What the hell else was Rostov meant to do? sit there and do nothing? 1 support, good guess, get over it. Ever heard of putting yourself in another person's shoes?

Relax kaner, wow, it was just a question! Get a little excited about your Diplomacy much?... O_O

Well, I mean, you did toss out cheating and telepathy, kind of escalates it past polite question.

Really, wow, for a bunch of guys who play Diplomacy, people certainly can be sensitive about a question! Please, SacredDigits, enlighten me as to how I might have put my inquiry, such that I could ask what I did, without in any way insinuating that "meta-gaming" (the "polite" way to say cheating I guess) may have been going on?...

I'm a little baffled, in a game of anonymous gunboat Diplomacy, how two powers were able to coordinate an attack on a third power. Any thoughts?

This way, you don't give up the anonymity or gunboat nature of the game and do not put yourself in the metagaming position you accuse others of being in.

Ahh, I see what you mean, I've inadvertently revealed who I am in that game, oops, my bad! Thanks for your patience SD, I sincerely appreciate it!

(mod here) Wells whats really peculiar is that the log in times for Russia, Egypt and Ukraine are identical. (particularly between Russia and Egypt, being 35 seconds apart in 1 case). Either the 3 of you are metas together, in which Russia was betrayed by his comrades or this is just a random coincidence.

Interesting...

If AdamNTM is Russia...Why would he being a meta-gamer attack himself with 2 other nations then bring it up in the forum? My point is that it makes no sense bringing this undue attention to oneself and it must be a coincidence for Russia's long on times. However Adam it is not right for you to expose your identity in an ongoing gunboat game.

most metagamers who would cheat in a for fun website aren't smart enough to think through your points

plus all the cheaters play on facebook, seriously on the facebook app, they were finding multiple metagamers every week

I`m Egypt, and I have NOT talked with Ukraine and I also don`t know who he is.
But if I were Ukraine, I`d have done the same I think.

Also orders like that are very important for gunboats, they are the only way to make a kind of alliance

I hate gunboat. Nobody ever makes that kind of alliance w me! :-/

:))
I LOVE n btray yougunboats because no one can betray you

lol

Also there can`t be real alliances against you.

although if you play FoW gunboats its harder because you cant see the whole board and you cant see people's orders

Egypt could obviously take Anakara with the units in Asia minor, and Armenia was either going to do nothing, or try to block a support.

Ukraine guessed correctly and made a enemy of my enemy is my friend choice.

good guess on his part.

So what about the coordination of TWO moves between Poland and France?!?! That stinks to me, check it out!! gameID=2612

If you're going to think that every supported move is metagaming, perhaps gunboat is not the style of play for you.

But TWO moves, seriously?!?

Well France & Poland have 2 common enemies, Germany & Russia, so it's easy for them try to help each other against them. Now look at the spring map. Why Poland should be moving into Finland? Easy to guess for France what he has to support with an army (Norway) that has nothing better to do. Notice France stop bouncing into Murmansk and moving into White Sea. Now looks like 3 countries want Murmansk but if France wanted to help Poland he would have supported Gorky rather than move to WS.
So, in the autumn map, Poland perfectly knows that France won't support him. Gorky HAS to support the French fleet. Since Murmansk can't be Polish, then better French than Russian.
So these TWO moves were rather obvious. And one was a "replay" of the same spring move.

Adam, really, please consider SacredDigits' advice. Looks good.

It's mentalism! really! Like Uri Geller! yea! :p

I knew it!! Is mentalism allowed in Gunboat? :P

Adam have you played much gunboat? Perhaps instead of throwing around cheating accusations you should try to understand why people order as they do. For instance norways support order: is there a better order for that army? Is offering that support in France's interest? I'm a very experienced gunboat player and the answer to those questions is clearly: no and yes.

How is helping France in any other player's best interest, given the current state of affairs?

Even Germany understood what was going on in Murmansk, and ordered Sweden to support to Norway from Lapland (Most likely Russia's move, since Murmansk is lost, Barents makes no sense, moving to NorwegianSea too, supporting the German fleet to NorSea makes sense but the most sensed thing is moving to Norway: it is a SC and the move cuts French support). But Lapland moved to Barents...Probably Germany now is wondering "Why Lapland moved there? There are no SCs in the North Pole! Unless Russia is a metagamer who wants France as winner..."

*look at autumn big map

Obviously Poland wants France to win, why not Russia too? O_O

Just talking about Ukraine and Egypt, its nothing.

France and poland maybe, couldn't say probably nothing.

But it seems you are just calling everyone in the game out against you.

ooooops I realized just now that I was talking so deep about an ongoing game...I apologize with everyone, sorry... :(

Adam, "Gunboat" doesn't mean "No Diplomacy". It's just your communications are different and limited.