wow, neat, far out, turkey pulled out the win. better to be lucky i guess. my first game in 25 or so years at all... and first on dip corp and... wow, solo? still find it hard to believe.

a special thanks to paolo our game master or as i like to say... god (with a little g). if the rest of the game masters are as understanding then this is a great web site. any questions i had answered with clarity (and rule book page numbers and rule numbers and paragraph). and i even got to point out map issues which i think was done just to see if we (the players) are paying attention.

thanks to the other players. jake in austria who had to leave late in the game. but when all said an austrian-turkish partnership could not work we proved it could, and i was one of the biggest doubters. always waiting for the knife in the back. then to germany, hi dean, i was ready to share then... what the heck, you did a hell of a job and as a replacement player. tom in france with one unit for how many turns? amazing how that works. the russian and italians that fell early both stuck it out when all was lost so a toast to them also. the thing i am most proud of was i almost played the whole game with out a knife. when i landed a turkish army in liverpool from greece, i did tell england that i had know reason to go north of the mid atlantic and that's when the knife came out. sorry england but a six fleet convoy was way to hard to pass up.

mostly my first game in so long, and i had every break i could. from guessing right on the first fall and preventing the russians from building a fleet in sevestapol. to austria having to leave at the most opportune time for turkey to solo. better to be lucky than good.

one last thing.. to dean...i did have fun storming the castle.

cheers to all,
the sultan of the ott-omens (omens, only good ones this game)
drew ott