Hello, brother Turk! Whaddya say we just steamroll this board? Full juggernaut, no funny business, get your fleet out, pop mine, roll the board. I like picking an ally early on and sticking with them, and I want it to be you. Hi Russia, I do think an alliance between us would be ideal.  I plan to do a fairly standard opening and we can work from there What do you think? Are we good to proceed? Yep. I'll send Sevastopol to Rumania, you send Ankara to Constantinople, and we can juggernaut this. I'm not sure I'm ready to commit on the black sea yet, though. What do you say we bump there for the first year? I mean, I feel like it's a pretty big waste of time, because there's a huge tactical momentum advantage to getting your fleet out, but if you insist then we can bounce. What do you suggest I do with my fleet then? If you go to Constantinople in the spring and then the Aegean in the fall, you'll be able to build a second fleet to put yourself in the Ionian, or at least hold the Ionian under threat, AND you'll have two on Greece to get your fifth dot. If I can do that, I wouldn't mind helping you out getting rumania and deploying a unified western front eastern front* That sounds perfect to me. Ok, let's do it An unfortunate unfolding of events If you pull out of Bla I'll reconsider where we stand but otherwise I can only view it as a hostile action I will absolutely pull out, it must have taken an older version of my orders before we agreed on not bouncing. Sorry about that. So what is your plan for the next turn? Black to Sev, Sev to Rum, Ukr to War, BOT to Swe. Sure that sounds good to me bad move, now you've let moscow open to england If I look at the state of the board maybe we should reconsider allying... Yeah, we probably should. This is a bloody mess. I'm pulling Syria off the board. Thank you. I'll develop towards Austria to keep pressure off you. If you want we can stab A together Sounds good to me. I've gotta cover my ass right now, but as soon as I can I'll help you work on Austria. Just FYI I'm still taking Bla because I haven't completely forgotten the past few years. To show that I don't have hostile intent, I used Arm so that I cannot pressure Sev for now. I appreciate that. But I do need to exit through Bul. Thank you for your trust. Could you support a hold on serbia so I don't get push out from there? I plan to move into greece with bul You got it. Looks like A forgot to input commands Bit of a lucky break for us. Sure, yeah. I'm still worried about F + E Italy is basically gone. If A crumbles to us then F will probably gain a few more too and it's clear F is readying for a naval assault on me as well I hope you will find a way to handle england. But it seems like Lvn could retreat to War and cause trouble Again, could you help me defend Ser? I'll move my fleet out of Bla to counter france Ack, sorry about that. For the record, you are welcome and encouraged to take Sev. I would much rather you have my dots than England. I wans't generally planning on stabbing you but to develop the theatre vs Austria I needed this position. Once I get Ser/Bud I can move out of Rum again. It's kind of time-sensetive since F will be moving up really quick I think (If I hadn't taken Rum I'd estimate entering a stalemate vs A while F conquers Italy and moves up on Austria So I'm considering going for Sev or I can try to support your last stand hehe Lol 👏