So, going into 1905, the board looked as above. I was still going for the Gunboat-esque solo and still facing no opposition. The south/east was caught up in-fighting and Austria had backed out of the game completely.

Spring 1905

• A Bur S Par-Gas, F MAO-Naf, F NAO S Bre-MAO, F ENG C Lon-Bel, F NTH C Edi-Den, A Mun-Sil, F Ber-BAL, A Lvn S Stp-Mos
• F Por H
• F WMS H, F TYS H, A Mar H, A Tri H, A Vie H
• ELIMINATED
• A Ser H, A Gal H
• A Alb H, A Gre H, A Bul H, F Rum H, A Bud H, A Sev H
• A War H, A Ukr H

I have almost nothing to say about this turn. Austria seemed to have ordered A Gal H but – again – hadn’t ordered A(Ser); other than that I was the only player who entered orders. What was happening with Italy and Turkey?

I moved F MAO-Naf to allow Italy to move to Spain if they wanted; position over gains. As nothing was under threat in German, A Mun-Sil would give me Warsaw. I had F ENG C Lon-Bel to cover central Europe if needed. F NTH C Edi-Den was to allow me to next convoy it on to Livonia.

Fall 1905

• A Gas S MAO-Spa(nc), F Eng S NAO-MAO, F Naf-WMS, A Bur-Mar, A Bel-Ruh, F NTH-Den, F BAL C Den-Pru, A Sil S Lvn-War, A Mos S Lvn-War Gains: Denmark, Spain, Warsaw – 3 builds
• F Por H
• F WMS H, F TYS H, A Mar H, A Tri H, A Vie H Loss: Spain – 1 build owed
• ELIMINATED
• A Gal S Ser-Bud Gain: Budapest; Loss: Serbia
• A Alb H, A Gre S Ser H, A Bul-Ser, A Bud H [Dislodged], F Rum-BLA, A Sev H Gain: Serbia; Loss: Budapest – 2 builds owed
• A War H [Disbanded], A Ukr H Losses: Moscow, Warsaw – 2 disbands

Surprisingly, Austria and Turkey both move. Turkey, who really doesn’t get the support order (I just couldn’t care less about trying to tell them how to do it any more!) still managed to take Serbia, despite support Serbia to hold, because Serbia took Budapest.

For myself, I took Spain before Marseilles because I was sure of Marseilles next year, which would be the 18th SC. Everything else was just padding.

Winter 1905

• F(Edi), F(Lpl), A(lon)
• A Ven
• F(Smy), A(Con)

Just for the record.

Spring 1906

• F Naf-WMS, F MAO S Spa(nc) H, A Bur S Gas-Mar, F ENG C Lon-Bre, F Lpl-IRI, F Edi-NTH, A Ruh-Mun, F Den H, F BAL H, A Pru-Lvn, A Mos-Ukr, A War-Ukr, A Sil-Gal
• F Por H
• F WMS H, A Mar H [Dislodged, Disbanded], F TYS H, A Ven H, A Vie H, A Tri H
• ELIMINATED
• A Bud S Gal-Vie
• A Alb H, A Gre-Ser, A Ser-Bud, A Rum S Bud H, A Con-Bul, F Smy-EMS, F BLA S Rum H, A Sev H
• ELIMINATED

Italy wasn’t moving. Austria and Turkey were but, again, couldn’t break the six years war that should have ended in 1902.

For me, it was about taking Marseilles and holding everything else. Extra cautious. Stop the chance of a Turkish army getting into Ukraine by self-bouncing in Ukraine and cutting possible support from Austria’s A(Gal). Of course, this couldn’t stop A Sev S Rum-Ukr but A Pru- Lvn would cover Moscow if needed in F06, with A(Sil) covering Warsaw.

Fall 1906

It was all over – I’m not even going to report the orders. I took Portugal and Tunis for the sake of it and ended the game on 20 SCs.

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POSTS IN THIS SERIES

1. 1901
2. 1902
3. 1903
4. 1904
5. 1905/6
6. AAR (waiting completion)