1901- I (Austria) open up with the southern hedgehog. Italy opens lepanto while Russia and turkey have standard openings. In the fall I accidentally let turkey get Greece and Bulgaria, but Russia has a fleet at Rumania so I feel relatively safe.

1902 - turkey builds 2 fleets, not looking good for lepanto landing. I move into position to take Greece and lucky for me Russia moves Mary to Armenia. My move to Greece is succesful thanks to an Italian cut, and turkey sacrifices Ankara.

1903- I take Bulgaria and Italy lands an army at Syria, now things are starting to look really good for me.

1904- i take Rumania and then help Italy into Smyrna. In the meantime France has almost taken all of England and Germany has taken over Scandinavia. Russia is on the ropes and turkey and England are down to minimal units.

1905- Italy and I keep up the alliance, I get Warsaw he takes another Turkish center. France has eliminated England and Russia is down to 2 units. Now I'm worried about an Italian stab but also focused on beating Germany to the remaining Russian centers.

1906- France moves his fleets south and Italy is forced to defend, I'm safe for the time being in th south. I grab sevestapol and I have position to g Moscow as well, Germany and France begin to clash among their border.

1907- I'm thinking how do I turn this into a solo. I rush my units to beat Germany to the stalemate line and Italy pushes further west. Ufortunately Germany and France both hold in the north. This was a critical year, for some reason I decide to defer a build here, I really wanted a fleet at Trieste but I didn't want to alarm Italy into backing up.

1908- I figure that I have Munich since Marseilles was a threat to fall there would not be 2 holds on it and I was correct. I'm counting up which centers I need to each 18. Now in hindsight I might have been able to hold off the stab on Italy one more phase, but idk. I move into position to threaten th Turkish centers Italy holds and to my surprise he doesn't bounce me from Ionian. I pick up 4 builds at the end of this year, if I hadn't deferred a build I could have actually used them all. But I also had to leave myself open in the north to a guessing game with Germany. I also made a stupid move to try and signal France to press into Germany of convoy to Denmark. I think that may have just given Germany the idea to convoy to Livonia and really made a mess of my north line.

From there out it was just a guessing game of bouncing to keep Italy out and trying to slow Germany from gaining ground in the north, the solo attempt was lost, we eventually eliminate Italy and do a 3 way draw.