Greeting oh Sultan of Turkey!  Any thoughts on the way you’d like to play this game?  I tend to love A/T alliances, with Austria building lots of armies and Turkey going mostly fleets (because breaking through to the Ionian Sea can be pretty hard otherwise).  We could go after Russia first, and once they’re weakened, turn some force on Italy as well.  Lots of loot to split up and keep us both happy for quite some time... what do you think? I think that idea would work very well. You will most likely need to get a truce with Italy for the first few phases to protect your back until I can get ships in the area. Sounds good - *if* I Italy is not lying to me, I could get that truce.  What do you think we should do with Russia then? Try and trick him into leaving either Galacia or the Black Sea empty (I don’t imagine we’d be so lucky as to have him do both, but you never know, some people are just trusting like that 🙂 ).  If you control BLA, we make pretty short work of the southern Russian position: Rum and Sev fall in a year or two.  But if he’s cagey and careful, it’ll go slower. That sounds good to me. I will talk with Russia about having a dmz in bla so I can move in. So did Russia agree to leave BLA empty as a DMZ, and then go in anyway, or was that an arranged bounce like him and I in Gal? No, the bounce wasn't planned. Could you support bul to rum, or are you supporting alb to gre? Ok sorry for the slow reply, was a busy morning.  So normally I'd be supporting myself into Gre, as that's the safest thing for me to do, from a selfish perspective (but one which gets me no goodwill from an ally).  But you'd like my support for Bul-Rum, while presumably following up Con-Bul and trying for Ank-Bla again (so that Russia has to choose: do a supported attack on Rum, letting you into Bla, or else bounce you in Bla and let you have Rum) is that the proposal? Hey Turkey: I’m sure you’re probably having an actual life and enjoying NYE, but we should make sure to coordinate for the fall, which will be adjudicated in 13hrs.  As of now, we haven’t fully agreed on anything because I haven’t heard back from you yet. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. My plan is essentially what you've already laid out. I will move bul to rum, and ank to bla, but I will be moving con to smy so I can get a ship for certain. Hey was having NYE dinner with the fam.  Sounds reasonable, I can support that move, even if I can’t guarantee that it succeeds, since Russia could order Ukr and Sev to work together on Rum. But it’s worth a shot! Well, I guess my move didn't upload for some reason, but I see it doesn't particularly matter since you betrayed me. Yeah, sorry about that.  It looks like it was a good choice for me though, because had I supported the move you didn't manage to submit, I would have pissed off the Russian while they still got what they wanted without my support, and had I wanted to keep going after them, they would have seen it coming.  But I apologize, I did not follow through on the support you asked for this time.