Frohe Weihnachten!

It's been a good fall for the Lord Protector and the Cardinal! Godly rule now holds sway over much of Scandinavia, while the French have conquered strategically important Swabia.

This in turn adversely affected the Emperor and the Northern Crowns, though the Swedes were at least able to regain the Duchy of Courland.

In the Mediterranean, the Sultan has managed to seize Sicily and hence deploy his war galleys further to the West. Madrid was in the meantime beset by the inertia of its military leaders and failed to gain new ground.

I should add that I found a bug in the RP module. I had failed to denote Sicily as being adjacent to the Ionian. Should you want the fixed RP files, let me know and I'll send them to you.

Anyway, I shall be down in Greece as of now until December 29th and any game-communication of mine will be probably delayed until that date.

As you know, I've scheduled the Winter deadline for the 1st. Okay, now gotta pack my suitcase (and the odd present I have yet to wrap).

I wish you all a merry and blessed Christmas.

Liebe Grüsse,

Charles

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PLAYERS:
AUSTRIA: Mike Hoffman <mrh(at)panix.com>
DENMARK-NORWAY: Marc Ellinger <mellinger(at)blitzbardgett.com>
ENGLAND: Harvey Morris <hmtucaz(at)gmail.com>
FRANCE: Nigel Phillips <nephilli99(at)hotmail.com>
POLAND-LITHUANIA: Jorge Saralegui <jmsaralegui(at)gmail.com>
RUSSIA: Mikael Johansson <m_don_j(at)hotmail.com> (eliminated Winter 1650)
SPAIN: Dirk Knemeyer <dirk(at)knemeyer.com>
SWEDEN: Jeff Hall <hall.jeff(at)gmail.com>
TURKEY: Aidan Slattery <AiSlattery(at)aol.com>

PROCLAMATIONS:
o EUROPEANS CELEBRATE CHRIST'S BIRTH IN THE MIDST OF PAN-EUROPEAN WAR

PRESS: None.

ORDERS:

Austria:
A Hesse - Rhineland-Westphalia (*Fails*)
A Saxony Supports A Swabia (*Cut*)
A Swabia Supports A Hesse - Rhineland-Westphalia (*Dislodged*)
A Trieste Supports F Adriatic Sea - Venice (*Void*)
A Tyrolia - Switzerland (*Bounce*)
A Vienna Supports A Trieste

Denmark-Norway:
F Scania - Baltic Sea (*Fails*)
A Stettin - Mecklenburg (*Bounce*)

England:
A Bohuslan - Stockholm
A Karelia - Abo
F North Sea Hold
F Norwegian Sea Hold
F Skagerrak Supports A Bohuslan - Stockholm
F United Provinces Hold

France:
F Flanders Hold
F Helgoland Bight - Copenhagen (*Bounce*)
A Lombardy - Switzerland (*Bounce*)
A Lorraine Supports A Switzerland - Swabia
A Paris - Dauphiné
A Rhineland-Westphalia Supports A Switzerland - Swabia (*Cut*)
A Switzerland - Swabia
A Venice - Tyrolia (*Fails*)

Poland-Lithuania:
A Brandenburg - Mecklenburg (*Bounce*)
A Courland - Polotsk (*Dislodged*)
A Ingria Supports A Karelia - Abo
A Moscow - Smolensk
A Novgorod Supports A Moscow - Smolensk
A Prussia - Courland (*Fails*)
A Vilna Supports A Moscow - Smolensk
A Volhynia - White Ruthenia

Spain:
F Adriatic Sea - Dalmatia (*Bounce*)
A Algiers Supports F Western Mediterranean - Tunis (*Fails*)
A Lower Saxony - Saxony (*Fails*)
F Naples Supports F Papal States(ec) - Adriatic Sea (*Fails*)
F Papal States(ec) - Adriatic Sea (*Fails*)
A Portugal Hold
F Seville - Western Mediterranean (*Fails*)
A Tunis - Papal States (*Fails*)
F Tyrrhenian Sea Convoys A Tunis - Papal States
F Western Mediterranean - Tunis (*Fails*)

Sweden:
F Baltic Sea - Stettin (*Fails*)
F Gulf of Bothnia - Courland
A Holstein - Copenhagen (*Bounce*)
A Mecklenburg Supports F Baltic Sea - Stettin (*Cut*)
A Polotsk Supports A Smolensk - Vilna (*Cut*)
A Riga Supports F Gulf of Bothnia - Courland
A Smolensk - Vilna (*Dislodged*)

Turkey:
A Belgrade - Croatia
F Candia Supports F Eastern Mediterranean - Ionian Sea
F Constantinople - Illyria (*Fails*)
A Crimea Hold
F Eastern Mediterranean - Ionian Sea
F Egypt Supports F Eastern Mediterranean - Ionian Sea
F Illyria - Dalmatia (*Bounce*)
F Ionian Sea - Sicily
A Siberia Supports A Novgorod

Ukraine:
A Ukraine Hold

PENDING RETREATS:

Polish A Courland can retreat to Samogitia or OTB.
Swedish A Smolensk can retreat to Pskov or OTB.
Austrian A Swabia can retreat to Bavaria or OTB.

PENDING ADJUSTMENTS:

Austria:
Remove?

Denmark-Norway:
Remove

England:
Build
Build

France:
Build
Build

Poland-Lithuania:
Build?

Sweden:
Remove
Remove?

Turkey:
Build






SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP:
Austria(6): Bavaria, Saxony, Swabia, Prague, Trieste, Vienna.
Denmark-Norway(2): Mecklenburg, Stockholm.
England(6): Bristol, Christiania, Ireland, London, Scotland, United Provinces.
France(: Brest, Flanders, Lorraine, Marseille, Paris, Savoy, Switzerland, Venice.
Poland-Lithuania(: Courland, Cracow, Crimea, Moscow, Prussia, Vilna, Voronezh, Warsaw.
Russia(0): -
Spain(10): Algiers, Lower Saxony, Madrid, Morocco, Naples, Portugal, Rhineland-Westphalia, Sevilla, Tuscany, Tunis.
Sweden(7): Abo, Brandenburg, Copenhagen, Holstein, Novgorod, Riga, Stettin.
Turkey(9): Belgrade, Candia, Constantinople, Damascus, Moldavia, Persia, Transylvania, Turkestan, Wallachia.
Minor Powers(2): Papal States, Ukraine.

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (i.e. GMT+1)...not local time)
o Winter 1652 Retreats/Adjustments: 1 January
o Spring 1653 Moves: (4) 6 January



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