Anyway, my plan when I drew Italy was that I'd try and create problems for France in an unusual way. Usually, if Italy is going to attack France, it's going to do the long, slow fleet stuff and hope that England and Germany are going to go that way and that there isn't a juggernaut going on. So, I took a poke at Munich as a way to build an extra fleet and give myself a couple of different routes into France. Sadly, by the time this went off, it became clear that England was going to go after Germany, not France, and that Turkey would have a free hand thanks to Russia's disinterest in them. Oh well, that's why you try new things, to see if they can work or not. NMRing to allow Turkey into Ionian didn't help matters at all, either.

Everyone did the right thing apart from SplitDiplomat, who only did the 'right thing' when he realised the situation wasn't going to go well for him.

What's even more annoying about this is that the game was drawn in Spring 1904 and therefore affects our GR. Oh well.

I would have played it out and lost had that been the group decision, but after 4 others voted Cancel and Draw, I figured I might as well be thankful, abashed and vote draw.

And you did the right thing because you knew you would have won. LOL. False moralists on every corner...