Group A game 1:
gameID=110149Result: 3 way draw
EOG:
Well I was fortunate to draw my favorite country, if you look in my profile you will see why (significantly more solos with turkey than any other power).
1901 included a northern opening by Russia and a southern hedgehog by Austria, otherwise standard openings. I went for Greece and made it through while Austria blocked Bulgaria and kept his houseboat in place which was great for me.
1902 I decided to risk allowing Italy to land the lepanto and go for Aegean which turned out to be a good decision as I bounced him back to Ionian and he did not really try to give me trouble after that. I picked up Bulgaria in the spring and England helped my cause of dominance in the south by taking stpete with an army.
1903 France has pushed far towards Germany and is attacking England at the same time with his fleets but England gets behind him to Mao and he has clean up to do, meanwhile Italy is confusing, every move he attempts is blocked and I can't nail down whether he's trying to help Austria or attack him. I'm able to move to Greece and take Serbia this year.
1904, I decided to build an army bc it looked like Serbia could be lost but Rumania was guaranteed to me, and then I could threaten sevestapol. I was also hoping to keep Italy friendly for the time being. The spring moves were better than I could have hoped for, I took Rumania and Austria backed off to cover Vienna, with his fleet at Trieste he now could not threaten me at all. On the other side of the board France had continued to press into Germany but was not even addressing England at his backside and it was clear he would collapse quickly. I swapped Rumania and sevestapol in the fall and a well timed guess blocked Italy from getting into Aegean Sea.
1905, was unproductive. Russia guessed correctly twice and I didn't get any gains but I did keep Austria from getting into position on me and Italy and Austria had a wonderful bounce at Albania, well wonderful for me. The problem was that England picked up 2 more centers on France and now had 2 fleets in the med.
1906, now I am worried about losing my good position to an English solo, I throw up support holds to Italy in hopes he will defend himself. If England gets Tunis he can surely tear through a weakened Germany and that might spell 18 for him.
1907 and 1908, the forces of Russia and Austria are too small to hold me back now and I pick up a 1 build in 07 and 3 in 08, Italy has kept England confined to a Tunis gain and allowed me enough time to ensure I capture Ionian. England and Germany have played nice the last 2 years and Germany was sprinting east, but luckily he thought better of it bc clearly a stab was coming he turns around to support hold himself until the end.
1909 I am still actually trying to ensure there is not an English solo even though I lead the center count. So I rush to block entry to tyrolia and Venice, but my fleets have the Ionian locked down. From here it was just clean up of the remaining Russian and Italian units. England had realized he could not push Germany without possibly giving up Munich and Berlin and was now holding them, there were no holes left to exploit so I hit the draw. Good game all.
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