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[11:18:55 PM] joey: DIPLOMACY
[11:19:01 PM] mike²: DIPLOMACY?
[11:19:06 PM] joey: intense
[11:19:10 PM] mike²: I KNOW

That best sums up how last weeks diplomacy worked out. Going into the game had me on edge. I was worried about how things worked out. Because of the placement of the players, I only had to worry about three of the other nations: Turkey, Italy and Germany. Only up until that point Germany and England had been in a very strong alliance playing against my Austro-Hungarian/Russian alliance, and England was still a big threat to Russia.

Luckily the map worked out so that Turkey was no help to anyone else. Only it seems that he doesn't want to lose. Pity.

Italy ceased to exist as a national entity. He was a in at the beginning of 1902 and in an even worse position by the end of the Spring turn.

I was really interested to see what England would do. He appeared to be working with both France and Germany. I knew his eastern front would be occupied in Russia, but the rest of his military power had no where to go but into his allies territories. If he was to try and move more navies west he would end up too spread out like Russia. So when he decided to move into two of Germany's territories I knew the game just got interesting.