1901
Open as non-commital as possible,
hope one of E/G/I is nice. Yikes England
seems to have it in for me, but Russia's
second build means he has holding Norway
to worry about, which is wonderful. Russia
builds an NC fleet in 1901, something I've
argued against in the past, and it's going
to be useless to him in this game as well.
Quiet start for Turkey, and I hope Italy doesn't
come my way.
1902
War with England. Germany took Belgium, I found
that odd. I expected him to slip under the radar
while I and England fought. Italy is throwing
everything at Austria, this is going to
precipitate a juggernaut. And ha, pulled off
a fancy convoy. And predicted the move to Gas,
so a pleasant turn. Russia takes Serbia, I
hope this causes tension between them.
1903
Chaos. I considered this possibility, but thought it more likely that England would either try to
regain Liverpool or take Belgium. Horrible for me.
Germany is making gains in the meanwhile, and
this is going to end badly for both me and England
if we keep at it. Italy and Turkey also engaged,
Germany builds a fourth fleet! Terrible long term, but I now get some breathing space. If 1904 goes well, I might still be in it.
1904, 1905
Recovering centers from England, hoping Russia can hold of Germany for a while. Which puts me in an interesting situation. I want Turkey to not move on Russia, but I'm the only other target available.
Not good. Turkey uncomfortably close in WestMed.
1906
Turkey sneaks across the line! Brilliant moves, he knows he can deal with Italy and Russia at leisure.
Nervous moments for Russia. Last thing I needed at this moment, the Turkish attack. I was just going to shift focus on Germany.
1907. 1908
Largely worrying about trying to form the line and stopping mrore fleets from crossing the line.
Turkey looks set to stab Russia
1909, 1910
And we have the line! All Germany needs to do is to move to Clyde, I retake Liverpool and the Turkish fleet is snuffed out. But no, for some unfathomable reason, he moves to Barents. This single move will probably lose us the game.
Turkish fleet goes free, three of my units play Follow That Fleet while Germany still tries to take a StPetersburg that's doubly defended with two units. Whatever is he doing?
1911
Turk in the channel. If he takes Brest, it would tap Gascony, Pied would tap Mars, NA would tap MAO, and he would have two attacks on Spain, undefended. So I move stuff around to block Brest, he moves to Wales instead. I move NAO to MAO
in the hope that Germany will support that next turn
1912
Nope, he goes to Wales. Honestly have no clue what Germany is upto. Turkey's in MAO, and that's the game :(