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Sciz Wrote:I think armies can support from provinces not adjacent to the attacking army, as long as they're adjacent to the province that's being attacked. I hope so anyways.
The rule is actually that an army (or fleet) can only support an attack if the supporting army or fleet could legally attack that province. So since Ser-Tri would be a valid move, Ser can support Vie-Tri. (This matters for fleets, who may have weird restrictions because of how coasts work. For example, a fleet in Bulgaria (Bul) is either on the South Coast, and therefore adjacent to Greece (Gre), or on the East Coast, and therefore adjacent to Rumania (Rum), while an army in Bul is adjacent to both Gre and Rum.)
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So it seems TT stabbed after all. Sigh. I knew it could happen but I took the chance and it was a bad decision. It would've worked out well if Germany had attacked Tyrolia as I proposed them to do, but they didn't. Dammit.
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Well I guess i'll have to Vie-Tri supported by Ser-Tri and then Alb-Gre, hoping that TT goes for Tunis instead.
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A lot of potential moves. Too lazy to write it all up, i'll try to summarize.
A Vie - Tri is a given. It will happen.
F Alb could either go Alb-Gre, Alb S Vie-Tri, Alb S Ser, Alb-Gre.
I'm leaning Alb-Gre, to bounce Jowy from taking greece.
A Ser could either Ser S Vie-Try, Ser-Gre, Ser-Bul (lol)
Basically I think TT is gonna hit Trieste with a support. I need support to combat it. So either Ser or Alb is gonna support into Tri.
Now Jowy is threatening to cut serbia's support if i support from there, which would require me to support from Alb instead to be save, which would let him take greece. Thing is, if he does cut Serbia's support, it's only to be a vengeful bastard, since he can't take greece in that case. So I think he will go for Greece regardless, which means I can safely support from Serbia, and bounce his greece bounded army with my fleet in Albania.
Meanwhile, I also asked Germany to attack Tyrolia from munich, in case TT supports Venice from tyrolia, since that would cut TT's support into Trieste, and even if Serbia's support gets cut, I would still bounce. This would be in Germany's best interests too, since he wouldnt want TT to get Trieste either. I'm an ally. Italy is not (or shouldnt be).
The best case scenario, though extremely unlikely, is that TT supports from Tyr, Germany cuts the support, the Vie army bounced with the Venice army, Jowy attacks Ser and cuts the support but it doesnt matter since Vie bounces the sole Venice army anyways, and my Alb fleet waltzes into greece because Jowy cut serbia's support instead and TT takes tunis from ION. Could be fun! It will never happen though.
Most likely TT will support into Tri, My ser will support Vie into Tri, they will bounce, and Alb will bounce in Gre with Jowy's Bul army, maybe even with TT's navy in ION. I will get one SC, Jowy will get one, TT one. Russia two, but that can't be helped atm.
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I think you sent this to the wrong person! 
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uh whoops!
in my defense your gmail chat name is eerily similar to TT's 
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lmao, it's like everyone literally hates me
4/4 people who could attack me did
I expected TT into Trieste of course. What I didn't expect however, was that Jowy would actually cut the support of Serbia. Why would he do that? It's literally a worse result for him than me and him bouncing each other in Greece. This result means I still get 1 SC, but that Italy gets one extra, with no gains whatsoever for Turkey. He's only making Italy stronger. Is he really that vengeful (for no reason I might add, as I have done nothing to antagonize him). Weird stuff.
Russia into Galicia though we had agreed to DMZ it is a stab, but it's understandable. Basically the agreement was that I wouldnt go for Rum and he wouldnt go into Gal, but I basically told him that there is no way I would go for Gal anyways. I told him it would be nice if he didnt go for Gal but that I couldnt stop it anyways, so it was expected. There was no way I would go for Gal, i needed to head for Trieste from Vienna.
Now... Germany's move to Bohemia is just flabbergasting. I mean, really? I'm literally the only ally Germany could possibly have in the east, logically. I wanted him to attack Tyrolia, which would benefit both him and me, but for some obscure reason he instead goes for Bohemia, putting me into an even worse position. I have no fucking clue what he was thinking here. The result will be that I will collapse (since there's no reason for him going Bohemia if not to support in killing me), and my collapse will lead to Italy and Russia getting my old SC's, and where will they go from there? Obviously north to Germany. As much as Jowy's cutting of Serbia's support was confusing, this is even weirder. I mean, what the hell? Obviously he might not trust me either, and he shouldn't, but logically I am the best ally Germany can have. I have three countries I'd rather attack than Germany. Russia has logical expansion west to Germany. Italy also is much more probable to attack Germany. Oh well.
Only good thing about this is that TT went for Tunis, so I am getting an extra troop, which will be placed in Budapest of course. I don't expect to live much longer now, since apparently everyone wants to kill me. I can understand Italy and Turkey, since i'm a natural target for them, but Russia I don't really understand, and I understand Germany's moves even less. I'm gonna try to work this through with diplo, but seeing what's happened so far I very much doubt that anyone will do what I want, since they all seem hellbent on destroying me, for one reason or another.
The worst thing about this is that TT actually did support from Tyrolia. If fucking Commodore had done the smart thing and actually attacked Tyrolia like I asked him to, Trieste would still be in my hands. I really have no clue why he didn't. I just don't get it. Wtf is he smoking? Sure he may have an "alliance" with Italy or whoever, but that will come back and severely bite him in the ass, whereas with me I wouldn't attack him for a long, long time.
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Still need your orders, Sciz!
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Bad luck Sciz. You had a coalition formed against you amongst all your neighbours before the first turn even rolled, probably started before you even exchanged words with anyone, which nobody leaked to you until it started moving. There really isn't anything you can do against that.
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And Germany should have helped you instead of selling you out. What does he even get out of the deal? He didn't even get Vienna!
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