Hallo zusammen,
 
I'm afraid I managed to mislabel the past season's adjucation. Apparently
nobody noticed though - or at least didn't point out that goof-up of mine.
Clearly my brain had already moved on to retreats/adjustments in the fall.
:p
 
Of course, now you're getting the real deal!
 
Apparently it's a rather good time to be a navy contractor. For three grand
new battleships were baptised with great fanfare, while army generals seem to
have had less success clamouring for more war matériel. Quite a different
picture from say Winter 1936, when a mere 9% of new armaments investment went
into naval buildup (one fleet, ten armies). Nowadays the admirals have their
hands on 60% of naval expenditure, obviously with a mind to catching up with the
terrestrial services armaments head-start... I wonder how it's being financed...
In Germany, prior to WW1 a tax on champagne was introduced to help finance
Tirpitz's naval armaments programme. Yep, drinking sparkling wine was a most
patriotic endeavour back then.
 
We now also have our first draw proposal on the table:
 
- a British-German-Italian-Polish-Turkish five-way draw
 
The deadline for voting on it will coincide with the coming spring
deadline.
 
As I trust some of you know, there's now also a second 1936 game afoot
(DC330). Dirk's trying his hand at GMing and yours truly has entered the fray
championing the Fatherland. Hooray, I actually get to play one of my variants!
 If you want to observe the game, I suggest you drop our Duce a
note.
 
Anyway, I've taken the liberty of adding DC330's players to the observer
list of this game. Guys, let me know if you don't want to see what these DC319
blokes are up to!
 
The Spring 1940 Moves are due NLT 6PM CET on Monday, 14
June. So please send my your prelims no later than
Saturday.
 
Liebe Grüsse,
 
Charles
 
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PLAYERS:
    BRITAIN: Michael Thompson
<psychosis(at)sky.com>
    FRANCE: Joao Queiros
<jlqueiros3(at)hotmail.com>
    GERMANY: Ghostine, Jimmy
<Jimmy.Ghostine(at)vtmednet.org>
    ITALY & NAT. SPAIN: Dirk Knemeyer
dirk(at)knemeyer.com   
    POLAND: Kyle Overby-Lee
<tomjnkns.IL(at)gmail.com>
    SOVIET UNION & REP. SPAIN: Nigel
Phillips <nephilli99(at)hotmail.com> (eliminated
Winter 193
    TURKEY: Repu Maoni
<wesaq(at)list.ru>

HEADLINES:
    o ADMIRALS GET GREATER PIECE OF THE
CAKE

PRESS:
 
PIC OF THE DAY: Finnish machine gun crew in the
Winter War 1939-40.
 
 
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "War is the
province of uncertainty; three-fourths of the things on which action in war is
based lie hidden in the fog of uncertainty." -Karl von Clausewitz

 
RETREATS:
 
Turkey:
disband A Croatia
A Rumania - Dobruja
 
Portugal:
disband F Portugal

ADJUSTMENTS:
 
Italy:
Build A Milan
 
Poland:
Build A Cracow
Build F Latvia
 
Turkey:
Build F Izmir
 
Nationalist_Spain:
Build F Valencia

SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP (Winter 1939):


    Britain(6+1-1=6): Belgium,
+Brest+, -Edinburgh-, Liverpool, London, Netherlands,
Tripoli.
    France(2+1-1=2): -Brest-, +Edinburgh+,
Paris.
    Germany(: Austria, Berlin,
Czechia, Denmark, Hamburg, Hungary, Munich, Sweden.
   
Italy(5+1=6): Algiers, +Croatia+, Milan, Naples, Rome,
Switzerland.
    Poland(8+2=10): Cracow, Finland, Gdynia,
Latvia, Leningrad, Lithuania, Moscow, +Norway+, +Rumania+,
Warsaw.
    Turkey(13-2=11): Ankara, Beirut, Bulgaria,
-Croatia-, Greece, Iraq, Istanbul, Izmir, Persia, -Rumania-, Serbia, Stalingrad,
Suez.
    Nationalist Spain(4+1=5):
Burgos, Madrid, Marseille, +Portugal+, Valencia. 
    Neutrals(4-2=2): Egypt, Morocco, -Norway-, -Portugal-.

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM
CET (GMT+1)...not local time)
    o Spring 1940 Moves: (12) 14 June
    o Summer 1940 Retreats: 16 June
    o Fall 1940 Moves: (19) 21
June
    o Winter 1940 Retreats/Adjustments: 23
June
 
MAP: