The Summer 2009 issue of Diplomacy World, #106, has just been released, with a theme of Historical Variants!  141 pages of Diplomacy for your reading enjoyment.  It would impossible to list all of the highlights, but a small sampling would include:

·         Multiple articles on World DipCon 2009, including one from champion Andrew Goff

·         Prussian strategy in the Ambition and Empire variant

·         Two new variants: Battleship and 1648 with detailed designer notes, plus many more variant articles, historical and otherwise

·         Lots of information and player statements on the Diplomacy World Cup

·         The second to last installment of the Diplomacy Demo Game “After the Rapture”

·         The first installment of our new variant Demo game of the “Known World” variant

·         A review of phpDiplomacy on Facebook

·         And SO MUCH MORE!

You can find the new issue of Diplomacy World for free download in pdf format in the diplomacyworld Yahoo group:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/diplomacyworld/

or directly from the official Diplomacy World website:

http://www.diplomacyworld.net

Read it, absorb it, and let us know what you think about it!  The deadline for #107 is October 1^st, 2009, with a theme of “Balance of Power.”  Remember, theme material only takes up a portion of each issue, so don’t feel your submissions need to be theme-related!