Interview with Harry Turtledove Diplomacy Games

The guys interview renown alternate history author Harry Turtledove about his love of the game Diplomacy, Amby laments his Liberty Cup gameplay, more Media Wars chat and a Declaration of War experiment.
Interview with Harry Turtledove
The guys introduce the show to new listeners as they may be Harry Turtledove fans. Harry is a renown alternate history author (0 mins 10 secs)
Amby and Kaner give a super quick crash course on what the game Diplomacy is all about (1 min 45 secs)
The interview starts with the guys welcoming Harry to the show and ask how he got into writing alternate history (3 mins)
Kaner asks about one of the characters in Harry's Supervolcano trilogy playing Diplomacy with his friends, and what his experience is with the game Diplomacy (8 mins)
Amby asks about Harry's thoughts on taking the role of different players. Harry discusses the perspectives you take in the game and how that compares in novel writing looking through the lens of other players (12 mins)
Harry discusses how he still plays the game when he can. They discuss the different between D&D (Dungeons & Dragons) and Diplomacy (15 mins)
Kaner asks if Harry has a favorite country to play on the Diplomacy board (17 mins 30 secs)
Kaner enquires about whether Harry's played any Diplomacy tournaments (20 mins 45 secs)
They touch on online and app play due to limitations caused by Covid-19 (23 mins)
Amby asks what would happen if Harry took a manuscript to a publisher in 2014 where the storyline reflects the current 2020 situation, what would be his publisher's take (24 mins)
Amby asks what happens next in such a story (25 mins)
They ask about Harry's perspective on Diplomacy variants (26 mins 30 secs)
Harry introduces a new book he's co-authored coming out in September 2020, "And the Last Trump Shall Sound" with James Morrow and Cat Rambo (28 mins 40 secs)
He discusses a baseball card simulation game he also likes playing (31 mins 50 secs)
Amby asks about the process Harry follows in producing novels and where he gets his story inspirations from (34 mins 20 secs)
Harry provides his pitch to his readers about the game Diplomacy (40 mins)
They guys wrap up the interview (42 mins)
Other books by Harry that the guys recommend: WorldWar series (Kaner) and The Guns of the South (Amby)
For Harry fans (post interview)
Amby asks Kaner whether he thought he'd ever interview Harry. Kaner talks about his first book of Harry's that he read  (42 mins 30 secs)
They let readers of Harry know where you can play the game Diplomacy if they're intrigued (43 mins 20 secs):
PlayDiplomacy
webDiplomacy
vDiplomacy (for variants)
Backstabbr
Plus there are many face-to-face clubs which are now doing many games online

Diplomacy chat
The guys get onto the "normal" part of the show with where they are and their drinks (46 mins)
They let Harry Turtledove fans know how the show format works. They celebrate the podcast now entering its 4th year and 75th episode (48 mins 30 secs)
Once Bitten, Twice Die - Amby's Liberty Cup experience
Kaner asks Amby about his game involvement in Philadelphia's Liberty Cup. Amby was just in Round 2 and gives a hat tip to Advait based just up the road in Singapore who was going hard core for the tournament (49 mins 30 secs)
Amby explains he drew Germany and how two other players in his Boston Massacre game - MaxVax and Jason Mastbaum - were also in this game  (53 mins 20 secs)
Amby discusses his opening and why things didn't work out as he'd planned (55 mins 20 secs)

Amby explains why a happy balance is needed between being too Carebear and going full on (1 hr 1 mins)
Robotorama
Kaner has a bit of a robot moment, Amby has a helpful suggestion on whether any Diplomacy players are connected in the university space to make this happen (1 hr 2 mins 15 secs)
Kaner says he'll look into it, but makes no promises [sounds like a Diplomacy player right folks?] (1 hr 5 mins 40 secs)
Corona chat
Amby reflects on Covid's impact to the waistline (1 hr 7 mins