Hello there! What's your general plan for this game? My inclination when I play Austria is to piss off as few people as possible, so I don't plan on making any overtly aggressive moves this turn. I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes just yet, either. Specifically, I'm happy to keep Bohemia and Tyrolia de-militarized for at least a couple seasons to our mutual benefit? Sounds good to me. I appreciate you sticking to your word. Italy tells me you two are close allies and might be willing to consider me a third central power. I wanted to hear your thoughts on this? Absolutely true, I think the three of us could do great things together. I'm starting to agree If you don't mind my asking, why the bounce in Tri? And why the deception of Turkey? I'm no expert but to me these moves indicate you don't really trust Italy at all? I want to keep Turkey guessing and off-kilter. So the bounce was just to conceal your true relationship with Italy? Essentially, yes. What's your plan in the Balkans this season? I was wondering about putting some pressure on Russia by having me move into Silesia while you move into Galicia? I don't want to pressure Russia too much until the Turk is taken care of, I don't think it makes sense for me to antagonize them both. I thought your answer might be that. Makes sense, carry on. Not sure if this is obvious, but Russia indicated to me that they are prioritizing defending Rumania over Ankara, in case that changes your and Italy's plans for that region. Congrats by the way on crushing Turkey Thanks for the notice. I figure one or the other has gotta work first, and then the second will work once the first has. It seems Italy is finally showing their true colors. Care to join the dark side? I'm sure you're already on top of this, but if we can all recognize Italy as the enemy, then your best bet right now is to try and team up with Russia. Maybe offer to disband Arm, Bla, and Gal in exchange for support from Vie into Bud? I am wholly committed to cutting any attempted disrupts from Tyr *support from Vie for Rum into Bud Actually, might be better to dissolve Rum instead of Bla and let Gal into Bud At any rate, here's a direct quote to me from russia: "And, yes, I'll happily support him [meaning you, Austria] to Budapest if he ever fecking starts talking to me again." What's your train of thought on the draw? I've already submitted my "moves", marked myself down for the 5-way draw, and checked "adjudicate once all players have submitted". I'm ready to be done. I've had a lot of fun, though! So, did you veto the draw? Nope. It might actually just not be allowed by the game settings, because it makes no sense that someone would lie about this with the game so close to ending anyway