I hate gunboat---lol--because I suck.

Really? I mean I find some countries easier in gunboat, but I mainly play gunboat for time management. Too busy to play press.

I thought you were rather good at this game ssorenn. Honestly thought you would do better :P

Really excited to see who JimTheGrey is in the final game...

That makes one of us. :-)

And it is over.

Final Standings

PJM Gunboat 1 - 3 way draw (Yaleunc, cardcollector, The Czech)
PJM Gunboat 2 - 3 way draw (Yaleunc, cardcollector, The Czech)
PJM Gunboat 3 - 4 way draw (Yaleunc, cardcollector, ssorenn, WardenDresden)
PJM Gunboat 4 - 4 way draw (The Czech, Yaleunc, cardcollector, WardenDresden)
PJM Gunboat 5 - Solo (WardenDresden-France)
PJM Gunboat 6 – Solo (Yaleunc-Germany)
PJM Gunboat 7 – Solo (Yaleunc-Austria)

Yaleunc - 40
WardenDresden - 19
Cardcollector - 14
The Czech - 11
Ssorenn - 3
JimTheGrey - 0
pjmansfield99 - 0

By country:
France - 23
Germany - 20
Austria - 17
Turkey - 10
England - 7
Italy - 7
Russia - 3

These games almost all broke my way. Cracked double digits at some point during all but game 5 (Warden's solo). Games 2 and 4 had a lot more defensive teamwork than the others. I got to 12 or so quickly in those two and then everyone stopped fighting each other and focused on me whereas most of the other games had a lot of infighting until too late or almost too late.

>>These games almost all broke my way.<<

The opposite of what he said. Fun, though. Thanks for the games.

Definitely fun (not just because I did well). Nice to play with good pace and lots of readying up.

Thanks for the games guys, really proud with my result in a tourney bearing my name! Enjoyed the pace of them

Good games guys. I played like shit but still had fun. Reinforces why I hate gunboat. But enjoyed playing with all of you. Second the fact that everyone readied up

Ssorenn - my impression was that you played fine in the games until the endgame. It seemed like you often kept attacking people other than the solo threat longer than you should have.

Game 7 was 100% my fault on not being in position for stopping the solo, I NMR'd one or two phases in that one when I thought I'd saved moves but never finalized them on that tab, and then I moved out of position for holding St. P. Aside from that, I'm pretty satisfied with my overall performance, though I think it's fair to say that we all don't much like Russia.

The mistake by StP in Gme 7 ended things a year earlier, but that game was over either way. I easily take Naples instead of StP the next year and probably could have gotten Tunis if needed as well the year after that. I had more fleets nearby than could be mustered on defense in the Med.

Game two was my fault. I started collapsing in the endgame, although I felt like I could have won. Great games overall though, and some great teamwork in some. Glad to have been in all the draws.

I'm disappointed I did not improve playing as Russia or Turkey, as that accounted for I believe 4/7 games. Any tips for me? I can never get a good strategy going.

I got to play each country once in this series, which is as it should be but usually isn't, and I demonstrated that I'm equally adept at running each into the ground.

i got 4 germany and 2 austria

Ssorenn - my impression was that you played fine in the games until the endgame. It seemed like you often kept attacking people other than the solo threat longer than you should have.---i appreciate that, but i felt like I kept getting attacked and wanted to yell stop the solo but others did not listen---thats why i prefer press

I had Turkey and Germany twice, no France or Italy.

If anyone has any tips on playing Russia/Turkey or any opinions on my play, it'd be greatly appreciated!

@Yaleunc, I don't know if it was luck that everything fell your way, but you did so well in this tourney that I'm kinda of watching out for you in the other YU24GB series.

I think if your Russia and turkey isnt aggressive to you in 01 you need to support Bulgaria to Serbia and break down Austria.

I tried a couple openings with Russia here, like opening north or south, all which failed. Not sure what to do with stubborn England or Turkey.

As Russia I like the southern opening much better. Usually bounce Bla on Spring 01 and then take Rum from Ukr with support from Sev. Of course it helps if Turkey is not In Armenia at that point.

Card - As well as the PJM series went for me the YU24 is going about that poorly. No one wants to be friends and most of my guesses on 50-50 moves have been wrong so far.