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Founded a new crazy aproach to play AT :

1/ Take europe map (I.e 1939 human only)
2/Erase roads
4/Create one regime for each country
5/Erase all SF except : Ground army, air fleet, naval fleet, Staff (= Cdt org.)
6/Change : Major capitol ) capitol, Minor capitol = city City = Industrial center, Town = Mine or petrol, Vilage = agricole prod.Center (with adapted icons)

Then : lunch the game and play yourself each power, trying with maximum objectivity to defend political, economical and strategical interests of the country you have in charge at one moment. (you will have some 30 or 35 turns to play by round[:D])

Use this rule : a regime can not be destroyed : you have not the right to conquer the hex capitol oy one country (I.E : Germany can conquer all poland, and destroy all polish units on Varsovie, but may not conquers Varsovie hex.

Diplomatie : you do yourself all diplomatic combinaisons, with objectivity and reason, examining the interest of each country with maximum objectivity.

So, you will play an eternal game and after some 100 or 200 rounds, see what europe appears...[:D] The mobile borders for regimes = the mobiles borders of countries.

A little bit schizophenic but a very good exercice of geostrategic objectivity

Try the diplomatic scenarios by Tom.  And Diplomacy v2 can be found on the scenariobank.

AT's AI is better than in lot of other games but no AI can be vicious as human[:D]