F1901B Press from A to A

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Message from [agtomlinson_at_ntlworld.com,knave_at_sympatico.ca as] Austria to
Austria in 'teachme3':

> Press written as suggested - hopefully we can get Italy and Turkey at each
> other's throats in the Eastern Med, then slide the knife into the Turk in
> 1903 - Bul and Sev should fall fairly quickly, given the land forces we
will
> hopefully have accumulated. I'll feel a lot happier about this alliance
with
> the Turk once he's writhing with a dagger between his ribs! Spring or Fall
> 1903 would seem to be the time - he'll be in Sev, maybe with a view to
> claiming Mos - we can offer support to Mos, but take it ourselves, evict
> Bulgaria and hopefully Italy will be hanging around in AEG or EMS to
provide
> some southern anguish for the Turk.

Yeah, thats the general idea. Of course, if the Italian doesn't make us
feel more comfortable in the next year, we could decide to stick it out with
Turkey and pummel him to the ground for having the temerity to even think of
landing in Greece :)

> I was initially slightly puzzled by the Italian A Ven S A Bud-Tri, but I
> guess it's probably just a show of friendship, since if we were moving
> Bud-Tri it wouldn't be part of a bounce anyway, so he'd have nothing to
gain
> by offering an unwanted support.

Let me be clear about this. The support order is completely, totally and
absolutely meaningless. If anything, I consider it to be a negative order,
since he effectively ordered Venice to hold. He told us he was going to go
to Piedmont, instead he decided to hang around our borders.

I want him against F or T, and I want it soon. We are still a viable target
for him.

> Set wait just to allow for feedback from others - particularly Italy. Do
we
> actually want to build a fleet in Tri if he's uncooperative?

No, not really :). It is not totally unreasonable though, if things turn
really negative with Italy, we would need that second fleet to enter Aeg and
launch the attack on Venice. Overall though, you are correct, I don't want
a fleet in Trieste, but Italy doesn't know that...

>I would see it
> as possibly opening up another front, and we are in a position to be
> magnanimous for this year at least (if we have to!). F Rom wouldn't be
> particularly worse than F Nap

Ok, I should have said "make sure he builds a fleet, not an army". Yeah, I
couldn't give a crap where his fleet is, as long as its not an army in Rome.

> (assuming that we let Turkey know that Italy
> is proposing F Nap, so he feels compelled to build F Smy)

No need to leak that type of info, its a blatant signal "I am trying to
start an IT war"... he is your ally now and we are thinking of a swift
dagger, so no need to make him edgy. Talk about convincing Italy to move
West and how the 2 of you will do it. Once Italy builds the fleet, sound
worried of course, but Turkey will draw his own conclusions.

> Comments on my press welcome as always! I have to say I'm rather enjoying
> playing Austria - there's more to do than with England for example, when
you
> just move Edi-Nwg, Lon-Nth, Lvp-Yor and see what everyone else does
> (although that's a slight simplification!).

And, for that matter, I always order Lvp-Edi, gives many more options.
England could have had an army in Norway now instead of that bounced convoy.
Of course, the bounce means that France can't invade England effectively,
which is good for us.

> I guess anyone playing an
> Austria who is on 6 centres after 1901 isn't going to be having that bad a
> time.

We haven't won anything yet... Russia will be building 2 armies, and Italy
still hasn't chosen a target. Keep that press rolling. With regards to
Russia, I think you have 2 options

#1) Silence. Sometimes people will suicide against the talktative person,
so nothing wrong with silence
#2) Short polite note: "Turkey offered the better deal and my advisor told
me to take it. Should circumstances change I would be more than willing to
consider working with you in the future. Best of luck in the next few
turns!"

Depending on how I feel, I usually do one or the other.

David
Austrian Advisor
Received on Tue Dec 10 12:12:39 2002