You are suck a duck, FD. :-)

Austria's not much better, if it all :p

I should have given up on fighting Russia a year or two earlier in that game. But we still got the draw.

O_O. Draugnar is trying to be achillies???

meh, I didn't notice until 1908. And we did have a long war going on

benguy, you idiot, you supported Belgium in autumn 1903 and ruined both of us! Why? WHY? WHYYYYYYY??? The neighbors are calling the police...

I *am* achillies. No wait. That came out wrong!

benguy again? That poor guy just can't buy a break (or a clue it seems).

I think in my head, Germany became a solo threat in F07 when he took Spain. So I guess I gave up on attacking Russia in F08, that's not too bad.

Basic EOG

I plan on being boring and taking out Austria (StackelbergFollower), but I am unable when Turkey (brainbomb) opens on me, and keeps me from Rumania.

England (Zmaj) convoys into Norway, and so, while fighting the duel in the south, I had a nice little 1v1 against him, where I made several tactical mistakes, but I was able to let Germayn (lvpiter) finish him off for me.

Turkey was eventually finished of by Austria, and I went and picked a fight with him, taking Rumania. We battled until 1908, when I moved on Germany. Austira kept fighting for bit, but I checked order history and found he was trying to signal peace.

The reste of teh game was setting up the statlemate, which we did very quickly

Best Year: 1907

The whole game I kept picking fights I couldn't win. First with England while fighting with Turkey, then Austria, Austria again, and then Germany :-0

My game mostly involved capitalizing on early luck and then getting stuck by fighting too many people at once. 1901 was great as Austria: Italy opened against France, Turkey against Russia, and England against Russia. By 1903, I was on 8, mostly due to sneaking into Italy when I realized his war with France was just going to kill both of them. That proved to be a mistake; I didn't have enough to cover my back from Italy and also quickly take out Turkey, as I soon learned.

So I spent almost three more years positioning myself to actually kill Turkey without losing anything to Italy (I would have definitely sacrificed Venice at this point for peace with Italy, but didn't think I could signal that), and by then, Russia had managed to get a few builds from Germany killing England, and Germany had also roilled through the west. At the end of 1907, I was in the black sea and had an edge against Russia, but it seemed like long odds and Germany was growing faster than he could build, so I switched gears. By 1911, Italy and I both got behind Germany's lines and we got out draw.

I also love how Germany was in Denmark twice but never captured it

It's a real shame because if you had just relinquished Venice I would have left you alone. I was cursing you when you took it! (I knew the risk) but thought I'd get away with it, I could see a really strong AI starting and then lucked out.

Regardless - draw as Italy, I'm happy.

Nice job getting behind his lines you two :-). We did awesome :-)

Yeah, taking Venice was a real goof. You would have definitely killed France if you could have built two fleets that fall instead of an army in Rome, and maybe slowed down Germany too. And I would have killed Turkey much faster, and maybe worked down to a three-way draw with Germany.

But hey - better than getting eliminated in 1903, which is what usually happens to Austria in the games I play.

Draug, you WISH you were me :)

O_O. Thank god Italy didn't build two fleets then

haha, yeah, me starting a stupid war with italy was the best for you, FD