Crab shells & faultlines

The guys catch up for some drinks to discuss their games, with Kaner sharing his Diplomacy theory of crab shells and faultlines. Plus the Middle Earth variant.

Intro & Around the grounds

• The guys kickoff and Kaner outlines why he dislikes playing England (0 mins 10 secs)
• They discuss the venue and their drinks (3 mins 50 secs)
• They talk about the lockdown that never happened and a general Australian COVID update (6 mins 15 secs)
• Amby discusses an Australian MP who has wild theories about COVID. Amby shows his website domain that didn't get reregistered (8 mins 30 secs)
• Kaner shares a joke or two with Amby and chats about measuring systems (11 mins 30 secs)
• They grab some more drinks and Amby looks into abandoned games (17 mins 30 secs)
• Kaner wants to out Amby and himself when in anonymous games (23 mins)
• Kaner asks Amby about fleet builds on rivers in Divided States games & ideas for better gameplay (25 mins 45 secs)
• Amby talks about his Spice Islands game and rulebook press (32 mins 45 secs)
• He goes onto discuss his cloak and dagger game, Screaming Jugular Bloodaxe Gusher (36 mins)
• Kaner gives some advice around looking at why an ally made a certain set of moves (39 mins)
• They get into some of Kaner's anonymous Europa Renovatio games (40 mins 30 secs)
• Kaner talks about the gameplay of a player he's stabbed, only for them to double down fighting their original enemy and let Kaner get up to mischief (43 mins 45 secs)
• Amby pivots to talk about his classic game on Primacy where he was trying spitefully to create a stalemate line to force the draw as his goal (47 mins)
• After some more drinks, they discuss gameplay in another one of Kaner's games (52 mins 15 secs)
• Kaner shares his theory about Diplomacy faultlines, which act as a wedge into a region and how you approach your position as a crab shell (55 mins 30 secs)
• He then goes onto discuss a "boring game" and his current crab shell (1 hr 1 mins 15 secs)
• Amby discusses two Primacy games, Legends of Ferranor where he won (pretty much as everyone CDed) but has started playing a Middle Earth variant, inspired by JRR Tolkien (1 hr 9 mins)

• They discuss skills they learnt at 12 years of age and why Amby has never seen a Lord of the Rings film (1 hr 12 mins)

Venues: Hellcat Maggie, Brisbane

Drinks of choice:

Kaner: Fixation IPA

Amby: St Hallett's Garden of Eden from South Australia

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Thanks as always to Dr Dan aka "The General" for his rockin' intro tune.