(I was Turkey) This was a fun and challenging game. In A01, Italy moved into Austria and ignored his Tunisia build and I knew that would be good for me eventually. I also got into the Black Sea. Since Austria and Italy were mixing it up I knew there would be no Lepanto or immediate attack on me so I decided to build an army Smyrna and start hitting Seva in 02.
By S02, Italy was demolishing Austria and I thought Austria needed to live a little longer, so in A02 I supported Aegean back to Greece. That seemed to be an unfortunate tipping point for Italy as France was hitting him too. I thought after helping him survive that Austria might be a little grateful but instead he started attacking me immediately, like one of those deer that gets stuck in a river and starts kicking the rescuers.
Russia was getting hit hard by England so I was able to get to Seva and Rumania in 03 and get 2 more builds. From there for a couple of years it was a matter of getting my troops in a good position to attack Austria as it's really easy to get too spread out as Turkey and hard to get troops to the front line.
By about this time, I was starting to worry that France and England might be multi's or metas because they were working so well together. In fact, when I went back through the moves, there was a funky looking move to Holland by England in S02. Mind you, this was not a password protected game but rather an open game with a bunch of randoms. So thoughts of multi noobs was not unfounded. Fortunately, they did start attacking each other and I was glad to find out that everything was on the up and up.
Anyway, I just kept convoying armies through the Black sea, moving them up, and grinding it out until just the three of us were left.
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