Yup- slow on the draw. Was sooo hoping France would tap Rome one more time!

gg, all

GG indeed. And a point well made... A big thanks to jmeyersd for NOT tapping Rome again in S1916.

Wasn't about to throw the game to the guy that ate up all my stuff! GG all.
From my perspective it was a frustrating game. The west actually might have been decided in what was it? '02 when England supported GER to BEL. England and I could never really get on the same page unfortunately (England misinterpreted my move to the channel and letting Ger into NTH was a big one -- i don't blame him, but it was unfortunate), and with Germany mopping up Scandinavia so astutely, it was a just matter of time. Not to mention Italy messing me up throughout (well done) -- looking back i wish i'd just gone all out on him.
Barn3tt did a great job capitalizing on E's and my misunderstandings and definitely deserved to win the west.
Wish Austria had supported me to TUN!

tho i did think a 2-way draw was there. you guys didn't want to go for that, huh?

pleasure

And way to go Czech for putting up a stellar performance in this tourney thus far!

Looking forward to a rematch already. ;)

so what's that -- 4 down 3 to go?
they've been so spread out I've lost track of the results. all great games, tho

Back at you Barn. It's been a good tourney. Thank you Lando and the mod who sorted out the positions.

I was so glas Rome wasn't tapped and I must admit when Austria forced Tyr and landed in Apu I was thinking about throwing the game., but I figured I had one more year to trust and I'm glad I did.

Is anyone keeping track of the results like the summer gunboat tourney?

Ha, I DID briefly consider going for the 2-way draw. The way the things were breaking down, there was the potential for it... until S1914. As soon a German fleet entered North Africa I gave up the idea and knew I had to include Italy if there was going to be any chance of stopping the solo; Tunis was going to make or break us, and though I could have gobbled up all of mainland Italy in F1914 I could not have saved Tunis if I had and the game would have been lost. In my estimation, anyway.

My beginnings as Austria were more humble than all of that, but my early success against a raging Juggernaut were thanks mainly to the other two survivors: Barn3tt/Germany and Czech/Italy. Germany kept Russia occupied in the north -- even giving me a crucial support into Galicia early on -- and Italy kept Turkey's fleets at bay. I managed to gain dominance on land in the Eastern half of the board eventually after some brutal fighting. It was just in time to set up a stalemate line against Germany on that front.

GG again to everybody. You are some excellent players.

I wrote something up today out of curiosity- just used Geofram's old system of 12 pts. per game, and divide up from there.

The Czech 19
Thatwasawkward 10
Jmeyersd 6
Barn3tt 4
Mujus 3
Lando 3
Babak 3


I think this is right based on that method.

Czech... like I said above, I realized between S1914 and F1914 I HAD to include you. I was so, so glad that:
F Nap-Tyr
F Ion S F Nap-Tyr
...actually worked in the Fall.

Good game everyone. Excited to see the final three finish. I am glad everyone is enjoying this. And those stats look about right as well. Need to finish strong and get out of the basement ;-P

"Excited to see the final three finish."

<cough>, finalize, <cough, cough>

:)

Great job Barn, twa, and Cze... well deserved. I think barn played an excellent game from my vantage point.

Once more, I show my utter inability to play this variant well. I simply can not do well in this game. Don't know where to improve.

jmeyer... I'm not sure what you were expecting. in 1902 you moved to Ech, moved por to MAO and Mar to Spa(sc). I think that can only have one interpretation. so there was no mis-interpreting involved. you suicided against me and I had to do my best to stop you. I hoped my signs of goodwill to germany would have resulted in some loyalty - but we all know that is a fools errand in Diplomacy - but it was my only hope.

Between 1904-6 there was simply no way for us to figure out what the other was trying to do - your repeated moves to Ech and attempt to move to Nth did not leave me with any hope that your intent was positive... the fleet in Nwg was particularly harmful to any such effort. Anyways - Germany got a well deserved win over both of us i think.

@Babak
I'm a bit hazy remembering now, but i'm pretty sure that my intentions were benign (in the midgame). I saw the German advance and we trying to supplement your navy, but I realize that this was very difficult to convey in gunboat and no blame attached to you. Germany just got the jump on us.
Very much agreed that Ger outplayed us both in that one.

P.S. gg in the Big Money game.

"Raging juggernaut" lolol. Is THAT what we were. *sigh*

Haha, perhaps it's a slight embellishment... But I honestly was expecting to get crushed when you first started working together. If Germany and Italy hadn't given me cover I surely would have.

Awk, you don't need to disclaim! It's OK to be a bully in this game--admired, even. ;-)

And Czech, is your last name Norris??? Lookit that score!!

Haha, I vote for change of name to Czech Norris. Mods!