Diplomacy, or Else!

Every word is a move. Diplomacy, or Else! is a turn-based hex strategy game where you negotiate by composing phrases. Territory, armies, gold and science are the stakes. Pacts, standing and broken oaths shape the fight for a generated hex map. You do not type at your rivals. You compose each sentence word by word from a shared lexicon: offer, demand, ask, swear, or break. Truces, non-aggression, safe passage, shared vision, gold, tribute, even a gifted technology, for three turns, five, ten, or forever.

An accepted phrase becomes a pact the game itself enforces. Keep your word and your standing grows. Break it and everyone at the table remembers. Letters under sealDiplomacy arrives as sealed envelopes at your door. Keep a separate conversation with each rival, address the whole table in the public channel, and punctuate your promises with emotes. Research the espionage line and the mail starts talking: the Courier Network tells you who is writing, Postal Intelligence tells you to whom, and the Cabinet Noir opens the letters themselves.A war worth negotiating over Generated hex maps with configurable size and water coverage, fog of war, and optional contested control points Soldiers, Guards, Archers and Builders on land; warships and transports at sea Forts, farms, training grounds, shipyards, gold mines and science sites, placed tile by tile Research army, civilian, naval and diplomacy technologies, including an espionage line Deterministic combat: no hit rolls, no crits, with counterattacks from surviving…