Thanks for an exiting game guys. II got into it a little late and first round i was terrified that everyone where plotting against me. Then Austria decided to attack Russia without telling me which throw me into a lop and then Austria disappeared. I really liked our second Austria although he thought he was talking to Italy when he was talking to me in the beginning. Russia was no longer cooperative and austria was so I thought I'd lock that down and move forward into a long term Austria Turk alliance. I really thought that was the way to go all the way through. Then germany and Russia pulled a fast one and managed to keep us from moving into Russia. A great move that we completely missed. I now thought that moving forward would take too long so i made a deal with Russia and moved in on Austria instead. That gave me a chance to betray Italy and seal his
fate. I took a center or two from Austria and then made peace with him again. 
Then russia turned on Germany i swooped Austria and moved in on Russia and where voted winner (which i don't really understand i thought Id be stopped at 17sc with Eng/germany holding the rest)
All in all a great game it was fun playing with all of you and Austria deserved a better faith. 
Chochem/Pontus
--- Den tors 2010-05-27 skrev JOHN CLARKE <john.c1arke(at)btinternet.com>:

Från: JOHN CLARKE <john.c1arke(at)btinternet.com>
Ämne: Re: DC289: End of Game
Till: "Mark Jefferson" <markj18(at)gmail.com>, "Rocketship" <rocketship.rocketship(at)gmail.com>
Kopia: "Jeffrey Krauss" <jeffreykrauss(at)live.com>, pontusstrimling(at)yahoo.com,
diplomacy(at)jeffreyk.com, dc289(at)diplomaticcorp.com
Datum: torsdag 27 maj 2010 19:40

Congratulations to those who survived, but especially to Pontus/Chochem - the Balkans certainly lived up its reputation in this one, and he managed it better than any of us.
 
Personally, after a disastrous start, I was delighted to have survived 1901, never mind still be there (only just, may be, but still there) in 1908!
 
I hope we meet up again in the future.
 
John





From: Mark Jefferson <markj18(at)gmail.com>
To: Rocketship <rocketship.rocketship(at)gmail.com>
Cc: Jeffrey Krauss <jeffreykrauss(at)live.com>; pontusstrimling(at)yahoo.com; john.c1arke(at)btinternet.com; diplomacy(at)jeffreyk.com; dc289(at)diplomaticcorp.com
Sent: Thursday, 27 May, 2010 15:35:03
Subject: Re: DC289: End of Game

Congrats to Pontus.  Turkey seemed to sneak up in this game as the dominate nation.  I guess with most of us concentrating on France and Austria it allowed Turkey to grow without too much resistance.  It's a good reminder that sometimes you have to drop your agenda and tactics for the big picture.


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Rocketship <rocketship.rocketship(at)gmail.com> wrote:


Oh yeah.  Whoops.  Well, after we got past the rough beginning it was good though, eh?


Matthew








On May 26, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Jeffrey Krauss wrote:


Thanks for a fun game everyone!  It started out a bit rough (I find Matthew's "no NMRs" amusing given the first year and our couple of abandons ), but after we got a good set of folks playing, it was quite enjoyable!
 
-Jeff
 
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