I'll try to explain :
It's a fog game. In 1st round I owned Central America, then I tried to control Rusia. At this time Clementine (red) worked to control Far East. I broke his bonus, but his counter attack killed all my troops in Rusia in 2 rounds.
I moved to Northern America, but after I controled all of them killed my troops there, I had only Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Western USA, Southern USA, Cuba and Carribean.
From the log I know that red owned Australia too, and quixoticdave (blue) controlled South America.
I thought I must go far from red, and because I had 3 troops in Papua and 3 troops in New Zeeland and I could Cash next turn, I planned to take Australia but I wanted to set a trap against red in Mexico. He couldn't see Mexico at this time.
Also in 8th I took Australia and moved all my troops from Panama to Mexico. Then red make the next move like I planned. After taking Western USA he saw I had 11 troops in Mexico and he has only 5 or 6 in Western USA. He wasn't able to take Mexico, but he took Southern USA, Cuba and Carribean. After this round he had only 1's in teritory around Mexico, and maybe 1's in all Northern America.
Aha... next round I could attack him back. With 7 reinforcement, I would have 18 troops in Mexico. I could break all his bonus.
Now, let's see the situation from blue perspective. FYI Red is the strongest player on the map and blue is the 2nd. Everybody in the game know that red and me (silver) attacked each other. Blue (owner of SA) saw 2 troops of mine in Panama. I knew he would attack me there. No problem. He wouldn't attack me in Mexico, because he knew that was a trap from me against red.
But... But he killed all my troops in Mexico. Dang!! Fine. It's okay, maybe he wanted to control Central America. What I couldn't understand, why he didn't attack red in Southern USA or Western USA, to break red's bonus???
This question couldn't go from my head. Is it blue so stupid?
Then they started to talk each other in Chat (it's deleted by them). From the words they used, I know they must know each other. Then I looked at their profile and found that quixoticdave
only played with Clementine in private 1vs1 game. Here they are :
http://www.conquerclub.com/player.php?mode=find&submit=Search&player1=quixoticdave&sort=DP.S : I hope you can understand, what I want to say. Sorry english is not my 1st language. But I tried my best.