Hi Everyone,
Some of you know this and some of you don't. In two weeks I start my
new job in Port Arthur, Texas. Therefore I am leaving the New York
area (don't worry there will still be a HuskyCon). Matt Dunnam put
together a game yesterday so that we could play once more before I
left. We managed to get seven two of whom were new players. Here is
the center chart followed by a brief summary.

01 02 03 04 05
Austria - Matt Dunnam 4 3 3 4 5
England - Tom Tafero 4 5 5 6 5
France - Gary Stern 6 6 7 7 9
Germany - Jennie Keinard 5 5 5 5 3
Italy - Colin "Cliff" Davis 4 5 4 2 1
Russia - Conrad Woodring 5 5 6 6 7
Turkey - Paul Rovinsky 4 5 4 4 4


In the first year Austria forgot to support himself to Greece
therefore bouncing with Turkey. Since Austria didn't want to kill the
first time player playing Turkey, I agreed with Turkey to kill
Austria. Italy was on board with the plan as well. At the end of 02 we
had knocked him down another one and split his forces. By middle 1903
Austria was sitting in Vienna, with another piece in Bohemia and
another piece Albania. I decided instead of wiping out austria to stab
Turkey, the new guy. He decided to stab me at the same time, thus
entangling ourselves and giving Austria the ability to come back and
grow. I worked with Austria up through the end in what was probably my
worst offensive ever. I kept forgetting to cover the Turkish retreats
and although I split his forces (one in naples, one in trieste and two
in the turkish home centers), failed to knock him down.

On my other front, England and Germany weren't really having
conversations with me. They both decided from the first move they
wanted to go after russia (or at least England did). England then
proceeded to make the slowest attack on Russia I have ever seen in my
life. Although I had no pieces in the north (i retreated the fleet OTB
when I saw things weren't going to work out) it wasn't until the end
of 1904 that StP finally fell. Germany, being a new player decided to
help France go after Italy, thus scattering her pieces. She finished
with two units in the Italian boot and an austrian unit in Berlin and
a french unit in Munich.

France, Gary Stern, I have to commend for his player. He played a
perfect strategic and diplomatic game. He had a friendly Germany and a
friendly England who were making no progress on any fronts. He
destroyed Italy. Had we kept playing his growth rate would have
certainly excellerated because of the lack of realistic resistance on
the board.

The game frustratingly started late, and moved very slowly at first.
Things picked up as Paul and Jennie got more used to the game and we
eventually cut back the time limits to ten minutes.

I commend Matt for stepping up to the plate and making the game happen.



- Conrad


PS Laurent can you confirm that you got these numbers?



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Conrad Woodring
www.conradwoodring.com

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