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Posted By: Chrispminis

Posted On: Dec 28, 2006
Views: 6442
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: 6028
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: 6298
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: 5390
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: 5187
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: 5210
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: 5660
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: 5769
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.


Posted By: Tim

Posted On: Aug 10, 2006
Views: 5455
Italy and Austria

It seems to me that whenever someone posts something as either one of those 2 they always mention how they betrayed the other. If you ask me, walking into that alliance just seems to be asking to die

Austria and Germany, on the other hand. Pimped out


Posted By: Brittania's supporter

Posted On: Jul 23, 2006
Views: 5135
England's the best to play

England is the best power to play because if she can get a strong navy you can go anywhere and stop anyone. She can control a lot of supply centers and then get a large army and invade Europe. If she can ally with France, and then later defeat her, then that keeps her forces not worried about cross-channel invasions.


Posted By: an only mouse

Posted On: Jul 12, 2006
Views: 5036
france kicks it

france is tight sauce to play. especially when you team up with germany, cause then you can get 3 more troops by the end of the 1st yr (portugal, spain, belgium). then you can easily defend against italy and kick britains ass, then proceed to backstab germany and kick their ass while allied w/russia who is also kicking germany's ass. man i love diplomacy.


Posted By: rachel and boniface x

Posted On: Jul 1, 2006
Views: 4828
i luvvv

...2 da max

ok listen, i like austria-hungary because it is good. it is so good and when i play i wear a costume. !!! sometimes the ottomans can be nice but i stil think a-h is da bombb. one time i was with the ottomans and we had fun. (really had fun - like it was good to the maxamilian)

austria-hungary is great but germany is good too and if i could i would take germany to the cotillion.



Posted By: Sara

Posted On: Jun 19, 2006
Views: 4591
Russia Rules

By far Russia has been the best to me. especially after that sweet alliance with Turkey. Austria was easily taken out.


Posted By: jconway

Posted On: Jun 15, 2006
Views: 4430
Best alliances

1)Russia-Turkey
2)Germany-Austria
3)Britain-France
4)Italy-Turkey


Though triple alliances are by far the best and most fun

Italy is the hardest to play since there are no easy attack options, only through an early alliance can Italy survive.

Though the same could be said of Austria but I play Austria pretty well.


Posted By: evan

Posted On: Jun 7, 2006
Views: 4394
turkey

i LOVE turkey so much, im doing so good in my history class, i would want france, their pos. just doesnt look great


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