The ARDA System for Classifying Diplomacy Variants

G. Global Games

ge. Global Economic games

ARDA	Variant	Designer	Players
ge01	Hypereconomic Diplomacy II	Don Miller and Peter Ansoff 3rd Edition, 1976	47
ge03	Hypereconomic Diplomacy IV	Terry Mohrmann, Mike Bentley and Steve Norris	48
ge04	Hypereconomic Diplomacy V	Terry Mohrmann
ge05	Hypereconomic Diplomacy I-A	Don Miller, Peter Ansoff, Steve Norris
ge06	Hypereconomic Diplomacy III	Geoff Challinger and Don Miller
ge07	Perestroika Final Conflict	Mark Strouthes (Requires re17 and gf20)	7
ge08	Ecodip	Francois Budai (Rules in French)	10
ge09	SuperMegaEcoDip	Author Unknown (Rules in French)	21
ge10	Nucleodip	Jean-Yves Cornu (Rules in French)	10

gf. 1921 Onwards

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players
gf01	Holocaust		Steve McLendon	9
gf02	Small World Diplomacy II		Fred Davis	8
gf03	World Diplomacy		William Stapel	7
gf04	World War IV Diplomacy	Rules	Steve Langs	6
gf05	2001		Rod Walker
gf06	Das Dippyspiel		Rod Walker	28
gf07	Futur War		B. Sherrad	9
gf08	Small World Diplomacy II-R		Fred Davis	8
gf09	Zeus IV	Rules	Chris Northcott	7
gf10	Zeus V	Rules	Chris Northcott and Fred Davis	7
gf11	Zeus V-F	Rules	Chris Northcott and Fred Davis	7
gf12	Final Conflict (I)		Tom Swider	7
gf13	Nuclear Holocaust		??	13
gf14	Atomic Warfare(“I”)		??	9
gf15	American Woolworth(“II”)		Mark Coldiron	5
gf16	Final Conflict II		Tom Swider and Don Williams	7
gf17	Zeus IV-Final		Chris Northcott	7
gf18	World Diplomacy II		Mark Stegeman	8
gf19	World Diplomacy III		Mark Stegeman	8
gf20	Final Conflict III		Tom Swider	7
gf21	World Diplomacy IV		Mark Stegeman	8
gf22	World Diplomacy V		William Stapel	7
gf23	World Diplomacy VI		Mark Stegeman	8
gf24	World War IIIb		Bob Sergeant Note: Not related to WW III, qp02	15
gf25	Cthuloid Diplomacy		Tim Waterhouse and Gary Stevens	7
gf26	Ice Age Diplomacy		Jim Penman	8
gf27	Risque Diplomacy II		?? (uses modified Risk board map)	6
gf28	Holocaust II		Steve McClendon	9
gf29	Holocaust III		Glenn Overby	9
gf30	Peace in Our Time		Paul Slade	11
gf31	Diplomatie Mondiale II		Author Unknown (Rules in French)	7
gf32	World-8 Diplomacy		Chris Warren	8
gf33	The Twentieth Century	Rules	Michael David Roberts	13
gf34	World Diplomacy VII [I]	Rules	David Caldwell	31
gf35	World Diplomacy VIII [1]	Rules	David Norman	17
gf36	World Diplomacy IX [II]	Rules	David Norman	17
gf37	World War IV (v.1)	Rules	Tom Reinecker	29
gf38	World War IV (v.4.1)		Tom Reinecker	30
gf39	World War IV Formal	Rules	Tom Reinecker, Tom Mulledy & E. Sabatine	30

gh. Up to 1870

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players
gh01	Colonia I	Rules	Fred Hyatt	6
gh02	Colonia IV		Fred Hyatt	9
gh03	Colonia V		Fred Hyatt	9
gh04	Colonia II		Fred Hyatt	8
gh05	Colonia III		Fred Hyatt	8
gh06	Colonia III-15		Fred Hyatt and Robert Stimmel (requires gh05)	15
gh07	Colonial Winters		Fred Winters	17
gh08	5-Man Colonia III Fixed Length		??	5
gh09	Colonia VI		Fred Hyatt	9
gh10	Colonia VII		Fred Hyatt and John Cain (map is much reduced in size.)	9
gh11	Colonia VIII (VII)		Fred Hyatt	9
gh12	Age of Discovery		S.W. Nesbitt II
gh13	Imperial Diplomacy II	Rules	Michael David Roberts	13
gh14	Colonia VIIb	Rules	Fred Hyatt and John Cain	9

gp. 1871-1920

ARDA	Variant	Rules	Designer	Players	Notes
gp01	Imperialism XV		Rod Walker	11
gp02	Worldip I		Enrico Manfredi	6
gp03	World Powers		Richard Ware	9
gp04	World Variant(“I”)		Karl Pettis	21
gp05	Youngstown Variant XII		Rod Walker and Vedder	12
gp06	Imperialism VIII-RR		Rod Walker	9
gp07	Mercator II-VB complete		-
gp08	Mercator II		Doug Wakefield	13
gp09	Mercator III		Doug Wakefield	13
gp10	Mercator III ½		Doug Wakefield	13
gp11	Mercator IV		Doug Wakefield	14
gp12	Mercator IVSF(“Samson Flansteed”)		Doug Wakefield	7
gp13	Mercator IVSF-WINS(“With nastier stabs”)		Doug Wakefield	7
gp14	Mercator V-A		Doug Wakefield	14
gp15	Mercator V-B		Doug Wakefield	14
gp16	Imperialism VIII		Rod Walker	9
gp17	Mercator Combined Edition (II-IV, VA, VI-IX)		-
gp18	Mercator Definitive		Doug Wakefield et. al.	13
gp19	Mercator VI		??	15
gp20	Mercator VII		??	19
gp21	Mercator VIII		??	21
gp22	Mercator IX		??	24
gp23	Mercator XII		Doug Wakefield	18
gp24	Mercator Rules (1985 Ed.)	Rules	Doug Wakefield et. al.
gp25	Strategic Diplomacy		??	15
gp26	World Domination I		Richard Egan (WD II draft)	8
gp27	World Domination II		Richard Egan	8
gp28	Mercator XIV	Rules	Doug Wakefield	17
gp29	Mercator X (Ten)		Doug Wakefield	26
gp30	Mercator XIIIa		Doug Wakefield	18
gp31	Mercator (information on the various marks and optional rules) (ce8)		Doug Wakefield	0	Mercator Appendix
gp32	Global Skinny Diplomacy		Eric Brosius	11
gp33	Global Diplomacy II [6]	Rules	John Armstrong	12
gp34	Total War		Theirry Lucas (Rules in French)	11
gp35	Global Diplomacy III	Rules	Eric Pedersen	6
gp36	Lincoln’s Nightmare	Rules	John Armstrong	17
gp37	Diplomatie Mondiale I		Author Unknown (Rules in French)	7
gp38	Fin de Siecle	Rules	Paul Barker	16

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