Hembria? It sounds like a terrifying disease, or perhaps like a type of hemmorage. In either case, let's switch our flag to orange. When we take over the continent, airplanes will have no problems landing, and all children will be forced to wear our bright orange uniforms, which will incidentally reduce automobile accidents when they run into the street playing with balls bearing the face of our dear leader.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Adam Martin-Schwarze <smegdwarf(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
Winter 1900! It may be the dead of Winter, but DC 345 teems with the life and the promise of Spring!
We have thirty-two units: 16 armies, 16 navies. The distribution is mostly what you'd expect. England is full of fleets. The Balkans are full of armies. There are a few surprises (to my eyeses): A Denmark, A Greece, F Venice. But I'm sure you know what you're doing. If not, you'll be dead soon anyway.
Five new nations have been declared. Please take a moment to read the descriptions, as the authors clearly invested heart and soul into them:
Philip King:
We shall be called Dulceria. I have included a quote from our Declaration of Independence. We are a small peaceful nation that wants no part in these silly border conflicts. Live and let live, we say.
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one small cluster of Europeans to cleave apart other small clusters of Europeans, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation of limb from limb.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that you all smell funny, that I have endowed you with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Death by my hand, Death by the hands of each other, and the pursuit of Happiness."
So, never you mind the killing and maiming of your citizenry as Dulceria expands throughout your lands. It is all done with the full support of our citizens. I may be a bloodthirsty field general, eating the hearts of my enemies, but I am a kind and peaceful elected leader. Peace be with you. Die screaming.
John Reside (who apparently is not lacking in modesty):
"Many have heard of the famous mythical half-man, half creature. While usually portrayed as wolves, the truth is much more sinister. Most dismiss these legends as mere fables or exaggeration. But deep in the lands of northern Russia, the most fearsome of all creatures began to multiply. The Age of the Were-Hamsters has begun! Having recently crushed their rivals (the were-butterflies), the were-hamsters are ready at last to conquer the pitiful humans of Europe. Fashioning giant weapons of war, the were-hamsters shall crush their foes under the vicious spikes of their were-hamster wheels. Our country's name is 'The one who will win.' So when you are talking with your 'allies' you can say 'I was just talking with the one who will win, and he said such and such."
Mike Hoffman:
Allow me to present the new country of Trigspor! We are a peace-loving nation, devoted to spending as much time on beautiful beaches as possible. We run luxury cruise ships throughout the Med, for the pleasure of all customers. We would rather sip cocktails poolside than raise our arms in conflict.
That being said, if our supply lines of coconuts and champagne are threatened, we switch to whiskey and the gloves come off!
Mike Penner eschewed pomp and ceremony. His country is named Hembria. Apparently, it needs no story. the name alone is sufficient to inspire terror and cowering.
Finally, Warren Fleming. failed to name his country. True to my threat, I have decided to name his country for him. Maybe I'll let him change it. Still, I hope he appreciates it.. Zonotrichia!
Map Notes:
You may notice that two nations share a first letter: Dulceria and the Democratic Roman Empire. For cartographic purposes, the black units of Dulceria bear the letter 'D'. The red armies of the DRE bear the letter 'E' (for Empire!).
Also, I don't know how y'all feel, but I find that Adarian olive is very like unto the eye as Hembrian forest green. The similarity between 'A' and 'H' is not helping. Mayhaps one of these nations would like a switch to, oh. Magenta, Orange, or Yellow?
One final explanation before the builds. I am attaching a GIF of the map, an RP (.dpy) file, and a zipped file of the Anarchy folder. For those of you who are using RP, you will need my homemade Anarchy variant in order to read the .dpy file. You want to unzip the Anarchy folder and place it inside your Realpolitik > Variant Files folder. [Note: I'm using RP version 1.7.0alpha1. I know there's a more recent version; it's a cross-platform version which looked kind of imposing to me at first glance, and I haven't had the opportunity to take a second look. so, I don't know if it works the same way].
Winter 1900 Adjudication:
***Spring 1901 is due next Wednesday, October 20th, at 3:00 p.m. CST (20:00 GMT)***
Adaria:
Alex Maslow - Olive (Vert) <Blueraider0(at)gmail.com>
F Lvp
F Tun
F Bre
A Par
Democratic Roman Empire:
Nathan Edwards - Red (Random) <npfedwards(at)gmail.com>
A Marseilles
F Venice
A Rome
F Naples
Dulceria:
Philip King - Black (ThinDiag) <ilovethechiefs(at)gmail.com>
Fleet Constantinople
Fleet Smyrna
Army Rumania
Army Serbia
Hembria:
Michael Penner - Forest (Diag) <mvpenner(at)yahoo.com>
Build A Munich
Build F Edinburgh
Build F Belgium
Build A Holland
Itea:
Loki Falcon - Navy (ThinHoriz) <zyxw59(at)gmail.com>
+ A Den
+ F Nor
+ F Kie
+ F Lon
The One Who Will Win:
John Reside - White (Gray) <untitled36(at)hotmail.com>
A Stp
A Mos
F Ber
F Swe
Trigspor:
Michael Hoffman - Crimson (Stripe) <mrh(at)panix.com>
F Por
F Spa
A Gre
A Tri
Zonotrichia:
Warren Fleming - Green (Flood) <alwayshunted(at)hotmail.com>
Army Vienna
Army Budapest
A Bulgaria
A Sevastopol
--
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing. The shadow, even the darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you - That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding onto something."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."
