Sometimes it's blind luck.

I like DMZ'ing Galicia as Russia, no matter what, press game or not.
So in Gunboats I'll just leave it DMZ and hope Austria does too; I mean there's plenty that Vienna can do that's not going to Galicia, so it's not SUPER uncommon.

When it works it looks like we're super buddies out of the blue
When it doesn't work it looks like normal gunboat play
lulz

but if things look TOO suspicious contact moderators at

[email protected]

but don't waste their time, so if you have a complaint make sure it's reasonable.

Valis nailed it. All I'll add is remember that everyone on the board is in it for themselves. At first, anyway. The mad scramble to form an alliance with remaining nations to stop someone from winning is always kind of fun.

Ah thanks. I forgot about checking the orders that others have written.

At the risk of beating a dead horse... support holds and support moves are used for communication. A good gunboat player will see what moves were entered last round. You also can move into an enemy is hopes that another country will see that and help you next time. It is not uncommon (with moves all over the board) for a country to try and communicate by moving in while another country tries to communicate by helping them in.

This gives the appearance of cheating or psychic phenomenon.

SuperSteve said the right things. Those are things to know and look for. Always study the map, think what you would do in their position and some moves are just obvious to see. Know your enemy and their enemies/friendlies. The saying goes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend. now towards end of match. It should be basic knowledge (some would think) that the biggest/closest one to win should be the focus of attacks.

Ill add a one things to supersteves list. When a friendly is established and you get poke by a unit your pretty much surrounding and seems pointless and "out of the blue". He's asking you to disband his unit so he can rebuild what they need.

@faded box thanks. Nice to learn about these types of conventions.

Mostly through Belgium.

You move an army in
You move an army out
You move an army in, and shake it all about
That's what it's all about
( the diplomatic hokey pokey )

You support move in
You support move out
You support move in
And shake a fleet about
You do the hokey pokey and you cancel vote
Then Almighty Mods are jumping all about

Don't use a cancel vote to communicate, it's very very naughty