On a judge, not here, but was Turkey working with Austria for 3.5 years. We had both grown, Russia was virtually gone, England and France had virtually eliminated Germany, Italy WAS gone, and were solidly pushing to the west; Austria from the north and me from the south. I suddenly found myself facing a line of fleets and armies from E&F coming south of Switzerland and Austria had made a number of stupid mistakes (allowed Italy's last army to slip through when a simple bounce in the only retreat would have crushed him earlier), so I decided I needed the builds to better control the forces and avoid stupid mistakes Austria was prone to make. I took 4 Austrian SCs in the fall of 04 along with one of 2 remaining Russian SCs and still managed to move a line in to face off with E&F, putting me in the lead at 12 SCs. Then the real accomplishment, I managed to convince Austria to fight alongside me, that my stab was nothing compared to what E would do and that Austria could easily rebuild in the north while I used press to antagonize E&F in the south so they wouldn't notice Austria's getting in position to make a huge grab in the Fall of 05.

There was one game I played as Italy where there was a 16 centre Germany, and a 3 centre France to my 15. I allied with France against Germany, broke into the MAO, playing in such a way that we reached a position where, to stop Germany from getting it, I had to take one of France's centres. Then, next year, I snatched the other two French centres for the win.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=6562

I took over CD England and won.

Not here, but Syria to Norway via convoy. :-) 3 countries involved in the convoy. That was fun.

I won a FtF game (though we used the site as a board) in 3 years... Pretty proud of myself for that one. I was Russia and guessed right on every 50/50 shot I had. Turkey was a non-factor after 01 when I guessed right and got one of his home SCs, and there was enough fighting elsewhere for me to take 14 centers in 3 years.

The last year Germany handed me some centers to end the game before he was eliminated though.

How did you manage to take 14 centres in 3 years?

Then again, yesterday as Russia, in a ftf game, I denied Britain from getting a single build for the entire game, even when he took St. Pete's, I had Edinburgh.

SP01, negotiated passage to Gal and BLA, moved Mos to St. Pete.
FA01, took Rum, Ankara, Swe, and Nor (England got Brest and convoyed to Bel).
Built 3 armies and Fleet at St. Pete (NC)
Took Bulg, Con, and Den in 02

In 03 I got Edin, Vie, Budapest, Smyrna, Berlin, Kiel, Munich. Austria didn't expect the stab, guessed on a 50/50 to get Edin, and Berlin/Kiel/Munich were handed over so the game would end before Germany was eliminated.

It was pretty beautiful. I can give more detailed move information if you want it.
SP02

Don't know how that last SP02 got in there...

(Lie and put and describe an awesome win that never happened to make yourself look cool here) True story ;]

My best move has happened twice. I supported an enemy unit that was trying to do a self-standoff and grabbed the newly vacated supply center at the same time. I love that =)

LOL AMP! Of course you have your awesome 23 (or was it 24) SC win you could have listed.

haha oh yea, my 24 Supply Center win haha I forgot ;]

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=8648

It was in a really old game, one of mine first. Unfortunately you can't see the units, that's how old it is.

I had the unfortunate draw of Austria, but managed to keep the traditional invaders out for several years. Still, I knew I wasn't expanding anywhere and that my collapse was pretty inevitable. After Italy stabbed me, I decided to go beserk and be as much of a thorn in my enemies' sides as I could. I used every tactical and diplomatic tool available to me and was determined to survive the game. After some, I must say, impressive tactical moves which kept Italy at bay with his initial holding acquired in the stab I realized I had to take some risks. So, in a brilliant move, I predicted what Italy would do and slipped past his navies at the Ionian, and took Tunis. Now I was behind his lines; this is where the craziness began.
While still trying to hold my own at home, I did eventually get pushed from Tunis, but used my now-a-favorite retreating strategies to go first to North Africa, then to the Mid-Atlantic, and then to Spain, turning it an embarrassing red in the French heartland. All the while my empire at home is crumbling as I seemed to have run out of friends, except for Turkey, who was himself on the way out. After some fighting on two fronts I was pushed to Portugal and in the east I was desperately trying to push my way out to the sea to get some mobility. Finally I did, and when I finally lost Portugal I knew the game was almost over. I just had to hang on a bit longer.
I knew that I was about to lose my three remaining SCs, that there was nothing that could be done. So, there being a Turkish fleet in the Ionian... I worked up a plan.

Using what diplomatic clout I had remaining, I got Turkey to convoy my army at Greece into Naples, which was unoccupied by the defunct Italtians. He agreed, and it was done.

I ended the game with one SC, Naples.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=2415

I was losing badly in a face to face game. We had a break for lunch and i managed to steal all the order previous order sheets and hide them and then I crashed into the table sending the board flying. We agreed to a draw. The last ever game I played with that group of ex-friends, but I still don't think they knew I planned the choas. That's the problem with computers, I miss knocking tables over and flying dutchmen. Happy days...

Lol yeah FtF can be fun because in a game of lying, the line between cheating and fair play is blurred for sure

I once got an eliminated player to go steal someone's orders for me. Ha.