This game started out well for me in Germany. I was at eight by the end of 1902, though I got my eighth by accident. I was trying to cut Paris to help my supposed British ally keep Brest. Instead, I took Paris as France recaptured Brest from that spot.
France forced me out of Paris in Spring 1903, and in the Fall, I used my armies in Picardy and Burgundy to cut two French supports in hopes of allowing the Brit to retake Brest. Instead, he supported himself into my Belgium.
That touched off a ferocious war between the two of us. While we beat the hell out of each other, the A/I seized control of the game.
A turn after we both lost centers to the A/I, England and I disengaged and defended our respective parts of the board. Our defense was game enough to slow them down.
Austria eventually joined the chorus of draw votes, and in 1911 or so, Italy stabbed him. That touched off a desperate Grand Alliance against Italy, and in Autumn 1913, he finally voted for the draw.
It was a fun, hard-fought game. Glad I joined it.
The Thread for People Who Want to Gunboat Good and Do Other Stuff Good Too
buy-in games please post here how they play gunboats so the rest of us may learn from you? Looking at a game isn't enough, we need to know what you're thinking when you see a board. What does the better player see that I miss?
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