<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, it was my second time playing, and I had a LITTLE more knowledge of the board. This time my strategy was to slowly take over North America, and I gave up all my Asian countries (left a single army on the three of them, and put everything on Iceland, and 3 terrettories I had in North America). Early on red (my friend from hockey) took Australia and kept it or the whole game, then he slowly moved through Asia. Meanwhile I was expanding in North America while everyone else was fighting over South America, Africa, Europe, and what was left of Asia.
So it eventually came to a point where red was dominant, owning Australia, Plenty of Asia, and Africa. He lost parts of Africa when he was attacked from Europe. The next turn red took most of Europe and attacked into South America. I cashed a set, finished off a player and got three cards out of it (no set, a set is when you have 3 cards that have either three matching symbols, an infantry, cavalry, or cannon, or one of each. You get one card per turn only if you take a territory. When you cash a set, you get a certain amount of armies, for the most part each set cashed you get an additional 5 onto the amount that was give before. One turn it would be +25 armies, the next +30, the next +35....). I then took all of South America and all of Africa, finishing my turn by moving about 8 armies to the only two ways into Africa, Egypt and Western Africa.
The next turn Green went crazy and took out everyone and gainedmost of Asia, but quit so he could defend against red who still had cards, a lot of Asia, most of Europe, and Australia. Red cashed, and attacked, taking all of Europe but he had a LOT of unlucky rolls and didn't have enough armies to break through into North America from Kamchatka(?). So the next turn I cashed my cards (I lied about not having a set, I had a wild card on me beside the three I got from blue who I destroyed), and I took the board. My second game playing, and undefeated =)
I guess before the whole huge war at the end happened. I made most of my moves in North America to benefit myself, and all of my moves in Europe to benefit my weaker opponents. I was also in the position where I could bargain with the weaker guys against red and Gray (who was in the lead towards the beginning, he was also by far more experienced than the red player, so he became an early target for everyone). I didn't make any huge aggressive moves until close to the very end, every other player (except black, who just happened to get in the middle of everything in Asia and North America) had done some overly aggressive move before me, so they were all focused on each other, and failed to notice that I was way more powerful than all of them by the end (having North America very well defended, and nothing to stop me once South America was opened up.</div>
So it eventually came to a point where red was dominant, owning Australia, Plenty of Asia, and Africa. He lost parts of Africa when he was attacked from Europe. The next turn red took most of Europe and attacked into South America. I cashed a set, finished off a player and got three cards out of it (no set, a set is when you have 3 cards that have either three matching symbols, an infantry, cavalry, or cannon, or one of each. You get one card per turn only if you take a territory. When you cash a set, you get a certain amount of armies, for the most part each set cashed you get an additional 5 onto the amount that was give before. One turn it would be +25 armies, the next +30, the next +35....). I then took all of South America and all of Africa, finishing my turn by moving about 8 armies to the only two ways into Africa, Egypt and Western Africa.
The next turn Green went crazy and took out everyone and gainedmost of Asia, but quit so he could defend against red who still had cards, a lot of Asia, most of Europe, and Australia. Red cashed, and attacked, taking all of Europe but he had a LOT of unlucky rolls and didn't have enough armies to break through into North America from Kamchatka(?). So the next turn I cashed my cards (I lied about not having a set, I had a wild card on me beside the three I got from blue who I destroyed), and I took the board. My second game playing, and undefeated =)
I guess before the whole huge war at the end happened. I made most of my moves in North America to benefit myself, and all of my moves in Europe to benefit my weaker opponents. I was also in the position where I could bargain with the weaker guys against red and Gray (who was in the lead towards the beginning, he was also by far more experienced than the red player, so he became an early target for everyone). I didn't make any huge aggressive moves until close to the very end, every other player (except black, who just happened to get in the middle of everything in Asia and North America) had done some overly aggressive move before me, so they were all focused on each other, and failed to notice that I was way more powerful than all of them by the end (having North America very well defended, and nothing to stop me once South America was opened up.</div>
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