Hi Ray,
I hope the real-life demands for your attention are not particularly
bad, sad or painful.
I will indeed vote for the 3-way as advertised. Barring something
unusual and bizarre - or this being your biggest manipulation yet! -
it appears we've finished this out.
I agree this has been an excellent game but, insofar as my tournament
result goes, I can honestly say I wish I had been put in with some
softer touches.
Dirk

On Jul 16, 2010, at 10:25 PM, raybrucea(at)aol.com wrote:
Mike, Christine, Dan, Hamish, Dirk,

As I told Mike Thursday morning, real life has reared its ugly head,
now more than even I expected yesterday. As such I simply will not
have time for this game. As all of you know it bothers me to end a
game by any vote other than DIAS, and I only support DIAS when
everyone simply has lost the weill to keep playing due to NMRs or
such. That is definitely not the case in this excellent contest. I
like to play games until their logical conclusion (either a forced
draw or a solo), and there is still a LOT, a very lot, of play left
in this game. Either a German solo or a forced three way AEG are
the most likely results if it was to be plasyede out.
Unfortunastely, I simply nop longer will have any time to devote to
plsaying it out. All three other players for some time now have
said--repeatedly--that they want a three way AEG by vote. I have
been the (apparently lone) naysayer since I'd really like to play
this out, even though it is very unlikely I could get any better
result. And I hate to have Mike's tourney end this way, especially
since Dirk apparenly has a shot ast winning the whole thing. But I
have no choice. So I'm now acceptinmg the AEG that I've been
berated to vote for if it currently is on the table. If it is not,
then I propose the AEG three way myself and vote for it. Its been a
good game guys, I hope to meet all of you in the future. I've had
fun. I hope you have. And I'm sorry to have to scuttle off this way.

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sims
To: raybrucea(at)aol.com; catsfather(at)gmail.com; ddz999cat23(at)yahoo.com;
Dirk Knemeyer ; dawench(at)hotmail.com; blitz >
Sent: Thu, Jul 15, 2010 4:10 pm
Subject: dc311 - The winter that never was

With Fall 17 results we have ourselves another draw that fails to
pass and a winter that may never be!
Is it global warming, or just crafty Diplomacy...

We do have two retreats, but Austrian A Bud can only go to Tri and
German A Tyr can only go to Boh. After enacting both of these
retreats, there's simply nothing left to do this winter. If either
power wishes to go OTB and build something else instead, you may do
so by tomorrow 3pm Central, but if the status quo is fine then we
just move along to Spring 18... Due Monday! 3pm Central.

Austria:
F Aegean Sea Supports A Greece - Bulgaria
A Budapest - Rumania (*Dislodged*)
F Constantinople - Black Sea (*Fails*)
A Greece - Bulgaria
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Portugal
A Piedmont - Marseilles (*Fails*)
A Serbia Supports A Budapest - Rumania (*Cut*)
A Spain Supports A Piedmont - Marseilles
A Trieste - Tyrolia
F Tyrrhenian Sea - Gulf of Lyon
A Venice Supports A Trieste - Tyrolia
A Vienna Supports A Trieste - Tyrolia

England:
F Clyde - Liverpool
F English Channel - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
F Gulf of Lyon - Western Mediterranean
F Marseilles Hold
F North Sea - Norway
F Norwegian Sea - North Atlantic Ocean

Germany:
F Belgium Hold
A Burgundy Supports F Marseilles
A Galicia - Budapest
F Helgoland Bight Hold
A Moscow - Sevastopol
A Munich Hold
F Norway - Skagerrak
A Paris - Gascony
A Picardy Supports F Belgium
A Rumania Supports A Galicia - Budapest
A Sevastopol - Armenia
F Sweden Supports F Norwegian Sea - Norway (*Void*)
A Tyrolia - Vienna (*Dislodged*)
A Ukraine Supports A Rumania

Turkey:
F Black Sea - Constantinople (*Fails*)
A Bulgaria - Serbia (*Disbanded*)