Flippety, floppety, my best dot,
First it's green and then it's not.
I took it back, "Hurray!" but when
I turn around it's green again. 





Greetings Gentlemen,



Hope you liked my little bit of doggerel.  That's about as close to poetry as you're likely to get from me.  The point, in case you were wondering, is that we saw six dots flip color this year.  Every one of the six changed either FROM green or TO green.  What was the final tally for our busy Italian?  Four up versus only two down.  That makes two on the plus side, which is good enough for him to reclaim the top spot from the Sultan, who seemed content to play for position this year.

RETREATS:
Russian A Munich can retreat to Tyrolia or off the board.
Italian F Ionian Sea can retreat to Tunis or Tyrrhenian Sea or Naples or Apulia or Albania or off the board.

ADJUSTMENTS:
See details of ownership and SC totals below, after the orders.
Building:  Italy
Removing:  France, Russia

NEXT DEADLINE:  Autumn retreats and Winter adjustments are due TOGETHER tomorrow, Friday, May 20, at
18:00 Eastern time.

Cheers,
Chris


Orders as resolved.
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England:
F Kiel Supports A Holland
F London - Yorkshire (*Fails*)
F Norwegian Sea - Edinburgh
F Wales Supports F Liverpool

France:
A Burgundy Supports A Silesia - Munich
F Gascony - Spain(nc)
F North Atlantic Ocean - Norwegian Sea
A Yorkshire - London (*Fails*)

Germany:
A Berlin Supports A Munich
A Holland Supports F Kiel (*Cut*)

Italy:
F Adriatic Sea Supports A Trieste
A Belgium - Holland (*Fails*)
F Ionian Sea Hold (*Dislodged*)
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Portugal
F Picardy - Brest
A Ruhr Supports A Silesia - Munich
A Silesia - Munich
A Trieste Hold
A Vienna - Bohemia (*Fails*)

Russia:
A Bohemia Supports A Munich (*Cut*)
F Liverpool Hold
A Munich Supports F Kiel (*Dislodged*)
A St Petersburg - Moscow (*Fails*)

Turkey:
F
Aegean Sea - Ionian Sea
A Albania - Serbia
F Constantinople - Aegean Sea
F Eastern Mediterranean Supports F Aegean Sea - Ionian Sea
A Galicia - Warsaw
F Greece Supports F Aegean Sea - Ionian Sea
A Moscow Supports A Warsaw - Livonia (*Cut*)
A Rumania - Ukraine
A Serbia - Rumania
A Warsaw - Livonia
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Ownership:

England (5):   Denmark, Edinburgh, Kiel, London, Sweden.
France (3):    Marseilles, Paris, Spain.
Germany (2):   Belgium, Berlin.
Italy (11):     Belgium, Brest, Budapest, Munich, Naples, Portugal, Rome, Trieste, Tunis, Venice, Vienna.
Russia (3):    Liverpool, Norway, St Petersburg.
Turkey (10):    Ankara, Bulgaria, Constantinople, Greece, Moscow, Rumania, Serbia, Sevastopol, Smyrna, Warsaw.

Adjustments:

Austria:   Supp  0
Unit  0 Build  0   ... eliminated 1903
England:   Supp  5 Unit  4 Build  0   ... no home SC available
France:    Supp  3 Unit  4 Remove  1
Germany:   Supp  2 Unit  2 Build  0
Italy:     Supp 11 Unit  9 Build  2
Russia:    Supp  3 Unit  4 Remove  1
Turkey:    Supp 10 Unit 10 Build  0