Hi Players,

I'm sorry to say it looks like we're not going to be able to start tonight.  I have only six sets of orders.  I have not heard from the seventh player since he turned in preferences yesterday morning.

It so happens that I have known this person for many years and I know him to be EXTREMELY reliable.  His DC record backs that up.  Therefore, I have to believe that he has just been away from his computer since yesterday or there has been some other kind of unavoidable glitch.  Since I didn't give any advance warning that I would be setting an early deadline, I don't think I can penalize him for not having them in tonight.  You'll recall that I originally emailed each of you and said that deadlines would be Tues/Fri.  I can't blame him
if he proceeded on that assumption.

If I should get his orders within the next hour, I will adjudicate tonight.  If not, it will be at least 24 hours until I can get them out.  As soon as I have them, I'll let everyone know and tell you when I'll be adjudicating.

Thanks to everyone who did hurry to get their orders in by tonight.  If you have had a change of heart, feel free to submit changes.

On a different note, I am really sorry I said anything about North Sea.  It appears I caused confusion instead of removing it.  The rules of Stab! are very simple:

   NO COUNTRY OWNS ANY SEA SPACES.  YOU CANNOT START WITH A FLEET IN A SEA SPACE.  FLEETS CAN BE PLACED IN COASTAL SPACES ONLY.

Got it?  Great.

Chris