Thank you so much Nick!  An extremely gracious act of kindness on your part!   I shall do my best to uphold the high morals you have brought to the Kingdom of Austria.

And Thanks to the rest of you for yur kind words of support this past week.  It meant a lot to hear encouragement from you.


Lastly, thanks to Charles for allowing this exchange to occur.  The Dip community needs more GMs who although sometimes rigid with their rules , also can be flexible and bend with the times.

Now, back to the game at hand!


Mike
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"Sit Long, Talk Much, Laugh Often" -- anon
"Shared Pain is lessened, Shared Joy is increased" --- Spider Robinson




2010/6/10 Nick Powell <nick.s.powell(at)gmail.com>

Hey all,

I enjoyed my extremely short-lived time as Archduke, but abdicating seemed like the right call. Best of luck to Mike in improving Austria's position, especially in dealing with a retreat order unlike the one he would have made.


I'm sure I'll play again with many of you in the future.

-Nick

2010/6/10 Charles Féaux de la Croix <charlesf(at)web.de>





Hi guys,
 
much as Nick was looking forward to playing out his
recently assumed position as Archduke, he - on his own initiative and without
any encouragement of mine - selflessly chose to offer Mike his
former position.
 
Under those circumstances I see no reason why I
ought to object to Mike's return and hence welcome him back to the game
with immediate effect.
 
My understanding is that we all welcome a
generally more lenient policy. This way we will have also arrived at it in
this particular case, albeit by a rather circuitous route.
 
Nick will thus have served as a de facto temporary
replacement and I thank him for his constructive role in all of this. As
Nick has expressed an interest in instead playing in a later 1648 game I might
run, I shall then offer him as a small thankyou first choice among the
nine great powers.
 
I've now rescheduled the Spring 1660 Moves for
Wednesday, 16 June 6 PM CET.
 
Cheers,
 
Charles