I was Italy in this one. I got surprised by Austria opening Tri-Adr, Vie-Tri. I thought for sure it would doom us both. Lando (Austria), were you trying to start up a Blue Water Lepanto? I thought about that possibility but a little too late, and Austria and I were locked in battle. Of course Turkey got good and strong because of that, so I went for what I considered my only hope, break the stalemate in the West and try to produce a solo threat early enough to force Turkey to take me under his wing. Thus I went after France (SplitD). Of course, this provoked quite a backlash. At first it looked like France was just trying to throw the game, but he eventually formed his part of the line and we were done with a 5-way draw. England seemed pretty slow to move into the void, but I guess he might have seen what I was seeing, France throwing the game, and he got a little too confident.

A pretty sucky outcome, but I guess I'm pretty happy with it considering how I was attacked by Austria in Spring '01 (and/or I blew the chance at the Blue Water) I wonder what that does to the GR when everybody is so high up there?