"Winter Blitz recruiting - sign up or regret it for at least the next six months!"

 

"No retreats needed - GM plans to have a well-earned cup of tea and maybe even a biscuit tomorrow evening!"

 

"Stonehenge also recruiting at dc - come and prove Charlemagne the Great wasn't that great after all...!"

 

 

Now then,

 

The Fifth Annual Winter Blitz is open at the world's greatest website - diplomaticcorp.com! Yes that's right, the world's premiere online tournament of the world's greatest game is recruiting, and you've got till Sunday next (Sunday 15 January 2012) to get your entries confirmed in the roster. It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on...!

 

You can sign up
at:

 

http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/tournament.php

 

...go on, you know you want to...

 

 

And just in case the Winter Blitz doesn't totally fill your thrill quotas for the next few months, there's also some fun to be had in the Dark Ages to be had! There's a game of Stonehenge also recruiting at the dc site:

 

http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/game_page.php?game_id=re002

 

 

If you always fancied invading the British Isles over two hundred years before William the Bastard got there, well, now you know where to sign up!

 

 

Here's your Spring 1908 adjudication for Shift-Right:

 

Austria:
A Budapest -
Rumania
F Trieste Hold
A Vienna Supports F Trieste

 

England:
A Brest - Paris
F Clyde - Norwegian Sea
F English Channel - North Sea
F North Sea - Skagerrak
A Portugal - Spain
A Serbia - Bulgaria

 

France:
A Gascony Supports A Picardy - Brest
A Picardy - Brest

 

Germany:
A Denmark - Sweden (*Fails*)
F Greece - Aegean Sea (*Bounce*)
A Kiel - Munich

 

Italy:
F Spain(sc) - Gulf of Lyon
F Tunis - Ionian Sea
A Tuscany - Piedmont
A Tyrolia Supports A Kiel - Munich

 

Russia:
A Armenia - Smyrna (*Fails*)
A Berlin Hold
F Constantinople - Aegean Sea (*Bounce*)
A Galicia - Bohemia
A Munich - Burgundy
F Sevastopol - Black Sea
F St Petersburg(nc) - Norway
F Sweden Supports F St Petersburg(nc) - Norway (*Cut*)
A Warsaw - Silesia

 

Turkey:

A Ankara - Constantinople (*Fails*)
F Holland - Kiel
A Smyrna Supports A Ankara - Constantinople (*Cut*)
A Venice Hold

 

 

No retreats are needed - so we can press on straight to Autumn 1908 - moves are due Monday 16 January 2100GMT, please.

 

Stay gorgeous everyone,

 

Jerome