Dan, quoting Fredrik’s deadline:

I'll see if we can keep a weekly schedule, and make the adjudications be due on Wednesday evenings at 8:00pm (Sweden, GMT + 1). The first turn will now be due the 21th of October, which should leave Tony plenty of time to talk to you all.

He said this twice. Once in the game-start mail, and then again in the mail introducing our new Italian -- there was no ambiguity.

If you were a newbie I’d grant you the “didn’t know it was a time and not a day” but you’ve been around the block this is your 6th game. Why no prelims?

All said, Turkey is the least awful country to NMR with in the first year due to your corner position. Now -- what shall we do about these Bulgarians that were fully expecting to be ransacked by the Turks in every single Diplomacy game ever played. It’s like groundhog day for Bulgaria -- only instead it’s Spring 1901, Turks invade. And this was the one game they woke up and found no rule-imposing Sultan there. Whatever will they do???

-mike
Austria



From: Dan Huck [mailto:aefgirt7(at)yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:24 PM
To: Fredrik Blom
Cc: Dirk Knemeyer; Jeff Cole; Jeffrey Clay; Michael Sims; John Clarke; Tony Tella; dc278
Subject: Re: dc278 - Spring 1901 Results


Actually, Fredrik, your reminders said Wednesday, 10/21/09 with no time requirement (GST or otherwise). Given that, I assumed I had until midnight today (10/21/09) to submit. The rough start to the game, with various delays, led me to believe you had chosen a day rather than an hour. If you are going to assign me an NMR and give me a hold for the first round, then you should start looking for your replacement now.

-- Dan.



From: Fredrik Blom <fredrik(at)familjenblom.se>
Sent: Wed, October 21, 2009 2:48:36 PM
Subject: dc278 - Spring 1901 Results

Gentlemen,


Well - we're off to a rough start here. Despite an extra week and a reminder a few days ago we've got an NMR from Turkey, which means that all his units stay where they are. Another NMR this season will see a replacement player brought in. The house rules state allow for the replacement to have a small time for negotiations in that case which I will allow.



Other than that all the orders were able to be carried out except for a slight disagreement (?) over who should occupy the English Channel.



No adjustments are called for, so we just move on to the next major season - Fall 1901. Deadline will be a week from now, Wednesday, 28th of October, 7 PM GMT, as usual. Again, I strongly urge you to submit preliminaries as soon as possible, since I will be out of town from Sunday to Wednesday, and will be unable to confirm moves at that point in time. You can keep on sending me ordersets until the start of the adjudication though - just make sure you label them with a number or something so that I'll know which one is the latest.



Any mistakes that I've made should be brought to my attention as soon as possible.




Game on!



Movement results for Spring 1901:

Austria:

A Budapest - Serbia

F Trieste - Albania

A Vienna - Budapest



England:

F Edinburgh - North Sea

A Liverpool - Yorkshire

F London - English Channel (*Bounce*)



France:

F Brest - English Channel (*Bounce*)

A Marseilles - Spain

A Paris - Gascony



Germany:

A Berlin - Prussia

F Kiel - Denmark

A Munich - Ruhr



Italy:

F Naples - Ionian Sea

A Rome - Apulia

A Venice Hold



Russia:

A Moscow - Sevastopol

F Sevastopol - Black Sea

F St Petersburg(sc) - Gulf of Bothnia

A Warsaw - Ukraine



Turkey:

F Ankara, no move received

A Constantinople, no move received

A Smyrna, no move received





Current status:

Ownership:



Austria: Budapest, Trieste, Vienna.

England: Edinburgh, Liverpool, London.

France: Brest, Marseilles, Paris.

Germany: Berlin, Kiel, Munich.

Italy: Naples, Rome, Venice.

Russia: Moscow, Sevastopol, St Petersburg, Warsaw.

Turkey: Ankara, Constantinople, Smyrna.

Unowned: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Holland, Norway,

Portugal, Rumania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Tunis.



Adjustments:



Austria: Supp 3 Unit 3 Build 0

England: Supp 3 Unit 3 Build 0

France: Supp 3 Unit 3 Build 0

Germany: Supp 3 Unit 3 Build 0

Italy: Supp 3 Unit 3 Build 0

Russia: Supp 4 Unit 4 Build 0

Turkey: Supp 3 Unit 3 Build 0



Next phase: Fall 1901 Movement.




Next Deadline: Wednesday, 28th of October, 7 PM GMT



/Fredrik