Hallo zusammen,
 
let me note again that I enter illegal orders as simple hold orders, as has
occurred this season. I recommend testing whether your orders are all legal by
entering them into the Realpolitik module, for I don't always get round to
looking things over. I've been away in Weimar and hence both didn't round to
doing so and had some work to do first upon my return before getting to the
adjucation. I hope the delay hasn't overly taxed your patience.
 
Now what happened this season? For starters, Switzerland once again changed
hands - and a similar fate befell Egypt. The French may have been kicked out of
Scotland, but they've now made themselves comfortable in the British capital,
hardly welcome news to a Prime Minister who's now received similarly bad news
from the Low Countries and the North Sea. Shall England have to brace
herself for another 1066 or triumph as in 1588?
 
In other news, we now also say farewell to the last independent minor
power. Morocco (historically divided into a French and Spanish protectorate,
plus an international zone - in my game lumped together as one minor power)
finally succumbs fully to foreign influence.
 
The Winter 1940 Moves are due NLT 6PM CET on Wednesday, 23
June. Now, gotta root for the South Africans! Trash that
trainwreck Tricolore team! Spank those spoilt superstars! Bafana
Bafana, make your nation proud!
 
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 UNION JACK ONCE AGAIN FLIES OVER
EDINBURGH AND CAIRO
    o FRENCH MARINES TAKE A DEFENCELESS BRITISH
CAPITAL
    o WEHRMACHT GENERALS VISIT AILING KAISER WILHELM II
IN HIS DUTCH EXILE, CONQUER THE COUNTRY WHILE THEY'RE AT IT
    o THE DUCE RECLAIMS THE HELVETIAN
CONFEDERATION
    o CONFUSION REIGNS IN REGIA MARINA
GHQ
    o POLES TAKE OVER NORWAY
    o MIXED NEWS FOR THE CAUDILLO

PRESS:
 
POLISH PRESS: Dateline Warsaw: The Foreign Minister today released an
intercepted internal German government memo proposing a revision of the
Lebensraum concept from an eastern orientation to a western focus. Reached for
comment at one of Gdansk's many luxury sea-side resorts, a group of Belgians on
holiday seemed un-moved by the news. "British bosses, German bosses, it's all
machts nichts to us," said one member of the group, adding "Either way, we get
good cheese, bier, and football. The rest, we can live with."
 
PIC OF THE DAY: British WW2 propaganda
poster.
 
 
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The art of
statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence." -
Charles M. de Talleyrand
 
ORDERS:
 
Britain:
F Belgium Supports F North Sea - Netherlands (*Cut*)
F
Brest - Picardy (*Fails*)
F Edinburgh Hold
F Tripoli Supports F Atlantic
Ocean - Egypt(sc)
F Atlantic Ocean - Egypt(sc)
F North Sea - Netherlands
(*Dislodged*)
 
France:
A Lorraine - Munich (*Bounce*)
F Yorkshire - London
 
Germany:
A Austria - Munich (*Bounce*)
F Denmark Supports F Norway -
North Sea
A Hungary Hold
A Netherlands Supports A Picardy - Belgium
(*Cut*)
F Norway - North Sea
A Picardy - Belgium (*Fails*)
A Slovakia -
Czechia
A Switzerland - Munich (*Dislodged*)
 
Italy:
A Burgundy Supports A Milan - Switzerland
A Croatia Hold
F
Dodecanese Hold
A Milan - Switzerland
A Trentino Supports A Milan -
Switzerland
F Ionian Sea Hold
 
Poland:
A Byelorussia - Ukraine (*Bounce*)
A Cracow -
Transylvania
A Finland Supports F Sweden - Norway
A Moscow - Kazakhstan
(*Bounce*)
A Rumania Supports A Warsaw - Cracow
A Siberia - Kazakhstan
(*Bounce*)
F Sweden - Norway
A Volhynia - Ukraine (*Bounce*)
A Warsaw -
Cracow
F Gulf of Danzig Hold
 
Turkey:
A Bulgaria Supports A Serbia
A Eastern Anatolia -
Kurdistan
F Greece Hold
A Palestine Supports F Suez
A Persia -
Iraq
A Serbia Supports A Bulgaria
F Stalingrad(wc) Hold
F Suez
Hold
A Thrace Supports A Serbia
F Eastern Mediterranean - Izmir
F
Libyan Sea - Eastern Mediterranean
 
Nationalist_Spain:
F Egypt(sc) Hold (*Disbanded*)
A Gascony -
Marseille
A Gibraltar - Morocco
F South-Western Approaches - English
Channel
F Western Mediterranean Supports A Gibraltar - Morocco
 
Morocco:
A Morocco Hold (*Disbanded*)
 
PENDING RETREATS:
 
German A Switzerland can retreat to Piedmont.

British F North Sea can retreat to Skaggerak or Helgoland Bight or
Yorkshire or Norwegian Sea.
 
PENDING ADJUSTMENTS:
 
Germany:
Build
Build?
 
Nationalist_Spain:
Build
Build


SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP (Winter 1939):


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

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM
CET (GMT+1)...not local time)
    o Winter 1940 Retreats/Adjustments: 23
June
 
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