Hahaha, there's a big competition in that category. But as I said, Turkey should have realized by 1908 that it was time for the draw.

But yes, it was a strange game. Aside from the standard destruction of Austria (me), we saw some pretty weird moves. Ava, for example, went for Warsaw, which never pays. And later he helped France into Belgium?! Even at that point, France was a bigger threat than England, I'd say.

I love Turkey. He finished the job on Germany and thats all I cared about.

Dont see why people get respect on this site for playing a lot of games and being kind or funny.

Yep. When he took three dots to blow up my position, I almost just threw it right there, but I decided to give him one mroe season and try and salvage whatever I could and try and hold what was left of the line. Then he took BUD, so I just ended it as quickly as possible.

Zmaj, I've been meaning to try the crusher, because it has some real potential. When Russia did....whatever that was...I knew I was in trouble, as usually he needs to cut a support somewhere. Thankfully, Turkey did it for me and let me thrive.

It's hard to blame someone who is obviously new to the game (two games played), but man, it's frustrating to lose like that.

That was a pretty crazy 1901, though.

Lol come on Riphen, you pulled the same stunt in the other EoG: you attack someone and then want to be his friend.

Oh yea.. That was a crazy one. I think the builds too. I really surprised France. and If Germany had been anyone else I think I would have done great.

The worst part is, Turkey is probably really proud of himself right now..."Yea! I finished in second place and was pretty big! I did pretty damn good!"

Skittles, I'm absolutely certain that the Crusher is the best opening for Italy by far. When I saw you moving to Bohemia, I knew I was dead. Well played.

How did I attack him?

I took Denmark and then moved out of it. Giving it back. Yea I tried to move into Sweden but I thought it would be a fair trade for giving him Denmark and not swallowing him whole by building armies. If I had built armies in 1901 he would have been done for.

I should have choose France as a ally. He seemed to have that in mind.

I didn't check the entire position. You're right, Riphen, he should have realized you're on his side. Well, I think we can pronounce Ava a fairly bad player :D

@Zmaj

I was seriously debating whether to pulling back after I saw Russia's first move. Russia was new, and obviously wouldn't be any help.

Then after Fall, when turkey got three builds I was THIS close to building Fleet Naples and abandoning it because I figured attacking you was murder for you and suicide for me. I even had the order submitted. FInally, I just said screw it and tried to get a couple builds before Turkey got to me. I was helped by him only building one fleet instead of two (as I suspected he would have, getting three builds). But, as we established later, he was a new player.


The funniest parts of the game were: England convoying to Denmark instead of taking the guaranteed Holland....and it working, and Turkey getting three builds in year one after moving BLA to RUM and ARM to SEV when SEV moved to BLA.

Hello all. thank you for letting me win!

Weird opening with Germany doing the go-east suicide play and Russia having problems entering his orders I suspect. I figured England and I were going to be able to clean up, but once I saw his builds I saw he had other ideas.

There seemed to be some back and forth hemming and hawing with all three in the West trying to decide who we would help/attack, but in the end I guessed right with a foray into the North Atlantic and with Germany friendly it was curtains for England. Not to mention that Italy was not causing me any troubles (that would have been a disaster for me).

In the end there it obviously should have been a stalemate. Italy lined it up really well really quickly (and I wasn't really ready yet to grab Tunis), but when I saw Turkey dive into Italy's back, I just thanked the diplomacy gods for their grace and sucked up the solo.

It is really hard to trash Turkey in time as Italy before the winner in the West comes and kills you as Italy. And..it's so tough to give up because you are always sooooo close.

Good game

Yes, I hated Russia then. But that's what you get in 35pts live games. Right now I'm playing a 500pts game with 2-day rounds and it's something else entirely. A joy to play, even though I'll lose :P

Good game cspieker, you lucky bastard you!

cspieker, let me tell you that the feeling about being thankful about not causing each other troubles was most certainly mutual, especially when I built one less fleet than I needed two to begin with, which slowed my progress. There were a few times when I just prayed you wouldn't build fleet Marsailles and wreck my day. When it came down to it, though, is for much of the game we both had pretty much every unit we had tied up in other matters, and once I saw you get to the point where you did have some extra units and builds coming in, I knew the solo push was on, so I abandoned my position on Turkey completely, hoping he would be competent enough that the draw was the best either of us could do.

Turkey is a tough nut to crack, especially when he gets three builds in 1901 and there's no Russia to contain him. The west's indecision pleased me greatly, and thought it just might buy me enough time to get him contained, enough where I could start moving to the Med and push for a solo of my own

When it came down to locking up the stalemate line, I was a bit upset you made the solo push so soon when we could have cut at least cut out Turkey and England (and perhaps Germany, but two-ways are really hard to happen randomly). After the fact, I was really upset you didn't let me cut Turkey out of the draw (since, obviously, he prevented the draw from happening). I'm sure you feel the opposite on that fact, though.

It was a comical game, though. I loved seeing ava switch it up and moving east at the start, just for the board dynamic we don't see often. Unfortunately, it was Russia's first game which completely changed the dynamic of the east.