Congratulations Spartan, very swift and solid victory!
It's a shame Finkeldinkel kept nagging me after you barged into my west flank. It was clear you were going to be the solo threat and I think that if we had worked together (including greece) we might have been able to halt you. A thank you to Greece for providing support for me.
31 Aug 17 UTC
Thanks BobRoss!
I actually wasn't very confident in the potential for a solo until I was able to get by Rome's defenses in the 5th year. Before that, I was certain I was going to get stalemated quickly, and even lose Egypt (since I only had a few units there). I think you all could have stopped the solo, but given that it was PPSC, it made some sense to go for the SC grabs instead of join against me.
31 Aug 17 UTC
Yeah, i always fail to read closely whether it's a PPSC or WTA game i'm joining. I have a very strong preference for the latter.
Then again, this variant doesn't lend itself very well for a draw as a 3way draw is quite unlikely in gunboat and a 4way draw should not be desirable for anyone in a 5 player variant ;-)
31 Aug 17 UTC
I agree, much prefer WTA.
5 players is almost too few to expect a draw to happen since there is rarely an even split when you get down to 3 players left.
31 Aug 17 UTC
Played, Spartan - another game where the initial opening strategy was devalued by Rancher betting greedy and sending a second army into my area, even though it's known that Carthage is very hard to contain + Bob was obviously ceding Leptis in favour of an attack on Persia... I expected to be toast but made some headway - a lot of it blown by chucking 2 centres back to FD at the end, courtesy of a great deal of pain + morphine, Spartan's march had the feeling of inevitability....
31 Aug 17 UTC
Well thanks for the good game everyone, it's my first non-1v1 victory since returning to the site :)
31 Aug 17 UTC
yeh, I guess was playing a bit greedy there and it bit me in the behind ... good solo
31 Aug 17 UTC
Good game, all! I can't really say anything that hasn't been said already.
- Autumn, 8, Finished
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