Hallo zusammen,
 
Emperor Louis V managed to defend his beleaguered throne for another year
and indeed has managed to wrest the Electorate of Saxony from the Habsburg
pretender to the imperial crown. Yet the Bourbons have suffered defeats
elsewhere, for Switzerland was conquered by an Austrian army while the remnants
of Cromwell's Scandinavian expeditionary forces descended upon wealthy and
papist Flanders. Considering how Cromwell's army has treated the equally
Catholic Irish, this is probably not such a good time to be Flemish... This also
incidentally mean that the Protestants in the Empire have a new champion for
their cause after having had no greater power to turn to after the demise of
Sweden.
 
In the Mediterranean the Sultan lurched forwards into Tunis and the Western
Mediterranean after having lately focused only on Italian conquests.
 
The Polish republic has equally sought to expand her influence westwards
and have pushed the Turks out of Greater Poland, liquidated England's erstwhile
Scandinavian empire but for a defenceless Finnish enclave and have sailed
through the Oresund.
 
All in all, quite a dynamic picture!
 
The Winter 1659 Retreats/Adjustments are due Friday, 4 June,
6 PM CET. Note that the number of adjustments for a number of powers
depends on how the two pending retreats play out. Remember that adjustments may
be made conditional on the preceding retreats.
 
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, eliminated Fall
165
    TURKEY: Aidan
Slattery <AiSlattery(at)aol.com>

PROCLAMATIONS:
    o HOFBURG CELEBRATES SUCCESSFUL HELVETIAN
CAMPAIGN
    o REMNANTS OF CROMWELL'S SCANDINAVIAN EXPEDITIONARY
FORCES MAKE FOR FLANDERS
    o EMPEROR SEIZES SAXONY
    o POLAND IS THE NEW MASTER OF SCANDINAVIA
    o SPANIARDS RE-ASSERT THEIR CONTROL OVER
MARSEILLES
    o TUNISIAN EMIRATE ONCE AGAIN FIRMLY UNDER OTTOMAN
SUZERAINITY

PRESS: None.
 
ORDERS:
 
Austria:
A Bavaria Supports A Saxony - Swabia
A Brandenburg Supports
F Stettin - Mecklenburg (*Void*)
A Prague - Saxony (*Fails*)
A Saxony -
Swabia (*Dislodged*)
A Trieste - Venice
A Tyrolia Supports A Venice -
Switzerland
A Venice - Switzerland
 
England:
A Christiania - Flanders
F Ireland - Scotland
(*Fails*)
A London Hold
F North Sea Convoys A Christiania - Flanders
A
Yorkshire Supports F Ireland - Scotland
 
France:
A Brest - Paris (*Bounce*)
F Bristol Supports F
Scotland
A Dauphiné Supports A Switzerland - Savoy
F English Channel -
London (*Fails*)
A Hesse - Saxony
F Holstein(ec) - Copenhagen
A
Lorraine Supports A Swabia
A Lower Saxony Supports A Mecklenburg -
Brandenburg
A Marseilles - Paris (*Disbanded*)
A Mecklenburg - Brandenburg
(*Fails*)
F Scotland Supports F Bristol (*Cut*)
A Swabia Supports A Hesse
- Saxony
A Switzerland - Savoy (*Disbanded*)
 
Poland-Lithuania:
F Baltic Sea - Scania
A Cracow Supports A Warsaw -
Greater Poland
A Lapland Supports A Northern Norway - Christiania
A
Northern Norway - Christiania
A Novgorod - Karelia
A Riga - Courland
F
Scania - Skagerrak
F Stettin Supports A Brandenburg
F Stockholm(ec)
Hold
A Turkestan Hold
A Warsaw - Greater Poland
 
Spain:
A Aragon Supports A Gascony - Marseilles
F Cantabrian Sea -
Brest (*Fails*)
A Gascony - Marseilles
F Gulf of Lion Supports A
Savoy
F Morocco Supports F Seville - Cantabrian Sea (*Fails*)
A Savoy
Supports A Gascony - Marseilles (*Cut*)
F Seville - Cantabrian Sea
(*Fails*)
 
Turkey:
F Adriatic Sea Hold
F Aegean Sea - Constantinople
A
Constantinople - Bulgaria
A Greater Poland Supports A Brandenburg
(*Dislodged*)
F Ionian Sea - Tunis
A Lombardy - Switzerland (*Fails*)
F
Papal States(wc) Supports A Tuscany
A Persia Hold
F Sardinia Supports F
Tyrrhenian Sea - Western Mediterranean
F Sicily - Tyrrhenian Sea
A Silesia
- Slovakia
A Tuscany Supports A Lombardy (*Ordered to Move*)
F Tyrrhenian
Sea - Western Mediterranean
 
PENDING RETREATS:
 
Turkish A Greater Poland can retreat to Prussia, Silesia or
OTB.
Austrian A Saxony can retreat to Silesia or OTB.
 
PENDING ADJUSTMENTS:
 
Austria:
Build?
 
England:
Remove
 
France:
Build
Build
 
Poland-Lithuania:
Build
Build?
 
Turkey:
Build
Build?
 
SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP
(Winter 165:



 
Austria(7): Bavaria, Brandenburg, Prague, Saxony, Trieste, Venice,
Vienna.
England(5): Abo, Christiania, Ireland, London,
Stockholm.
France(15): Brest, Bristol, Copenhagen, Flanders, Holstein,
Lorraine, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg, Paris, Rhineland-Westphalia, Savoy,
Scotland, Swabia, Switzerland, United Provinces.
Poland-Lithuania(11):
Courland, Cracow, Moscow, Novgorod, Prussia, Riga, Stettin, Turkestan, Vilna,
Voronezh, Warsaw.
Spain(7): Algiers, Madrid, Marseilles, Morocco,
Portugal, Seville, Tunis.
Turkey(13): Belgrade, Candia, Constantinople,
Crimea, Damascus, Moldavia, Naples, Papal States, Persia, Transylvania,
Tuscany, Ukraine, Wallachia.

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT
6PM CET (i.e. GMT+1)...not local
time)

    o Winter 1659 Retreats/Adjustments: 4
June
 
ORDERS MAP:
 
RESULTS MAP: