Hey guys,
I’ll write a quick EGS for this one…

As Turkey, this game started off great for since both Russia (Lee T) and Italy (Ismael) ran into some problems. Not w attacks, but just with getting orders in. I think Russia missed one turn and then dropped, and Italy was missing them left and right. That left me with nobody to diplome with but Austria (Gram). So he was my natural ally, we hit it off well, and got into the south of Russia, and about then the new Russia took over (Lee C). By this time tho, I was lodged into Sev, so there really wasn’t any nice way to work w the new Russia, so we just carried on… expanding north and west, I was not going to stab Austria if at all possible, cuz he was the only one in the south that I really felt I could work with, and doing so would have left the game with everyone not talking to me. I mean sure I could talk to Mikael and Derek in the west, but they ultimately wanted me stopped I’m sure.

Let’s see what else… Germany getting those 4 first turn builds then missing them was odd! Then he managed to survive long enough to keep England and France from wiping him out, which helped me cuz E/F were my real threat to stop a win.

I have to say that had Trout and/or Jason come into the game a few turns sooner, it would have been a totally new game, cuz they did all they could to try to stop me, just a few turns too late. And Germany, with Austria between us, was in a tough spot to affect me at all. I was actually paranoid that I/G were going to make a play into Italy proper, but they never did. I think that might have given me some headaches if it had happened. Instead, Germany went for Austria, and that irritated him enough to want to help me more, since we’d been doing well together all game. And that was about it! Austria moved to defend his home centers, opening up the back side for me, and that was game.

Good game all, thanks to Josh for creating this awesome variant in Realpolitik and running a smooth game.
-mike

PS… Thank you all for voting for me! Perhaps I should go into politics.






From: Josh E. [mailto:aramis604(at)yahoo.com]


By unanimous vote Turkey is the solo victor in DC101:1900! Mike, congratulations! You did a great job of dicing up your competition in light of some pretty long odds.

T thank you all for playing in this one, I know there were a few rough obstacles to overcome throughout this game, but we've made it through. I must say I rather like the 1900 variant after completing this game. What are you thoughts?

It has been a pleasure running this game for all of you. Hopefully in the future we may have the opportunity to do it again.

- Josh