Hey! ARTI! I count... a little!
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Adam Martin-Schwarze <smegdwarf(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
It's Memorial Day here in the States, but war doesn't pause for national holidays (even if GMs pause for a few hours). Indeed, isn't that sort of what this holiday is about -- men and women who forfeited such niceties as national holidays so that they could go out to kill and be killed in the name of god and country? [Just for the record... that comment was meant to entail ambivalence -- neither judgment for nor against].
I always like to pause today and remember that my grandfather was in the South Pacific in 1942-45, constructing an airstrip on some unnamed island... a pleasant break from his regular duties as a machinist tending submarines while on ship (yeah, they had a crane on their ship that could lift the submarine clear out of the water).
France once
again leaves his post unattended, and all E/F units are forced to retreat. However, just to make things tidy, all units preserve only one route of retreat, so I'll adjudicate summer, too.
English fleet Edinburgh retreats to Yorkshire
French army Gascony disbands (rather than annihilating his compatriot from Picardy)French army Picardy retreats to Paris.
Meanwhile, the complete and total subjection of the map to ART domination continues. [I must say, I'm impressed by the ART... it's not a very probable alliance, dontcha know].
Spring 1908:
Austria:
A Belgium Supports A Burgundy - Picardy
A Burgundy - Picardy
F Gulf of Lyon Hold
A Munich Supports A Ruhr - Burgundy
A Naples Hold
A Piedmont Supports F Marseilles
A Ruhr - Burgundy
A Spain - Gascony
England:
F Edinburgh Hold
(*Dislodged*)
France:
A Gascony Hold (*Dislodged*)
A Picardy Hold (*Dislodged*)
Italy:
F Brest Supports A Spain - Gascony
Russia:
A Denmark Hold
A Kiel Hold
F Liverpool - Clyde
F North Atlantic Ocean - Norwegian Sea
F North Sea Supports F Norwegian Sea - Edinburgh
F Norway Hold
F Norwegian Sea - Edinburgh
F Skagerrak Hold
F St Petersburg(nc) Hold
Turkey:
F Aegean Sea Hold
A Albania Hold
F Constantinople Hold
F English Channel Supports F Brest
A Holland Hold
F Irish Sea Hold
F Marseilles Hold
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Portugal
F Tyrrhenian Sea Hold
F Western Mediterranean - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
--
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing. The shadow, even the darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you - That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding onto something."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."
