oops it think this would make it easier for players to submit eog!

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From: Matt Kremer <matthew.kremer(at)yale.edu ([email]matthew.kremer(at)yale.edu[/email])>
Date: October 26, 2007 5:38:20 PM PDT
To: Felix Kam Chung <felixkamchung(at)mac.com ([email]felixkamchung(at)mac.com[/email])>
Subject: DC106 Israel EOG


Israeli Notices:


First I want to thank all of you, especially Felix, for a great game; despite my frustration at the end with my inability to get Ukraine to recognize how much of a threat Poland really was, I still found it extremely enjoyable.  Wow so let's see if I can recall what I was thinking over the course of this game:


I remember that from the get-go I found myself lucky in that nobody attacked me (I'd like to think that my press had something to do with it, but I don't know how much truth there is in that).  Further, both my neighbors, Byz and Sicily, found themselves in wars with powers on their far sides, leaving their backs wide open to me.  I remember thinking I should keep these wars going as long as possible and work around them, so I nabbed Geo and Cyr and did some positioning.  Unfortunately this was before the fog and everybody started yelling about the "Big Green," so I had to make a move.  Luckily I attacked Byz the same turn he turned back toward me, and with Ukraine eating him from the other side the purple fell quickly (I now regret that I hadn't moved one turn earlier so that I could have claimed more of those SC's and maybe averted this whole Ukraine problem down the line, but of course that's speculation).  Ukraine and I then made a non-aggression pact that lasted surprisingly long considering it was a foregone conclusion that a PUI trio would inevitably squeeze Ukraine's expansion paths.  That enabled me to head west.


I hit Sicily quickly and claimed all of his Italian centers (I remember thinking that one set of orders that kept him out of Cyr after he disbanded everything but his two African units was particularly clever); Spain initially claimed Tun but I took that back quickly.  I set up a wall along the Pie/Ven border and it was my intention to go all the way to Spain.  This is where I have to credit Poland with some good PR as he convinced Ukraine to attack me, so I had to make quick peace with Spain, whose line I had just broken through.  The transformation really helped me here as I disbanded a good 4 or 5 units over two years and rebuilt them in the east to make a wall against Ukraine.  I lost Geo and Arm but as the game ended I had a wall that he wasn't going to get through.


I realized a few game years ago that Poland was going to solo, but unfortunately I really could do nothing to hurt or even hinder him with Ukraine throwing so much at me; I regret not trying harder to turn the white battalions around.  Although if he'd accepted my two supports of Con - Bul this last season we'd still be playing!  It, kind of annoyingly, was the fog that enabled Poland to solo, but that's what we signed up for!


Again thanks to all; it really was a fun one!


Matt Kremer aka Mr. Middle East