@Trim101 - I would like to confirm that Draugar and I are NOT communicating in any way... except in the only way that communication is valid in Gunboat - by the orders that are entered. i.e. By predicting what moves the other might make and supporting those moves.
If you get it right you *might* gain an ally (or you might not - he might think "Thanks... sucker!" and then crush you).
If you get it wrong you a) look like an idiot, b) waste a move, c) annoy the other players near you who you didn't support or did attack, d) make the player you tried to help think you were planning a stab or at least a spoiling attack.
In this case I worked out what move I would make in Draugars position and supported it. He didn't ask me to, I just did it. I got it right.
He noticed this and was obviously pleased because the next turn he worked out the move I would be likely to make and supported that. He got it right too.
I have literally just discovered that I have successfully predicted his move again this turn (though there were several options) and that cost you Vienna. Tough. You took Serbia off me though. B-(.
I suspect that what really annoys you is that you wasted a support on Tyrolia when you could have attacked Trieste, breaking my support of Russias move and causing that move to fail. Worse, Tyrolia could not have been displaced anyway (except in a non-Gunboat game where I might enlist Germanies help). You failed to understand the twist Gunboat** gives to Diplomacy. It isn't just *not* talking. You need to change your mindset.
Finally, you were the victim of our shared largess. Oh dear, how sad. You didn't see the moves coming and you didn't try to counter them. You'll know better next time. But you have accused us of cheating and that is just not the case. You need to apologize; to both of us; Now.
**The very name "Gunboat" for this version of the game, comes from the phrase "We're sending a Gunboat!", something a powerful country's government would do when another, (weaker) country p1ssed them off. A Gunboat, sailing up and down outside your capital city, with its main guns loaded and ready, would be a large nudge in the right direction for you. You don't send a Diplomat, you don't write a "note", you send a Gunboat! They really really get the message.
Historical Note:
In 1892 the British government had 2 gunboats broken down and carried, in pieces, "on mens backs", to lake Nyassa in Zambesi. They were to be used in "putting down the slave trade in those regions". Later, in 1914, on lake Nyassa, the British gunboat "Guendolen" fought a brief navel engagement with the German gunboat "Hermann von Wissmann". It was, according to The Times, "the British empires first naval victory of World War 1". <Proudness>
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fast game anyone? 15 hr deadlines - only 10 pts ppsc - new players welcome
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