['Hello Russia!  I’m curious as to how you like to play this game?  I’m often a big fan of the A/R alliance: Turkey is a great initial target, Germany second, with Italy coming next after that for me and England next for you.  Lots of possibilities!  Any thoughts?', 'Greeings Austria!\n\nI agree the old Jug is a little obvious, I do believe that A/R is a lot more flexible for both of us ! \n\nHow do you envision a 1901?', 'We could bounce in Gal, as that’s a fairly safe way to maintain those two units in a rearguard position, for starters.  Then there’s Turkey: if I can convince them that you’re going north so that they can move quickly with their fleets with me (ie Ank-Con) then you could just *take* BLA, which would speed up this whole endeavor right away.  If we don’t think they’ll do that (or you don’t want to lie in 01), you two could just bounce there and go to Mos-Ukr while I go to Ser, then in the Fall you could either take Rum with the fleet (so you can force BLA), or else I support you into Rum from Ukr while going for BLA again.  Of course, Italy goes Trl and Ven right out of the gate, I won’t be as useful an ally to you ;p', 'Any thoughts on 1901 moves?  Germany and Italy both seem content to play cautiously (so they say: the Anschluss "hold in Munich" from Germany, and "how about a Lepanto?" from Italy), and Turkey is making friendly sounds but nothing concrete.  You feeling like the typical "3 units south" approach, so we can pick apart Turkey? I don\'t seen any obvious E/G fighting right out of the gate to give you an easy opening into Scandanavia (as cool as that would be - A/R alliances where R gets in the west early can do some fun things...)', 'Agreed on the bounce in Gal. Yeah if you can convince turkey to move F to Con that would be great!']
Are you worried that Italy will disrupt you this spring?