Greetings from good ole Berlin!

I'm finally back home after my cycling journey to and back from Scotland. For one, this trip certainly has further inspired me to redouble my efforts to push on with my non-Diplomacy-related boardgame project, namely a game covering the multiple Jacobite attempts to regain the British throne 1689-1745.

So time to get that fall map files out and unburden Dirk from this task. I owe him a big thankyou for helping out in this crucial manner. You'll find the map further below.

I shall be updating the DC adjucation/slideshow later today with all the missing adjucations.

Once I have received a full complement of retreats/adjustment orders (without any request for waiting until the 16 September deadline), I shall go about adjucating the Winter 1653 season. So, if you guys wish to speed up the progress of the game, get those orders to me.

On another note, now that I am back home, I shall be starting to write a follow-up article for DIPLOMACY WORLD, roughly centering on the development of 1648. If you have any ideas as to what I ought to include in it - or whether you're interested in writing something of your own, do let me know. The deadline's 1 October. Yeah, wish I had more time, but I hope I'll have a draft done by next weekend and would then welcome your input on it.

Liebe Grüsse,

Charles

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PLAYERS:
AUSTRIA: Jorge Saralegui jmsaralegui(at)gmail.com ([email]jmsaralegui(at)gmail.com[/email])
DENMARK-NORWAY: Michael Thompson psychosis(at)sky.com ([email]psychosis(at)sky.com[/email])
ENGLAND: Chris McInerney c.p.mcinerney(at)gmail.com ([email]c.p.mcinerney(at)gmail.com[/email])
FRANCE: Nathan Albright nathanbalbright(at)yahoo.com ([email]nathanbalbright(at)yahoo.com[/email])
POLAND-LITHUANIA: Roger Leroux yrl1967(at)gmail.com ([email]yrl1967(at)gmail.com[/email])
RUSSIA: Mikael Johansson m_don_j(at)hotmail.com ([email]m_don_j(at)hotmail.com[/email])
SPAIN: Matt Kremer matthew.kremer(at)yale.edu ([email]matthew.kremer(at)yale.edu[/email])
SWEDEN: Harvey Morris hmtucaz(at)gmail.com ([email]hmtucaz(at)gmail.com[/email])
TURKEY: Dirk Knemeyer dirk(at)knemeyer.com ([email]dirk(at)knemeyer.com[/email])

PROCLAMATIONS:
o NEWSPAPERS ON STRIKE!

PRESS: None.

ORDERS:

Austria:
F Adriatic Sea - Ionian Sea
A Dauphiné Supports A Lorraine - Paris
A Hesse Supports A Lower Saxony
A Lorraine - Paris
A Lower Saxony Supports A Saxony - Brandenburg
A Marseilles - Gascony (*Fails*)
A Papal States Hold
A Rhineland-Westphalia Supports A United Provinces
A Savoy - Marseilles (*Bounce*)
A Swabia - Lorraine
A Tuscany - Venice

Denmark-Norway:
F Bay of Luebeck - Holstein(ec) (*Bounce*)
F Helgoland Bight Supports A United Provinces
F Mecklenburg - Holstein(ec) (*Bounce*)
A United Provinces Supports A Lorraine - Flanders (*Void*)

England:
F English Channel Supports A Scotland - United Provinces
A Flanders Supports A Scotland - United Provinces
F North Atlantic Ocean - Norwegian Sea
F North Sea Convoys A Scotland - United Provinces
A Scotland - United Provinces (*Fails*)

France:
A Gascony - Marseilles (*Disbanded*)
A Paris Supports A Gascony - Marseilles (*Dislodged*)

Poland-Lithuania:
A Belgrade Supports A Moldavia - Bulgaria
A Hungary Supports A Belgrade
A Moldavia - Bulgaria
A Saxony - Brandenburg

Russia:
A Armenia Supports F Black Sea - Constantinople
A Azerbaijan Supports A Armenia
F Black Sea - Constantinople (*Fails*)
F Ingria - Novgorod(sc)
A Moscow - Voronezh
A Persia - Damascus (*Fails*)
A Prussia - Greater Poland
A Vilna - Warsaw
A Warsaw - Podolia
A White Ruthenia - Vilna

Spain:
A Aragon Supports A Leon - Gascony
F Brest Supports A Leon - Gascony
F Gulf of Lyon - Marseilles (*Bounce*)
A Leon - Gascony
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean Supports F Brest
F Western Mediterranean - Algiers

Sweden:
F Baltic Sea Supports F Stettin
A Christiania Hold
A Copenhagen Supports A Lower Saxony - Holstein (*Void*)
A Courland - Riga
F Scania Supports A Copenhagen
F Stettin Hold

Turkey:
F Aegean Sea Supports A Constantinople
A Constantinople Supports A Damascus (*Cut*)
A Damascus Supports A Constantinople (*Cut*)
F Eastern Mediterranean - Tekke
A Egypt Supports A Damascus
F Tunis Hold

RETREATS:

France:
A Paris may retreat to Normandy or OTB.

ADJUSTMENTS:

Austria: Build 5.
Denmark-Norway: Remove 1.
England: No adjustments.
France: Remove 0/1.
Poland-Lithuania: Build 2.
Russia: No adjustments.
Spain: No adjustments.
Sweden: Build 1.
Turkey: Remove 1.

SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP:

Austria(11+5=16): Bavaria, Lorraine, Lower Saxony, Marseilles, Papal States, Paris, Prague, Rhineland-Westphalia, Savoy, Saxony, Swabia, Switzerland, Trieste, Tuscany, Venice, Vienna.
Denmark-Norway(5+1-3=3): Holstein, Mecklenburg, United Provinces.
England(6-1=5): Bristol, Flanders, Ireland, London, Scotland.
France(2-2=0): -
Poland-Lithuania(5+1=6): Belgrade, Brandenburg, Cracow, Moldavia, Transylvania, Wallachia.
Russia(10): Crimea, Moscow, Novgorod, Persia, Prussia, Turkestan, Ukraine, Vilna, Voronezh, Warsaw.
Spain(6): Algiers, Brest, Madrid, Morocco, Portugal, Sevilla.
Sweden(6+1=7): Abo, Christiania, Copenhagen, Courland, Riga, Stettin, Stockholm.
Turkey(6-1=5): Candia, Constantinople, Damascus, Naples, Tunis.
Minor Powers(1-1=0): -

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (GMT+1)...not local time)
o Winter 1653 Retreats/Adjustments: 16 September

ORDERS MAP:


RESULTS MAP: