Introduction to VariantsEdit  Occasionally, one might be bored
with the standard Diplomacy game. Let us look at the board. Some
countries can win more easily because of their geographic
position, like France and Russia, while others, like Italy and
Austria, have geographically inferior positions. Some might
think that the gameplay is too slow (a standard game of
diplomacy takes hours) or too monotonous, and want to make it a
bit more interesting. Others might think that Diplomacy does not
need to only portray World War I Europe. It could show any other
time. So people create a variant of the game.  Commercial
VariantsEdit  There are commercially sold variants to the game
Diplomacy; one is called Colonial Diplomacy, and the powers
contesting Asia are Ottoman Turkey, Russia (mainly through
Siberia), China (and Mongolia), Japan, the Dutch (East Asia),
France (Indo-China) and Britain (India, with one home center in
the Middle East and Hong Kong). Rules are the same as Diplomacy,
except the Trans-Siberian Railroad