He said he had some RL issues and so found a sub to take his orders. I was just thinking to myself, "I wonder what the new sub will say/do" when I received the following message from him:
With the amount of forces I have to now move back to defend my homeland from your brilliant stab, England is going to make sweeping gains in the north. I would probably say that BRE, BEL, HOL and one of KIE and BER are going to fall in the next 2 years. This is going to put England in range for a solo as the builds will fuel a naval ramapge into the south that will win the game for her.Flattery and lies - what this game is all about!
I was hoping you and I could reach some sort of agreement to preclude a possible English solo. I'd ask for no territory back and would make concessions to you as the victor in what could be a very small conflict.
The only thing I ask is you allow me to dislodge F TYS and instead of retreating it, delete it.
Bless him! I think in his position I'd have done the same thing. I'm almost 100% certain that he's sent something very similar to England. I just hope England doesn't fall for it. To head things off before he gets any ideas, I sent him a message, basically saying the same thing I just described: "Message from Italy, full of flattery, England's going for the solo, blah blah blah". I think I'll send Italy a message in a few turns after it's 100% that I'm still attacking him.
Meanwhile, on the actual board, I've taken Trieste and pushed into the Tyrhenian sea. He can't afford to lose Tunisia so he's holding him in place - essentially wasting the unit.
I'm going to take Tunisia this turn and not try too hard for Venice - it's not going to happen this turn. Then, next year, I'll sail my Tyr fleet and capture either Spain or Marseilles.
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