EPTDiplomacy, the board game - Page 12
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MisteR
Netherlands595 Posts
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Luddite
United States2315 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + In our first game, I was Italy, and I had been frustratingly stuck at 4 centers for pretty much the whole game. I knew there was a possibility of that happening to England, too, and I was determined not to let that happen. I decide on a make or break strategy- attack France with everything I had, right from the beginning. France is a hard country to invade, though, so I needed help. I decided to get Italy as an ally, partly because he had been a good ally in the first game, and partly because we could split up France between us with a nice buffer zone. I was lucky enough that my opening moves against France succeeded almost perfectly, and even luckier that Russia moved against Germany, which distracted him while me and Italy finished off France. I had told Russia that I'd help him take Sweden, and at the time I was sincere, but then I changed my mind and decided to take St. Petersburg. I'm not sure if that was really a good move, since I didn't need the extra build at the time, and it forced Russia to ally with Germany against me. It was fun though  .After that it seemed like I had no choice but to attack Germany. I could have stabbed Italy then, maybe, but it would have been very difficult- the western Med is a real bottleneck! And I knew that Austria and Germany were working together, so I was hoping for Italy and Austria to be stuck in a stalemate while I finished off Germany. Actually I had been expecting Austria to win that battle, since he was larger, but I underestimated just how dangerous Turkey is even with only 3 centers. That really helped me a lot, I hadn't been expecting a solo victory until that happened. My fight against Germany was a lot of fun. Luckily he didn't react against me until I invaded holland. After that, there was a lot of guesswork involved, trying to predict where he'd defend and whether or not he'd counterattack. Having Denmark was crucial for me, since it split his forces in half, but I was always terrified of losing that army. But once Germany was finished, it was just a matter of getting across the stalemate line, and Italy didn't have enough fleets to stop me from getting into the Mediterranean. | ||
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stenole
Norway868 Posts
On July 15 2009 19:20 MisteR wrote: Very interesting, these after game thoughts! Is there a third game incoming? I won't be able to be in game 3 because I'll have more than a few days that I can't log on in the near future. Macavenger was talking about starting a game 3, so you should PM him to see if he has people lined up to play. I assume you wanted to play. | ||
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
On July 16 2009 00:19 Luddite wrote: Actually I had been expecting Austria to win that battle No faith in your ally.  Stenole did a brilliant job tactically as Austria. I was foolishly hoping to beat him without letting Turkey loose, but even after I realized that wasn't going to happen, he still managed to prevent me from helping Turkey for an extra year. Ultimately, neither of our starting positions were defensible. I played for second place; he played for a draw, but I wasn't accommodating because I didn't think it was right to cheat Luddite of a victory just because everyone remaining was apathetic. People not finalizing their turns really hurt the game. I like having a full day for diplomacy, and of course due to time zones having turns any shorter wouldn't be feasible. However, dragging out the retreat and placing phases dragged the game on so long that people stopped caring. That first weekend where we spent all Friday on a diplomacy phase (no problem) followed by Saturday for retreats and Sunday for unit placing was ridiculous. Waiting that long for retreat orders is unacceptable, especially when there are no valid retreats for a unit! I'm not terribly interested in another game, but if we do, I hope turns move more swiftly. + Show Spoiler + We spent 32 days to get through 23 diplomacy phases. | ||
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Falcynn
United States3597 Posts
Although after all of the previous delays I got in the habit of checking in on the game only once a day (and sometimes not at all...I really do apologize for that) rather than 12 times a day like the previous game.I'd possibly be up for another game, but if we do another game we should schedule certain days and times where everyone will be logged in so we can bust out a few years in one day hopefully. | ||
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Falcynn
United States3597 Posts
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CaptainPlatypus
United States852 Posts
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