The general alliance system for the first few turns of the game was france and i vs. germany with russia and turkey really just sitting there and doing nothing. Austria and France began to close in on Italy who had a tough time breaking out of the 4 center deadlock that so often does Italy in. The game continued in a see-saw fashion until the deaths of both Germany and Italy until about 1906. At that point, France was severely under-defended in his territories in the lowlands as he was focusing on finishing off Italy. I snuck into Belgium on the pretense that he really didn't need it, and surprisingly, he didn't make a fuss about it...allowing me to get fleets in the english channel and mid-atlantic ocean subsequently on the following turn, making it too late for brest. At this point, both Italy and Germany are dead, with Russia and I see-sawing in and out of Norway, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. Austria has secured Munich and is slowly bringing his land units to bear on my acquired German territories as he and Turkey apparently had come to some agreement

I am now fearing that all the other powers, a waning France, a waxing Austria, a Russia that is getting accustomed to the game, and a fleet-happy Turkey are all going to come after me. And of course this happens. For about 6 years there is a large stalemate in which I am slowly eating away into the French homeland with convoyed armies and gaining no ground in germany thanks to an elaborate stalemate line from munich up to berlin in a half-circle that involved silesia and bohemia also. I eventually forced my way into st. petersburg to stay and take marseilles, sealing France's defeat as he was forced to wander the seas until Turkey put him out of his misery by taking Tunis. After that point, it was just a matter of time, as I got into Berlin, the Iberian centers, and tunis. My 17 centers were the 3 English and French, the Lowlands, Scandinavia, Berlin, Kiel, St. Petersburg, and Tunis. My goal was Munich. Austria at one point had an impregnable number of armies there to support hold, but then Turkey finally, after 15 years of my promptings, stabbed him in the Balkans and made him destroy an unsettling 4 units in the winter. This left Munich open and so I built armies, convoyed them into belgium and holland, moved up from Spain to Burgundy, in the fall went to ruhr, and then used kiel, ruhr, and burgundy to take an undefended Munich for the 18th.

The point of this is..?

It's an End of Game Statement. Will the others write one?