Hallo zusammen!
I wish I had received all orders at a sooner date, since Harvey got his own in quite swiftly and hence the long delay was not on account of his absence. Lets all do our part in keeping the game on track.
All navy blue has now disappeared from the map as imperial gold (or on account of Realpolitik's colour scheme yellow) has spread to much of Central Europe. Will the Emperor yet encounter concerted opposition or shall Europe acquiesce to Imperial hegemony? Most games I've participated in have at such an advanced stage seen a flurry of end-game proposals, to date so remarkably absent in this game.
We have another "first" to note in that Poland-Lithuania was built a naval squadron of its own and at that, in Black Sea ports.
In recent days, I've taken another look at my "Locarno: Europe 1926" variant (now for simplicity's and consistency's sake renamed "1926"
. While giving it the same look as the one I gave the 1648 map, I also redrew the Atlantic sea spaces in a similar fashion as I have done with 1648 v3.0 (i.e the version I shall be using for the next game). The other change directly inspired by 1648 was to cap a great power's DP investment in any minor power at 2 max so as to encourage the spreading of one's DPs and encourage further cooperation over DPs between players. I also downsided Germany to a 3-SC power while at it for play balance reasons. Anyway, you can check out
http://www.dipwiki.com/index.php?title=1926 if interested in the result. I'm now seeking over at diplomaticcorp.com reliable and communicative players for a playtest of this latest variant version.
Oh, as you might have noticed, Mike Simmons added a rather cool feature to the DC site, namely a supply centre chart tracking the growth and decline of all player powers over time. You'll find the link on our game's DC webpage.
Liebe Grüsse,
Charles
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PLAYERS:
AUSTRIA: Jorge Saralegui
jmsaralegui(at)gmail.com
DENMARK-NORWAY: Michael Thompson
psychosis(at)sky.com
ENGLAND: Chris McInerney
c.p.mcinerney(at)gmail.com
FRANCE: Nathan Albright
nathanbalbright(at)yahoo.com
POLAND-LITHUANIA: Roger Leroux
yrl1967(at)gmail.com
RUSSIA: Mikael Johansson
m_don_j(at)hotmail.com
SPAIN: Matt Kremer
matthew.kremer(at)yale.edu
SWEDEN: Harvey Morris
hmtucaz(at)gmail.com
TURKEY: Dirk Knemeyer
dirk(at)knemeyer.com
PROCLAMATIONS:
o IMPERIAL SUBJECTS MOST EAGER TO FIGHT FOR THEIR MONARCH
o DANISH NAVY FORCED TO MAKE DEEP CUTS IN EXPENDITURE
o YOUNG LOUIS XIV FLEES INTO EXILE
o POLES BUILD A BLACK SEA NAVAL SQUADRON
o FINNISH MILITIA MOBILISED
o TURKISH WAR GALLEYS LAYED UP
PRESS: None.
RETREATS:
France:
disband A Paris
ADJUSTMENTS:
Austria:
Build A Vienna
Build A Prague
Build A Saxony
Build A Bavaria
Build F Trieste
Denmark-Norway:
Remove F Helgoland Bight
Poland-Lithuania:
Build F Moldavia
Build A Cracow
Sweden:
Build A Abo
Turkey:
Remove F Aegean Sea
SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP:
Austria(16): Bavaria, Lorraine, Lower Saxony, Marseilles, Papal States, Paris, Prague, Rhineland-Westphalia, Savoy, Saxony, Swabia, Switzerland, Trieste, Tuscany, Venice, Vienna.
Denmark-Norway(3): Holstein, Mecklenburg, United Provinces.
England(5): Bristol, Flanders, Ireland, London, Scotland.
Poland-Lithuania(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(7): Abo, Christiania, Copenhagen, Courland, Riga, Stettin, Stockholm.
Turkey(5): Candia, Constantinople, Damascus, Naples, Tunis.
DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (GMT+1)...not local time)
o Spring 1654 Moves: 23 September
o Summer 1654 Retreats: 25 September
o Fall 1654 Moves: 30 September
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