short EOG:

I'm France. Oh look at me, England decided to throw the kitchen sink at me from the outset! Yay, Germany-Russia alliance! England's backing off! Oh no, now Italy's decided to throw the kitchen sink at me too! Time to go beat him down... oh look, now Germany's decided to attack me. End results: England ends with the same centers with which he starts, Italy ends as Turkey's slave, Germany ends up with my home centers but seemed, I could have sworn, on the verge of getting crushed by all of his neighbors before someone somewhere changed his mind.

Seriously, screw y'all -____- Never before have I been so thoroughly screwed over for any reason of my own origin.

Short: Russia couldn't find a sitter so I voted draw. I feel very bad regarding this game, especially because I was a year before the final stab at both Italy and Russia ;)

I was sitting Thucky as Italy, inherited a crap position, and since the first move I had involved Germany taking a center from me, chose to work with Turkey. I knew the stab was coming from him when the game ended, unfortunately, it was either play along or die immediately. I veered back and forth between doing Germany's bidding and Turkey's, but pretty much did whatever I could to survive.

When I started Russia had voted draw and was part of the anti-Turkey alliance, but then he changed sides - until, a few weeks later, he flipped back. I assume that he was hoping I would slow down Turkey instead of working with him and could solo himself, and when that didn't work out, he decided to go with the same draw we could have had in October. Bah.

Bask, you could have stabbed and slaughtered me, but I wasn't about to go further than MAO. Your stated goal was the elimination of England; Russia could just as easily have picked up those centers. The only reason you wouldn't go for that was if you were hoping I would get even further out of position. Had I been a little stronger, I would have told you to go pound sand earlier.