Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I assume groza is in my game. But people don't seem too insane.

How can six people act insane? I can understand *five* acting insane, and not stopping a solo, but I dont see how six nutcases is possible...

OK, maybe I'm being overdramatic. I can sense an actual strategy out of one other power on the board. So, let me revise it downward; there are five insane people in the game, not 6.

six nutcases in a gunboat?
the story of my life...

Well Bob wasn't in our game which makes me a little more confident in my playing. We only had one insane person in our game, I think.

Groza, thanks for the help earning that draw.

Well, I'm out. Insanity, from the German perspective:

Austria- Russia moved hard south right away. Italy opened Lepanto. Austria decides to ignore the Russian armies plunging across the Pannonian plains to attack Italy and get into Venice.

England- Opens pretty sanely, nice development to get an army in Norway and a fleet in Barents. Gets the army into St. Pete.Then backs out of St. Pete to attack German holdings in Sweden and Denmark. Continues to press the attack even after France gets into the Channel and Irish Sea. Goes back into St. Pete. Leaves again. Ugh.

France- Starts off with a sane anti-German opening. looks to have a functioning alliance with England. Gets hung up on the Rhine line. In lieu of waiting for England to start cracking the German defense from the north, decided to attack England. Gets phenomenal position on England, then CDs. Comes back into the game after Austria, fleeing Italian wrath, goes through Marseilles. Decided, despite his phenomenal position to hammer England, that a two front war is exactly what he needs, and attacks Germany. Double ugh. The reason I suicided by pummeling France to open the path for either England or Russia is because he CD'd. Otherwise, there was absolutely no reason to prefer England to France to Russia.

Italy- Actually played a relatively sane game, although possibly overfixated on the Lepanto in lieu of keeping Russia reasonably weak.

Russia- Good start to the game, pummeling Austria right off the bat, although not securing the north by capping St. Pete is not something I would do, it does allow for a nice concentration of forces down south. However, instead of actually concentrating down south, keeps sending an army out at Germany, then withdrawing it whenever England or Turkey starts eating Russian SCs.

Turkey- More or less a sane game, but the attack on Italy when he offered alliance seems short-sighted, considering that Russia keeps giving Turkey at least 70% of his attention.

Long and short of this analysis: people should really not attack every bordering power more or less at once.

Lots of newbieness indeed. lol @ Austria opening against Italy