Why so serious...

Maybe he pissed on his jacket. That's why it's yellow.

Pride always comes before a fall

Challenge the best players on the site to a game and see how long you remain undefeated.

why not just play the 6 of us who have commented here :) that would be a fun game I do believe, especially since smilie here never got that one game off the ground ;)

Congrats, you won a game marred by a crucial and completely incomprehensible CD.

lol OK I deserved all that. Apologies, the "sucker" thing was meant as sarcastic, I was just excited, and thought a win on 1st try is likely not too common... I know I'm gonna get handed badly if/when I get to the upper echelon of skill here. Please-not-Turkey as Austria played really really well, and almost won with a much steeper slope than I had; he deserves much much credit.

Still if you experienced guys who did check out in enough depth my moves, do you have any constructive criticisms? I feel I'm too conservative so far, do you agree? Would you have done much differently, strategically or tactically?

@bas: yeah France really quit at an ideal time, and he missed a LOT of opportunities to really stick it to me, even before he quit (French Fleet in Scandinavia would have been ruinous). But lets be serious, even if he stayed that game was likely mine (barring throw to Austria immediately). And I know the other (active) game I've been *very* lucky from the beginning... it was a good game to start on :)

@Eden thats part of the game too, right? Frustration/quit is a factor... maybe not at YOUR skill level though :)

haha I feel like I painted a giant target on my back just now.

generally moving to spain NC is useless...

I will be impressed if you manage to stay undefeated as long as MadMarx did when he started here. If I remember correctly it was something like 8 straight wins. Good luck with that...

I don't think that the OP is being at all serious...

Squirrel: I had to take Spain that turn to ensure Austria couldn't stalemate me (assuming France didn't drop).

Steve: I'm serious about everything except how great I am... that part is a joke.

I don't think he was being serious either, but neither was I. Still, this tall poppy needs to be cut down to size! :-P
But good luck with maintaining the winning streak :-)

Anyone else think that switzerland should be a moveable space? If someone were to fuss about it making a hole slew of opening moves it could be given a neutral army. Sound good sound bad?

Sounds overly complicated that it gets its own army as a neutral...

Yellowjacket: It's not that complicated. It's an army that does nothing but hold. If it is dislodged, it automatically disbands. This is common in other variants, and they are viewable and playable on VDiplomacy.

right, but it sounds like The Prussian thinks this should be standard. I have no problem with any variants, so long as they stay variants... I'm not so sure it would be the best for standard. Could be wrong though.

hey wait a minute, this thread is about how awesome I am, not about switzerland!

quite the contrary, it is about how awesome swiss chocolate is, and again, i think you should play with some of the people in this thread, i'm not out to try and crush your success. I feel that it would be a good chance for you to really show us how good swiss chocolate is

Haha Akilies... a true contender knows to wait till he's ready before challenging the champions. The time is not yet right.

fair enough, let me know when you are ready ;) and i'm no champion, more like a pheasant and yes i mean the bird