Also regarding the final game, I was hovering over the draw button while Greece had his vote up. Greece must have assumed that if the game ended then, he would win the tournament, not knowing that I was at the helm of Carthage. But Persia clearly didn't want to draw and give himself zero chance of winning. Either way, if Persia did continue to cooperate with Greece and put his own draw vote up, I would have put my vote up immediately to end it and eek out the win over Greece with my carry-over advantage compared to Greece's BP advantage over Carthage.

Guaroz, congratulations to the incredibly good organisation. I've never seen something like this before in the web! That was outstanding!

y2kjbk, congrats! You truly deserve the win. Constant awesome playing.

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It is as you say. I assumed carthage would not be you :) I asumed you were rome, as it seemed that rome showed a lot of disappointment. The chance for you beeing carthage was small :).

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In the moment i pulled up the draw i've seen myself in a winning position but on same time with the eastern frontline undefended and open for a stab and terribly vulnerable. In the west i've seen a sort of stalemate so i hoped that persia would draw with me.

He must have seen that whatever wicked move he did on one of us, would decide the game for the gain of the other. In my point of view in that very moment he had to pick the winner.

When he didn't seem to accept I was sure he would stab. The season he stabbed me you can see me moving towards him already as i anticipated it.

I also even pulled my units off carthages frontline a little to signal that i would primarly focus on defending against persia. If he wouldn't stop immedialty carthage will run for solo while persia very likely wouldn't benefit by the stab. Obviously he didn't wanted to stop so i just tried to preserve my second place.

I realised in the end i made a couple of stupid mistakes, that didn't really change anything for me luckily. Some related to beeing anry on persia some beeing on the road. But it was interesting to see how much my anger influenced my concentration.

In regards on sevyas. In a normal game i would assume he would have drawn, but in the rules of the tournament he did the best he could to get into another final position in the tournament. There were a lot of TPs for him easily in reach in my lands.

Thank you Guaroz for organizing this tournament. It was a lot of fun playing and I learned a lot about gunboat games that will hopefully help me to improove my playing.
Congratz to Y2kjbk for winning the tournament, and to Didigoose for the 2nd place.
Being abroad for several more days, and on my mobile phone, I ll keep my comments on the last game short.
Last game: I was quite happy how things were going until spring4. I hoped for Rome helping me to eliminate Greece, but he chose to send an army against me and offer peace to Greece while I completely guessed wrong on Greeces probable moves that turn. Some more wrong guessing got me down to 5 SCs at the end of 05.
Shortly after that, a more or less solid defensive line of Egyptian and Greek units formed against Carthago, and I had the choice between waiting and hoping for a 4way draw (where I would have ended 3rd or 4th place), or eliminating Egypt and using those builds to grasp some more SCs from Greece who by then did not have a lot of defense on our common border.
In a normal game, I would have drawn in 09, but here, knowing that victory was out of reach, I also knew that, except if y2kjbk was Greece, I had a realistic shot at getting the second place by stealing some of his SCs before Carthago would win the game ... so I tried ... and missed to reach that goal by 1 SC.

"He must have seen that whatever wicked move he did on one of us, would decide the game for the gain of the other. In my point of view in that very moment he had to pick the winner. "
Not exactly ... I saw I was not in position to take more SCs from Carthago, and I saw your neglected eastern front. And then I had to choose between accepting a 3rd place without fighting for more, or reaching for the second place where in worst case I would fail and end on 3rd place ...
from my point of view I had nothing to lose - sorry for making you angry ;-)

Congratulations to the winner, I’ve been following the final round, a well deserved victory!


Guaroz, your dedication to the website is admirable, as well as your organization of Tournaments. You ought be taken as example in setting up and in managing special games/Tournaments.

Despite you’ve been a tireless ball breaker sometimes… I will miss you buddy.

Nothing personal Sevyas :) but you surely understand my disappointment. When you feel you could be the winner out of 20 participants that means sth :)
I totally agree, from your point of view this was the best option to gain more. It took me a while to see this unemotional :)

Guaroz why are you leaving? Surely this was a masterpiece of organisation and almost can't be improved. But don't leave us behind!... :)

Guaroz, I understand the need to take a break, but I hope you don't go for good. You are a valuable asset to this site, add a lot to the community, and are a true competitor.

Congratulations, y2kjbk! A well deserved victory. Also let me add my thanks to Guaroz for running a great tournament - definitely the most organized and smoothest running one I've played here or Webdip.