In my first game, i was france, and was in an alliance with england till he stabbed me. pretty harsh way to start playing, as i was set for a draw, but i guess thats the game.

First game ended in a draw, if I'm remembering the right one. I drew Germany and had a solid alliance with France. Not representative of a typical game (I'm pretty surprised that France never stabbed me) but still fun.

Then I tried a bunch of live games and kept drawing Italy, which I have yet to learn to play correctly. Ha.

I've been here a month only so it's not hard to remember my first game... the problem is I started two on the same day so they are both my first games. I'll never forget them because I was stuck as Italy in BOTH games. Ended up with a front-head collision against Austria in one, was helped by Turkey to eliminate Austria but was just as quickly turned on by Turkey to be eliminated. The other one, I lasted all the way to the end, allied with France and Austria and I had a back and forth between friends and foes until we finally became good allies and worked together. France ended up winning but it was a PPSC so I did alright too.

It was with some real life friends of mine, I was trying to teach them the game. I was England and withstood a brutal stab from France, but my friend Brian (who was playing Italy) managed to pull off a solo. I was a close second, but that only counts in the Olympics.

The next time I got them together to play I schooled them as Austria.

Austria, live game. Held on to be a part of a draw because I got stabbed late by KyleFC's Turkey, I think, who was pushing for a solo. We stopped him only for someone else to make a solo push, and then got a 4 or 5 way draw out of it.

of course i remember it. it was fun

I think it was gameID=6680 in which Austria kept trying to hit Italy and forced Italy to turn on him. Unfortunately, stratagos as France decided to turn on Italy when he CDd and I picked up the CD position. I don't know who had been in it originally, but they were doing fine right up to that CD.

I couldn't tell you which was my first game when I started in the position instead of filling a CD.

But I could tell you about the game on the judges where I met Crazyter and a suicidal take over player insisted we had to let him in our backfield or he was going to throw the game. He threw the game and Crazyter and I lost as a result of his (the crazy suicide takeover player) unreasonableness.

bump to keep interesting thread alive

Umm. Did the poster of this thread attempt meta? Using outside game talk? O.o. Or was I the only one.
Aside from that
My first game was Turkey, and Draug of all people was Russia, and I survived with Tunis after he stabbed me, and he did it well, but I failed my supports one 1 turn, and that lost me it >.>

Oh, Draug's Russia got your Turkey, too?

And no, Bask wasn't metagaming there. You can use outside chat features (IM) to carry on negotiations. You just can't use events from outside the game to influence a game. For example, basedGod fucked my bitch, but I can't revenge stab basedGod, and not just because his swagga's to the max, but because he fucked my bitch outside of the game, so I can't use that in the game.

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That was an anology that I didn't need to picture..

I remember it taking several turns to figure out why all the colored arrows were a turn behind.

My first game here was a classic 24hr turn. I was France, and got the solo. Then I celebrated by fucking President Eden's bitch (he wasn't even in the game).

My first game here was my first game of diplomacy ever...I was Austria, opening was good, manage to take much of the Balkans, but then I made one great mistake and the tide turned against me. Russia soloed the game and I survived with one unit holding Bulgaria.

In my first game some years back (on a now deleted account) I was England, and I didn't fully understand the rules. I would support hold an attacking unit and so on. In the end I lost Britain but held onto Portugal, having somehow persuaded my nemesis France that he should let me live, that I would somehow help him. I can't remember if he destroyed me, I think he eventually did.

I also kept drawing Italy in the beginning. I was like "hey cool, I can take Tunis no questions asked" but never really succeeded. That day will come.

lol Hanged Man

Played as Austria. Was attacked by Italy from spring 01 and ended up loosing that war

i was turkey, i think thats why i still love turkey