I'd sympathize...but I've never sniffed 1000 .

You'll bounce back. :) (Maybe in the World Cup?)

Don't bet what you can't afford to lose.

Yeah, but as a consolation, your play saved the rest of us from a solo win by England. :-D

and then you decided to fuck me over and eliminate me.

France's play was the rock that started the avalanche. He did not deserve to be a part of the drawn. And he was not NECESSARY for the stalemate lines either. Even if England had gotten Por, Spain and Mars, there is still a stalemate line:
Sevas def Mos, Ukr and Gal def War, Tyr def Boh, Tus def Pied, Rome/Nap def Tyrr S, and Ion def Tunis.
We have all of the fleets necessary to make it work.

Hey now I have more points than you! I'm never gonna bet more than 250 in a game.

You lost 1000 so what...points are here to be spent. Their purpose is to buy you in into high quality game and they done it, I am sure it was worth it.

I lost 1000 too. Oh well. Give up some more: gameID=78257

Now, tell us what you've learned.

I'm always impressed when austria does well in gunboat.

From Zultar: "I detect a hint of sarcasm. If you had good reasons, then please post the EoG. I would like to know." No sarcasm, but there's definitely some irony. And yes, France deserved to be in on the win, at least if we believe that actions that benefit the group should be rewarded. Re you being a rock, I was impressed that you didn't ever give even the appearance of wanting to stab me. That's solid play.

I was a bit erratic, by accident one week (it was my first week back at school AND I was sick), and to provoke Germany another time. By tempting Germany to jump on me I hoped that Turkey would take note of the danger so that he wouldn't attack me from behind. As it turns out I doubt that was necessary.

Thanks, Genghis, but most of it was just luck in how the game unfolded, and part of it was Turkey's long-term viewpoint. I was very impressed by the Turkish strategy, and glad that I was in position to benefit from it--mostly just by being Austria. The only real danger I had to face was the initial Russian attack, but he was soon being attacked from three sides, so I don't deserve credit for that either. Still, I'll take the experience (and the points).

France, the fact that you deserved better didn't outweigh the collective greed of your former allies.

My favorite thing about this game was that Turkey and Austria were able to ally and stick together to the draw. That's a bit unusual.

I actually find AT or IT to be very good alliances. RT, the Jugger, is too predictable, especially in the beginning of the game.

@Muju, thank you for the compliments. If an ally stabs you in that kind of situation, he/she would be an idiot because it's very unlikely that he would get to 18 first before England would, and England was thoroughly efficient in this game. Well, he could have just supported me into Portugal instead of Bel being convoyed into there.

Yeah, the greedy-guts!!! lol I pushed myself into Spain so that I could break the stalemate in case the two of you had too much testosterone flowing to break the logjam, and then I attacked Gascony just for style points. lol

Yeah, just so you know, that little move was just one more thing that made me want to stab the hell out of you to give England the win. If you've been playing erratically, doing things for style points does not inspire confidence.

I was imprecise. It wasn't exactly style points--It was to show you that England was still my enemy, and not you. And who knows, stranger things have happened, and I might have gotten into Gascony. So tell me more about your feelings throughout the game, because your moves were rock-steady.

Hummm, I wrote them up in the EoG thread.

Heh. I thought this WAS the EoG. *sigh*

Ahh, no. The EoG is a bit more detailed. It's still on the front page.

Got it, posted, bought the T-shirt.