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| Posted By: aoe3rules Posted On: Apr 18, 2007 Views: 7353 | Russia if you read The Game of Diplomacy (http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/god.htm) it'll show you how Russia has the highest rate of BOTH WINS AND LOSSES. it's good if you survive for a while until you can get sorted out and eliminate threats. just like austria. |
| Posted By: Cossack Posted On: Apr 18, 2007 Views: 4652 | Russia I reckon Russia is the toughest. Point is everyone is your potential enemy from the start, except France and Italy, who will soon be your potential enemy if they decide to go through Austria. The fact is the extra unit you get with Russia doesn't compensate for the fact that your entire country is open to attack from practically everyone. Also, unlike the other countries, you don't get any guaranteed supply centres by end of Fall'01. Unfortunately your fleet up north is on the south coast which means Germany can bounce you out of Sweden with its fleet coming from Denmark, Romania is a free for all once Austria gets close and can boot you out, the Black Sea is a nightmare and both Germany and Austria make a play for Warsaw. Therefore I reckon you've got to be a brilliant diplomat if you want to succeed with Russia. |
| Posted By: Vash Posted On: Apr 7, 2007 Views: 4800 | England Not really the worst I found out a good way to put down Germany with England but I want to email someone from this site and for them to make an artical of it and tell me what they think about it because really..its not that bad going against France is one thing going against Russia is a bad thing but Germany is the best thing So if you can give me an email so I can send you what I think England should do in the Open Starting Game |
| Posted By: aoe3rules Posted On: Apr 7, 2007 Views: 4466 | I HATE RUSSIA I agree with smokodano. |
| Posted By: Smokodanko Posted On: Apr 5, 2007 Views: 4190 | Russia.. bah Even with an extra unit on some of the games, it's impossible to play a strong russia in my opinion. You'll most likely always fight a very harsh war with England which you can easily lose, or you'll get a bunch of land in the balkans and then lose it when either Austria, Germany or Turkey betrays you. I'd much rather be Germany, or Italy. Heck, I've done better with Austria. |
| Posted By: Brandon H Posted On: Mar 6, 2007 Views: 4552 | Italy cant be fun I played Italy in a FTF game, and the variant we used was F-Venice, A-Rome and F-Naples... fun to begin, but it was nigh impossible to get anywhere without a co-operative Austria... I'm sorry but it's kinda painful when your home centre is under threat from the start.. sure you can turn the tide in an East-West battle but i find that Italians arent usually allied with, nor are they trusted... or maybe it's just me... |
| Posted By: Glenn Posted On: Feb 26, 2007 Views: 4685 | Turkey Turkey just doesn't have enough options. Most of the time you can't realistically go after Italy, so whether you ally with Russia or Austria they know you will probably stab them. Even with a steamroller Turkey has to stab to have a chance. |
| Posted By: Chrispminis Posted On: Dec 28, 2006 Views: 5688 | Italy I personally don't dislike any country in particular, but if I had to pick, it would be Italy. Simply, because if diplomacy is against you, you are in for boring or short game. It's hard to get the Italian ball rolling, unless you convince Austria to Lepanto, and then completely blindside them with A-Ven to Tyr and A-Rom to Ven, with some almost inevitable turkish support. Italy's only advantages are an easy alliance with Russia, and the ability to play both theatres, but the big problem, is it's slow going with Italy, and you really have to get a good foothold elsewhere before you see any fast expansions. Austria is my next, but I sometimes enjoy playing it, simply because of all the diplomatic possibilities. Most people see Austria as desperate for alliances, which is true, but never expect a huge Austrian stab early in the game, never anything in the dark anyways. Austria has the ability to contact every other country except England in the first year. I enjoy playing all countries however, and find it rather boring if I draw the same countries repeatedly. |
| Posted By: alskdjfhg Posted On: Dec 15, 2006 Views: 5275 | austria in my opinion, austria is the worst country. a lot of people can attack you, and it's hard to get alliances. actually, it's easy to get alliances, but you can't keep allies for long because italy will think you're a threat, turkey will want the territories that you can get most easily (greece, bulgaria, etc.) and anyone who volunteers to play russia is the kind of person who will want to kill you for the fun of it. and germany will want to take advantage for all of thier efforts and steal your supply centers. |
| Posted By: Alex Posted On: Nov 17, 2006 Views: 5545 | Rules Question No way to just turn an army into a fleet. If one of your units is disbanded you can rebuild it, and since you can't disband your own units, you'll need to let your enemy overpower a unit and just not retreat. |
| Posted By: Darragh Posted On: Nov 11, 2006 Views: 4637 | Austria Austria can be quite effective but the only problem is you have to beg alliances with people, especially russia. its advisable to team with france if you are austria and then invade italy. |
| Posted By: Bob Posted On: Nov 9, 2006 Views: 4482 | Rules question I am not sure if this is the appropriate place for this question, but I do not see any other message boards to ask it on. I spent the first few years in a land war, and thus built many armies. However, I now anticipate that in the near future I may need some fleets in order to convoy around a land based stalemate line. I have no access to new supply centers for creating more units. Is there any way to change an army to a fleet after it has been created? Thanks. |
| Posted By: KrazeKlown Posted On: Oct 9, 2006 Views: 4503 | Austria Even though being Austria is risky because it is in the center and can be easily attacked, Having an alliance with anyone can be really helpful because one can attack anyone. For example, teaming up with Russia can bring the turks to their knees simply because they cannot go anywhere. |
| Posted By: Striker475 Posted On: Sep 5, 2006 Views: 4980 | Turkey The Turks are very, very effective to play if you make the right moves initially. An initial alliance with Austria to get yourself Sevastopol and knock Russia back north is effective, then it is possible to use a Black Sea fleet supported from Sev to get Rumania off Austria and even take Greece with a second fleet out of the Aegean. |
| Posted By: Jasper dupuis Posted On: Aug 24, 2006 Views: 5085 | Turkey I like to be a mover and shaker. All powers can be one of these, but the wicked witches least. And of the two witches, Turkey is by far the least exciting to play. If game dynamics work against you as Turkey, bringing the French down on Italy and E/G down on R/A, the Turkish role can become very dull. For any other nation, this is much less likely due to the multitude of fronts. |
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