Thanks for a great game, everyone. I haven't played many games, and I've either died or survived (barely) in all of them, but, well, thats learning for you. Anyways, while playing as Japan, I realized that I had two paths available: to focus on my army, or to focus on my navy. To neglect the army would mean an attack from Siberia, and to neglect my navy would mean an attack from Indonesia. As you can see, I took the army path, but a few major miscalculations (I still haven't really gotten the hang of the support system yet) were my undoing. What I found interesting, though, was that I was in possession of Manchuria, but not Korea, something which was quite annoying, especially with Siberia so close. For some reason, my rise and downfall mirrored the Japanese Empire in WWII, with my destruction of China, the destruction of my fleet in the Phillipines and finally, Siberia's invasion of Manchuria.
I would like to personally congratulate Siberia for being so good at backstabbing, and I would like to thank Siberia and Indonesia for not joining forces and destroying me towards the end of the game. All in all, I have concluded that if Diplomacy were to have a mascot, it would be a vulture. With a grenade.
Eric (Japan)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:57:14 -0800
From: smegdwarf(at)yahoo.com
Subject: DC 260 (Asian): Siberia & Indonesia 2-way Draw
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Indonesia doesn't submit a build, but it doesn't matter, because he does vote 'Yea' on a draw proposal.
The DIAS... fails.
But the Siberian-Indonesian draw succeeds!
Light Brigade Persia survives.
Beleaguered India survives.
Stoic Japan cunningly utilizes geography to survive in spite of an early near-exit.
Siberia and Indonesia wear crowns and look down both graciously and condescendingly upon the rest of the world. What did you expect from kings?
But the game is not over yet!!? It isn't? No. Not until you've written your end of game comments. And I really want them. In addition to the usual praise of your opponents, analysis of the flow of the game, and other good-natured jibes, I ask you to please offer your opinions on the variant itself. I already have solid opinions from Ross (who responded to my mid-game plea). And I can readily point to a couple of awkward spots on the board myself. But nobody knows the game better than people who have played on it.
Thank you and congratulations to all who finished this game. Thank you and 'better luck next time' to those who were eliminated.
For the record, I processed the Winter as:
India:
Remove A Afghanistan
Indonesia:
Build waived
Persia:
Remove F Persian Gulf
Siberia:
Build A West Siberia
Build F Kamchatka
Build A Irkutsk
Final Center Count:
China: 0
India: 2
Indonesia: 13
Japan: 2
Persia: 7
Russia: 0
Siberia: 16
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