Solitaire Dip - game 1: set up

My trusty local game store managed to get the current edition of Diplomacy for me. It's "only" the one with cardboard tokens for armoes and fleets, not the nice shiny metal pieces from the older edition, but getting a nice, mounted mapboard, solid cardboard counters and a neat printed rule book (much easier to flip through and reference than the pdf version) for less than 30€ isn't such a bad deal.

So let's try out the country "personality generator" I came up with earlier and figure out how the countries will behave in this one.

Country	Die rolls	Outlook	Alliances	Reliability
England	4 4 5	Regional	Tactical	Opportunistic
France	5 6 6	Local	Opportunistic	Opportunistic
Italy	4 5 6	Regional	Opportunistic	Opportunistic
Turkey	3 5 3	Regional	Opportunistic	Stable
Austria-Hungary	1 6 1	Geopolitical	Opportunistic	Reliable
Germany	5 3 3	Regional	Tactical	Stable
Russia	1 1 3	Geopolitical	Traditional	Reliable

Looks like a chaotic game of turns and changes, I wonder how it will turn out.

To have some kind of starting point, I'll begin with the following "Alliances":

• a long term alliance of Austria and Russia (knowing that Austria will break it if it comes under pressure)
• Germany looking to attack west, and trust (with limitations) that its Austrian brethren and their Russian ally will not backstab it right away
• a short term agreement of Italy and Turkey to split the Mediterranean, giving North Africa and the northern Adriatic to the Italians
• an offer of the UK to Russia to avoid conflict in Scandinavia, with Norway (only) going to the Brits

Country goals at game start

England: take and hold Norway, get into the continent in Holland or Belgium and attack the more vulnerable of France and Germany, trying to work with the other one.

France: wait-and-see, and vigorously attack whoever sticks their neck out too far

Italy: quickly take N Africa, prepare to move against Austria in the Northern Adriatic and be ready to exploit against France if they expose their south.

Turkey: hold against Russia and establish a forward position against Austria in the Balkans. Ignore the Med unless Italy doesn't stick to the agreement.

Austria: establish a token holding position against Germany, otherwise push into the Balkans full steam, esp. blocking Turkey.

Germany: push west, and keep flexible defenses available in case England does something stupid or Italy runs up north too hard.

Russia: split Scandinavia with the UK, otherwise push full steam against Turkey to combine with Austria in taking them out quickly.