Searching for an old friend

I wish you luck

Thanks PKK. I'll probably need a lot of that. After my new friend and I won that game, we stayed in frequent contact. He was a highly educated family man born and raised and living in India. I was born in Britain of Welsh decent and now live as a Canadian citizen on the West Coast of Canada. For over a year we talked about everything besides our 'Call of War' stories that we each kept racking up solo victories with. Our strategies were so different, yet neither of us had lost a game long before we played as China and the USA. Both of us had come close a few times when running into 'gold buyers' but since they are more often than not, shitty strategists, economically ignorant, lacking any diplomatic skill whatso ever, and prone to emotional breakdowns by embarrassing them on the world's stage in the paper, we were victorious. We didn't ever plan playing in the same game together because we both were solo victory junkies, but against all the odds it finally happened once. Long story short, I checked out a 1939 Historical game to see what countries were available, and all the good ones had been taken. About to pass, I couldn't believe it when I saw my friends name who had chosen Romania. Romania! I thought, 'What a crazy bastard he was to choose a shit country I'd never seen survive in all the 1939 Historic scenarios I'd played in. But then I noticed no one had picked Turkey, (that I had not yet played in any C.O.W. game) Thinking that even if we were the greatest generals of all time it would be mathematically impossible for us to have even the slightest chance of getting a coalition victory, let alone one of us getting a solo. I tried everything to talk myself out of going down this insane path but failed. He was my friend, and dying loyally beside him in the end seemed more important than improving my glorious winning streak. Still, I wasn't just going to play to die. There was one super rare chance if full luck was on our side, that we might possibly be able to pull off and I suggested it to him. He pointed out how risky it was, but agreed it was our only hope as Europe burst into war and started choosing sides. We pretended to hate each other. The foul filthy things we said in the world news paper, the savage insulting personal attacks, inhuman accusations, etc, convinced all of them we would be too busy destroying each other to cause any serious threats to the major powers, so they let their guard down. Again, long story short, we hit them so hard by surprize at exactly the right moment, that most of them quit a couple of days later. My friend was running out of time to play further due to his job and the unexpected length of the game and let me win the solo. He said it was pay back for the battleship.

Sounds like a good friend, The Battleship part and solo win thing is nice

I’m sorry but I don’t know about someone like that, I hope you eventually find him

Yep