Oops hit post on accident....continued from above

...then I misordered the solo away, apulia support convoy from Greece not Albania
would have put me into Naples with an almost automatic take of Rome. Dammit!!!

Then I pulled back to have Italy eliminated but France didn't go for it...pretty pissed at myself for not getting that solo, would have been my first with Austria.

As Germany, I opened pro-french and England opened very pro-German and anti-French, going to the North and Norwegian seas. Progress was slower than expected, and Austria was growing very quickly.

I knew that I was in no way I had a chance to win, so I decided to play for the draw and hope to squeeze out Italy and England and take a three-way. I let Austria take Munich and Berlin because I wanted to finish England, my units were better positioned there, and I wouldn't have had enough force to finish England had I been defending the stalemate line including Munich and Berlin.

I really thought France had a shot to squeeze out Italy, but he was late sending units south. As a result, he didn't get the Tunic/Venice/Rome stalemate position locked up in time.

In about 1909, I saw the writing on the wall. There wasn't going to be a way to Stop Austria. He was going to take Venice, and in turn, Rome. Then he misordered Apulia's support into Venice, and France moved into final stalemate position.

Austria then backed off, a signal he wanted to eliminate Italy. I was skeptical, and I thought he wasn't backed far enough and felt he would try to rush in as France eliminated Italy, but it wasn't my decision to make anyway. In the end, he didn't risk it which I'm pretty happy with.

I actually was perfectly okay with France not taking out Italy as well, just b/c Italy was an excellent ally this game.

Yeah, you did have the solo, Gen. Lee, but had you not been forced to disband the army at Tuscany (which you could have prevented, but I did it because I figured you wouldn't think of it), you'd have recovered from that mistake, which does happen and is in the back of the mind of anyone fighting for a solo.

I would have been able to keep you out of Rome for a bit (I would have cut both Venice and Naples), but of course you could have resorted to bouncing me in one of those places at some point while moving it in, so yeah, that would have secured it.

I thought about eliminating Italy but I didn't want to break the line. I emailed the moderators asking for a draw once we got it so I figured I shouldn't break it myself at risk of exactly what happened with you - a misorder.

In regard to eliminating Italy, no, I wasn't too late to grab that line for myself, but I elected, thinking of the risk of him throwing the game to Austria, to move my convoy to Tuscany back out and support him in the line rather than create my own.

If I remember correctly there was no way to keep Tuscany, which is why I threw it into Rome and tried to take Naples.

Woops, forgot that I bounced Venice from you.. I thought I remembered that you were already there. Yeah, you're right.

I'm curious, Gen. Lee, why you didn't try to take Naples again. You could have used the Ionian to cut my support, Venice to cut his, and supported with your other units back into each.

Goddamn what are my eyes telling me.. just kidding. Disregard anything I say. I'm eyedrop drunk… can't see shit.

Yeah would need one more unit for that. I tried again, but once you got Tuscany it was locked down unless there was a misorder.