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09 Oct 19 UTC	Autumn, 1952: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
16 Oct 19 UTC	A very interesting finish to say the least. From the 3 of us working together to stop the Italian solo, to Italy just kind of dropping out.
16 Oct 19 UTC	Indeed, a disappointing end if you ask me, but oh well. I enjoyed the game for sure, from enemies to allies and allies to enemies. I think I ended the game as an exact mirror to how I started it. Thanks for playing everyone. I just wanted to say about your name Russia, I am reading Ender in Exile - for the second time - at the moment (book 5 in the Ender saga) and have read the other series linked to the Enderverse. Is your name a reference to it or just a coincidence?
16 Oct 19 UTC	Thanks for drawing. I was hoping by giving the Soviets and Germany more of my SCs I’d either make Britain worried or one of the other two greedy, but when my plan clearly failed I decided I’d prefer a quick death to the slow drawn out grind it looked like it would be. Would you have turned on each other had I continued to fight the doomed fight?
16 Oct 19 UTC	oh this finished, rip me being the only dead one and dying so quickly (also if you look at the statistics someone should really rebalance this a bit cause france is by far the worst and just about always doomed to die)
16 Oct 19 UTC	Yeah, especially in gunboat
16 Oct 19 UTC	I was getting nervous Russia or Germany would soon attack me.
16 Oct 19 UTC	I had left you well alone, when you convoyed an army to the Netherlands I seriously considered a war there, but the game ended so I never got around to it. Glad about that because we had been a good team for so long.
17 Oct 19 UTC	gg everyone - and apologies as I was the last holdout for the draw. I suppose everyone saw the writing on the wall sooner than I did. To be fair, I was hoping to winnow it down to just 3 somehow, but the prospect of stabbing Britain, though I might have gained a dot or two, just seemed to create too much of a potential downside (ie opening the gates for the Italian armada). Likewise I might have been able to grab most of Scandinavia from Germany but the prospect of turning the massive German army against me (and potentially allowing Italy to run back through Central Europe again) did not seem worth the trouble. In the end, I was hoping we would somehow break through against Italy but who knows.
17 Oct 19 UTC	To answer Italy's question directly: I needed a minimum of two more fleets in the Med to effectively take out Britain in that part of the world...poor planning on my part by building extra armies I didn't need.
17 Oct 19 UTC	To answer Germany's question: yeah, I'm a big fan. Read them all, as well as the two new trilogies on the first and second formic wars (prequels). The stories stand up well on their own, but the larger philosophical questions are thought-provoking too. Told my wife I want a "speaking" at my funeral - she just rolled her eyes. Never saw the movie though - heard it was not that great. "The enemy's gate is down."
17 Oct 19 UTC	The movie is utter rubbish when compared to the books, but as a standalone movie it's alright. A "speaking" at a real funeral would be quite interest to attend that's for sure, but is it a real truth or the one made up by the speaker? Plikt certainly had the right idea I think, but it would be interesting nonetheless. Unfortunately seeing the enemy's gate as down is quite difficult on here unless you're heading South (although I suppose you could always turn your computer on its side if you use one, my phone just re-orients itself, haha).