Finished: 12 AM Fri 14 Jul 23 UTC
Flash Gunboat Colonial 1885
18 hours /phase
Pot: 50 D - Spring, 1921, Finished
Colonial 1885, No messaging, Anon, WTA, Hidden draw votes
2 excused NMR / regain after 5 turn(s) / extend the first 1 turn(s)
Game drawn

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22 May 23 UTC Autumn, 1897: GOD (Moderator): Phase extended and user set into CD due to leaving the site.
22 May 23 UTC Autumn, 1897: GameMaster: Model was banned: leaving site, dropping all games.
22 May 23 UTC Autumn, 1897: GameMaster: Someone has taken over Holland replacing "Model". Reconsider your alliances.
08 Jul 23 UTC Spring, 1918: GameMaster: Holland voted for a Cancel. If everyone votes Cancel all points will be refunded and the game will be deleted from the database.
10 Jul 23 UTC Spring, 1919: GameMaster: Holland voted for a Extend. If 2/3 of the active players vote Extend the the current phase will be extend by 4 days. Please consider backing this. If the majority is not reached by "Spring, 1920" the votes will be cleared.
12 Jul 23 UTC Spring, 1920: GameMaster: Extend-request didn't reach 2/3 majority. All extend-votes cleared.
12 Jul 23 UTC Autumn, 1920: GameMaster: Holland voted for a Extend. If 2/3 of the active players vote Extend the the current phase will be extend by 4 days. Please consider backing this. If the majority is not reached by "Autumn, 1921" the votes will be cleared.
13 Jul 23 UTC Good game all
13 Jul 23 UTC Good game!
14 Jul 23 UTC gg all, surprised only a few eliminated! Was a pleasure working with you Germany.
14 Jul 23 UTC Yeah, I was really trying to push for more to be eliminated..... don't know why all decided not to lol, not sure I've seen a game of this size end with this many players alive before
14 Jul 23 UTC Japan was essentially walled off, Germany and France too dependent on each other to defend against Italy to consider stabbing. The only viable eliminations would be Britain or Austria.

I have a personal philosophy not to stab a lone ally for the sole purpose of that ally's elimination. If I believed stabbing Britain could cause a domino effect of eliminations, or given me a chance at a solo, I would've happily accepted Italy's support into Madras. But I wasn't going to risk my stalemate line against Japan & Italy just to stab an ally and bring a draw from 7 to 6.
14 Jul 23 UTC It's a large draw size, but the solo threshold is less than 50%, which means draws if they happen tend to be larger. It's also a map which can be walled off fairly easily.

Good working with you too France
14 Jul 23 UTC I am happy to see this game ended as for about a week or more my orders had been the exact same.

Thankfully, Holland never tried to take me out, like I feared he would. I was walled off but my wall had a number of weak points which might have spelt disaster for me if they were ever tested. I probably would have been defeated if I had not retaken the Philippine Sea. If Russia had made common cause with any Asian power it would have been over for me. Instead Russia devoted six units to fight me whilst fighting everyone else and eventually I made a breakthrough which he could not reverse. I liked that period of the game, waiting for the draw not so much.