Hi Everyone,



Matthew, thanks for being such a reliable and timely GM. I look forward to playing in a game you helm in the future.




Overall this was a game dictated more by who was reliable and who was not. Unreliable players and all-too-frequent NMR's meant that deciding who to trust and what tactics to employ was as much about having a sense of who would actually be submitting orders - or not! As such this certainly won't go down as a classic but, in trying to navigate the fickleness of participation, had its own interesting-if-different problems to wrap your head around.




The high point for me was working closely with Jerome. By nature I am an alliance player, so our long-term cooperation - really since the earliest turns of the game, despite our claims to the contrary! - was a pleasure. Of course it made the decisive stab harder to execute as well. I rather would have thought he was an ass so there would be no remorse in that case.




Thanks to everyone who saw it to the end, particularly Baz whose position was near-hopeless years ago yet continued to submit orders and help the game conclude in a positive way.




Hope to see the reliable ones among us again, soon!




Dirk








On Apr 3, 2011, at 5:44 PM, JOHN CLARKE wrote:





Good evening gentlemen

 

First of all, congratulations to Dirk on a successful outcome to a very skillfully-played game.


Many thanks to Matthew for keeping us all in order, including coping with two abandonments and a frustrating number of NMRs.

 

Finally - good luck to all of us in future games. Until next time .........

 

John



From: Rocketship <rocketship.rocketship(at)gmail.com>
To: Jerome Payne <jerome777(at)ymail.com>; Dirk Knemeyer <dirk(at)knemeyer.com>; Balthazar Logan <baz.dip(at)gmail.com>; John Clarke <john.c1arke(at)btinternet.com>; Dave Labreche <pebbleanddrag(at)yahoo.ca>
Cc: dc350(at)diplomaticcorp.com; Rocketship <rocketship.rocketship(at)gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, 3 April, 2011 6:10:12
Subject: DC350: Game End!

DC350:  Fall 1907

Well, this is it.  Russia reaches 18 supply centres and wins the game.  Congratulations to Dirk on the solo victory!  End-of-game statements from all will be welcome.

Thanks to everyone for sticking it out to the bloody end.


England: 
F Wales - London (*Fails*)

France: 
F Belgium - North Sea (*Fails*)
A Burgundy Hold
F English Channel - Wales (*Fails*)
A Gascony - Brest
F London Hold
A Marseilles Supports A Burgundy
F Portugal Supports A Spain
A Spain Hold

Germany: 
A Holland, no move received

Italy: 
A Kiel Hold
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Gascony
A Trieste - Venice
A Tuscany Supports A Venice - Piedmont
F Tyrrhenian Sea - Gulf of Lyon
A Venice - Piedmont
A Vienna - Tyrolia
F Western Mediterranean - Mid-Atlantic Ocean

Russia: 
A Ankara - Smyrna
A Bohemia - Munich (*Fails*)
A Bulgaria - Greece
F Constantinople Supports A Ankara - Smyrna
F Edinburgh Hold
F Helgoland Bight Supports A Kiel - Holland (*Void*)
A Munich - Kiel (*Fails*)
F North Sea Supports F Wales - London (*Cut*)
F Norway Supports F North Sea
F Norwegian Sea - North Atlantic Ocean
A Ruhr - Belgium (*Fails*)
A Serbia - Trieste

Cheers,
Matthew