La Belle Epoque - From The Central Powers

In our third game of this diplomacy game, Richard was the Great Britain, Simon France, Jeff Russia and I was the Central Powers (Germany and Austria). Six hours of play produced some cautious play, but Russia in part thanks to an early alliance with Japan secured a win with 160 points.  Second was France with 143 due to a thriving set of colonies in Africa.  I was third with 123.  I started level with Russia but a country that shall remain nameless (but collected only 57 points) held me back.

This was the third time Great Britain has struggled to get scores. It was particularly hurt in this game by some random events that were particularly cruel.  At the same time there were events that were beneficial to Imperial Russia.