Hey Russia - how’s it going? Excited for this game! Hey Germany. Should be a great game. Been a while since I’ve played Diplo. Are you going North to England? Me too tbh! I’m keeping my options open at this point Hbu? I’m hoping to get along well with you and England and focus on France. I think the three of us need to get in front of things and envision what Scandinavia looks like in two years I honestly don’t know what the heck France is doing to not even take Spain with their first turn one. That seems like a pretty obvious move. I would like Sweden for another supply center. You can take Norway. I may need to protect my southern flank more from Turkey who could cause problems. Are you going into Ber in the fall? No. I’m holding in Prussia to protect my East flank. I don’t want to fight you and would much rather have peace so I can focus on expanding west. But based on the location of your armies I don’t think I can let you take an additional supply center without concrete assurances. I’m moving from
Prussia back to Warsaw. I expanded East too fast and I need to deal with Turkey in the South. I understand if you want to bounce me from Sweden this turn but if you don’t I can more easily deal with my problems in the South and direct my attention away from you to the Balkans. What will you do with the Lvn army? We still have an hour. I can be open to letting you take Sweden. Shit. I’m pretty screwed now. Disbanding my Prussia Army so you don’t need to worry about me. Need to beat Turkey back to stay alive. I’m sorry man. I should have trusted you but I was spooked by the two army’s near me. I hope you understand. Yea I understand. Don’t blame you. Blame myself for moving east too fast really. Turkey asked me why your army in Ber halted. What do you want me to say? Think you have to worry more about England right now. I’m going to be locked down in the south trying to deal with Turkey. England can eventually take Sweden unless you support me moving there. Then you can block England from getting it and it gives me some life in my fight down south with a new supply center. Otherwise I’m not gonna last very long most likely and you’ll be dealing with England by yourself. Yes. Happy to let you move into Sweden. What should I say to Turkey about you not going into Ber? Are they still asking about that? Just say I decided not to in the end and thought you were defending it anyway. May need you supporting me from Finland moving in or I’ll just get bounced from UK. Not sure though. I’m open to it but don’t want to commit just yet Pretty down tho Not going to really be able to do much with that fleet this spring anyway Yea ok. Fucking Turkey.... I just want to make sure me and France are on the same page before I go all in against England. That situation is difficult to figure out as both sides vacated the British channel which is usually contentious territory from turn 1 which makes me think they’re secretly working together. You’re probably right here. You’re not going to do well if you’re being attacked from the north and the south. How about you give me Sweden and I’ll lay off you for the game? I’m about to lose anyway. Yeah I feel. I decide not to bounce you anyway. I’m going to try to take Norway from England if that helps any. Would you consider supporting me into Norway? If I take it, I can force England to disband one unit, which I  imagine would be it’s far flung stray, St. Petersburg Yea sure. Support your unit in Denmark? Nah the fleet in SKA Gonna have Denmark defend Let me know you saw this Long term, I think the best I can do for you is let you keep sweden so you can move your fleet and try to reclaim stp Then you can potentially recover a build and stay alive Many of the other players seem to have written you off for dead, but I am down to do what I can to keep you alive. I’m dead. Think Austria is going after Warsaw next turn. Yeah. I may have to ally with england to stop Austria. Apparently, he is the top ranked player in the world. Can you still support me into Norway from SKA? Negotiations with england are stalled. Hey - are you online? Am now. Had to retreat from Sweden. Yeah man tough break