Thank you all for your patience. It has been a downright hectic day for me.

You will all be happy to know that the end of game proposal does not succeed. How many yes votes were there? How many nays? What about those pesky little abstentions? Keep your gun barrels polished, pour another round, and let???s make like the Hatfields and the McCoys!

The big winner this year will is Italy, who performs a Julius-Caesar-in-Gaul impersonation and collects two centers at the expense of the French.

There are three retreats, two of them auto-retreats (unless their owners contact me with an OTB request):
The French fleet in Spain retreats to Portugal.
The Russian fleet in Clyde retreats to Norwegian Sea
The German fleet in North Sea may retreat to Belgium, English Channel, Helgoland Bight, Holland, London, Skagerrak, or OTB.

We say farewell to Matt Kelly. Thank you profusely with lavish public displays of affection for taking over our abandoned Turkey. You are a hero, Matt.

We *may* say farewell to Nathan Powell, too, if Catie retreats to London. Nathan has been a dogged if not desperate fighter ever since Russia sneaked into Norway and compromised his northern flank.

That retreat order is due tomorrow by 3:00 p.m. CST, Catie, but I???ll adjudicate it sooner if you???d like. Then, winter adjustments come 24 hours later. In case you???d like a peek behind the curtain, the adjustments are:

England: Supp 1 Unit 1 Build 0
France: Supp 4 Unit 5 Remove 1
Germany: Supp 6 Unit 6 Build 0
Italy: Supp 10 Unit 8 Build 2
Russia: Supp 13 Unit 13 Build 0

If Catie retreats OTB or to London, then Germany has one build (which would be unusable on account of her home centers all being occupied at the moment). If Gareth retreats OTB, then he'd have one build available, too.


F1908 Adjudication:

England:
A-Lon to York

France:
F Nor Atl -> Clyde
A Liverpool SUP F Nor Atl -> Clyde
F Irish Sea -> Mid Alt
F Spain Holds
A Burgundy -> Paris

Germany:
F NTH - NWG
F Edi S F NTH - NWG
A Kie - Den
A Ber S A Mun
A Mun S A Ber
A Ruh S A Mun

Italy:
A Gascony - Brest
F Gulf of Lyon Supports A Marseilles - Spain
F Ionian Sea - Greece
A Marseilles - Spain
F North Africa - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
A Tyrolia Supports A Vienna - Bohemia
A Venice - Piedmont
F Western Mediterranean Supports A Marseilles ??? Spain

Russia:
A Ankara - Sevastopol
F Black Sea Convoys A Ankara - Sevastopol
A Bulgaria Supports F Ionian Sea - Greece
F Clyde - Edinburgh
F Gulf of Bothnia - Baltic Sea
F Norway Supports F Norwegian Sea - North Sea
F Norwegian Sea - North Sea
A Prussia Supports A Silesia - Berlin
A Rumania - Galicia
A Silesia - Berlin
F Smyrna Hold
A Sweden - Denmark
A Vienna ??? Bohemia

Turkey:
(F) Greece to Aegean Sea