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[SPOILERS] Diplo2 Lurker Thread - players KEEP OUT

You know, after reading peoples latest updates, I have a really hard time guessing what the hell is going to happen in this game.

England is currently friendless, and is still struggling with the basic mechanics and concepts of the game. Frankly, his only hope to do anything in this game lies in an alliance with Russia, that I doubt he even realizes can happen yet.

France seems to think hes in good with Germany, and they'll soon be headed west after England is dead. That's about the sum total of the thoughts I've seen in his thread.

Germany is playing at god knows what. Not even sure HE knows. If I had to guess, I'd say he's picked Italy as his best friend, rather than France, but I dono. Maybe he hasn't decided yet (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) The whole deal of him suddenly deciding to let Italy have Vienna is bizzare, although maybe he's finally looked at the map and realized how hard that would be to hold while he's busy in the west... Asking Russia for Sweeden is rather bold I'd say. (more on that later)

Italy... Not sure what Italy is planning either. My best guess is that he's also undecided. He's apparently convinced Germany to let him have Vienna with a nebulous "I'll let you have it later" promise I doubt he intends to keep. For the moment it doesn't look like he's thinking of going after France, at least not immediately, otherwise, who knows?

Turkey doesn't really seem to have any friends... he'd better try to make friends with Russia or Italy soon or he's going nowhere...

Russia really gets how the game works, and not just mechanics. His post fall move post virtually echoed what I was saying in many ways. Rather than being able to pick a friend, he seems to be stuck hoping that someone will actually pick him. He's realized that England might be a useful tool for him... which I don't think anyone else in the game has even thought of, not even England. He's also realized that his most dangerous foe might be... his own good play. Get too big too fast and the rest of Europe will unite to strike you down... or try to at least.

As for the diplomatic situation he's in
Gaspar Wrote:After that he hit me up and started planning a German stab in Austria. Now that's perfect for me, I can take Norway without difficulty and basically use Italy as my long-ish term ally on the continent while I play T & A off each other as I slowly dismantle Germany, which, with 3 fleets in the North and a compliant English corpse I can do easily. However, yet again TT gets other ideas and involves Germany too much... and now Commodore is offering to let TT have Austria, for what you might ask? Well, I'll tell you the only thing I think Commodore would take - assistance against Russia in the following years.

Commodore has also asked me to let him have Sweden in exchange for Norway. Clearly, he can't stop me from taking both, but I'd like a stab to have a little more vengeance than 1 scandinavian SC. I need a minute to think on this because I didn't think there was any chance that Germany would pass on Vienna, which was his entire objective in moving east, or so I thought. TT is also considering a very early stab of Turkey, so I'm going to need to see if its worth it to get Turkey onside rather than Italy. A shame if it doesn't work out, Italy as a more convenient ally.

I've nothing to add really. Should be fun to see how it plays out in a couple of days.
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[SPOILERS] Diplo2 Lurker Thread - players KEEP OUT - by Maniac Marshall - July 5th, 2011, 22:43

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