Hello Italy what’s up what are your thoughts on austria and France? Hi Turkey! I’m sorry that I’ve been so slow to get in touch. Kind of a rough day for me to begin a game as I e been pretty swamped. Things are clearing up now, and I appreciate you reaching out to me. 

So far I have notes from Austria and Russia being pretty cagey and non-committal. Perhaps that is just the life of Italy? Nobody really has me in their plans?

I don’t really know what I’m going to do yet, so if you have ideas, or you have a use for me, please let me know. I’d basically be delighted to work with anyone who really wants to work with me. (No sign yet that this includes anyone at all) Hey Turkey — any interest in working together? I’m trying to think of ideas, but I’d just like to know first if you have interest, and then we can work out a plan if you do. Any thoughts, Turkey? Sure we can work together austria would be the most likely candidate for us to maul Well, here is a thought: any chance you would support my army to Greece?

If you’d like to work together against Austria, I think a great move would be to ask Austria to support you to Rum, and then support my army to Greece instead. 

If you are game to do that, I’d be happy to take down Austria with you and work with you moving forward. 

Thoughts? I will support you to Greece 🇬🇷 I see what you are saying about rum I’m just not sure about lying in a game about lying or not Let me think on it but yes to get that to work he has to not support to Greece 🇬🇷 I think we can lull him into a sense of calm. I really do. And I think that he will tell one of us the truth, so if you propose it, he will mention it to me and we will know whether he is being honest. He said yes very quickly ... Hi Turkey — just FYI, I think I’m better off just grabbing the easy build in Tunis this turn, so no need to support me to Greece just yet. Perhaps we can move on Austria next year? I hope you’ve had a great weekend. Just so you know, I’m secretly hoping you build A Smyrna, F Constantinople. 🤞 🤞 I certainly like that build. Thoughts on how we can work together here? Hmm I think austria is moving to Tyrol and coming after you Not sure but he’s got a lot of units and he does lie Hi Turkey,

I am facing a critical decision point here. I’d really like to make a deal with you. 

I’ve just learned that Austria/Russia have a deal in place to attack you. Austria has promised Russia Bulgaria in exchange for Russia’s help against you. It’s pretty clear to me that I am Austria’s second choice for an ally, and I don’t want to help A/R take you down just to be their next snack. The current A/R plan is for Austria to double support Russia to Bulgaria. Moscow is headed up to STP with Sev supporting UKR to BUL. I am supposed to make a surprise move towards France. 

A/R expects you to cover Smyrna and does not expect you to attack Sev given all the units surrounding you. We have a terrific counter, if you’d like to work with me. 

I can tap Greece and Aegean, which should allow you to save Bulgaria (Const S Bulgaria holding). At the same time, Black Sea Support Armenia to Sevastopol WILL WORK! I’m planning to move over to Trieste, so the end result of all this would be Turkey regaining Sev and remaining at 5 while I take Trieste and get to 5. From there, I think we should be able to work together to finish off Austria. I know that’s a lot to take in. I’m sorry to kind of dump all of this on you, but I just learned basically that Austria is prioritizing Russia’s growth over mine, and I can see the writing on the wall. I’d very much like to turn the tables on him. Can we do this? Come talk with me!!! I’m still hoping to work this out with you. Please drop me a line when you have a free moment. Hey man, I’m hoping that you’re still there and that you got my messages. I’d really like to speak with you. I’m getting the impression that you just want to fight with me, and you don’t care what I have to say. If that’s the case, fine. But I do believe there is room for us to work together, so if you’d like to discuss that, drop me a line. So turns out if you don’t say truth or lie it doesn’t send mail ... Ha! Yeah, I’ve had that problem too! So, is it worth us having a discussion this turn? I sincerely wanted to work something out with you last turn, but I took silence to be an ominous sign. I wasn’t silent I just didn’t realize no emails went through Tough break friend. No worries it’s diplomacy