NMR resolved, builds sent to the wrong address.  No roster changes.  WOOHOO!
The med heats up with 9 new fleets!  Deadline set 1/18 at 5:00 PM EST.  The judge I downloaded isn't working so I need to GM by hand and copy/paste the result onto a jpeg.  If anyone knows of any judges for Ancient Med let me know, otherwise adjuds will continue to take 2 or 3 days.  Sorry about that.
 
Builds below, map attached, check for errors.
 
Take care!
-Maslow
 
Persia:

F Sidon
A Antioch
A Damascus
Rome:
Build A Rome
Build F Ravenna
Build F Neapolis
Greece:
Build A Macedonia
Build F Athens
Build F Sparta
Carthage:
Build F Carthage
Build F Thapsus
Build A Cirta
Egypt:
A Memphis
F Thebes
F Alexandria
--
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing. The shadow, even the darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you - That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding onto something."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."