1198 GM EOG

GM NOTE:

First a note to say I've set up an EOG page, which is:

http://www.geocities.com/stephen_worthy/Finished/1198.html



The old page is now removed.



EOG:

Thanks for playing everyone.  I thought I'd give a few general comments on the escalation phase and leave the post-mortem to you.

 

I'd generally run/played Escalation as gunboat before, so I was interested to see what difference was made by negotiations during the placements.  The main change seems to be a little more daring placements. There's always one adventurer, which was Eva in this case, but the intertwining of Green, White and Cyan units in Turkey was very unusual - my general view is that it's better to stay well out of any initial conflict in Escalation, then pile in during the confusion.

 

Taking this more conservative view were Blue (Russia-ish), Yellow (Germany-ish) and Brown (France-ish).  I actually liked Green's starting position in Italy, although I thought the entry into the Turkish situation split his forces.       

 

Anyway, well done to Troy for surviving with a precarious situation, and it was nice to see some care bear tendencies still surviving in the cat23 community!  A 5-way draw never sounds great, but it did start from 8 players at least, and it generally looks like no one should have risked a stab, so congratulations to those who shared the draw.

Stephen

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