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“Send on Station” and you will notice a small world icon next to the
diplomat, as well as the flag of the destination country. Each alliance can
send no more than two diplomats towards the same target nation.
Technical Hint: In the above window, when you double-click on a nation’s
flag, it immediately opens the country’s diplomatic window, giving you all
the information you need.
Asking audience for AMBassadors
Once the AMBassadors are in their station, they may just stay idle,
awaiting your orders (no need to do anything as a player). Or you can have
them ask audience, which means that the next diplomatic action you shall
undertake will be this one (therefore you can ask only once per turn).
You can also ask audience with an AMB that has just been deployed and
is on its way to the target country: to do so you must first send it, then once
the sending order is approved and valid, you click on the “Send on Mission”
button, meaning the diplomat will execute a diplomatic action immediately
upon arrival (i.e. during the current diplomatic phase).
NB: AMBassadors may be deployed in their own countries while neutral
(i.e. Britlish AMBassadors in Great Britain, or American AMBassadors in
the United States).
17.4 Diplomacy Resolution
Diplomatic Actions may occur each turn. Each side may attempt 1
Diplomatic Action per turn (so at most it means a maximum of two different
neutral nations will be affected each turn).
To designate the target of the Diplomatic Action, the player opens the
Diplomatic Management Window (see above) and chooses a target neutral
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country where he has an AMB with a value 1 to 3 (decoys are not allowed).
A diplomatic check, is made (see below). See the Diplomatic Appendices
to see the check modifiers. NB: a player may also do nothing, and forfeit his
diplomatic action for this turn.
When a player “executes” a Diplomatic Action in a country:
● Each side’s AMBassadors present in this country are now revealed.
● The Diplomatic Action is resolved immediately, the country diplomatic
marker is adjusted, and the result applies at once.
● The AMBassadors are removed.
As long as no action is resolved in a country, the AMB stay in this country
(maximum 2 AMB per side). Enemy players cannot remove them, but the
owning player may send them elsewhere.
Diplomatic Check Procedure
Diplomatic Checks use the following procedure:
Both sides’ numbers of AMBassadors in the current target country are
substracted. The subtraction is always in this order:
“Centrals Powers AMB – Entente AMB”
This difference gives the column number on the Diplomatic Table. This
column is modified by:
● Pro-Entente country, 1 column to the left.
● Pro-Centrals country, 1 column to the right.
● Isolationist Country [e.g. United States], 2 columns toward the 0
column (shift left or right, depending on the situation).
There are some modifiers for each country to the check roll,
depending on the political and military situation. For instance:
● The general situation of the war, in particular the control of some key
strategic objectives by your side (example: Russian control of the
Austrian fortress city of Przesmyl strongly influences the Balkan
minors)
● The previously achieved threshold with the target minor neutral
nation
● The results of some historical events, or the play of diplomatic
stratagems (especially important in 1914 for the Ottoman Empire
entry in the war),
● And finally by the balance of power, especially for key neutrals like
Italy or the Ottoman Empire, and also some Balkan nations. They
usually all tend to side with the camp opposed to the one favoured by
their neighbours.
The roll result gives a value, which is the value by which the country’s
diplomatic level is adjusted: down is usually in favor of the Entente, up is in
favor of the Central Powers.
The new diplomatic result is effective immediately. The Appendices
booklet explains the detailed results, depending on the new diplomatic
level.