First of all, when there's a game that takes more than five hours to finish and nobody bothers to write an EoG, you know that something stinks. I'll now explain where the smell comes from.

In the first phase, it was an entertaining game. England (yours truly) went off to a good start with France (SplitDiplomat) and crushed Germany. Italy decided to attack France, which left Austria with nice chances of growing, since Russia and Turkey couldn't make up their mind whether to attack each other or not.

Germany was overrun and Italy died in a French-Austrian sandwich. France was emerging as the solo candidate, so I turned my armies against him. Turkey, which was about to eat Austria from behind, went CD in 1908.

Russia and Austria realized the danger and started working with me against France. At that stage, I knew France was SplitDiplomat because he's the only player on the site who never draws. Still, we had some significant gains and it looked like we'd force him into a four-way draw after all, but then everything fell apart.

In 1911, Bohonk took over Turkey (I wish I knew the name of the jerk who left) and continued the slaughter of Austria, who had been fully concentrated on stopping France. Entering so late into a game that adapted to the CD and disrupting everything... damn. Bohonk, you're either a lowlife or a noob or both.

Then Russia (Sargmacher) built a fleet in StP and took Norway from me. I always thought Sargmacher was a jerk and this move confirmed this once and for all. My God, what a bozo. He blew any remaining chances of a draw.

Did I mention that the game was extremely slow? If I remember right, every turn after 1901 lasted full five minutes. It was usually SplitDiplomat who failed to press "Ready". War of attrition, obviously, and I finally succumbed. In 1913, getting close to the sixth hour of play and unable to keep my eyes open, I disgustedly turned off my PC and went to sleep. That way, I managed to get my second resign on the site, even though the game finished 15 minutes later! Talk about bad luck.