Hallo zusammen,
 
this season marking the end of the Lord Protector's
Russian adventure. Clearly puritanism hasn't caught on in the Russias. Perhaps
zealous Jesuits sent out from Poland shall fare better with the Russia's
recalcitrant peasantry, intransigent clergy and stuffy boyars?
The English proselytisers have left utterly disillusioned...
 
Talking of religious affairs, the call of the
muezzin can now even be heard in the Eternal City and the Pope has recognised
the Sultan as his protector.
 
And what about the champion of Lutheranism?
Sweden's feeling the squeeze in her corner of Germany. A whopping 86%
of key territories (i.e. SCs) within the Empire are now under Catholic rule. If
that ain't the mark of the counterreformation... 

The Winter 1657 deadline shall
follow on 30 April, 6 PM CET.
 
Liebe Grüsse,
 
Charles
 
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PLAYERS:
    AUSTRIA: Mike Hoffman <mrh(at)panix.com>
    DENMARK-NORWAY: Marc
Ellinger <mellinger(at)blitzbardgett.com> (eliminated Winter
1653)
    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: Matthew Kelly
<kelly058(at)verizon.net> (joined Winter 1652)
    TURKEY: Aidan
Slattery <AiSlattery(at)aol.com>

PROCLAMATIONS:
    o FIRST CHOCOLATE SHOP IN ENGLAND OPENED
    o ARCHDUKE FAILS TO MAKE GAINS IN THE EMPIRE
    o LORD PROTECTOR BRINGS THE LADS HOME; RUSSIAN
ADVENTURE COMES TO IGNOMINIOUS END
    o BOURBON TROOPS OVERRUN MECKLENBURG DUCHIES; HOLD
ON IMPERIAL CROWN CONSOLIDATED
    o POLISH GOVERNOR DISPATCHED TO CENTRAL ASIAN
KHANATES; CONSIDERED A PUNITIVE POSTING FOR COURT OFFICIALS
    o GRANDDUCHY OF TUSCANY WELCOMES NEW SPANISH
OVERLORDS
    o SWEDEN'S GERMAN DOMAINS SQUEEZED
    o POPE FORCED TO SEEK HUMILIATING ACCOMODATION
WITH THE CALIPH

PRESS: None.
 
ORDERS:
 
Austria:
A Bavaria - Saxony (*Bounce*)
A Prague Supports A Bavaria -
Saxony (*Fails*)
A Saxony - Brandenburg (*Bounce*)
A Trieste Supports A
Venice
A Tyrolia - Swabia (*Fails*)
A Venice Supports A Tyrolia (*Ordered
to Move*)
 
England:
F Abo Hold
A Bohuslan - Christiania
F Gulf of Bothnia -
Stockholm(ec)
F Irish Sea - Ireland
F Norwegian Sea Convoys A Permia -
Scotland
A Permia - Scotland
 
France:
A Aragon - Marseilles
F Cantabrian Sea - Irish Sea
F
Flanders - English Channel
A Gascony - Aragon
F Helgoland Bight - North
Sea
A Hesse - Saxony (*Bounce*)
F Holstein(ec) Supports A Lower Saxony -
Mecklenburg
A Lombardy Supports A Switzerland
A Lorraine Supports A
Swabia
A Lower Saxony - Mecklenburg
A Swabia Supports A Hesse - Saxony
(*Cut*)
A Switzerland Supports A Swabia
A Tuscany - Savoy
A United
Provinces - Lower Saxony
 
Poland-Lithuania:
F Baltic Sea - Stettin (*Bounce*)
A Courland -
Riga
A Novgorod - Karelia
A Pskov Supports A Courland - Riga
A
Samogitia Hold
A Siberia - Turkestan
A Smolensk - Novgorod
A Warsaw
Supports A Prussia - Greater Poland
 
Spain:
F Algiers - Morocco
F Gulf of Lion Supports F Tyrrhenian Sea
- Tuscany
A Leon - Portugal
A Madrid Supports A Morocco - Seville
A
Morocco - Seville
F Papal States(ec) - Adriatic Sea (*Disbanded*)
F
Tyrrhenian Sea - Tuscany
F Western Mediterranean Supports F Algiers -
Morocco
 
Sweden:
A Brandenburg - Mecklenburg (*Fails*)
F Greater Poland -
Brandenburg (*Disbanded*)
A Mecklenburg - Stettin (*Disbanded*)
 
Turkey:
F Adriatic Sea Convoys A Croatia - Papal States
F Aegean Sea
Supports F Illyria - Ionian Sea
A Croatia - Papal States
F Eastern
Mediterranean Supports F Illyria - Ionian Sea
F Illyria - Ionian Sea
F
Ionian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
F Naples Supports A Croatia - Papal States
A
Prussia - Greater Poland
F Sicily Supports F Ionian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
A
Silesia Hold
A Turkestan - Persia
 
PENDING RETREATS:
 
None.
 
PENDING ADJUSTMENTS:
 
England:
Build
 
Poland-Lithuania:
Build
Build
 
Sweden:
Build
 
Turkey:
Build
 
SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP
(Winter 1657):



 
Austria(6): Bavaria, Prague, Saxony, Trieste, Venice,
Vienna.
England(8-1=7): Abo, Bristol, Christiania, Ireland, London,
-Novgorod-, Scotland, Stockholm.
France(14+1-1=14): Brest, Copenhagen,
Flanders, Holstein, Lorraine, Lower Saxony, Marseilles, +Mecklenburg+,
Paris, Rhineland-Westphalia, Savoy, Swabia, Switzerland, United Provinces,
-Tuscany-.
Poland-Lithuania(8+2=10): Courland, Cracow, Moscow, +Novgorod+,
Prussia, Riga, +Turkestan+, Vilna, Voronezh,
Warsaw.
Spain(8+1-2=7): Algiers, Madrid, Morocco, -Naples-,
-Papal States-, Portugal, Seville, Tunis, +Tuscany+.
Sweden(3-1=2):
Brandenburg, -Mecklenburg-, Stettin.
Turkey(11+2-1=12): Belgrade,
Candia, Constantinople, Crimea, Damascus, Moldavia, +Naples+,
+Papal States+, Persia, Transylvania, -Turkestan-, Ukraine,
Wallachia.

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (i.e.
GMT+1)...not local time)
    o Winter 1657 Retreats/Adjustments: 30 April

    o Spring 1658 Moves: (10) 12 May (subject to
absences)
    o Summer 1658 Retreats: 14 May (subject to
absences)
    o Fall 1658 Moves: (17) 19 May (subject to
absences)
 
ORDERS MAP:
 
RESULTS MAP: