gameID=94083

gameID=94083

Ah yes, The Czech manages to hold on. And no CDs. It was a good game.

I was Austria. Interesting game as always for any Austria who makes it to the end of a game with SD as turkey...lol

Italy opened up friendly towards me, then moved against me in 02 at the same time that france hit into piedmont (thank god)

Russia and Turkey were cozy early, and the never ending stalemate on the eastern front was on going, and italy helped almost none against them.

France moved fast thru Germany, and him and England were buddy buddy early.

After Germany died, and as Russia was dying, France had come out on top, but Turkey and I were STILL locked in a death struggle.

We managed to disengage for a time, and i tok munich and venice, and he took souther italy, romania and sevastopol from the Russian, I grabbed warsaw and munich, and England had STp

France took ALL of Germany, and started to invade england proper, but after I took Munich, and turkey got into southern italy france got a bit thrown back

SD and I had some disagreement on if he was going to stab me, but he had moved armies to greece, romania and Bulgaria and I had serbia with only trieste in support.

i was forced to swap munich for berlin for defensive purposes, and eventually brought both northern armies south to help fight Turkey.


I am interested what SD has to say here, but I felt really...tyhreatened at the end there, and was willing to give france the solo if Turkey was going to try for a solo himself.

ah yes, no CDs, thanks for THAT one especially

i draw france and shout for joy lol. i decide to go after germany and hope england either helps or leaves me alone. i get belgium and germany builds a fleet in kiel insuring his demise, england builds in london but i dont think he is coming after me i move to piedmont and hope italy see's that i am going after germany, he doesn't and come after me so i build f mar, and go after him and germany, germany had almost no defense and i go through him easily. italy defends well and i can't gett through him which probably kept me from soloing once i get to about 13 centers everyone comes after me and i lose three centers then i just played for the draw

you know, italy was all over the place that game. never did get his momentum.

One thing about italy, make your move, and do not move off the road you chose, unless someoen moves you.

You need to get some builds past 4 before 03, and he just struggled a lot. Set up for a move on turkey. then came to me, then after france. he just lashed out everywhere.

An italian hedgehog. Never saw one before, but, have now...lol

It was also obvious that Germany didn't give a flip about France. All he wanted to do was takle England down.

Germany was horrible . Everyone else played well, but Germany was bad, but...he did not CD, so kudos there.

yes i admit that much of my early growth was completely due to germany. idk what he was doing

seth, its okay, I dont think he knows what he was doing either...lol

Bob gets a bee in his bonnet and all hell breaks loose on the one he is pissed off with.

The German perspective:

Well, I startedwith no idea where I was going to wind up. My reactions were going to be based on other peoples' moves. Spring '01, I saw England open eastward, France open up marginally hostile, and Turkey actively seeking a Russian alliance, but Russia opening up to take Black Sea in autumn and moving majority south rather than a north/south split. Well, the lack of English-French friction is not a good sign for me, so I figure I am going to wind up supporting Russia in the North unless England changes its tune.

F1901, I was toying with moving to Skaggerak, but eventually decided that it was too likely that France would move to Munich, so I covered that instead of Skaggerak. When England went to Skaggerak instead of Barents Sea or Belgium with its non-convoying fleet, I read that as a neon sign advertising England's intent to get a fleet in Sweden, at which point, fairly soon, there's going to be an English fleet in the Baltic and a dead German shortly thereafter. So, my marriage to Russia in Scandinavia was consummated. As Germany, if england is not going after france right away, he's my enemy, end of story.

Come the builds, I was delighted with Russia and dismayed, but not intimidated by France. I saw Russia's two army builds, and thought, "Awesome! Russia realizes that he has to get to Finland, and that I will make sure he keeps Sweden until we can chase the British bastards off the continent and I can get into North Sea. I should be able to hold off France until that point, and then I can turn his seaward flank and unravelthe French defense." Erm, no. When Russia let England into Finland for the sake of taking a Norway impossible to hold for a season in spring, I just about threw my laptop. At that point, my game was over unless England and France got to fighting. The only way I could see to start that up was to focus all of my defense against England and let France reap all the rewards. So, I actively ran away from France in order to keep England static. A desperate tactic, but it's worked before, and I was otherwise screwed.