Hi Players,

It's Spring 1918.  The Great War is winding down "Over There".  Back home in Boston, the Red Sox are beginning another championship season.  Led by their star southpaw, George Herman Ruth, this team will soon bring yet another World Series title to Beantown.  The national press speaks of a "dynasty" and the home town fans take every opportunity to lord it over their poor cousins in New York.  Hop the trolley to Kenmore Square, one block south to Lansdowne Street and into the jewel of the Fenway.  Play ball!

Meanwhile, in our own little slice of alternate reality, the war in Europe is still going hot and heavy.  Austria and Italy push hard against France and Germany.  The A-I duo already control half the continent between
them.  Nonetheless, a proposal to concede the war to them has failed, with three votes FOR and three votes AGAINST (or ABSTAINING).

Highlights of the season are slim, unless you're wearing the red or the green:

. Austria pushes forward on the German front and has the Kaiser's armies at a clear disadvantage going into the Fall.

. In Scandinavia, the Russian court in-exile holds fast, thanks to the support of the Austrian forces now occupying St. Pete.

. Italian forces walk into the undefended French capital while also taking control of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean.

RETREATS:  French fleet Mid-Atlantic Ocean can retreat to North Atlantic Ocean or Irish Sea or Brest or Gascony or OTB.  Retreat is due by 8:00 p.m. EST tomorrow, Thursday, January 6.

Cheers,
Chris


Orders as resolved:
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Austria:
A Budapest - Rumania (*Bounce*)
A
Galicia Supports A Prussia - Silesia
A Moscow - Warsaw
A Prussia - Silesia
A Sevastopol - Rumania (*Bounce*)
A St Petersburg Supports A Norway
A Trieste - Vienna
A Tyrolia Supports A Vienna - Bohemia
F Venice Hold
A Vienna - Bohemia

England:
A Liverpool Supports A Yorkshire - Edinburgh
A Yorkshire - Edinburgh

France:
F English Channel - Mid-Atlantic Ocean (*Fails*)
A London - Yorkshire
A Marseilles - Piedmont (*Bounce*)
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Spain(sc) (*Dislodged*)
F Portugal Supports F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Spain(sc) (*Fails*)
F Spain(sc) - Marseilles (*Fails*)

Germany:
A Berlin Supports A Silesia - Munich
A Bohemia Supports A Silesia - Munich (*Disbanded*)
A Denmark - Sweden (*Fails*)
F North Sea Supports F Norwegian Sea - Norway
F Norwegian Sea - Norway (*Fails*)
A Silesia - Munich

Italy:
A Armenia Hold
F Black Sea - Constantinople
A Burgundy -
Paris
F Gulf of Lyon Supports F Western Mediterranean
F North Africa - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
F Tuscany - Piedmont (*Bounce*)
F Tyrrhenian Sea - Ionian Sea
F Western Mediterranean Supports F North Africa - Mid-Atlantic Ocean

Russia:
A Norway Supports A Sweden (*Cut*)
A Sweden Supports A Norway (*Cut*)
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