-
We have updated our Community Code of Conduct. Please read through the new rules for the forum that are an integral part of Paradox Interactive’s User Agreement.
WE ARE NOW AT THE START OF FALL 1905, UNIT BUILDING/DISBANDING PHASE. THE DEADLINE FOR ORDERS IS THURSDAY, 22nd SEPTEMBER, 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST).
France
7/7
Austria
0/0 - Austria has been eliminated from the game.
Russia
7/10
England
4/3
Turkey
0/0 - Turkey has been eliminated from the game.
Germany
5/5
Italy
7/9
France
7/7
Austria
0/0 - Austria has been eliminated from the game.
Russia
7/10
England
4/3
Turkey
0/0 - Turkey has been eliminated from the game.
Germany
5/5
Italy
7/9
Not bad. I was wondering if the Brits would go for the guaranteed -1 or if they'd try for the potential 0 or +1; they wouldn't have held either way against Russia since Vain asked me to track out all of your likely moves and determine how well his counter work work (which was wonderfully), but against Germany, they might have gotten something. Austria's out, and the map of the Balkans is looking rather pretty for now. Britain might be able to hold Norway, but not and keep the Home Isles at the same time. Italy's eastern deployment pattern is pretty obvious, especially with Austria out, and Germany is going to have an interesting time of it now that France finally moved up to Bur like they should have done a season ago, since that will let France start rolling up German lines from Bel on east.
Oh, and the Ottoman Empire yet reigns in the Aegean. Weird, though, about the failed German move F Hel - Hol. This is idle curiosity, but what did it bounce against that caused it to fail? The British F Nth supported into Nwy; A Bel held (supported by A Ruh), and A Kie was supporting the Austrian move on Munich. As far as I can tell, nothing moved into Hol except F Hel.
Oh, and the Ottoman Empire yet reigns in the Aegean. Weird, though, about the failed German move F Hel - Hol. This is idle curiosity, but what did it bounce against that caused it to fail? The British F Nth supported into Nwy; A Bel held (supported by A Ruh), and A Kie was supporting the Austrian move on Munich. As far as I can tell, nothing moved into Hol except F Hel.
Had a vicious attack of boojums, it seems. Sorry, but we'll take good care of it in your stead.
Culise, we discussed F Bla - Arm, but I ended up ordering it to Athalcor's face. Now it's in Ank. Strange. Is Ankara Athalcor's face?
Ehehe...maybe? Ank, Ath, I get them confused sometimes. Fancy a baklava?
<shakes head at Austria's 'orders'>
France and Italy have some interesting choices ahead.
Italy needs to attack France to expand. Will Russia continue to cooperate? Will they go for a 2-way draw (Russia and Italy) or will one attempt to solo? What about France...will they continue eating both Germany AND England...will Italy and/or Russia start to support Germany in a bid to keep France occupied?
So many good choices coming up...
<pops popcorn>
France and Italy have some interesting choices ahead.
Italy needs to attack France to expand. Will Russia continue to cooperate? Will they go for a 2-way draw (Russia and Italy) or will one attempt to solo? What about France...will they continue eating both Germany AND England...will Italy and/or Russia start to support Germany in a bid to keep France occupied?
So many good choices coming up...
<pops popcorn>
Germany promised to support us into Mun, but they didn't do it well enough.
Also, Hawkeye has completely disappeared.
Germany was banking on a French attack on Berlin, it seems. If that had happened (A Mun S A Sil - Ber), the attack would have cut the support from Munich (letting F Ber repel A Sil), while unsupported Mun would have been dislodged. Of course, the French can read a map as well as anyone else, and they recognized that even the Germans alone could have stopped that move in a heartbeat or at least arranged matters so that there was no net change in SCs (A Kie S F Ber Hold; A Kie - Mun; A Ruh - Mun; A Ruh S A Kie - Mun), much less with Austrian support added to the mix, and instead chose to take an unassailable defensive position until decisive forces arrived from the Italian border.
It would amuse me no end to hear statements from the staunch defenders of the Isle of Wight, who have held off the French for more than a year now, as well as the Turkish rump state of the Dodecanese.
And yet you have failed to take Gotland? I suspect that, like the Balearics, the Ionian Sea islands were just left uncoloured from the start.
No, I released Gotland as a vassal, as any good EU3 player would.
And the Dodecanese are clearly yellow.
Rhodes and the one between Rhodes and Crete are, but I don't think the others are. So it's more like the Knights Hospitallers than a Turkish rump state.
And Germany is still getting nowhere.
But you're getting there so fast!
