by vaderi » 04 Dec 2013, 03:44
I joined the game a little ways in, I took over Russia1 just as the map got remodeled and my first orders were in fall 1902.
I took over a Russia that was at war with every single neighbor and losing every fight. I set about seeing who I could convince to stop attacking me, Austria1 was more than happy to stop attacking me and side with me against Turkey who wasn't communicating with either of us but England1 refused to work together with me against Germany1. I almost immediately stabbed Austria in the back when Turkey1 started talking to me, which I want to once again say I'm mostly sorry about that stab was not one I feel too good about.
I didn't do to much more (other than finishing Austria off) until Ferdy0 took a break when I was able to reach a truce with his temp, we both positioned our fleets to attack Germany, then I stabbed Ferdy's temp and secured Norway.
at this point(1904-1905) I was attacking Germany1, while Turkey1 and I were engaged in fighting Italy2. Germany1 and I were pushing each other in and out of Berlin and Munich, neither of us were making much headway until I mis-ordered a retreat ( I should not have tried to edit that PM, I should have just sent in a second set ) losing an army without costing Germany1 anything at the same time that Italy1 finally outmaneuvered Turkey1 signaled the downfall of the Side1 Juggernaut.
At this point nobody was pming, I think from spring 1906 to the end of the game I had 2 PMs, 1 from GhostEcho(Turkey1) and one from Morg(Italy1), the one from Turkey1 was a short communication requesting support, which I supplied while the one from Morg was turned into something of a discussion of the game and how it had turned out. Since I like to communicate with everyone and since college final projects were coming due and the utterly predictable trudge towards defeat, I started to lose interest in the game around 1907. I was being attacked on every front and my one ally was in worse shape than I was. I fought every step of the way (until 1911) which ended up making me feel worse about the game since my defeat dragged on for 14 turns ( spring, fall, winter ) in incremental steps which I was powerless to prevent. I finally found myself ready to quit in winter 1910 since I was essentially defeated.
In the end I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of this game, especially since I managed to reverse the initial fall that my predecessor had started. I enjoyed talking with everyone, even England1 who was my enemy just about the entire game. I had dismal time of it the second half though, largely due to the death of any communication involving me.
Good game and good job Morg
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