Year: 1959
Players: 2–7
Play time: 360min
Min age: 12+
Weight: 3.32
BGG rating: 7.03
BGG rank: #894
Best with: 7

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 9.0

Michael Redlich
Rating: ★ 9.0
1976 Avalon Hill version

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Diplomacy is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
Best with 7 player according to player poll data.
BoardGameGeek average rating 7.03 and BGG rank #894.
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Recommended player counts include 6.

Diplomacy, the classic boardgame of pure negotiation has taken many forms over the years. The first The Avalon Hill Game Co version has perhaps the widest release, but Avalon Hill re-released the game in 1999, complete with a colorful new map and metal pieces. In 2008, Avalon Hill released a 50th anniversary edition with a new map and cardboard pieces representing the armies and navies. In the game, each player represents one of the seven "Great Powers of Europe" (Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy, Russia or Turkey) in the years prior to World War I. Play begins in the Spring of 1901, and players must negotiate and make deals with other players in order to have any success in expanding their borders. They will make both Spring and Autumn moves each year. with two kinds of military units: armies and fleets. On any given turn, each of your military units has limited options: it can move into an adjoining territory, support an allied unit in an attack on an adjoining territory, support an allied unit in defending an adjoining territory, or hold its position. Players instruct each of their units by writing a set of "orders." The outcome of the various orders is basically determined by the total strength of the units involved. There are no dice rolls or other elements of chance. With its incredibly simplistic movement mechanism fused to a significant negotiation element, this system is highly respected by many gamers. Avalon Hill Complexity rating - 3 Re-implemented by: Colonial Diplomacy Diplomacy: Classical Variant Diplomacy: Hundred Variant

Mechanics

Simultaneous Action SelectionArea Majority / InfluenceArea MovementSimulationPlayer EliminationNegotiationPrisoner's Dilemma

Best with how many players

Not rec.

Recommended

Best

Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(53 of 65 votes)

Sub-rankings

Strategy Game Rank#681
War Game Rank#269

Videos

Video language

YouTube5

Instructional5

BoardGameGeek12

Review2

Instructional3

Unboxing2

Humor1

Gaming, but I'm secretly an AI
BoardGameGeek · EshR
English · Curated source

Other4

External data

Wikidata enrichment: 4 links · 2 facts · latest game data 07/26/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.

Facts

Publication date: 1959
Publisher: Miro Company