And they're off!

Hello, players, and congratulations to you all.  We are NMR-free in DC376.  Let us pray it shall ever be thus.

Since this is our first adjudication, and some of you have not had the pleasure of my GM'ing before, let's start with a general introduction on how we roll here in Corrino's house.  First, I typically say something smart-assy to to start things off.  This will be followed by a summary of the season's events, focusing on whatever it was I found interesting or significant.  Frequently the summary will be based upon some flimsy thematic structure.  Since we're just getting started I'm going to skip that this time, but you've been warned.

Game summaries may or may not contain any or all of the following
ingredients:


clever insights

strained metaphors

20- or 30-year-old pop culture references

snarky parentheticals


admonitions to the group as a whole to be more ________.  (Examples:  "prompt", "attentive", "interesting", "ballsy", "peripatetic"


Having concluded the summary, I'll then proceed to provide the deadly dry details -- things like the moves, the results, upcoming deadlines, and the like.  Orders will come at the end, so they don't interrupt the continuity of the narrative.  SC counts and adjustment tables and such will come after the orders in the Fall.  Let's face it.  I'd probably just eliminate the gory details altogether if I could, but there are always one or two sticks in the mud who'll throw a tantrum if I do, so instead I just hide that junk at the bottom of the message where you don't have to look at it if you don't want to.

A map will be
attached.  It will show the end results of the turn.  Some GM's give out maps with the little arrows on them.  I don't.  However, I will give you the Realpolitik .dpy file, so if you really need the arrowy map you can make one for yourself.  Fair, right?

And that's what you need to know.  Easy!  The beauty is in the simplicity.

Today's summary is short and sweet:

1.  Austria got screwed.  Or maybe not.  You never really can tell in Spring 1901, can you?
2.  Russia likes to bounce.

RETREATS NEEDED:  None.

NEXT DEADLINE:  Fall 1901 are due Thursday, March 31, at 18:00 Eastern US time.

Are we having fun yet?

Cheers,
Chris


Orders as resolved.  If you spot an error, please let me know ASAP.
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Austria:
A Budapest - Serbia
F Trieste - Albania
A Vienna - Galicia
(*Bounce*)

England:
F Edinburgh - Norwegian Sea
A Liverpool - Yorkshire
F London - North Sea

France:
F Brest - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
A Marseilles - Spain
A Paris - Burgundy

Germany:
A Berlin - Kiel
F Kiel - Denmark
A Munich - Ruhr

Italy:
F Naples - Ionian Sea
A Rome - Venice
A Venice - Trieste

Russia:
A Moscow - Ukraine
F Sevastopol - Black Sea (*Bounce*)
F St Petersburg(sc) - Gulf of Bothnia
A Warsaw - Galicia (*Bounce*)

Turkey:
F Ankara - Black Sea (*Bounce*)
A Constantinople - Bulgaria
A Smyrna - Constantinople
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