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30 Oct 21 UTC	Spring, 1960: Hello
30 Oct 21 UTC	Autumn, 1960: Hi
30 Oct 21 UTC	Autumn, 1960: What are you doing? Your moves are weird. Are you new to this game?
30 Oct 21 UTC	Autumn, 1960: Yes. This is my second game. I hope I'll get better soon.
30 Oct 21 UTC	Spring, 1961: Do you know the basic mechanisms? You have to conquer centers (and you conquer them by being on them after the auntum move). Centers are the regions marked by a point. When you have more conquered centers than troops, you can build new troops in your home centers. I am very confused by you going to Southwest and Mexico, this is useless. On this map you have to go to Alaska in the first year. Also leaving Indonesia was silly, as you want to conquer it. (but the standard opening here is not Indonesia but Japan or India). Similarly, going to Norway in auntum doesn't help you, you should have blocked me in Sweden. Now building an army in London is also a bit weird as it can't move on it's own, you'll have to convoy it but you can only convoy when a fleet is in an adjacent sea region, so you can convoy in auntum earliest.
30 Oct 21 UTC	Spring, 1961: If you have questions about this game, feel free to ask.
30 Oct 21 UTC	Autumn, 1961: I know the rules, but I'm just not good at this game (yet). As you said there are openings that I don't know yet (for example going to Southwest and Mexico), but I will figure it out. Thanks for your help!
30 Oct 21 UTC	Autumn, 1961: I'm commenting a bit about your moves so you might learn a bit. Moving to Saigon in spring was not that good, as you have to be on a center in auntum to conquer it. So if you want to conquer Saigon, you'll have to stay there now. a better move would have been to stay in South China sea so I can't get there from Shanghai. you would block me from leaving and could go for Saigon (or Indonesia, which is a better center strategically) in auntum still. Similar thoughts hold for East Med: Going to Egypt in spring means your unit will stand there without doing anything in auntum. You could have supported Istanbul moving to Greece in spring and then in auntum you still could have taken Egypt. I have done such a thing: I supported Albania to Greece and will take Tunis now. With my armies in Greece and Ukraine, I can support one with the other and take Istanbul from you.
30 Oct 21 UTC	GameMaster: NATO voted for a Concede. If everyone (but one) votes concede the game will end and the player _not_ voting Concede will get all the points. Everybody else will get a defeat.
30 Oct 21 UTC	I opened another one. If you are interested, you can join it. I'd tell you some things you'd have to consider doing your moves.