Bernie
 
we hardly knew ya
 
God Bless and good healh
 
and when the sun sets at 3pm in your residence and you want to play again......
 
we'll be waiting

--- On Sun, 6/21/09, B CRANIE <bcranie@...> wrote:


From: B CRANIE <bcranie@...>
Subject: [DipWorld] DW 434 England EoG
To: DipWorld@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 2:27 PM








Firstly Craig you are simply the best GM I have played with! Period!!!!!! !!!
 
There were a fair number of players I had met before Adam, Ray, Fletch and
Forrest I had played with before.
 
David B I played with as a subbie in a recent game (same countries) so the only
player I didnt know was David O.
 
The early stages of this game were excellent! Loads of communication and ideas,
I was soooo excited by the prospect and Craig was right to flag up the game as
one to watch.
 
The early stages saw England being invited into an ERF and a EGI.  Neither of
which were attractive!  I felt like the meat in the sandwich in both gut
reaction! My gut has stood me well in previous games.
 
I was totally honest and open with everyone concerned and stated I would not
join any "3 somes" in the opening game.  I also told Ray that if he threw
everything south then I would attack St P.  I did!
 
I did agree with Ray not to take with an army.
 
I was totally disinterested in Italy's game plan which seemed to me to ignore
the interests of others with the prime factor being exploring his theories of
how Italy would fare going west.
 
Ended up in a long term alliance with Germany which would have suceeded bar one
major error on my part!
 
There was one major mistake in the game and it was mine. I retreated a unit to
Spain instead of NAT.
 
I soooooooo lived to regret that.
 
On the carebear thing I side with Fletch it was his game to decide the ending
of.  Forrest is one of natures gentlemen I have allied sucessfully with him in
another game.  Sometimes it is more rewarding to repay trust than to stick in
the knife.  Kudos Fletch!
 
Thanks to all for your tolerance during my "inconvenience" ! Fully functioning
again but feel this has been my last game of Dip by email.  Will play F2F and am
exploring Second Life as a possible new avenue of play BUT when winter comes I
may change my mind (smiles).
 
Thanks again to all for a good game brilliantly GM'd
 
Bernie

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