Only reason that happen was because Italy quit on his Turkish take over to stab me.

All those years of constent battling between me and SD and I finally had another build but NOOO Italy went and fucked that up.

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Count Metternich...your repuptation proceeds you. You idiot. All your growth was in the EAST, and you run a single fleet at france, and when you have disbands, you choose the East also. WTF? There is a reason so many people think you are a dbag, but now I really understand it.

What exactly were you hoping to accomplish doing that? I really got issues with how you played that. The disbanding in the east on centers you could have defended, while you continued to give me grief in the west. W T F.

frank, thanks. It was fun. England went ugly to start, and at one point, i was fighting you, italy and england all, and it was something of a sucky situation, but I managed to hold onto everything for a bit. Once I realized Italy was beyond any repair of his IQ (which may be sub 70, I think I lost 10 IQ points playing in the same game with him) I just tried to hold serve, and as Russia grew, I knew you would have to accept the 3 way, and I hurried to the stalemate lines (which I know pretty good).

SD, good game as always.

Riphen, I would not blame yourself for that, apparently Count Metternich is famous for these strange stabs, and raiders. I have seen his name mentioned not very fondly before, but never had the agony of being near him in a game.

Stressedlines I saw you were going to get swarmed so I tried to weaken Germany since he had the best chance at solo hoping to get Russia big to scare Italy back into teaming up with me. instead he did the opposite and was my demise.

italy was beyond reasoning with, and I saw the Austrian suicide, and it gave me the breather I needed, and appreciate it.

I want that DB Count 'sub 70' Metternich to explain some of his play in here. I have never seen such horse $h!t in my life.

Italys one raider, probably is waht sasved Germany. I had to tie up 2-3 units and sometimes a 4th to deal with italys raider, who had no hope of accomplishing anything.

Really, he had all of turkey and then literally gives it away. If it was anyone but SD I woudl think some BS was going on, but SD is never one I would suspect of such disturbing things, so I just chalked it up to CM being the knuckle dragging mountain gorilla that he is.

any good player would have not even LOOKED at france, and kept building in the east, as he had a nice good chunk there. And then, to make it worse, he disbands in the east also, and leaves his 2 units against me? It literally did not make sense at all to me.