13 Jul 21 UTC | Spring, 1997: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders. |
24 Jul 21 UTC | Autumn, 1999: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders. |
31 Jul 21 UTC | Autumn, 2001: Moderator: (Aurelin): A user in this game needed an emergency pause. |
02 Aug 21 UTC | Autumn, 2001: Moderator: (Aurelin): Unpaused. Have fun! |
09 Aug 21 UTC | Spring, 2004: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders. |
17 Aug 21 UTC | Good game everyone. I toyed briefly with the idea of carrying on. Could I have broken through in the Far East and/or the far west? Would have been hard. I would have lost Switzerland and Austria but no more in the middle. But at the end of the day I respect and enjoy a faithful game long alliance. I know Ukraine was getting nervous but I was never going to stab. |
17 Aug 21 UTC | Apologies to some decent early allies that got steamrolled near the end (Germany/Italy etc). Purely a factor of being in the path (whenever I play Germany in this variant I start strong and then get attacked from all sides). To be honest spain was a lucky recipient of being furthest away from Poland and Ukraine. And was able to capitalise. In fact is was giving Spain some SCs to try to signal to Ukraine I didn’t want the solo. Not sure if that was clear. |
17 Aug 21 UTC | Thanks for the game. |
17 Aug 21 UTC | Germany and Italy had to learn the hard way that going west instead of north and east, respectively, is usually a bad idea on this map for, well, the reasons that just played out. |
17 Aug 21 UTC | I somehow outlived everyone else. |
17 Aug 21 UTC | I enjoyed the game as Ukraine for a change - so often an early exit. I was trying to engineer a surprise attack on Poland to have a shot at a solo but wan’t executed well enough. Well played everyone. |
17 Aug 21 UTC | Haha. If I thought you were going for the stab instead of just being cautious I would have maybe pressed on for the solo from this position ;-) |
17 Aug 21 UTC | I was keeping back some builds and then played to play them all in the east all at once but gave the game away by moving my units north - bad error. And, imo, you should always go for a solo. They’re rare so deserve to be tried for. The worst that could happen is generally the draw … |
17 Aug 21 UTC | But then I feel bad!! I value an alliance. I could probably have a higher points total but I would enjoy the game less. Hopefully next time we meet in a game as early allies I am sufficiently cautious of you :-p |