LINKS TO OTHER POSTAL GAMING SITES
There are many web sites linked to postal games zines, or running games of various kinds, or providing useful information. This is only a brief selection, and will be expanded as time allows. Thanks to Alex Bardy and Stephen Agar for providing these.
DIPLOMACY ARCHIVE
Stephen Agar’s massive site includes large numbers of historic articles, mainly but not exclusively on the subject of The Game of Diplomacy. Also links to Armistice Day, his Diplomacy zine which can be downloaded in pdf format.
http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/
GAMES ON OFFER
Alex Bardy maintains on his mangozine site a list of all the postal games on offer across the hobby, so if you are looking for a particular game you can find out where to play it. Also provides downloadable copies of his zine, Underneath the Mango Tree.
http://www.mangozine.com/index
FOR WHOM THE WEB ROCKS
Keith Thomasson runs a huge zine with alarming efficiency, with waiting lists that often require quite a long wait. He also runs e-mail only games through this website, which is well worth a visit. Recently won the Gaming Web Site Poll
MANORCON
As well as all the latest information on the Manorcon convention, there is other useful information available from this link.
http://www.manorcon.demon.co.uk/octopus/index.html
DIPLOMACY 2000
A good place for e-mail Diplomacy games and lots of other Diplomacy related information.
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk/dip2000/index.htm
THE SPROUTS OF WRATH
One of the best postal games zines is The Sprouts of Wrathm and Mark Wightman’s site is a good introduction to it.
http://www.btinternet.com/~mr.sprout/
VARIANT BANK
The rules to large numbers of Diplomacy Variants can be accessed via this link.
DIPLOMACY WORLD
The flagship of the US Diplomacy hobby is Diplomacy World, once a glossy magazine and now this useful website.
http://www.diplomacyworld.org/
The Diplomatic Pouch (Manus Hand)
If it's in the world of Diplomacy, and you can't find it or a link to it at the "Pouch" (as The Diplomatic Pouch is often referred to) then it probably doesn't exist. This site consists of a webzine published once every 2-3 months with helpful strategy and general interest articles. It also contains extensive documents aimed at helping the new player into the Diplomacy hobby, as well as resources for face-to-face, postal, and e-mail players at all levels. This site is very well designed with footers at the bottom of each page for easy navigation.
Diplomacy 2000 (Tom Tweedy)
Often said to be the best PBEM Diplomacy site, with friendly and helpful GMs held together by the excellent Tom Tweedy.
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I haven’t checked these out yet – see where they lead!