From the German Government in Exile;

Not much to tell from my point of view.  I worked it out with England and France at the begining of the game so that we were allies looking to pit the west against the east.  Unfortunately, they both fell into Civil Disorder, immediately after my direct attack upon Russia.

At that point, I contracted both Austria and Russia to try and work out a three way draw . . . but of course all of the abandoned resources were behind me and, therefore, left me unreasonably situated to take advantage of them without direct conflict.  In fact, Austria told me directly that he felt he could do better without me than with me and ceased all communications.

Russia, on the other hand, wanted Scandinavia for his support.  At first, all that I could see was that would give Russia two avenues with which to attack my home supplies, so I was very hard set against that idea.  At least, until the alliance between Austria and Russia became obvious; then, I really had no choice but to give Russia what ever he wanted, even the Solo.

If Austria had contacted me requesting support against Russia, I would have been more than open minded.  But then, I suppose that I could have contacted him at any point also.  Except that Austria had rebuffed me so hard after England and France was in CD that I felt it should be up to him to make first contact this time . . . which never happened.

Congratulation Ian on your solo victory.  I would have enjoyed this game better if we had found replacement players . . . even if they all turned against me at that point.  Thanks Garry for GM'ing the game.  However, if you are going to continue allowing countries to fall into CD without seeking replacement players, you might want to consider calling the game a DIAS when three countries or more are in CD.  I don't believe I had any chance once England, France and Italy were all out of the game.  It only made sense for Russia and Austria to attack me and my home supplies were immediately on the front line.  My choices were both bad; go for more supplies and hope that I had somewhere to build them or defend my home supplies and hope I could snag one or two extra while defending.

Thanks again, I hope to see you guys in another game at some point.

Darryl Good (Germany)