Sonja Elen Kisa
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
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Has anybody made a custom map or board for any of these games? I wonder if the WW1 game board can be represented in a map format, or if it really needs to be in that "table" format?
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Dave Eisen
United States
Silicon Valley
California
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I've always been curious about this game. Have never seriously considered getting people together to play it.
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J (RBG)
Canada
Slave Lake
AB
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I was just reading the rules to that a couple days ago!
 I think a map would work. It'd just have x distinct regions, and each player would have tokens to represent their PF's. The actual physical relationships between the regions wouldn't matter, so it'd be relatively simple to put together something workable. A table isn't necessary, it's just the most compact way to do it.
Another thing I was thinking is that this game could be done online in the Geek forums, like some are doing with Werewolf or TI3. I think it would work quite well that way. Plenty of time for negotiations, and the game state would be quite easy for the moderator to communicate -- you'd just have to list each region, and who has how many PF's there.
Note that Jim Dunnigan (OWWI designer) redid this game as Origins of World War II (which does use a map). http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2975 It got some rather varied ratings.
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Rod Bauer
United States
Kansas
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I have used this game in my high school world history class for over 20 years. I made a big map of Europe and North Africa with a small inset box for Far East. Around the edge of the map I have pictures of various events leading up to WWI (naval race, Agidir crisis, "leap of the Panther", Balkan wars,assasination of Archduke,etc.) I then used poker chips for the political factors for each nation. The game works extremely well and the kids love it! It is so much better with a map. I also use Dunnigans Origins of WWII and it works well in class also, but for some reason not as well as the WWI game. WWI game usually is very close and tense right to the last move and many times to the last die roll on the last move!
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Dan Blum
United States
Wilmington
Massachusetts
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In fact the original game had a map, but Dunnigan dropped it at some point, presumably when Sackson decided to put it in the book.
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Douglas S
United States
Torrance
California
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Would the DIPLOMACY game's map work for this?
-Doug
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Rod Bauer
United States
Kansas
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Yes Doug, I believe that the Diplomacy game board would work OK, but you would need to add a "Far East" location or box, let say in the upper NE corner of the map.
-Rod
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Douglas S
United States
Torrance
California
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rod3556lhs wrote: Yes Doug, I believe that the Diplomacy game board would work OK, but you would need to add a "Far East" location or box, let say in the upper NE corner of the map.
-Rod
Right!
I have to make little cards with flags now and make this a game extra in my old diplomacy box!
-Doug
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Douglas S
United States
Torrance
California
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I uploaded a map and it's available as ww1.jpg at
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/17967
there are 3 other files there that will let you play the complete origins of ww1 game.
-Doug
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Ben Bateson
United Kingdom
Ross-on-Wye
Owner of original 'crappy art' GtR and pleased about it.
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I've recently uploaded a large-scale board to the Origins of WWI page. It's based on the grid in the book, rather than a map.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/42534
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