Designing a Diplomacy variant: any suggestions?

[pwmichaud]

Hello! This is a call to all who know and love the game Diplomacy, especially if you are one of the many who has attempted (successfully or no) to design a variant. I'm designing one on the premise of WWII, in the alternate history that the Central Powers won World War I, largely thanks to British and American neutrality, and a rational Western Front strategy (see my post concerning the historical explanation, if you are interested).

Anyways, the great powers are as such: Mitteleuropa (German-dominated union of Central and Eastern Europe, stretching from Germany/Italy in the west to Finland/Ukraine in the east), the British Empire (undimmed by WWI; still quite powerful), the USA, Russia, and either Japan or a Japan/China combination.

The board will include the whole world. Each power will have 5 starting supply depots, except for the British Empire which will have 8 (albeit spread out across the whole world).

What say you, Diplomacy fans?