The benefit of being physically close to your allies is also real. One team has just seized the region of Westphalia in Germany and renamed it "West Philidelphia". That's perhaps a little more dramatic than the real thing, but there is still a lot of power struggling from what I’ve seen so far. Here's an advert for the Paradox-sanctioned event. Only one person need sit at the computer itself, while others on the same team skulk around passing information and engaging in diplomatic acts such as dropping half-full glasses of beer on the beautiful hardwood floor and apologising profusely. It’s not just one person at each computer, though, there’s teamwork involved. There are Indian countries and European ones, Japanese states and Irish ones. They settle disagreements in the old-fashioned manner of national posturing and war-mongering. Approximately forty players are sleeping in the castle’s quarters (normally a swish hotel) and manning computers in various rooms – the library, the knight’s hall, the “French room”. This is normally a game of slow and ponderous decisions on a big map of the world, but in this castle it also involves four days of clambering through secret chambers and crossing high balconies to talk to the representative of Norway about an underhanded alliance with Moldavia. This week its invaders are the Grandest LAN Party, a giant multiplayer match of historical strategy game Europa Universalis IV. ![]() The castle is Zamek Czocha, a 13th century fortress that has been occupied more times than an airport toilet cubicle. Hello from Poland, where I am currently living in a castle with forty angry strategy gamers.
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