The Grass is Always Geeener

02 Jul 20 UTC	GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
03 Jul 20 UTC	Moderator: (Claesar): Nice draw. How easy did you consider it to figure out which countries were run by bots?
03 Jul 20 UTC	Oh hello, randomly appearing admin!
03 Jul 20 UTC	I guessed that Austria and Russia were both bots fairly early, because as Turkey I obviously studied their moves more, but I wasn't completely sure. Also assumed Italy was a human, because of the messed up convoy order in year one! Didn't have enough time with short phases to properly analyse the other moves on the rest of the board to work out who was human amongst the other players. But when England got to Russia I gradually worked out that they were a bot. Likewise I wasn't sure about France until he made one or two "human" moves. Interesting playing against bots. I've played quite a few 1v1 games against them and read the big forum thread about how the AI works.
03 Jul 20 UTC	France had to concede at the end because he got too drunk and fell over. I only hit draw to end the game because I realised I was playing against a bot. Otherwise I think I may have had a good chance of the solo, as seems to be Turkey's advantage in gunboat.