UKDP: Renaissance Overview

The Renaissance Variant

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Contents Basic Rules

The normal rules of Diplomacy apply except where amended herein.
Switzerland is passable, and is a neutral supply center.
The game starts in the Spring 1454 Movement phase.

In keeping with the standard that home centers are named for cities and neutral centers are named for regions or countries, and for more historical accuracy, the following spaces are renamed:

Old Name	New Name	Old Name	New Name	Old Name	New Name
Belgium	Brussels	Holland	Netherlands	Rome	Papal States
Budapest	Hungary	Kiel	Hannover	Ruhr	Rheinland
Bulgaria	Sofia	Liverpool	Chester	Rumania	Moldavia
Edinburgh	Scotland	Moscow	Muscovy	Spain	Madrid
Gascony	Aquitaine	Piedmont	Genoa	St Petersburg	Novgorod
Greece	Athens	Portugal	Lisbon

The DPjudge recognizes the usual, standard map, names and abbreviations as aliases for all of these these locations, however.

The seven powers, with their starting locations, are shown below:

England	`Fleet Brest`	`Army Chester`	`Fleet London`
France	`Fleet Brussels`	`Army Marseilles`	`Army Paris`
Holy Roman Empire	`Fleet Berlin`	`Army Munich`	`Army Vienna`
Poland-Lithuania	`Army Novgorod`	`Fleet Sevastopol`	`Army Warsaw`
Spain	`Fleet Madrid (south coast)`	`Army Lisbon`	`Fleet Naples`
Venice	`Army Venice`	`Army Trieste`	`Fleet Athens`
Ottoman Turks	`Fleet Sofia (east coast)`	`Fleet Smyrna`	`Army Ankara`	`Army Constantinople`

To maintain consistency with the Ken Lowe judge (which does not allow the letter O to be used as a power abbreviation), the Ottoman Turk player is denoted in DPjudge play by the letter T.

Design Notes

Earle Ratcliffe and Michael Cuffaro created the Renaissance variant.