okay, I will give my summary of this.
First, I took over Carthage, I was not the original owner. When I looked back, It appears the carthage player missed two town, Autumn 01 and 02 both, he did...nothing?
When I took over, he had 3 units, but had 4 centers, Persia was on the way out, and Egypt (what a tool) was wandering around lost in the desert over there.
So, after some early negotiations with Greece (who, like he said, I did not trust for one moment) and Egypt, who babbled like an Oompa Loopma on speed, and yes, even Rome, who I initially was going to try to support vs Greece, I started moving around gobbling up some centers that were unoccupied.
Egypt came to me first abotu Greece, saying "we must ally" I agreed, and we left one army each, with mine being in Leptis, and spent thenext few years supporting each other.
As I saw Rome could not hold, I decided the only way to really stop Greece from winning, is to chew up as much of Rome as I could, and establish a navy. I grabbed Sardina, Sicilia and Baeres from him, and moved towards Masillla.
After my stab, Rome had only Neapolis, massila and roma left, and until the final year kept them, as Greece and were both supporting of attacking in equal strength all these areas. It was a rather interesting sub story, to see who guessed wrong first where, and only in Neapolis did I finally manage to punch thru.
Egypt.....what WERE you thinking, since you decided not to answer me in the game? I am sitting there, thinking we may have a 3 way (If I cna figure out how to eliminate rome that is) and egypt shifts armies towards me under the guise of (supporting the coast)
He has 2 fleets in the entire game, so he is really little threat to the Greek at all, he is all defense along the coast. Then he hits me at Leptis. I was stunned. This forcedme to destroy an army that was in Gaul, as iI felt it was the only one I could afford to lose, and gave me no offensive power at massila
Yes, I did retake Leptis, but had to give up sea power, and rather than continue to be so close to one so idiotic (Egypt) I supported Greece into Massila and roma to end the game.
I was stunned. I could not believe what I had just witnessed. I hope for an EOG also from him, so I can hear this excuse as to 'why;
Greece probably could have one, I dont know. I had just gotten a fresh build from Neapolis and was bringing that fleet into play, and then bang, that happened...lol
People say stabbing is part of the game? true, it is. However, it must server a higher purpose. You do not stab, simply to grab a center, and give another power a victory. You stab to get your own solo, or prevent another solo. I was nowhere CLOSE to a solo. I have 10 centers I think at the end, Egypt had 9 maybe? I think greece had 16 when I offered him those chunks of rome, and he took a few off a now departed Egypt, so its hard to say. I am thinking he had 8 before he went AWOL on us in the final two turns.
It was a fun game, and just for the record the FIRST game I joined on WebDip, after leaving PlayDip after they went down (I still have not returned) I have finished plenty of live games since then, but this was the first one I joined, so I enjoyed the map a lot. A few more sea zones would open things up a bit though for sure...lol
Gunboat Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry-13
buy-in, all welcome, with reserved spots for Lando and Frank (who already asked for one)
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