Hello down there, Sultan!

Anything we need to talk about early, or should we just see what happens early?

Best,

- Kaiser Eh, I have the luxury of a boring country that CAN chill out and see how things shake out. 
And as much as I personally enjoy opening to Tyrolia as Germany, other people tend to look at me weird if I suggest it, so...I guess all I can really five into is to ask that you give me a heads up if you decide to pick a fight with a mutual neighbor so I can pile on So, you were going for the Slingshot Juggernaut, and had the rug pulled out, huh?  That hurts.  And Austria is in no position to provide much help.

What's the plan from this point? My hands are tied with my positioning and an NAP that runs through the end of this year, but I'm happy to work as an intermediary with you and Austria to help coordinate.

I've given you one bit of help - Russia can't build in Warsaw, so it takes one unit out of the South. Ugh, what a pain in the ass. I can't even rotate on him in a meaningful time frame, and Austria's going to be no help any time soon beyond protecting Bulgaria this turn. You could take him down together, unless he's working with Italy.  Even if he's not, Italy's going to feed on Austria - he's pretty committed - and come after you since you're exposed.  The upside is just that they wouldn't likely be explicitly helping each other.

I don't have anything preventing me from going at Italy, and he's really wrecking everything right now.  Plus, silent.  As far as I know, towards everyone. Let me know how I can help.  Looks like you have one set of moves that assures winning the guessing game,.. Yes, Italy's silent. It's frustrating. 
If I make it through this turn, should be all good, though. Looks like y'all have Russia pretty well stopped in the North I'm sandboxing the mess you guys have down there.  Here's the thing: Russia is going to add a center in the north, and he can't get a build.  So y'all need to have him net no better than -1 down there.  Since we have to assume he's going to take Ankara, you need to take two centers in Austria/Balkans.

I think I have a solution, but I need to stress test.  It will need my Tyr for sure.  I'll be in touch with both of you soon. Are we looking at the same game?  If you and England coordinate, you're guaranteed to deny him a build up north, as you can force  Sweden. Yes, but until I worked through the stuff down hear that's not what we were going to do, which is the reason it was so critical.  As long as he wouldn't be able to build we would temporarily pass on Sweden for stronger position.  Him building makes it not a stronger position.  And so... Man, nothing look a good convoy to Livonia to wreck someone's day. I was sure he'd smell it and counter.  I was floored to see it go through. He's been struggling a bit with tactics this game. Honestly, that was part of the reason I was so willing to accept his offer of an out-of-the-gate Juggernaut. I'm not sure I believe that... *shrug*  No worries, just making small talk.  I do like your position now, though. I didn't mean that as hostile, and I only meant the first part.  He's either been really good or really lucky from what I've seen. He got pretty lucky in the opening - some of the tactical discussions have been questionable.  OTOH, there's the other really important fact that I've actually had discussions with him - total freaking radio silence from England and Italy, and not much more than that from France or Austria.  This has been a really non-talkative board for the most part. Italy has spoken to no one as far as I've heard.  England isn't very talky.  France is, but we've had less to talk about, really.  I had to convince him that moving to MAO and leaving Spain open was the smart play just now, and of course it took some convincing that I was going to just walk away from the blitzkrieg lines I opened up with.  That's probably natural. Probably - and he does seem to be fairly committed to the Med at this point.  Me tapping Tri instead of doing the army rotation I actually wanted to do might actually help convince him to keep going, as it means he's going to end up winning the race for Italian dots if he pushes on.  You look in pretty good shape, to be honest - France moving mostly away from you, all kinds of position on Russia, and an England prone to not moving, you're pretty much all opportunity right now 🙂 My back door is open, I need to get France a build, and we have a serious problem controlling the Atlantic.

Hey, want to support me into Trieste? Ugh, you would hit that right as I was crashing. Let me wake up and check map. I'm not saying I necessarily want to move to Trieste.  But Italy is a problem for everyone right now, just in terms of resolution.  And the radio silence. Right-o. We do need to take the random element off the board. 
Not out of the question, my only hesitation is that it further accelerates what send to be your massive breakout opportunity here - doesn't look like you need a lot of help ballooning up to monster size right now. Otoh, your borders are kinda brittle at the moment until you get a couple builds in. Yes.  All that is true.

Hey, speaking of ballooning out to monster size, you had a nice year.

...just sayin'. Since you're on to Italy anyway, any chance you want to take Trieste? I did, but that will is almost dry. And, yes, I'm happy to take Trieste. Given the current positions, if nothing else changes, at most I get one Italian for after that, so next build (Trieste?) Is probably time to turn North. I assume that works well for you, too. Is Russia willing to support you in? I believe so, yes. Don't suppose I could convince you to dive for either Vienna or Warsaw as I'm covering the other two? How you doin'? Awesome.  Can I help you with anything that doesn't result in me sacrificing the game? BTW, I marked that I believed your message, but in all honesty I don't think you actually *care* about how I'm doing.  Just sayin'. Hey, I'm an empathetic guy :)
Seriously just checking in, making sure nobody's interested in throwing a spite-solo All set on my end.  Good lookin' out, though.