Trigfea63 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:35 pmI agree. Doug, you've played these bots many times. If I have something to add, well, you've probably noticed, I'm not shy about chiming in. But mostly it will be fun to see how you handle the rest of the game.
Things could get messy if/when Turkey moves to Tyrolia, but otherwise he's pretty well bottled up.
I don't think that R/T will stab each other anytime soon.georgefc3 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:18 pmDoug...
It looks like you have a good position. You and Germany have 18 centers to 16 for Russia and Turkey. It looks like you can hold him in TYS/TUN also.
You guys are on the right side of stalemate lines, having St. Pete, Munich, Berlin, Portugal and Tunis.
The question is... If Turkey and Russia stay solid, can you break through and gain more centers?
And... You have lots of experience.... Are they likely to stab each other????
Here is a link to the map:
https://webdiplomacy.net/map.php?gameID ... Type=large
I suspect that I will have to acquire all the German centers to solo. Whether or not I will remains to be seen. The attack needs to be just right and it will hinge on Germany reacting to the stab in the way that I want. There are lots of centers available for me to take, and Germany has at least one to give without giving up too much in the east. So, to that note, I think it makes sense to take Paris first (probably this year) and then have my existing armies work their way eastwards from there, using ENC and NTH to convoy new army builds as necessary. The blitz of Germany must be just right, as I might need my armies to prop up his.
Naf->WMS this turn gives a defense of 4 to TYS, which Turkey cannot break until he gets fleets in all of Pie/Tus/Rom/Nap/ION. That leaves MAO time to manuever to the south in the fall, probably to Spain. Even *if* Turkey eventually gets those units, I can move TYS to WMS and WMS to Naf and Turkey gets into TYS, but Spa & WMS S GoL, Naf S Tun, unit in Mar covers everything.
So this turn: Lon->Bre C ENC S MAO (just in case!), Bre-Gas, maybe Pie-Mar, maybe Pie holds. Naf -> WMS, Tun & GoL S TYS. Bar S StP. We'll see how agressive the Turks are in the south - if I have to retreat to Mar it's OK.