Winter 1917 (Builds) – I vote for a 4-way draw

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Strategic thoughts: we won’t get more eliminations

• Austria didn’t fall for my last trick. I can’t get a breakthrough. And now I’ve even turned around for another bite at the solo win after feigning a draw stance. The other players are extremely unlikely to be fooled into attacking each other, and each of them has too many points to be easily finished off. I could drag out the game another year maybe, but I think that would be a waste of time.^[1]I did not note this at the time I kept this journal, but DANG… Austria is an absolutely brutal player. Austria seized Rome to prevent Italy from getting any build, ensuring that Austria would be the second-biggest power and could not be somehow cut out of the draw if I try to reduce the … Continue reading
• I think to whittle the game down to a 3-way draw from a 4-way draw, I would have to cede a bunch of supply centers to make it clear that I can’t solo win. And, even if I did that, there’s no guarantee that the game would actually progress towards a 3-way draw (the players might not take the bait because I had attempted a solo win more than once). So given that it could take a huge amount of time and there’s not a good chance of success, I think I’d rather call it a day here.

Orders: well, this is surreal

• One of the remaining defending powers hasn’t voted draw.
  • Is this a mistake? Did someone pull back a draw vote to make sure that France got eliminated before we ended the game and has forgotten to put it back up?
  • Or maybe someone is holding out for a 3-way draw?
  • Or maybe someone wants to throw me the game for some reason?
• I do have another build I can make since I withheld making a 17th unit. I suppose I don’t see a reason to build it now either, since my position is impregnable and so is theirs.
• I guess I’ll leave my draw vote up and see if the other players all put their orders in.

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