First off - Congratulations to Tim for a game well played. He certainly earned it.
Second - Thankx to Andy for keeping things moving forward. Nice job as GM!

Surrounded by idiots certainly seems to be the prevailing tone to go with the neighbors
fate foisted upon me.

Things sort of started out well, but before I knew it I was besieged by France and then
Germany jumped on into the fray. I shifted and brought forces home but Germany kept
dogging me all the way. Shortly after the first stab by Germany I wrote to Austria and
Italy and asked them to put their differences aside and work with me to take Germany
out of the game altogether. The general feeling I got was that they were thinking along
the same lines and I just sort of reinforced the idea.

As Italy took dots from France I was able to gain slight momentum since French units
were being taken off the board from England. Germany continued to say one thing and
do another and Russia was 100% unresponsive. Somewhere in the middle of all that came
a second Russia who was not much better and then finally, pretty much too late, came John.
But like I said, pretty much too late to get anything going.

Then, wonder of wonders, we got a new Germany. I think this genius did about as much to
advance the Italian cause as Italy did!! He was as unresponsive as the original Russia and
seemed utterly set on getting Italy the solo. I saw the Italian solo coming, and told him (Italy)
so, but there wasn't much that could be done to stop it. Especially when the new Germany
came in and caved. The Italian solo COULD HAVE been stopped had a better player taken
the position.

And that's about as far as I'm going to go with it. Yes, folks have said my threat not to play
with him again is an empty one - but the only way I'll be on a board with him is if one of us
enters a game as a replacement. And since I have stopped that practice it isn't likely.