Gentlemen,

Welcome all. This is the official start of dc308. I'm sorry to have kept you guys waiting, but my vacation was booked a long time ago, and the game filled up surprisingly fast. Random.org has gone ahead and assigned you countries as follows:


IDCountry NameEmail Locationgreg England greg surnamegregsurname-at-gmail.com ([email]gregsurname-at-gmail.com[/email]) Melbourne, VIC, AU jeffcole08Turkey Jeffrey Cole jeffcole854-at-gmail.com ([email]jeffcole854-at-gmail.com[/email]) Clarksville, TN, USjerubbaal France Jason Waeberjerubbaal07-at-gmail.com ([email]jerubbaal07-at-gmail.com[/email]) Milford, OH, US kuldesacGermany peter wens peter.wens-at-telenet.be ([email]peter.wens-at-telenet.be[/email]) antwerp, BEneversawthatcoming Italy Joe Rizzokangaroohp-at-aol.com ([email]kangaroohp-at-aol.com[/email]) Winfield, IL, US Paga25Austria jeremy waters ihatehairyspiders-at-hotmail.com ([email]ihatehairyspiders-at-hotmail.com[/email]) Stratford-upon-avon, WARKS, UKvenceromorir Russia Sean Michaelsvenceromorir01-at-yahoo.com ([email]venceromorir01-at-yahoo.com[/email]) Washington, DC, US


The game will run with adjudications due on weekdays, at 19:00 (7 PM) GMT times. This is the evening across Europe, sometime in the afternoon across the US, and the middle of the night in Australia. I'll try to give at least a few days of discussion for the major turns, with the minor turns taking a day or two, all depending on when we finish off the previous turn. In my experience a game year will take about a week and a half - so count on playing up until early summer. The first turn will be longer, in order for you all to be able to get acquainted to each other.


I also run a pretty tight ship with the adjudications - if you do not have orders in by the time I start the adjudications you will receive an NMR (No Move Received). Therefore it is important to send in preliminaries. Any order can be changed up until the deadline. Also: try to make all the orders complete. I do not want to go hunting for orders from a previous order-set.



You can always see the status of the game on Diplomatic Corps website - including the due date, etc.


Make my life easier:
I would appreciate if your subject line on mail to me includes the following information:
dc308 - {Country} {Season}


This first turn I'm also looking for preliminary moves from all of you. If you do not have them in by a week I might look for a replacement for you - so get into the habit of turning them in as soon as possible.


Next turn: Spring 1901 Movement

Next Deadline: Preliminary moves due Friday, 26th of March, 19:00 GMT (7PM).

[b]Upcoming Deadline: Wednesday, 31th of March 2010, 19:00 GMT (7PM).



















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Good luck, and happy diploming.


/Fredrik