I think the Diplofool Defense takes the cake for stupidity.

I know there are several games where I bounced myself as a sort of victory dance.

Are you sure your name is Onar? Or could it be Onan, if you're bouncing yourself?

That would be fun. Have all non-essential forces bounce where they can on the last fall where you take 18...

I just checked out the game in question, and I agree. Epic opening. On another note, that is an insane battle over the British Isles in that game :P


I remember one fun game where I'm England and my lacklustre ally was France. We'd been successfully conquering the Germans.

He moves into Kiel and takes it from me, and moves to Mid-Atlantic but its such a limited stab that I think it might be a mistake or misoder.
He thensays to me- You've been rude to me the whole game! So take this! Stab! Stab!

I'm puzzled, because I'm generally corteous. But I shrug, retake Kiel, and move my forces in to attack France.

He then says "Oh shit, no! Your the polite one. I meant to stab 'Italy'...

It was quite hilarious, if tragically so. We later set up a successful stalemate line against Italy that lasted for a while but we lost because he kept NMRing every so often. That was even more tragically funny.

@Dragunar: I do it whenever I get the chance.

I had a game recently where in 02 England got evicted and the game was paused. I couldn't unpause straight away because I was busy, and while they were waiting for me to unpause they decided they couldn't be bothered and voted for a draw. I was still away so I didn't vote. I came back, unpaused the game and started play again. Then in 03/04 Germany and Russia came gunning for me and were going to take all my centres in Autumn. I knew I would leave the game quickly, but I also knew I had an easy way out. I typed "/draw" and came in second behind Russia.

lol...nice OMGNSO!

OMGNSO, awesome!

Thanks.

those are some awesome stories...

here is a really dumb move I just saw recently... I'm germany, and I support a Russian unit into swe from den...

he moves fin to swe as agreed... and would have taken it... except - he supported Swe from GoB.

yup. His fleet supported the enemy unit that he himself was attacking (and this is not a newb either - its one of the top players on the site)

i think it falls into the category of dumb mistakes, but its funny none-the-less.

Or the category of changing plans and changing the orders for all but one of the units involved.

Russian opening:

F StP(sc)-Fin
A War-Pru

I don't remember the southern units, but that's pretty sad right there.

The move to Finland isn't that bad...as I recall there's an article on The Pouch about it. A War - Pru is a little less sane, but it COULD work.

one of my friends played a game where someone convoyed from smyrna to take st petersburg from him. went through 3 different countries fleets.

To qualify as a nutty opening the following things need to be considered:
1. it is not a misorder
2. it is a serious attempt at play
3. the player is not stoned/smashed/drunk or under the influence of medicinal overdoes
4. It is not a 'dah' moment
5. the player has to attempt to defend their action (in action)

The last point is usually the most entertaining.

As France I accidentally supported Germany into Burgundy in Spring 01. That game didn't end well for me ;)

@iMurk yeah I just saw that move. Very impressive!

It is no worse than the French actually managed in real life.

dah?

@babak - now that's funny. Not so funny is that people could click on your name and see that you are referring to your top game and find out who made the mistake! Doh, I hope I haven't made that easy for everybody.

Well I thought it was pretty funny, but I think Edi's first point covers this. Misorders, while often entertaining, shouldn't count. Otherwise I've had a few of those. =)

wow... Maniac - you figured that out all on your own with no help =P

hey I gotta vent in some fashion you know