Conquer Club

Accused:

Chrasher
Jim1086
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The accused are suspected of:


Conducting Secret Diplomacy

Other: <Explanation>



Game number(s):

Game 6192500




Comments: After several rounds maybe 10-12 and 8 or so of these both players having succesful attacks upon each other whilst still maintaining +7 & +3 bonus, i suspected something was not right. I has reasonable stack on Vienna, so i drove it up through to Ukraine and back down into Ankarra. there was very little if any defence on either border, and yet Jim1086 had 57 armies stationed in Sofia, and chrasher had 58 armies stationed in Moscow. Why would 2 people have large forces away from there borders and leave the borders virtually undefended. jim1086 had 8 defending ankara and 3 on erzurum whilst chrasher had only 1 army defending black sea and ukraine. when question, neither player could come up with a satifactory explanation. If this is not cheating, it is stup[idity of the highest degree. !!

This is the only game that the 2 accused have played in, and normally we would need more evidence then 1 game of suspected secret alliance to justify disciplinary actions.

Plus the fact that there is nothing in the rules saying that you have to aggressively attack members in the game.
It appears to me after reading the log and chat that these 2 tried to use the lay and wait strategy of exchanging a territory here and there while both having an agreement to leave each others bonuses in tact so they could pile a large force in a fog game for later use.

Just because they weren't invading each other, and just cause they were only exchanging a territory here and there for cards and not breaking bonuses doesn't mean they were cheating.

This is Noted for future cases that could come between these 2. Closed.