There are always dropouts from games it seems and most of them are surrenders either for one of two reasons:
- Auto surrender from inactivity
- Manual surrender because they're loosing and don't want to keep playing
Either way, they're usually crappy positions!
I decided to try one to see if I could pull it out of the bag, starting from an underdog position. I really had no aspirations of winning, I just thought it'd be a fun, learning experience.
Here's where the game started (at least for me) as Turkey. I picked it because it wasn't complete doom and gloom. It's essentially a starting position - 3 supply centers and 3 units, but obviously, other countries have made headway already. Austria, my most frightening neighbor, having 6 supply centers. He's got both Russia and I on the ropes which is the reason I thought I might have a chance. I weighed up my options and decided that my initial survival strategy relied 100% on Russia working with me. If not, we were screwed.
I sent messages to everyone ASAP:
Russia: How about a long term alliance against the Austrians?
England: Please hold off on Russia for a little while so you can focus on France and Germany.
Italy & Germany: Congratulations on whooping France, would you like to move towards Autria next?
Austria: blah blah blah BS blah alliance against Russia blah blah nonsense.
France: So long and thanks for all the fish!
Austria had just taken Bulgaria from my predecessor so that was my first target.
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