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Support hold when your "friend" has two enemy units facing against his one and you can help. Support move, although this is not guaranteed to work, when there's one enemy unit facing off against him and you happen to have a unit also facing the enemy (e.g: friend in Serbia, enemy in Rumania, you in Bulgaria).

Is that what your asking?

Experience, Educated Guess, Luck, Roll of the Dice, Cheating, One or the other did the same move on the last turn so the other matched up this time. Or some combination there of.

No sorry if I wasn't clear. It was a supporting move.

Italy supported a move from France in 1904 spring. Pie - Tyr.

If France was clearly attacking Germany and moved to Piedmont, a fairly good player would likely recognize that the move to Piedmont had the intention of going to Tyrolia, and the support would accomplish the twofold task of showing good faith towards the move while also getting the army out of your backdoor.

not supposed to talk about ongoing games :)

Experience? One way to look at it. There are others ways to do so though. Lie MichiganMan said "it is a bit suspicious."

also no cheating accusations :)

How is one correct support move "suspicious"?

That's ridiculous.

....unless they are proveable....

R u in a game now seth?

yes of course.

A correct friendly support in a gunboat is not suspicious by default. It only looks that way if you're not a good guesser.

It's not at all hard to figure out what game whaskell is referring to. A quick search of ongoing live games reveals this: gameID=95757

The move in question is S1903 and it doesn't look suspicious at all.

-1 whaskell for clearly discussing an ongoing game...won't go as far as to say it was a cheating accusation though.

You've really disappointed me, whaskell.

Soooo I didn't talk 'directly' about this game, now did I

If the 1903 support by Italy is what you are referring to, it is not suspicious at all.

If I mention a false year, am I talking about this game

Plus, I asked a QUESTION. What the hell is wrong w/ asking a question?

Nah, I'm kidding you. Asking questions is always good. Discuss. Discuss.

It takes situational awareness, and the ability to read into other player's moves. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. From my experience playing with you, you are not good at either of these. I would suggest you first learn to start playing for draws when the other players make it blatantly obvious they are trying to stop a solo

Start asking yourself what people's moves are implying. This will improve your game drastically

I take it back, the move you questioned, now that it has been revealed, is a pretty friggen obvious move. No luck, educated guess, or experience necessary. Really.

If the discussion was about specific moves in an ongoing game, rather than generally asking about possible supports anywere in thegame; then i don't think it unduely influences that game.

It is not like he suggested being supported into munich and hoped that some other player in the game would see the request here.

On the other hand, i predict moves all the time. Nothinh suspect about it, in my only current game i supported france to marseilles with piedmont. Nobody told me to, and nobody suspects that i cheated... (it may not even have been a good move, we'll see)

If Russia has a fleet in the Black Sea and builds a new fleet in Sevastopol is that considered anti-Turkish or anti-Austria Hungarian?

I'll take my answer of the air.

@ora, I disagree. The moment he brought up the specific move, only lying about the year by 1 to poorly disguise it, he was causing an affect on the game. Other players in the game reading the post might read it and be worried about the cheating implied but not stated and change how they treat the two countries.

In this game, why did England CD, helping France to win? Did that person see this post and decide there must be cheating so why waste time on the game and quit? Or did they just quit for some other reason. Did Turkey stupidly consume French and Austrian centers because he might as well have fun in a game that is screwed? Or were they just a new player that didn't know what they were doing, which based on their profile is the case.

In this case I would bet that it didn't have an effect. But it could which is why it shouldn't be brought up. IMHO the original poster was fine with this post until he specified a specific order allowing the game to be identified.

1) Do not post cheating accusations on the forum. Even if you think it is obvious or "provable", you could very well be wrong and unfairly affect games/players far worse than any imagined cheating.
The appropriate channel to have cheating concerns investigated and addressed is to contact the moderators. See the rules page for contact info:
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/rules.php

2) Do not discuss ongoing games. This especially undermines gunboat games.

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