Diplomatic Risk

Playing Diplomatic Risk was an interesting experience. I feel like I learned a lot while playing this game. It is realistic in a few ways. One of which is that in the real world, representatives of states will never really know 100% on what other representatives goals and objectives might be. It was also realistic in the fact that not every faction in the game was not equally as powerful. In the real world, there are some very powerful states and some very weak states too. Diplomatic Risk was also realistic because when I noticed other factions in the game build up their forces next to some of my team's lightly defended territories, I thought that we were about to be attacked. This has happened many times in the world today in which one state builds up its military which then scares neighboring states into building up their military as well.

The game was also unrealistic in a few ways. one way was that a team could only attack another faction if they were at war. This is not the case in the field of international relations in which states can attack each other without formally declaring war on the state it plans on attacking. It was also unrealistic in the way in which the roles of the team member were. There are only two positions, the president and the diplomat, that were leadership roles. The other team members were the citizens of the faction. Many state leaders have a whole group of advisers advising the president on decisions.

Overall, the game showed how difficult international relations can be; however, some ways to make it a little more realistic would be to add some sort of economic aspect, or add another role to each faction like a general who can advise the president on how to attack as well as rolling the dice. another way to make the game more realistic would be to have each faction have a different government. Democracies would had to vote in order to change their leader if they wanted or stage a coup if it was a communist or fascist government. If exactly half the people oppose the coup and support it in one faction, they would be in civil war and either lose a turn and decide next turn or split into a separatist faction.