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15 Jul 22 UTC	Spring, 3: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
17 Jul 22 UTC	Spring, 3: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
22 Jul 22 UTC	Spring, 5: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
26 Jul 22 UTC	Spring, 6: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
12 Aug 22 UTC	Spring, 14: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
14 Aug 22 UTC	Very dumb Rome
14 Aug 22 UTC	Very very dumb
14 Aug 22 UTC	GG to all. Persia, I'm not sure why you kept attacking me when I was trying to help you stay in the game, but you wound up forcing my hand. First solo victory for me! :D
14 Aug 22 UTC	I got mashed
15 Aug 22 UTC	Yeah, not much you can do when 2v1ed early game.
17 Aug 22 UTC	Bit late to this, but gg. @Egypt, from S4 onwards (once it was clear Greece were hostile), I never actually attacked you. The movement of my units was simply to deter a possible attack from you by making my defence a bit unpredictable. I tried to show through frequent support holds that the moves were purely defensive. Nonetheless, I was in a pretty bad position between you and Greece for that game, and didn't really have any options other than defence. I never really expected to make it to a draw, unless someone got greedy for a solo before I was out. My last hope was that Greece would help me defend against Egypt once Egypt attacked in S10, for fear of Egypt getting too close to a solo. As for Rome, no idea what their plan was in S13. Gg all.
17 Aug 22 UTC	I always appreciate when people put time into their comments, so I will let you know what I was thinking, Persia... I had my draw vote up for a long time as you had me pretty well stalemated starting in Spring 5 or so (a hasty set of orders caused me to let one of your armies escape into Chersonesus a couple of turns prior that basically ended whatever momentum I had). After that, for the next 8-10 turns, I was basically just content skirmishing with Egypt and would've taken a 4-way draw; I think everyone except Egypt had their draw vote up at that point. For whatever reason, Rome took that as an opportunity to arm our border to the teeth starting in Year 8-9. Instead of pressuring the lone draw holdout (Egypt), Rome put all their units against me, and so while I might've been inclined to help you survive to defend against the Egypt solo, once Rome started doing that I took the position that I needed to get myself on an essential piece of a stalemate line, quickly, which meant that you had to die. The logic being, Rome wouldn't be stupid enough to attack me if attacking me meant that Egypt would solo. And to get to that point, I needed Egypt to get to 17 centers, which included all of yours and some of mine. As luck would have it, Rome WAS stupid enough to attack me and gift Egypt the solo, even though as late as Spring 13 we actually could have still stalemated Egypt (Sparta-Aegean-Miletus-Minoan-Isauria-Cappadocia-Armenia being unbreakable from the south, as long as Rome was in Messenian).
17 Aug 22 UTC	I was actually going to vote for the draw, but Persia annoyed me with the constant attacks even when I'd demonstrated I wasn't going to try to weaken them by leaving their completely undefended SC (Cyprus) alone. After that, I figured we'd finish off Persia and 3-way draw, but by the time that happened, Rome had annoyed me by attacking me. I actually never really intended to go after Greece, it just turned out to be the softest point to attack at that point in the game. I didn't even realize how close I was to the solo until the very last turn.