In the game Stay on These Roads,
http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3326&msgCountry=Global
I am playing England, and Stagger the Lier is Turkey, we have reached an agreement of drawing, then a new Russia came in, we fought till he died, still bearing the draw agreement, now that he has 17 and i have 17, i asked about our agreement, and its gone. I played so that we are going to have a nice draw, he then takes such advantage of a good ol' agreement and fights....
He said to Me "Autumn 1911: Yes, we'll draw once Russia is gone."
I asked the Public "Autumn 1912: Are we for a DRAW?"
He replied "Autumn 1912: I'm afraid not. sorry. But you'll still get a ton of points."
(Public Messages can be confirmed by Wombat, playing the Russian character)
NEVER, NEVER, PLAY STAGGER THE LIER
Sir Winston lays out the problems with the Versailles treaty neatly in his memoirs. Basically, you take from a state its best sources of raw materials (Alsace-Lorraine, Saarland, Silesia), some of its crop-producing regions (parts of Western Poland), and eliminate most of its heavy industry (military equipment), you can't also ask it pay enormous reparations, because the economy is too weak to support such a drain. Had the Powers of Europe chosen either territory or reparations, World War II probably could have been avoided.
It also helped the National Socialist cause that the governments were unwilling to enforce the measures once push came to shove.
Heh, I think we was the player that ruined my biggest pot game. I was in an A-R alliance and he was France and Allied to England. I saw that, if the alliances continued the way they were going, we'd lose, so I stabbed Russia with England supposedly going to stab France. England didn't stab France for a long time(understandable), but when he did, Stagger made no effort to defend himself or his home SCs, choosing to keep fighting me. He claimed he'd get more points that way, but instead, England got to 26 SCs.
Yeah, what he did is completely ok by me.
And figle, I've been posting those priorities since before Noodlebug joined! Although I have them in opposite order, but the meaning is the same. I always had...
1. Win... failing that,
2. Don't let anyone else win... and failing that,
3. Survive, although I only added this after the points system came into play.
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