Diplomacy

[kevindola]

Originally Posted by quozl

You might want to elucidate on that.

The document of numbered rules outlining the alliance between England and Germany.

[quozl]

That must have been England. I never paid attention to it.

[kevindola]

@quozl , still thinking about my last question or you just missed it? If would like no further questions, I can respect that as well.
@wriggz I have lots of question for you as well, but would like to respect your space and desire to post an EGS if that's still in your plans. I will hold my questions for you until after your EGS.

[wriggz]

Originally Posted by kevindola

@quozl , still thinking about my last question or you just missed it? If would like no further questions, I can respect that as well.
@wriggz I have lots of question for you as well, but would like to respect your space and desire to post an EGS if that's still in your plans. I will hold my questions for you until after your EGS.

Thanks. Work has been a mess for the last few weeks so this has been on the back boiler. I think I may get to it in the next week or so.

[quozl]

In 1904, I thought we could score big on Italy.

[quozl]

I thought we communicated pretty well. There was no stab, however. I straight up told him I'd be supporting England into Norway before it happened.

[Kinseth]

Originally Posted by quozl

I thought we communicated pretty well. There was no stab, however. I straight up told him I'd be supporting England into Norway before it happened.

Do you regret doing so?

What moves would you have changed throughout the game(not a specific move, just general moves?)

What frustrated you the most in the game?

[quozl]

Yep, as soon as the results came out. I told Russia I had made a mistake. Unfortunately, I don't think I ever heard from Russia again.

What frustrated me the most was Italy's constant flip-flopping.

[kevindola]

Well in the big picture I changed my mind only a few times in terms of who was the biggest threat to defend against: Austria (until ~1904 when England stabbed me) then England/Germany (until ~ 1907 for reasons already detailed) then Austria until the end.

But certainly within the minutiae I changed stories more than that, working with them until England's stab, then working against them, then falsely working with E/G in order to gain the Mid Atlantic and Portugal, and then truthfully working with them to eliminate France and move back against Austria. Then moving against them after the second English stab. Most of it though was in direct response to a stab or clear antagonistic maneuvers. Austria I think would have a much stronger case to complain about my flip-flopping.

Unless it's a comment on my attempt to have a split conversation with Germany in 1908 timeframe where we had a 3 way conversation going with England and a 1 on 1 conversation that had very divergent discussion points. I could see where that would be seen as flip-flopping if the separate conversations were confused as a single one. (Which may explain some of Germany's odd press behavior during that time. not sure)

[quozl]

My odd press behavior was due to me also making deals with Austria at that time.

[kevindola]

Originally Posted by quozl

My odd press behavior was due to me also making deals with Austria at that time.

Who initiated that discussion? And was there more to the deals than the relinquishing of Warsaw?

[kevindola]

@vegietarian18 mentioned again he would be interested but depends on start date. Which might be a while before we can nab a couple more.