Right, of course. I guess counting isn't my strong suit.

g1 - gameID=92407 - 5WD
g2 - gameID=92408
g3 - gameID=92409 - won by jcbryan
g4 - gameID=92410 - 5WD
g5 - gameID=92411
g6 - gameID=92413
g7 - gameID=92415 - won by gobbledy

Yonni, how do you manage to count 18 centres for the win?

One, two, buckle my shoe
Three, four, open the door
Five, six, pick up sticks
Seven, eight, stand up straight
Nine, ten, slaughter the hen
Eleven, twelve, men must delve
Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courtin'
Fifteen, sixteen, maids a-kissin'
Seventeen, eighteen, maids a-waitin'!

Evidently, often I can't.

gameID=92407 just noticed this had finished - kind of a disappointing end. GOod game, Czech. I washoping you would win. After Turkey stabbed me in such a gutless and unnecessary fashion I had minds to throw you the game. I would have flet bad for Austria, though, as stabbing him ended up bring my biggest mistake considering that Turkey in the end really was a bad ally.

I wonder, Gobble, did you take NAP because you wanted to give England the win or ebcause you wanted the massive draw?

Yeah, watch out for your glass house Lando... I think turkey may have been forced to stab you after you stabbed me. Why you always be stabbing me?!?! EVERY game. :)

good game all.

gameID=92408

I dicked around at 17 centres for long enough but nice to get my first GB solo.

Congrats! that was as solid win.

JP, why'd you have to ruin a perfect juggernaut? :(

Good game Yonni. Glad you defeated that Russian.

jcbryan - I did NOT stab you that game. Instead, I tried to foster an alliance! Gave you Sweden, etc. But you just came right after me. Glad I could play my part in helping someone else solo.

Lando, wrong game. When you were italy, you stabbed me (austria). When you were Germany, there was no stabbing. I (russia) went for you straight out. And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids (JesusPetry).

Yeah I know, you said "EVERY game" but I just found an exception.

I don't think you would have gotten away with it, but that is just my opinion.

Congrats, Yonni! Very well played! Sorry, jcbryan97, you were getting too much bigger than me and I had to do something about it.

And congrats to jcbryan for his second win!

g1 - gameID=92407 - 5WD
g2 - gameID=92408 - won by Yonni
g3 - gameID=92409 - won by jcbryan97
g4 - gameID=92410 - 5WD
g5 - gameID=92411 - won by jcbryan97
g6 - gameID=92413 - LET'S BE VERY QUIET ABOUT IT!
g7 - gameID=92415 - won by Gobbledydook

Congrats jcbryan - I shouldn't have let you get so big, I felt that stab coming.

Yonni- why get me when it was clear that England already had the edge? I was fighting him but you cut my legs out. This was another game where I tried very hard to make a player other than me win. I think I was successful, again.

Happy to say that so far, with all of these solos, I have had zero survives. I think we have had lots of communication breakdowns ine ach of the games.

I'll have to look it over but I think I tried to make peace at some point and just stumbled around not quite sure if you were still attacking me or not. I'll try give a better reason when I get a chance to look over it.
Also, frustrating miscommunication with turkey there at the end. We may have had a chance there otherwise.

good game all.

Lando, I think you're rewriting history here. This is another one where I didn't stab you, as I was always at war with you. Besides spring 1906 I was constantly moving against you. I moved my focus around some to take advantage of circumstances, but I never once gave you an honest support.

And I don't think you can blame Yonni at all. In Fall 06 you position against him (taking NA); in spring 07 you take tunis. Fall 07 he takes Marseilles. I find that very reasonable on his part. He allowed you spring 07 to retract, but you marched ahead and sealed your own fate. I think Yonni played it right there.

If anything, Yonni retreated out of France too quickly out of insecurity about Turkey. And while Turkey ended up being OK to Italy, it was gobbling up Austria for reason unapparent to me.

Well, i never really attacked you. So I would consider it a stab even if you wouldn't, the wording is immaterial and the decision is what allowed you to win.

When I refer to Italy, I refer to specifically 1908-1910. He exerted effort to take MAR and SPA, which could be held in perpetuity considering our combined positions. In return, I convoyed to Italy to try and allow England to break through. I think my move, and therefore lack of units around the MAO/WMS bottleneck, allowed this to happen.

Lando, in S07, I moved away from our border but instead of defending MAO you supported yourself into Tunis. In the Fall I moved to Marseilles which seems like a reasonable response and you chose not to vacate Tunis.

F09, I did keep attacking which, perhaps, I could have not done but England was only at 11 centres so it seems like a reasonable decision. In retrospect, perhaps ill advised but still not outrageous by any measure.
All things considered, you may not have had much of another option and it's probably revisionist for me to suggest that if you stayed I would have helped you survive

I do think the biggest question is why Turkey kept attacking Austria.

I agree, England capitalized on the situation very well.

So, is Game 6 of the 5 pointers the last game still in progress?

There is only the one 5 game left, yes.

It's a pretty good game too. gameID=92413
I hesitate to say more as it is ongoing.

All of the 39 point games are now finished. Great games all around and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Well played by everyone.

yes, fun games, thanks for organizing dubmdell. I'd be up for another round.

Whoops, I posted that as TBroadley, I am sitting his account.

Definitely up for another round. Tons of fun. I'd be down for the same groups or we could switch things up. Again, I don't have too many points to commit though.

If everyone in the 5 games is down I would love to set up rematch with the same people. I think we should re-randomize the country assignments so they aren't the exact same games though.

Same here, or I could jump into the 5 point series if we can't get another round going.