[spoiler] Rowain plays Austria

[Rowain]

Good old Radetzky

As it looks like you might be forced to cheer for Wilhelm as Austria's future is in doubt.

How much better the world would be if scooter had moved his fleet into BLA too.

[Gustaran]

As it looks like you might be forced to cheer for Wilhelm as Austria's future is in doubt.

That is the wrong attitude! I demand complete victory!

Seriously, you surely have some kind of plan, don't you? If not send out another round of emails and promise them lots of "blackjack and hookers" (Copyright Futurama) in exchange for more centers!

[Rowain]

As it looks like you might be forced to cheer for Wilhelm as Austria's future is in doubt.

That is the wrong attitude! I demand complete victory!

Seriously, you surely have some kind of plan, don't you? If not send out another round of emails and promise them lots of "blackjack and hookers" (Copyright Futurama) in exchange for more centers!

Plans yes but sadly they need the cooperation of 2 others. MJW is more likely to go through but I have my doubts about TT I fear that he will panick and make mistakes that allow scooter to grow. For my part I'm sure scooter will try anything to break the current 3-way attack and TT is the weakest link here. So far my talks with TT have only yielded him talking about fears I might have to retreat into GAL if he takes RUM. A move that would gain nothing if I plan to attack him and a move that would only annoy him if I want his help in short he is jumping on ghosts.
Of course he might try to kill me first. Killing me is in TT's plans but as far as I know only for the time after scooter.

[Rowain]

Orders sent and I hope TT stays true. If he switches sides or botches it because he fears what ever then I might end without a new SC. But then TT won't profit for long and scooter might win again.

[Rowain]

Yep as feared TT is too redacted to be trusted.

He might succeed in killing me first but boy is he an redacted. I hope he has fun with the Armies in ARM and NOR and a Germany with 3 builds.

Had he stayed true (supporting me into BUL ) then he would still have RUM. scooter would be down to 3 SC and easy to kill. Later he could either use my help to fend of Germany or ally with Italy to kill me.

Now he gets a strong scooter to his south and no easy way to kill Turkey anytime soon. He has proven that he can't be trusted at all not even to make choices that are good to him.

So instead of getting rid of a strong country and gaining SC becoming a power he will now live just as long as he is usefull to scooter while Italy and Turkey profit from my SC.

[Rowain]

The future: I retreat to GAL and build in BUD. I try to hold off Russia and maybe we will see a german Army near WAR soon.
If he can't get English support TT won't gain much in the north. Even worse if Germany and England work together he will be in grave danger soon.

[Rowain]

I tried to find an agreement with TT tso that we can get rid of scooter before Germany really is too strong but that talk did take a turn to scurrility when TT informed me that he will take GAL to give his forces something to do. Which makes me wonder what he will really do as he simple can't take GAL with the units he currently fields.

Anyway if there happen to be 1 or 2 german units near WAR the next turn I'm sure whom I will help. Russia is now a lost cause for me but I still wonder why he prefers Austria as enemy over Austria as friend especially with a strong Germany who has already blocked him from SWE and has 3 builds.

[Rowain]

Well well a nice little stab by MJW. That is the usual risk with the Lepanto that Italy gets impatient and tries for the shortterm gain instead of the long run. If they continue I'm down to 1 SC after this year and dead the next.

Will get interesting to see if Italy + Russia holds or iif scooter manages to turn 1 of them.


The west is very interesting too as England switches sides and now targets Germany while still keeping his fleet in ENG. nice work by dtay

[Bacchus]

What orders were you expecting from MJW? From the thread its unclear what the plan for this turn was, A Ser Bul? Where was Tun meant to go?

[Rowain]

What orders were you expecting from MJW? From the thread its unclear what the plan for this turn was, A Ser Bul? Where was Tun meant to go?

TUN stays where it is; ION moves either EAS or AEG; NAP - ION; SER - BUL ( with support from GRE); VEN - TRI;