CivDip XIII - Dancing with the Devil!

[Gnarfflinger]

With Poetry I shall try my best,
But in Diplomacy I try to be a pest.
My rhymes may not always be sure,
I hope they don't come off as manure...

Iambic Pentameter is the game this time,
Orders to be sumbmitted in Rhyme.
I saw it and thought I must try this,
The poetry came with some practice...

Edit: I have Italy in that game. The first orders deadline is tomorrow night. If the Poetry doesn't convince some players to keep me around, then I'll have to resort to threatening them with my jokes

Barring that I could always smiley them into Submission...

 

[Dreadnought]

hahahaha...come off as manure...you could write a book on...diplomacy poems!

Smiley, jokes, maybe that'll get them to attack you

hmm...

I am playing Austria this game, bo ho!
I hope it doesn't go the same way as with you
In many another game
Austria went down the drain
And I hope I don't end up dead too

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Snigger...

Building many a fleet,
Will keep me from defeat

 

[Dreadnought]

Gnarfflinger is lucky, he has a name that rhymes

Try rhyming Anthony with something, because I can't

 

[Keirador]

Rhyme Tony.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Rhyme Tony.

Phoney, Macaronie, baloney

 

[Dreadnought]

The kids in school call me Antwan, Twan, or Antwanette....

So this isn't OT, this Diplomacy game is....fun....(I don't know!)

Edit: Wait, this is an OT forum...

 

[Taliesin]

Sorry for my silence since the builds. I've been having access problems, which are now fixed.

 

[Arminius]

Newsyear Magazine
“We know everything and write what we like.”​

Publish Date: May 1902​

♠ The German Mosh Pit!
England makes an attempt on Holland, but fails to overpower the Germans there. However, east German has been invaded by a sizable Russian contingency, and France has moved to a threatening position. Does Germany have a friend in all this?

♠ Trust!
The Italians have left their north exposed to invasion by Austria, but the stab has not come, yet.

♠ More Balkan Banter…
A combined Austro-Italian assault struck Bulgaria, but support from Constantinople saved the day for Turkey. The Italians and the Turks conducted a staring contest over the Aegean, both went home unhappy. And, oh yes, the ritual Black Sea is still unclaimed.


Orders:

Austria
Army Serbia - Bulgaria
Army Budapest Hold
Army Vienna Support Army Budapest Hold
Fleet Trieste Hold

England
F North Sea - Heligoland
F Norway S F bot - Sweden
F London - North Sea
A Yorkshire Stands

France
A Portugal - Brest
F Brest - Picardy
F Mid Atlantic Ocean Convoy A Portugal - Brest
A Spain - Gascony
A Paris - Burgundy

Germany
A Belgium s Kiel-Holland
A Kiel-Holland
A Munich-Ruhr
F Denmark-North Sea
F Berlin-Kiel

Italy
A Venice - Trieste
A Rome - Apulia
F Naples - Ionian Sea

Russia
F GoB - Swe
F Sev - BLA
A Rum twiddles his thumbs (hold)
A Gal - Sil
A War - Pru

Turkey
A Bul hold
A Con S A Bul
F Ank - Bla
F Smy - Aeg

 

[Arminius]

Orders due Thursday, 10 March 2005 @ 2359 GMT.

 

[Dreadnought]

So Russia didn't attack me after all

 

[Keirador]

Some governments (dip players in general) employ a strategy in which they attempt to outmaneuver an enemy by replying to that player's mails late or not at all, thereby leaving the player on the fence, and unprepared to write orders when deadlines approach.
Italy is more decisive, even if its decisions are wrong. A refusal to reply to Italian envoys is a clear severing of relations. The Italian government has little choice but to respond to such an action hostiley, either with a direct pre-emptive strike, or a foreign policy decidedly hostile to the offending nation (if Italy cannot reach the country).

 

[Dreadnought]

You don't mean me, right?!?

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Who cares who he means...this is Italy we're talking about.

 

[Keirador]

My country is as large as yours, Witch of the West. . .

 

[TrailblazingScot]

The British Commonwealth encompasses most of the globe...

 

[Keirador]

. . . and only four supply centers, Witch of the West.







But damn, you got me historically. As far as history goes, Italy sure does suck it.

 

[Gnarfflinger]

Some governments (dip players in general) employ a strategy in which they attempt to outmaneuver an enemy by replying to that player's mails late or not at all, thereby leaving the player on the fence, and unprepared to write orders when deadlines approach.
Italy is more decisive, even if its decisions are wrong. A refusal to reply to Italian envoys is a clear severing of relations. The Italian government has little choice but to respond to such an action hostiley, either with a direct pre-emptive strike, or a foreign policy decidedly hostile to the offending nation (if Italy cannot reach the country).

And you don't give up on a wrong decision when a better alternative is placed in your lap...

 

[Dreadnought]

The British Commonwealth encompasses most of the globe...

Whats that going to do for you when war begins in europe...?

 

[Keirador]

And you don't give up on a wrong decision when a better alternative is placed in your lap...

Quite right. I may be wrong, but I make up for it by being uncreative and stubborn!