Hi everyone! My name is Sam Buck, and I'm going to be your GM for round two of Winter Blitz 2010. I realize you've all had the speeches about the rules and such in your first round games, so I'll speed through them:

1) CC your orders to orders-at-diplomaticcorp.com ([email]orders-at-diplomaticcorp.com[/email]) . If I get hit by a falling anvil and have to go to the hospital, the DC mods (Gary and Mike) need to be able to run the turn, and if they don't have your orders, you'll wind up with an NMR. And nobody likes NMRs.


2) You all know the Scheduling. I will be doing Auto-retreats this game, so if your unit only has one place to retreat to, I will auto it to there. If you'd prefer to retreat OTB (Off The Board), notify me, and I will notify others.
Monday: Spring
Tuesday: Summer
Thursday: Fall
Friday: Autumn/Winter


3) Please put "DC313" into the Email subject line. I am currently Playing in DC284, DC285, DC294, and DC314, all while GMing DC313, DC292, and two as yet unnumbered games. Make my life happy, please.


4) If I have an error in My adjudication, then tell me within 24 hours. I had an incident this morning where I forgot about my Englishman's fall order in DC292. Nothing could be done about it, since he didn't notice it until after 24 hours had passed.


5)Conditional builds are allowed, since the autumn and winter turns will be treated as one. You should all know what that means, from last game. If you don't it just means that you can say:
If Turkish A Ukr retreats to Moscow, build A Sev, otherwise Build A Stp. (Just an Example).


6) There is no serious sixth rule. Oh wait, there is. HAVE FUN!!!


Now that that's over with, we have two more things to cover. The first is timing. The deadline for our games will ALWAYS be 3:00 PM US Eastern (19:00 GMT). I will remind you of this for the first couple of years, but after that, I don't think that it's too much to remember. If this ever changes, you will be informed. I will accept orders up to the point that I publish the Adjudication, but that will usually be VERY shortly after 3, so just get them in on time. Please?


And now, we have (drumroll) COUNTRY ASSIGNMENTS!!! Remember, these are random, so I'm sorry if you don't like what you got. Just try to have fun, you never know what might come of it.




IDCountryNameEmailLocationalwayshuntedAustriaWarren Flemingalwayshunted-at-hotmail.com ([email]alwayshunted-at-hotmail.com[/email])chknbrstlGermanyRob Bristolrbristol-at-cogeco.ca ([email]rbristol-at-cogeco.ca[/email])fencertimTurkeyTimothy Crosbytim_crosby-at-hotmail.com ([email]tim_crosby-at-hotmail.com[/email])FL, USJeffreyKItalyJeffrey Kraussdiplomacy-at-jeffreyk.com ([email]diplomacy-at-jeffreyk.com[/email])Kirkland, WA, USjlqEnglandJoao Queirosjlqueiros3-at-hotmail.com ([email]jlqueiros3-at-hotmail.com[/email])PTpaetunyaFranceLaurence Granierpaetunya-at-orange.fr ([email]paetunya-at-orange.fr[/email])Lançon Provence FXuntitled36Russiajohn resideuntitled36-at-hotmail.com ([email]untitled36-at-hotmail.com[/email])IL, US


That's it for now. Spring 1901 is due next monday at 3:00PM. Send Prelims, please. Good Luck, all!
-Sam Buck
Your GM