “cd05”)
cb33	Rail and Sea Diplomacy		Fred Davis	7	(ex “cd09”)
cb34	Abstraction I		Fred Davis	7
cb35	Pride of Armies	Rules	Fred Davis	7	(ex "cd11")
cb36	Hitch-Hiker	Rules	Nicholas Whyte	9
cb37	U-Boat	Rules	Barry Evans	5	(ex "cb28")
cb38	Feudal II		Dave Russell	7
cb39	SkinnyDiplomacy I		Lew Pulsipher	7
cb40	Superfluid Diplomacy		Andrew Poole
cb41	First Strike Nuclear Diplomacy		Paul Dunning	7	Abstraction II (cb29)
cb42	Off-Board Box Diplomacy	Rules	Steve Gregory and Ryk Downes	7
cb43	Advanced Diplomacy		Stephen Swigger	7
cb44	SkinnyDiplomacy II		Lew Pulsipher and Fred Davis	7
cb45	Suvorov Diplomacy		John Norris	7
cb46	Suvorov Diplomacy II		Fred Davis	7
cb47	Land Bridge Diplomacy (I-A)	Rules	Lee Kendter, Jr.	7
cb48	Schiesskopf IV		J. Whyte, D. Wileman and L. Dunning
cb49	Land Bridge II Diplomacy		Lee Kendter, Jr.	7
cb50	Woolworth Diplomacy II-M		Glenn Overby and Jim Bragg (CE 12)	5
cb51	Woolworth Diplomacy III		Glenn Overby (CE 12)	5
cb52	Woolworth Diplomacy III-D		Glenn Overby (CE 12)	5
cb54	Superfluid Diplomacy II		Andrew Poole
cb55	Ten Players Diplomacy II, (map described in rules)		-	10
cb56	Ring Around The Rosie Diplomacy		Fred Davis	7
cb57	Contretemps ("II")	Rules	Tom Swider	7
cb58	Land Bridge III	Rules	Lee Kendter, Jr.	7
cb59	Pourquoi Pas? (Why Not?)		Charles Turquin	7
cb60	Root Z Diplomacy	Rules	Phil Creed, Tom Hyer, Mark Nelson
cb61	Wraparound Diplomacy	Rules	James Millington & Robert Schone	7
cb62	Diplomacy III (II)		Stephen Agar	7
cb63	Two Player Abstraction		James Nelson	2

cc. Changes to both map and rules (high complexity)

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players
cc01	Aberration IV (9-Man Diplomacy IV)		Rod Walker	9
cc02	Gibraltar II		Martin Janta-Polczynski	9
cc03	Warmonger		Larry Dunning
cc04	Superdiplomacy		Dan Alderson	7
cc05	Morglay		Alderson and Pournelle	7
cc06	Winter Eleven-Man Variant II		Fred Winter	11
cc07	Gibraltar Diplomacy I		Martin Janta-Polczynski	9
cc08	Hypereconomic Diplomacy I (ex “ge02”)		Don Miller	23
cc09	Crystal Ball Diplomacy	Rules	Manus Hand & John Woolley	7
cc10	Arpiesse Diplomacy	Rules	Simon Szykman	7

ce. One extra power added

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players
ce01	Bawtinheimer 8-player Variant		Bob Bawtinheimer	8
ce02	Swiss Variant II		Fred Davis	8
ce03	Powers and Pirates	Rules	Curt Gibson	8
ce04	Pirates and Powers revised		Curt Gibson	8
ce05	European Diplomacy	Rules	Michael Zmolek	8
ce06	USA	Rules	Tadd Moskal	8
ce07	V8	Rules	Clay Snyder	8

cg. One giant power added

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players	Notes
cg01	Germany versus the World		Fred Davis (ex “cd06”)
cg02	Britain		Danny Loeb and Bruce McIntyre [independently])	7

ch. High complexity map

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players	Notes
ch01	Omnibus Diplomacy		Charles Turner	7
ch02	Double Secret Diplomacy	Rules	Tadd Moskal	6

cm. Minor map changes only

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players	Notes
cm01	Kriegsmarine Variation		A. Phillips (CE 1)	7
cm02	Small World Diplomacy (I)		Steve Tihor	7
cm03	Vatican Variant		Bruce Linsey	7
cm04	Milan Diplomacy	Rules	John Norris	7
cm05	Davis FTF Diplomacy Board	Rules	Fred Davis	7	(ex “cd08”)
cm06	Egypt Diplomacy	Rules	Geoff Tonks	7
cm07	Peerijavo		Larry Peery	7
cm08	Alpine Passage		David Rothery (CE 7)	7
cm09	7-Island Diplomacy	Rules	Paul Bennett	7
cm10	Croatia Diplomacy	Rules	Larry Peery	7
cm11	PDO Diplomacy Map		1	7
cm12	Trieste Split Diplomacy		Fred Davis	7

cn. Two extra powers added

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players	Notes
cn01	Cline 9-Man Diplomacy II (“IV”)		Robert Cline	9
cn02	9-Man Diplomacy I		Don Miller	9
cn03	9-Man Diplomacy III		Jack Chalker	9
cn04	Cline 9-Man Diplomacy III		Robert Cline, Von Metzke, Naus and Bullock	9
cn05	Cline 9-Man Diplomacy IV.1 (“V”)		Robert Cline and Fred Davis	9
cn06	Cline 9-Man Diplomacy I		R. Cline	9
cn07	Nine-Power Diplomacy (9-man Diplomacy V)		Fred Winter	9	(starts before 1900, but uses regular map)
cn08	Cline 9-Man Diplomacy V		Robert Cline, Fred Davis and Andrew Poole (for UKVB)	9
cn09	Cline 9-Man Diplomacy IV.2		Conrad Von Metzke version of a Fred Davis revision	9
cn10	Cline 9-Man Diplomacy VI		Robert Cline, Fred Davis, Andrew Poole, and David Rothery (First revision)	9
cn11	Cline 9-Man Diplomacy VII		David Rothery’s Second Revision	9
cn12	Cline 9-Man VIII		Simmon Billenness and Mike Pustilnik	9
cn13	Loeb’s Nine Player Variant	Rules	Danny Loeb	9
cn14	Aberration V	Rules	Rod Walker & Nicholas Fitzpatrick	9

cs. Identical regular maps used for different eras

ARDA	Variant	Designer	Players
cs01	Romans v. Barbarians, 300 A.D. (“no 2”, there is no “1”)		2
cs02	The Cold War, 1946 (“3”)		3
cs03	Collapse of Classical Civilization, 400 A.D. (“4”)		4
cs04	High Renaissance, 1500 (“5”)		5
cs05	The Dark Ages, 500 A.D. (“6”)		6
cs06	Thirty Years War, 1610 (“7”)		7
cs07	Rise of Feudalism, 700 A.D. (“8”)		8
cs08	Rise of Nation States, 1715 (eight players version,”9”)		8
cs09	Rise of Nation States, 1715 (amended, “9-A”)		9
cs10	Age of the Crusades, 1100	Unknown	10
cs11	Hundred Years War, 1336 (“10-A”, amended by F. Davis)		10
cs12	Nationalism Rampant, 1861 (“11”)		11
cs13	Nationalism Rampant II, 1861 (“11-A”, amended by F. Davis)		11
cs14	1938-II	Steve Doubleday	6
cs15	1810	Steve Doubleday	5
cs16	1378	Steve Doubleday	4

ct. Team game on modified board

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players	Notes
ct01	3x3 Teams with Wild Card Player III		D. Miller	7

cv. Changing values for supply centres

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players	Notes
cv01	Gusher		Fred Davis (ex “cd07”)	7

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C. Europe 1900-1919 - Modifications of the Basic Game(with changes to both map and rules)

C. Europe 1900-1919 - Modifications of the Basic Game
(with changes to both map and rules)