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[Link to the coded die roller](http://www.metstübchen.de/cgi-bin/DIESERVER/roll.pl?code=FD2-2017&showroll=roll) **List by Player, alphabetically** - @Boukert - Italy - @Fluf - England - @jidlaph - Germany - @Lord--Gaben - France - @PMYA - Austria - @Skyrock - Turkey - @TheRedArmy - Russia **List by Country, alphabetically** - Austria - @PMYA - England - @Fluf - France - @Lord--Gaben - Germany - @jidlaph - Italy - @Boukert - Russia - @TheRedArmy - Turkey - @Skyrock

16 comments

[–] TheRedArmy 2 points (+2|-0)

France isn't too bad. At least you can kinda contest the new SCs. And France has a high win rate on the normal board.

My real sympathy goes to @PMYA. Turkey and then Austria. Literally any other two nation combination would be more enjoyable to me.

@Boukert and @Jidlaph swapped spots, and @Fluf can try his hand at England after last game. :)

@Skyrock trades his northern half of the Juggernaut for the southern half.

Looks exciting. I'm already getting pumped up.

[–] Skyrock [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

Turkey isn't so bad in 7 Islands. From my armchair, I'd guess that the possibility to send A Smy to Cyprus and follow up with a 2nd fleet to relatively safely grab Crete should make them much more flexible in the early game, rather than to be 100% committed from turn 1 on to be either anti-Austrian or anti-Russian.

[–] TheRedArmy 3 points (+3|-0)

I did not see the land connection for Cyprus. That is a bit better than I thought, then.

Just being able to guarantee the second build (Bul and Cyp) is already a huge advantage. Same for England and Italy.

[–] Skyrock [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

Of course that also leaves A Smy at least 2 turns away to move to Armenia to attack Russia, or even more turns to get to the Balkan to influence events there. It is a good hedge when you trust neither Austria nor Russia, or just want to buy time to get a better idea about their trustworthiness, but it comes at a price.

It's still better than the binary situation of Turkey's opening in vanilla Calhamer, as at least there is a 3rd way.