Thanks Darryl and 'Ho!" from your friendly neighbourhood Kaiser,
Glad to be in the game with you all - and to have Darryl as GM for another round - you've done a great job in Round 1!
Good luck all - May the most honourable and trustworthy ally/sneaky and duplicitous bastard WIN!

: D

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Darryl Good <dipknight-at-gmail.com ([email]dipknight-at-gmail.com[/email])> wrote:

All,
 
Welcome to Round 2 of Winter Blitz 2010!
 
As you are already aware; the Country Assignments for DC317 are as follows:
 
Country:       ID:                         Name:                   Email: 
Austria         MDemagogue         Mark Utterback      MDemagogue-at-gmail.com ([email]MDemagogue-at-gmail.com[/email])
England        phantomas             jean-luc granier      phantomas13-at-orange.fr ([email]phantomas13-at-orange.fr[/email])
France          packrat                  scott troemel         brn2dip-at-yahoo.com ([email]brn2dip-at-yahoo.com[/email])
Germany       Douglas_E_Fresh   Douglas Fresh       douglasefresh-at-gmail.com ([email]douglasefresh-at-gmail.com[/email])
Italy              evapollo88              Greg Olson           olson.gregoryscott-at-gmail.com ([email]olson.gregoryscott-at-gmail.com[/email])
Russia          Nigs                       Nigel Phillips         nephilli99-at-hotmail.com ([email]nephilli99-at-hotmail.com[/email])
Turkey          Jeremiah                Jeremiah Lee         dadidea-at-gmail.com ([email]dadidea-at-gmail.com[/email])

SUPER IMPORTANT NOTES;

Please please copy your orders to orders-at-diplomaticcorp.com ([email]orders-at-diplomaticcorp.com[/email]) EVERY time. This allows the Moderators to step in and run games as needed if last minute issues prevent me from keeping a game on track (due to the fast deadlines). IF YOU DO NOT COPY YOUR ORDERS HERE and a Mod has to run a game, you run the risk of an NMR!
Please note that Fall retreats and Winter builds are combined into one turn! You may make builds conditional on retreats but they are done with ONE deadline.

Please put "DC317; (country)" in your subject line at a minimum.  This will facilitate me being able to find your orders.  If you are in the habit of hitting the reply, PLEASE take the time to change the subject line and delete the body of the previous message.  If I am unable to find your orders, you run the risk of an NMR and the previous season will NOT be redone!
 
You know the rules, same as from Round 1 (Spring Orders - Mondays, Retreat Orders [if necessary] - Tuesdays, Fall Orders - Thursdays, Retreat Orders [if necessary] AND Builds/Disband Orders - Fridays).  I will do automatic retreats if only one retreat is available to facilitate play.  No reminders of the Deadlines will be provided so be sure to get your orders in as soon as possible.  I highly advise submitting preliminary.
 
If you are in the habit of using abbreviations, please use the standard 3-letter abbreviations.  I will not NMR a unit if I can decipher what you wanted (ie F Liv-NAO will be read as F Liverpool to North Atlantic Ocean not F Livonia to NAO).  Also, I will not NMR a unit if you fail to put a unit on the orders (ie Liv-NAO).  However, (there are some rules that cannot be gotten around) if a fleet can move to a country with more than one coast line and you fail to list which coast, the unit will not move due to the confusion (ie F MAO - Spa will cause the movement to fail due to the lack of coastal distinction).  All standard stuff, just a quick posting here to let you know that I will be as lenient as possible.  If I have not covered something and you have any questions, please ask.
 
Also, I will not be posting any comments on the Game.  I do not know how much might have been missed if a GM had not commented on it in his monologue; therefore, I do not post comments.  I will try to not influence the game in anyway.  Though, I am human; I too make mistakes.  When mistakes happen, you need to let me know as soon as possible so that I can make corrections.  If you do not make me aware of the error and the game proceeds to the next season, the deed is done and no correction can be made.
 
If you have made it this far, thank you for patiently reading all that I have for you.  I will not be as long winded during the game.  Best of luck to all of you in Round 2 of Winter Blitz 2010!  Let the Diplomacy begin!

Final Orders for Spring 1901 are due Monday, March 29 by 24:00 hrs GMT.