{"id":548,"date":"2008-01-12T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=548"},"modified":"2008-01-12T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T23:26:00","slug":"more-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/more-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"More Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/ap0000021r-791344.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/ap0000021r-791342.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>After talking to the other players, Italy seemed like the most reasonable ally &ndash; Russia was too absent, Turkey seemed too untrustworthy, and the other powers are too far removed on the board.<\/p>\n<p>Italy then tempted me with the offer of a bold alliance where I would let him move through my territory (Venice->Trieste->Serbia->Bulgaria), thus confusing the other players and placing us in a really strong position towards Turkey and Russia.  I knew this was really dangerous, but I decided I&#8217;d rather be bold and either die soon or win than playing a mediocre game.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good, but Italy has been very quiet recently, so I wonder whether he&#8217;s about to stab me in the back.  The next moves are due tomorrow, and I&#8217;ll know then whether he was really on Turkey&#8217;s side or mine.<\/p>\n<p>On the map, I&#8217;ve marked the past moves in black, the moves that I&#8217;m hoping for in green, and the ones I fear in red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After talking to the other players, Italy seemed like the most reasonable ally &ndash; Russia was too absent, Turkey seemed too untrustworthy, and the other powers are too far removed on the board. Italy then tempted me with the offer of a bold alliance where I would let him move through my territory (Venice->Trieste->Serbia->Bulgaria), thus confusing the other players and placing us in a really strong position towards Turkey and Russia. I knew this was really dangerous, but I decided I&#8217;d rather be bold and either die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}