I saw that convoy coming, but Russia is a poopyhead and never gave me the chance to deal with the obvious solo threat.

gg all. very entertaining. i find it's much harder to avoid misorders when typing eog's one-handed.

S 01: damn I hate gunboat russia. Will try new concept have had recent success with. Put faith in t and play strong north. Hope t doesn’t go to arm. Nice if eng opens to channel. Risky, but r’s southern front is typically weak against aus unless italy is anti-austrian, but with this group of players I doubt that’s the case.

F 02: rats. Well, I hope ger takes pitty on poor russia. Finland not stp to at least try and appease eng and open stp for unlikely build. T I hope senses friendship and will take rum bate. Will solidify with support to rum from arm while making sure to hold onto my shirt in sev. Won’t try sev-rum support ukr as will alienate t if tries arm-rum. Amazing dmz in gal.

B 01: thx germany! You’re my hero. Well, game is up now, anti-english or ger wouldn’t have dne that. As such f stp nc as must defend anyway and will help comfort ger. cummon my austrian friend

S 02. Decent prospects up north, anything but stp-nor looks silly. Ukr hold sev again, but sev hold. Hopefully t/a will fight over rum, and I don’t want to alienate either yet with support. See how this turn goes before deciding.

F 02: will get norway. Hooray! Like t move toarm, but too late. Aus is the winner there I’d say. Faith now in a/r alliance (my fav, incidentally)hold aus in rum, but not cutting bla. Would like him to leave me some goodies when the time comes, and don’t want aus to eat him too quickly.

B 02: tough choice but I think a war. Time to swing on ger, and will deter aus from thoughts of blitz through russia.

S 03: move on ger time. South is secure. Like f tri build. Will support hel-nth hoping to take pressure off nor next year. Should get some german goodies. Time to try and claim some of turkey. Winning chances nil if don’t get something down south.

F 03: build should be certin in berlin. Don’t think I’ll lose norway, but if I do, I still have a strong german front. Aus seems safe – no stab threat. Ukr can cover sev in case t tries anythin cute. Will try for arm this first year, as knowing the high quality around, he might expect a crack at bla.

R 03: rats. Cant believe that happened in nor. Shoot. Retreat to stp obviously.this may have backfired. Need france to come through for me here. At least ger has to disband but I expect it will be nth sea. I still have some play.

S 04: think/hope france will help out now. Will support england and hope to finish ger. would like to maintain this position and take den in fall. Try to bounce kie. Sev-mos to hold stp. Turkish front non-starter. If england hits wall in stp/swe may switch focus.

F 04: better than expected. Den should be mine, hope england doesn’t support, don’t think he will w/french troubles. Don’t think will have to worry about turkish move to arm. If it happens, should have build to compensate. Can move mos-liv to prepare a convoy or something. Cut bla to make sure t doesn’t get arm w/3.

R 04: Did not expect bla. Cool..

B 04: have to cover sev and can make push for T. hope a doesn’t take issue. Don’t think he will as has own issues. England got message, cool.

S 05: may lose ber and stp is useless. Will make stab at kie, but can’t convoy liv as ger may be forced to sil. Pru instead. Stp goes to nor to cover swe, hope e gets that. Sev-arm with support. Don’t think a in position to take sev. Bal-kie. Guarantees ber, den leaves too open to england. Italy v. aus very good

F 05: sure glad I went to nor. It was the safe move. Hope for build now. Now I really do expect french problems for england, so nice pressure off my back. Gotta get stp out though, so stp-bar. Time ripe to hit aus, I guess. Campaign v t goin nowhere. Sev-rum

B 05: damn it. accidently hit ready instead of drop box for sev. Whoops. Still got build, but no me gusta this e/f cooperation. Damn it england. Have to cover stp now don’t i? a mos.

S 06: well, I suppose e/f think they have me cornered, and they’re right. Blast! France, you let me down. I want friend in t now, so support hold. Only likely strong ally. Time to grab some of aus. May be problems with sev/rum in fall but so be it.

F 06: losing sc up north, nothing I can do about it. will offset with rum (hopefully). I hope t read my orders. Difficult situation up north, but I anticipate e will simply take denmark, it’s the only sure bet I think. Hence mos should be free to cover sev and bla can support rum. I hope t is the forgiving sort.

B 06: wow! Pretty bad from e/f, but no complaints here! The ingredients seem to be in place for t and I, so I won’t mess with sev. North is the main front, mos can cover war if need be.

S 07: darn it turkey. Bul-bla must be coming, so support bla-rum. Losing up north again. Where comes this loyalty to eng, france, everything’s there for the taking. Too much to write details of up north, but hope to break even with england. If france pulls that far ahead, he must stab at some point.

F 07: shoot. Another bad misorder. That really screwed me not having nor-swe. That’s what I get for typing one-handed. (eating dinner) . Now it’s a guessing game to get sweden. I’m guessing england will put three on norway, so hold nor + bal-swe.

B 07: I win another round with e but lose with t. good trade with france’s stab. I’ll take it. don’t know how I got mun. oh yes I do. Den-kie. Why? Thx aus for boh. I owe you one. T is not the forgiving sort it seems, so have to build in sev. Fleet. Will need to cut bla eventually. Hopefully aus can come through now.

S 08: expect england to lay off now. Time to redeploy. Fin has to come back south, so stp must get out. Bar safest bet. Then ska and nor. Sev-bla, mos sm rum-sev looks nice. hope e is feeling me on mun-kie.

R 08: what the heck england? Support kiel? Misorder maybe. Touche turkey, but disapointed aus didn’t grab bul. Thought he would. Good that france lost the unit behind mun, but not ready to plug up yet. Confident can get place in draw now.

F 08: england, don’t screw me for trying to help you out. I’m covering nth and if I get it will mess with france and set up to take den at some point. Not much to do but hold in south. Sev sh bla to pray for peace. Don’t know what turkey hopes for after rum. Aus better not go to gal, but stp-liv is coming anyway.

B 08: expecting too much of e to see ruh-kie? Maybe should have cut bur for aus. Tough disbands but have to be ruh/liv I think, as t is not being rational.

S 09: the den army is doing no good. It has to go. Will build it as northern fleet I think. Suporting bh-mun as show of good faith but won’t do much good. Sure wish t would get with it. not getting anywhere atm. May cry if he goes to gal/rum. Eng will be cut out of draw. I suspect france is smiley, so when gets downto 4 with no sign of diminishing will draw.

F 09: thank you turkey. Will hold one more turn to be sure and don’t want to close stp anyway. May’ve lost nth but had to be done. Should get kie, maybe france will get ber. Whatever. Hopeful will draw when e goes.

S 10: don’t trust t in slightest. Support france to edi and hope for draw.settling down.

F 10: mistrust proves well-founded. Whatever.i’m secure. Will take part in draw whatever happens. Maybe t and I could take out a but it’d take too much time to be worth it.

That and Germany was mean :/

my mini-EOG. Let me get the real one

disclaimer; I'm a smartass, and I think almost all of my sarcastic barbs look stupid now anyway. you've been warned.

draw: England

S01: Boring standard opening yaaaawn. I'll let the others pick their enemies first.

A01: okay seriously you've got to be fucking kidding me
Russia opens to St. Petersburg while Turkey opens to Armenia... real smart. That's why I said I was going to let others pick their enemies first.

W01: Okay, so France got three builds, Germany helped Russia get a second unit on Norway and it's possible (though with Turkey down south and an unoccupied Rumania, unlikely) that Russia builds in St. Petersburg. Good start as England, Eden! At least Italy isn't Lepantoing, and is selling peace to Austria... hope he heads west. Then maybe I can sort out Russia/Germany.

S02: Builds are about as expected, except for the unexpected (and most welcome!) A Bre instead of F Bre from France. Gotta love how Russia just doesn't give a shit about the south at all and wants to spend 3/5 units picking a fight over Norway. France seems competent so I'll signal a move to Holland for the fall and hope he picks up on it. Meantime, I'll also support the move to Sweden from Denmark, and if Germany sees it I might get him to take me up on it. Now I'm kinda hoping Italy doesn't head west... in fact, scratch kinda, I hope Italy doesn't go west. That would suck since I need France against Germany. But I'm afraid it's probably inevitable since France built F Mar and Italy isn't really in a position to go anywhere else...

A02: Well, that went about as expected. Italy/Germany/Russia vs England/France, with Austria and Turkey screwing around for the hell of it to boot. Maybe Austria could intervene with the +2 it's getting... we'll see. Going to hope that (a) France saw the signal and (b) Germany banks on France not seeing the signal. The good thing about England in a gunboat is that those armies are damn useful signal units. It's a shame I have to lose Norway. Going to advance signal Denmark as the next target.

W02: DAMMIT FRANCE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO CUT RUHR SUPPORT. AGH. WE HAD THAT ONE TOO. This is probably over now, unless Russia stops being a jerk. I rate the odds of this at about .000000000069%. Turkey and Austria both want to be bros with him down south, though Austria, again, with the +2 might be inclined to tear him up. Maybe Russia will take a chance on a stab of Germany, though... he CAN put three on Denmark and two on Berlin if he builds the likely A War... Of course he could also help Germany get the North Sea. That would suck.

In other news France seems to be crossing swords with Italy, to minimal effect either way. I think I can count on French alliance for a while, I just hope that Austria intervenes SOMEWHERE. Russia or Germany or Italy. They're all open, big guy. Your pick!

S03: We'll have to wait until the actual moves to be sure, but it looks like Austria chose... neither. He could drop to Tri/ADS and go for Venice, but that fleet is more likely going for Turkey. Which is a shame because he could just bottle Turkey up with Ser/Gre S Bul and look elsewhere (Russia? Germany? Especially Germany...) for some easy builds. Maybe I'm biased, but I'd have gone (A) Tri -> Tyl, Vie -> Boh and rip out Munich.

Anyway, Russia could consider a stab now. I wish he hadn't gone F Stp (nc) -- A Stp would be a clearer signal of limited warfare confined to Scandinavia. But we'll see. For now, going to support hold NTH and try the convoy to Holland again and hope that Russia doesn't give Germany some unwarranted help.

A03: Flip that. Germany gives Russia some unwarranted help. Berlin's gone. Retreated to Skaggerack because I'd rather take Germany's side here and stake a claim to MY Norway and Russia's Sweden than... whatever piece of crap settlement I'd get out of Germany being carved up. (I think maybe Holland. lol.) I hope Germany sees the retreat for what it is and doesn't take a bullshit potshot at Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, Italy turns around to fight an Austria who... as I called, was not actually after him at all. Bad mistake for Italy because he just gave France way too much momentum in the Mediterranean now. Italy is done. Austria probably gets to carve up Turkey before fighting France. Looks like this might be headed WT vs RA.

W03: Good news... got Norway. Bad news... oh god DAMN it France please tell me that was just an emergency overreaction to Burgundy. Germany pulls back, Italy pulls back... I honestly wouldn't blame him if he took this shot at me, but I hope he sees the impending AI war for what it is: his chance to score some quality centers off of Italy. Maybe this will still evolve into the Western Triple I hope it's going to become. It would help if I could get a disband in North Sea from Germany. 99% sure I'll see that disband in North Sea. France, I'm sure you're not thinking about it, but if you are thinking this little island looks like a nice stop:

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Going F Edi -> NTH. Russia, you see this?

http://www.teletubbies.com/en/images/pic-meet-char-tinkywinky.jpg

This is you. An adorable big purple fuzzball. An adorable big purple fuzzball that's about to get its head smashed in. :)

S04: So wait, I clearly missed something. Turkey is now fighting... probably the most-awkwardly-placed Russian invasion force of all time (I mean seriously, A Sev/F Arm? Really? What are you gonna do with that, bleed on him?), coupled with an intimidating Fortress Austropa that happens to be having its back scratched by a rather confused Italian... I'm thinking Italy might go jump Turkey now, since the fleets came east but Italy didn't attack Austria. Which just means France gets to coast. Fine by me, I'll be ready when he returns.

As for the north, I think France is content to draw up his defensive line and go work Italy. I might have bought Germany enough time with taking Norway for him to get his line up against Russia and to start advancing. This might turn out to be a Western Triple in a gunboat... how about that?

A04: So... Turkey and Russia make peace, France decides that he's going to leave Italy to distract Austria and come after me and Germany. Awesome. You people need to stop attacking me early so I can help you when your "friends" screw you later -__-

I'll drop Yorkshire to London, help myself into Norway and accept Russia's peace offering, and send Norwegian over to NAO. Hopefully with four units to work with I can at least frustrate France's advance long enough for Italy to stop screwing around...

Interesting. The single !. Indicative of a convoy/land problem, which means Russia has to be attacking Denmark. I hope Germany reads that. I'll vote Pause for him. ...looks like an NMR. Sad, but I won't complain too much. Strike that, orders in.

W04: Ugh. Don't scare me like that, France. *sigh* I hope France hesitates to move to MAO. I'm going back to set up my move on St. Petersburg. I think Russia won't build A Mos because he got into Black Sea and probably wants to get a finger in on the Turkish spoils. Italy looks like he'll finally be getting center number five... took him long enough. Poor Austria, though, got screwed by the nature of the game and the inherent weakness of his fleet-building capacities.

Looks like my best chance is still being France's bitch. It would be way too easy for him to come attack me now, and Scandinavia is slow... but he hasn't done anything explicitly hostile yet. Keyword "yet"...

S05: Prediction was right, Russia didn't reinforce the north. Probably thinking I was going to go freak out at France.

http://www.teletubbies.com/en/images/pic-meet-char-tinkywinky.jpg
Hammer.
It's on.

A05: Russia tried for Norway, France signaled peace with ENG while moving to MAO as a precaution. France is powerfully placed to screw me hard now, but if he wanted he could have had A Lvp ready this season. And honestly Russia is not giving me a chance to do anything else. Better stick to the course for now. Meanwhile the whole AI thing confuses me... Austria's play was strange. Not sure what to make of things. We'll see how it goes, I suspect that France will want to get a move on into the Mediterranean before Italy turns around and that he will if I let him.

W05: Things are mostly going as expected. Probably got too greedy hoping for Denmark. No big deal though.

S06: France is still my buddy, Russia set up predictable defense of St. Petersburg that will not help him in two years' time, Germany is first out, Austria is collapsing to Italian-Turkish pressure. Looks like things are still going to be muddled as we get to F/I and A/T conflict, with EF moving on R.

==Dio is just not doing it for me. Let's crank up Pantera.==

A06: France, babe, I love you, and I'm glad you love me too. Now can we PLEASE get out of the Channel? We both know the only thing you're doing there is stalling until you can build A Bre and convoy behind my back.

W06: Could I possibly mistake Norwegian Sea and Norway at a less inopportune moment? I mean really, who writes this shit? Ugh. At least Denmark is mine, and I might get Norway too.

S07: Was hoping he would not build St. Petersburg and deal with Turkey, who now has the Black Sea guaranteed and is about to have him by the balls in the south. France is staying onside and staying in the English Channel... I know he's going to stab when he's ready for the win, but I can't do anything about it right now. Best thing is just to guarantee Denmark now since I can't defend Sweden and try to work from there.

A07: You know what I love? When I know good and well someone is about to solo, and I'm the only one who can be more than a minor nuisance, but my neighbor won't quit attacking me to go deal with it. I'm going to keep attacking Russia for the moment, but I want to deal with France. I can see the convoy to London or Wales coming from a million miles away, but if I back off to stop it I lose Sweden and get no builds and probably just get R/F squeezing me trying to solo. So I'll keep fighting, make sure Russia can't retaliate and use what I can after that to slow down France. Especially with CD Austria this game is pretty much over... Time to lead the Draw vote, too.

W07: Knew it, and was going to stop it, too. Good game, France. Nice job, Russia, I could have stopped him a while ago if it weren't for you. I'm going to have no choice but to try and cover my bases while trying desperately to signal peace to France and hope he leaves me alone.

S07: Yeah, that. Here goes.

A07: Russia, you've got to be kidding me. Yeah, screw it, Russia's not only the only draw holdout besides the leader but he's actively moving to come after me instead. He's about to face a -3 with Rumania/Sevastopol/Munich. You want France to win instead of drawing? I'll be happy to oblige.

NOW you put up the Draw vote. Better like than never, devochka. Let's stop this solo.

W07/S08: Well, I'm screwed. Good fight though. Dunno why Russia didn't keep Ruhr. Time to go trollin'!

**did not record past S08, because at that point I was, well, just trollin'**

I wrote for 1901 Only, After that I watched past Red Nose Day Specials.
Spring 190 Yeah! I'm NOT Russia.Interesting Russia opening. I want to Jugger. Actually had moves in to do so then changed the. .

Fall 1901 Should have gone with my gut.

Rest of game--Spent trying to stay alive get a build.

End of game. Working well with Austria to get France to draw. Guess he's waiting for E to die.

I really like reading it year by year. It adds a lot. :-)

you guys are out of your minds.

Did not know we were writing EoGs. Well basically, things began pretty well with Italy, but then he turned against me and did not get that my move to Ionian was to protect him from turkey. Tried repeatedly to make Italy understand I meant no harm to him and to try and get him to hold off france again, but he kept taking shots at me, so I decided the hell with Turkey and Russia, Italy will die. The NMR I had really sucked, took 5 mins for the page to load because I was lagging big time. GOt the orders in barely in time and when I hit save it lagged again and orders did not get in. Russia taking Rumania had terrible timing, but luckily managed to make peace with turkey and stop france in time to push for the draw. Good game everyone, pay more attention to the supports next time Italy. Was surprised England did not try to stop the convoy, the support hold to north sea the spring before was an obvious sign that the stab was coming.

Eden, yours was hilarious. Please do that every time. And except for our miscommunication about EC, you read me like a book... I really liked you being my bitch, as you put it. :-P

And wow, I have a new perspective on gun-boating France. I've played as France in 7 gunboats, drawn 5 and soloed 2. I'll take that. I seem to recall always doing terribly.

*better late than never, devochka

Damn. This looked like fun. I enjoyed reading the EOG. I think there's a big opportunity for me to learn here.
Please invite me to the next EOG anon gunboat.
And smiley, who the hell did you sleep with to get France 3 times in a row?

Ugh. Take it. I never really enjoy playing France in Gunboats. :-/ I was pissed when I got it.

And PE, why were you thinking WT? Because of my support hold of Holland? That was just to throw Germany off. XD I don't think a WT could ever work in a gunboat.

Anybody up for another?

I knew Germany would pull off to fight Russia with me, and I figured you would let him while you went to work on an Italy who was ineffectively throwing all four of his units at Austria.

@zultar: I will always do EOG's. I did it once yesterday and everyone like it, and it's become a thing. But I'll do them for every live gunboat I'm in. :-)

Honestly, I never even considered it. But I still wouldn't have. I had mostly armies, and I didn't have the fleets to launch a major offensive against Italy.

And no, Riphen, sorry. I'm done for the night.

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Also ☺ you stabbed waaaaay the fuck too early.

I stabbed because I didn't want you getting a build. I don't know how you managed to not go +1 on Russia that round, but I didn't expect you to have a disband. Had I known you wouldn't get a build, I wouldn't have stabbed.

@☺, I was thinking that for the invitational game, we each do an EOG and post them all when we are done. Since it's not live, we'll have time to think about the moves and what to write.

Yeah, the problem with that is we have to keep a word file saved somewhere. If you want to we can suggest that. I might just keep mine in my self-chat box.

Really? Because the move to Belgium forced me to try for two and risk a disband. You didn't give me a choice. I saw that stab coming and it forced me to be more aggressive than I otherwise would have...

That shouldn't be too hard. Just create a google doc and type as you play.

Well you wouldn't have had a disband had you bounced Swe instead of worrying about giving him Munich. :-P

I just have Simon #2 remember everything while Simon #1 focuses on this game. Isn't that right, #2?

You got it, #1.

Thanks, man.

What, and reward you with a build for stabbing me? Hell no.

So cut off your nose to spite your face?

And I got two builds anyway. XD

Like... you seriously have no clue how close I was to dropping NTH -> Lon. I had it saved. I was going to do it.

Then I decided, as noted in the EOG, that I was probably just giving Russia too easy a time.

===

But seriously, Russia and especially Germany. What the hell, guys? Germany got killed and Russia got Norway for his trouble. That was seriously a monumental waste of time.

I was screwed. I tried to fight a two-front war with half the firepower of either force. Not wise.

For what it's worth, you did a good job trying. :-)

There's only so much I can do.

Time to update the standings... *sigh* I am really bummed out about that Ancient Mediterranean game. I honestly thought with four wins in four tries as Rome that I wasn't going to lose anytime soon if ever. And even despite a shitty start (ordered an army and fleet build in Ravenna, fleet build went... Greece attacked shortly afterward and I was a unit short and a unit basically useless) I was in position to win, but the other two JUST managed to wake up in time to stop me. Ugh.