JesusPetry (Russia) sent me the PM: "I guess you were a bit too aggressive at the start. Anyway, this was the best live game I've played in a long time!"

I (Turkey) replied:
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Or I wasn't agressive enough and was too trusting. In Fall 1902 and Spring 1903 I tried to support A-H, but A-H would have none of it. I wouldn't have lost Bul and Gre if I had stuck to defending myself.

And with the Fall 1904 moves A-H made (it looked like it messed up and was going to order what it did the following season), I was convinced that it would stab you and from then on worked on the assumption that we would ally, wasting orders trying to defend you (like in Fall 1905). I wanted to talk so much in this game!

I also feel like 5-minute phases are too fast. (I only submitted orders the first phase a couple seconds before the deadline, but I guess that was more because I didn't expect the game to get 7 players.) In Fall 1903, I could have supported myself into Bulgaria from the Agean. I reasoned that A-H would have to choose between keeping Bul and attacking Gre, that it could only do either with two units unless it vacated Bul and that, besides, it was probably looking to attack you eventually and wouldn't commit everything to me. F Aeg could have supported Gre-Bul, but instead I ordered it to cover what I expected to be an unsupported F Alb-Gre. I never even considered that A-H would try to support that move from Bul, surrounded as A Bul was. After the orders were resolved I was struck by my stupidity: of course, one of the most basic rules is that a unit cannot cut the support of an enemy unit attacking it, and long behold nothing cut Bul's support! If I would have had more time I would have caught that, but instead I relied on my instinct to trust A-H and suffered a crushing defeat that season, losing 40% of my SC's in one blow.

In any case, it really is a bummer; the first Diplomacy game I am eliminated in I was Turkey, the great power with the best survival rate!
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