- USA NAVY TAKES UNEXPECTED VACATION IN HONOLULU
- JAPANESE LEARN RUSSIAN FOR HELLO IN VLADIVOSTOK
- THE TSAR RETURNS TO TOUR THE BALKANS - COURTESY OF THE FRENCH
- CHINA MANAGES TO JUGGLE FLAMING AXES WHILE WATER-SKIING - AND FOILING ALL DUTCH ADVANCES

Well, Holland does its way into Bengal - but all across the rest of the Eastern front things stay the same. The arrival of the new Japanese Emperor seems to salt things up a bit and Europe continues to be a muddle.

My thanks to everyone for waiting for this long-anticipated deadline. We have several retreats due up - deadline for Summer 1873 orders will be set for Monday, June 2nd (11:59 PM GMT).

Both end-game proposals meet with defeat - we battle on. As always, please let me know if you spot any errors.

Cheers!

Trout


Movement results for Spring of 1873. (1873 SPR)

Austria: A Berlin (ber) Supports A Silesia (sil) (*Cut*).
Austria: F Black Sea (bla) - Sofia (sof)(ec) (*Bounce*).
Austria: A Bosnia (bos) - Serbia (ser).
Austria: F Constantinople (con) - Sofia (sof)(ec) (*Bounce*).
Austria: A Croatia (cro) - Budapest (bud) (*Dislodged*).
Austria: A Rumania (rum) Supports A Bosnia (bos) - Serbia (ser).
Austria: A Silesia (sil) Supports A Berlin (ber) (*Dislodged*).
Austria: A Vienna (vie) - Budapest (bud) (*Bounce*).
Austria: A Wallacia (wlc) Supports A Bosnia (bos) - Serbia (ser).

Britain: F Norway (nwy) - Sweden (swe).
Britain: F Sweden (swe) - Baltic Sea (bal).
Britain: F Toledo (tld) - Bay of Biscay (bob) (*Fails*).

China: A Bokhara (bkh) - Afganistan (afg) (*Bounce*).
China: A Burma (brm) - Mandalay (mly) (*Bounce*).
China: A Canton (can) - Tonkin (tnk) (*Bounce*).
China: F Fuchan (fuc) Supports F Hong Kong (hko) (*Ordered to Move*).
China: F Hong Kong (hko) - Fuchan (fuc) (*Fails*).
China: A Inner Mongolia (img) - Peking (pek) (*Fails*).
China: A Kashgar (ksg) - Karachi (krc).
China: A Kashmir (kas) Supports A Kashgar (ksg) - Karachi (krc).
China: A Rajputana (raj) Supports A Kashgar (ksg) - Karachi (krc).
China: F Shanghai (sha) Supports F Sea of Japan (soj) - Yellow Sea (yse)
(*Cut*).
China: A Tibet (tib) - Assam (asm) (*Bounce*).
China: A Wuhan (wuh) Supports F Shanghai (sha).
China: A Yunnan (yun) Supports A Burma (brm) - Mandalay (mly).

France: F Adriatic Sea (adr) Supports A Venice (ven).
France: F The Azores (azo) Supports F Straits of Gibraltar (sog) - Canary
Seaway(cny).
France: A Bavaria (bav) Supports A Warsaw (war) - Silesia (sil).
France: F Bay of Biscay (bob) - North Atlantic (nat) (*Bounce*).
France: F Brazil Current (bcu) Supports A Recife (rec).
France: F Cape Verde Islands (vrd) Supports F Straits of Gibraltar (sog) -
Canary Seaway(cny).
France: F Coast of Argentina (cag) Supports F Brazil Current (bcu).
France: A Cochabamba (coh) Supports A Rio de Janeiro (rdj) - Brasilia (bra).
France: F Falkland Islands (fal) - Drake (dra).
France: F Gibraltar (gib) Supports A Valencia (vlc) - Toledo (tld) (*Void*).
France: A Goyamas (goy) - La Paz (lpa) (*Bounce*).
France: F Grain Coast (gcs) - Middle Atlantic (mat) (*Fails*).
France: F Greece (gre) - Aegean Sea (aeg) (*Bounce*).
France: F Gulf of Guinea (gog) Supports F Grain Coast (gcs) - Middle Atlantic
(mat) (*Fails*).
France: F Helgoland Bight (hel) - North Sea (nth) (*Fails*).
France: A Holland (hol) - Rouen (rou).
France: F Ionian Sea (ion) Convoys A Tubruq (tbq) - Crete (cre).
France: F Kiel (kie)(wc) Supports A Prussia (pru) - Berlin (ber) (*Fails*).
France: A Marseilles (mar) - Piedmont (pie).
France: F Middle Atlantic (mat) - Sargasso (sar) (*Fails*).
France: F Monrovia (mnv) - Sierra Leone (sie).
France: A Morocco (mrc) Hold.
France: F Nantes (nan) - North Atlantic (nat) (*Bounce*).
France: A Oliveira (oli) Supports A Rio de Janeiro (rdj) - Brasilia (bra).
France: A Paris (par) - Bordeaux (brd).
France: A Recife (rec) Supports A Rio de Janeiro (rdj) - Brasilia (bra)
(*Dislodged*).
France: A Rio de Janeiro (rdj) - Brasilia (bra).
France: A Ruhr (ruh) - Holland (hol).
France: F Straits of Gibraltar (sog) - Canary Seaway(cny).
France: A Stuttgart (stu) Supports A Bavaria (bav).
France: F Tripoli (trp) - Tunis (tun).
France: A Tubruq (tbq) - Crete (cre).
France: F Uruguay (uru) Supports F Falkland Islands (fal) - Drake (dra).
France: A Valencia (vlc), no move received.
France: A Venice (ven) Supports A Serbia (ser) - Croatia (cro).

Holland: F Abyssinia (aby) - Red Sea (rse).
Holland: A Afganistan (afg) - Khiva (khv).
Holland: F Andaman Sea (ase) Convoys A Sumatra (sum) - Rangoon (rng).
Holland: A Angora (ang) - Constantinople (con) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Annam (ann) Supports A Siam (sia) - Tonkin (tnk) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Antarctic Atlantic Ocean (aat) - Antarctic Indian Ocean(ain).
Holland: F Antarctic Pacific Ocean(apa) Supports F Drake (dra) - Chilean Basin
(cba).
Holland: F Arabian Sea(ara) - Karachi (krc) (*Fails*).
Holland: A Armenia (arm) - Angora (ang) (*Fails*).
Holland: A Baghdad (bag) - Bangalore (ban).
Holland: A Baku (bku) - Georgia (geo) (*Bounce*).
Holland: F Bay of Bengal (bbe) - Bengal (ben).
Holland: F Bismark Sea (bis) Supports F Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco) - West
Pacific (wpa).
Holland: A Bombay (bom) - Mandlah (mdh).
Holland: F Cairo (cai)(nc) - Eastern Mediterranean (eas) (*Fails*).
Holland: A Ceylon (cey), no move received.
Holland: F Cyprus (cyp), no move received.
Holland: A Dar Es Sallam (dar) - Aswan (asw).
Holland: F Drake (dra) - Chilean Basin (cba) (*Dislodged*).
Holland: F East China Sea (ecs) - Shanghai (sha) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco) - West Pacific (wpa).
Holland: A Fezz (fzz) - Cairo (cai) (*Bounce*).
Holland: F Fiji (fij) Supports F South West Pacific (swp) - Equatorial
CounterCurrent (eco).
Holland: F Formosa (for) - East China Sea (ecs) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Goodhope (goo) Supports F South Atlantic (sat).
Holland: F Gulf of Manaar (gum) Convoys A Ceylon (cey) - Hyderabad (hyd)
(*Void*).
Holland: F Izu Trench (izu) Supports F Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco) - West
Pacific (wpa).
Holland: F Kagoshima (kag) Supports F Okinawa (oki) - Yellow Sea (yse) (*Cut*).
Holland: A Karachi (krc) - Afganistan (afg) (*Dislodged*).
Holland: A Kenya (ken) Hold.
Holland: F Malaysia (mal) - Java Sea (jse).
Holland: F Marshal Islands (mhl) Supports F Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco) -
West Pacific (wpa).
Holland: F New Zealand (nzl) - South West Pacific (swp).
Holland: F Okinawa (oki) - Yellow Sea (yse) (*Bounce*).
Holland: F Peking (pek) Supports F East China Sea (ecs) - Shanghai (sha)
(*Cut*).
Holland: F Persian Gulf (pgu) Supports F Arabian Sea(ara) - Karachi (krc).
Holland: F Philippine (phi) Supports F Formosa (for) - East China Sea (ecs)
(*Fails*).
Holland: A Rangoon (rng) - Assam (asm) (*Bounce*).
Holland: F Red Sea (rse) - Horn of Africa (hoa).
Holland: A Siam (sia) - Tonkin (tnk) (*Bounce*).
Holland: F South Atlantic (sat) Supports F Grain Coast (gcs) - Middle Atlantic
(mat).
Holland: F South China Sea (scs) - Hong Kong (hko) (*Fails*).
Holland: F South West Pacific (swp) - Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco).
Holland: A Sumatra (sum) - Rangoon (rng) (*Fails*).
Holland: A Syria (syr) - Cairo (cai) (*Bounce*).
Holland: F Tasman (tas) Supports F Antarctic Pacific Ocean(apa).
Holland: A Tehran (teh) Supports A Afganistan (afg) - Khiva (khv).
Holland: A Tonkin (tnk) - Mandalay (mly) (*Bounce*).
Holland: A Yuthia (yut) Supports A Tonkin (tnk) - Mandalay (mly).

Japan: F Edo (edo) - Kagoshima (kag) (*Fails*).
Japan: F Kuril (kur) - Kamchatka (kam) (*Fails*).
Japan: F Manchuria (mac) Supports F Peking (pek).
Japan: F Okhotsk (okh) Supports F Kuril (kur) - Kamchatka (kam).
Japan: F Sakhurlin (sak) Supports A Seoul (seo) - Vladivostok (vla).
Japan: A Sapporo (sap) Hold.
Japan: F Sea of Japan (soj) - Yellow Sea (yse) (*Bounce*).
Japan: A Seoul (seo) - Vladivostok (vla).

Russia: F Eastern Mediterranean (eas) - Aegean Sea (aeg) (*Bounce*).
Russia: A Evenki (eve) - Omsk (oms).
Russia: A Georgia (geo) - Moscow (mos).
Russia: A Kasala (ksl) - Bokhara (bkh) (*Fails*).
Russia: A Livonia (lvn) - Prussia (pru) (*Fails*).
Russia: A Warsaw (war) - Silesia (sil).
Russia: A Orenburg (orn) - Khiva (khv) (*Fails*).
Russia: A Prussia (pru) - Berlin (ber) (*Fails*).
Russia: A Serbia (ser) - Croatia (cro).
Russia: F Sevastopol (sev) - Georgia (geo)(wc) (*Bounce*).

USA: A Amazon (ama) Supports A La Paz (lpa) - Brasilia (bra).
USA: A Anchorage (anc) Hold.
USA: A Barcelone (brc) Hold.
USA: F Bering Sea (bse) Supports F Kamchatka (kam).
USA: A Brasilia (bra) - Recife (rec).
USA: A Caledonia (cld) Hold.
USA: F Canary Seaway(cny) - Cape Verde Islands (vrd) (*Dislodged*).
USA: F Cayenne (cyn) Hold.
USA: F Chesapeake Approaches (che) Hold.
USA: F Chilean Basin (cba) Hold.
USA: F Counter Current (ccu) Supports F West Pacific (wpa) - Hawaii (haw).
USA: F Dublin (dub) - Edinburgh (edi).
USA: F Eastern Carribean (eca) Supports F Sargasso (sar).
USA: F Eastern Pacific (epa) Supports F Kirbati Sea (kse).
USA: F Eastern Seaboard (ese) Hold.
USA: F Edinburgh (edi) - North Sea (nth).
USA: F Hawaii (haw) - North Pacific (npa).
USA: F Kamchatka (kam) Hold.
USA: F Kirbati Sea (kse) Supports F West Pacific (wpa) - Hawaii (haw).
USA: A La Paz (lpa) - Brasilia (bra) (*Fails*).
USA: F London (lon) Supports F Edinburgh (edi) - North Sea (nth).
USA: F North Atlantic (nat) Supports F Toledo (tld) - Bay of Biscay (bob)
(*Cut*).
USA: F North East Trades (net) Supports A Brasilia (bra) - Recife (rec).
USA: F North Passage (nps) Supports F North Atlantic (nat).
USA: F North Sea (nth) - Skagerrak (ska).
USA: F Norwegian Sea (nwg) - Norway (nwy).
USA: F Nova Scotia (nsc) Supports F North Atlantic (nat).
USA: F Pacific Basin (pba) Supports F Chilean Basin (cba).
USA: A Pramaiba (pra) Supports A Brasilia (bra) - Recife (rec).
USA: A Quito (qto) - La Paz (lpa) (*Bounce*).
USA: A Richmond (ric) Hold.
USA: F San Francisco (sfo) - West Coast (wco).
USA: F Sargasso (sar) Supports F Canary Seaway(cny) - Cape Verde Islands (vrd)
(*Cut*).
USA: F Society Islands (sct) Supports F South Pacific (spa).
USA: F South Pacific (spa) Hold.
USA: F Virgin Islands (vis) Supports F Sargasso (sar).
USA: F West Pacific (wpa) - Hawaii (haw).
USA: F Westerlies (wst) Supports F West Pacific (wpa) - Hawaii (haw).

The following units were dislodged:

Union F Canary Seaway(cny) can retreat to Tiris (tir).
Austrian A Croatia (cro) can retreat to Bosnia (bos).
Dutch F Drake (dra) can retreat to Antarctic Atlantic Ocean (aat).
Dutch A Karachi (krc) can retreat to Gujarat (guj).
French A Recife (rec) can retreat to Rio de Janeiro (rdj).
Austrian A Silesia (sil) can retreat to Galicia (gal).

Unit locations:

Austria: A Berlin (ber), F Black Sea (bla), F Constantinople (con), A Croatia
(cro), A Rumania (rum), A Serbia (ser), A Silesia (sil), A Vienna
(vie), A Wallacia (wlc).
Britain: F Baltic Sea (bal), F Sweden (swe), F Toledo (tld).
China: A Bokhara (bkh), A Burma (brm), A Canton (can), F Fuchan (fuc), F Hong
Kong (hko), A Inner Mongolia (img), A Karachi (krc), A Kashmir (kas),
A Rajputana (raj), F Shanghai (sha), A Tibet (tib), A Wuhan (wuh), A
Yunnan (yun).
France: F Adriatic Sea (adr), F The Azores (azo), A Bavaria (bav), F Bay of
Biscay (bob), A Bordeaux (brd), A Brasilia (bra), F Brazil Current
(bcu), F Canary Seaway(cny), F Cape Verde Islands (vrd), F Coast of
Argentina (cag), A Cochabamba (coh), A Crete (cre), F Drake (dra), F
Gibraltar (gib), A Goyamas (goy), F Grain Coast (gcs), F Greece (gre),
F Gulf of Guinea (gog), F Helgoland Bight (hel), A Holland (hol), F
Ionian Sea (ion), F Kiel (kie)(wc), F Middle Atlantic (mat), A Morocco
(mrc), F Nantes (nan), A Oliveira (oli), A Piedmont (pie), A Recife
(rec), A Rouen (rou), F Sierra Leone (sie), A Stuttgart (stu), F Tunis
(tun), F Uruguay (uru), A Valencia (vlc), A Venice (ven).
Holland: F Andaman Sea (ase), A Angora (ang), F Annam (ann), F Antarctic Indian
Ocean(ain), F Antarctic Pacific Ocean(apa), F Arabian Sea(ara), A
Armenia (arm), A Aswan (asw), A Baku (bku), A Bangalore (ban), F
Bengal (ben), F Bismark Sea (bis), F Cairo (cai)(nc), A Ceylon (cey),
F Cyprus (cyp), F Drake (dra), F East China Sea (ecs), F Equatorial
CounterCurrent (eco), A Fezz (fzz), F Fiji (fij), F Formosa (for), F
Goodhope (goo), F Gulf of Manaar (gum), F Horn of Africa (hoa), F Izu
Trench (izu), F Java Sea (jse), F Kagoshima (kag), A Karachi (krc), A
Kenya (ken), A Khiva (khv), A Mandlah (mdh), F Marshal Islands (mhl),
F Okinawa (oki), F Peking (pek), F Persian Gulf (pgu), F Philippine
(phi), A Rangoon (rng), F Red Sea (rse), A Siam (sia), F South
Atlantic (sat), F South China Sea (scs), F South West Pacific (swp), A
Sumatra (sum), A Syria (syr), F Tasman (tas), A Tehran (teh), A Tonkin
(tnk), F West Pacific (wpa), A Yuthia (yut).
Japan: F Edo (edo), F Kuril (kur), F Manchuria (mac), F Okhotsk (okh), F
Sakhurlin (sak), A Sapporo (sap), F Sea of Japan (soj), A Vladivostok
(vla).
Russia: A Croatia (cro), F Eastern Mediterranean (eas), A Kasala (ksl), A
Livonia (lvn), A Omsk (oms), A Orenburg (orn), A Prussia (pru), F
Sevastopol (sev), A Silesia (sil), A Moscow (mos).
USA: A Amazon (ama), A Anchorage (anc), A Barcelone (brc), F Bering Sea
(bse), A Caledonia (cld), F Canary Seaway(cny), F Cayenne (cyn), F
Chesapeake Approaches (che), F Chilean Basin (cba), F Counter Current
(ccu), F Eastern Carribean (eca), F Eastern Pacific (epa), F Eastern
Seaboard (ese), F Edinburgh (edi), F Hawaii (haw), F Kamchatka (kam),
F Kirbati Sea (kse), A La Paz (lpa), F London (lon), F North Atlantic
(nat), F North East Trades (net), F North Pacific (npa), F North
Passage (nps), F North Sea (nth), F Norway (nwy), F Nova Scotia (nsc),
F Pacific Basin (pba), A Pramaiba (pra), A Quito (qto), A Recife
(rec), A Richmond (ric), F Sargasso (sar), F Skagerrak (ska), F
Society Islands (sct), F South Pacific (spa), F Virgin Islands (vis),
F West Coast (wco), F Westerlies (wst).

Ownership of supply centers:

Austria: Berlin (ber), Budapest (bud), Constantinople (con), Crete (cre),
Croatia (cro), Rumania (rum), Silesia (sil), Sofia (sof), Vienna (vie).
Brazil: Paraguay (prg).
Britain: Greenland (grn), Norway (nwy), Sweden (swe).
China: Bengal (ben), Burma (brm), Canton (can), Chungking (chk), Delhi (del),
Hong Kong (hko), Irkutsk (irk), Kashmir (kas), Shanghai (sha),
Sinkiang (snk), Tashkent (tsh), Vladivostok (vla), Wuhan (wuh).
France: The Azores (azo), Bavaria (bav), Cameroon (cmn), Cape Verde Islands
(vrd), Corsica (crs), Denmark (den), Falkland Islands (fal), Gibraltar
(gib), Grain Coast (gcs), Greece (gre), Holland (hol), Ivory Coast
(ivc), Kiel (kie), Marseilles (mar), Monrovia (mnv), Morocco (mrc),
Nantes (nan), Okrana (okn), Oliveira (oli), Paris (par), Piedmont
(pie), Recife (rec), Rio de Janeiro (rdj), Rome (rom), Ruhr (ruh),
Salerno (sal), Sicily (sic), Sierra Leone (sie), South Georgia Islands
(sgr), Stuttgart (stu), Tripoli (trp), Tunis (tun), Uruguay (uru),
Valencia (vlc), Venice (ven).
Holland: Abyssinia (aby), Aden (ade), Andaman Islands (amn), Angora (ang),
Baghdad (bag), Baku (bku), Bangalore (ban), Bangkok (bnk), Bombay
(bom), Borneo (brn), Botswana (bsw), Cairo (cai), Cambodia (cmb), Cape
Town (ctn), Ceylon (cey), Cochin (cch), Cyprus (cyp), Fiji (fij),
Formosa (for), Irian Java (ija), Java (jav), Kagoshima (kag), Karachi
(krc), Luzon (luz), Madagascar (mad), Madras (mds), Malaysia (mal),
Maldives (mld), Marshal Islands (mhl), Mindanao (mnd), New Guinea
(ngu), New South Wales (nsw), New Zealand (nzl), Okinawa (oki), Oman
(oma), Peking (pek), Perth (per), Queensland (qnl), Rangoon (rng),
Rhodesia (rho), Sarawak (srw), Seychelles (sey), Singapore (sin),
Sudan (sud), Sumatra (sum), Tehran (teh), Tonkin (tnk), Transvaal
(trn), Yuthia (yut).
Japan: Caroline Islands (crl), Edo (edo), Fusan (fsn), Manchuria (mac), Port
Arthur (poa), Sakhurlin (sak), Sapporo (sap), Seoul (seo).
Russia: Georgia (geo), Khiva (khv), Warsaw (war), Omsk (oms), Orenburg (orn),
Prussia (pru), Serbia (ser), Sevastopol (sev), St Petersburg (stp),
Moscow (mos).
USA: Alberta (alb), Anchorage (anc), Atlanta (atl), Austin (aus), The
Bahamas (bah), Barcelone (brc), Bogota (bgt), Brasilia (bra), Cayenne
(cyn), Chicago (chc), Cuba (cub), Detroit (det), Dublin (dub),
Edinburgh (edi), Galapagos (glp), Haiti (hai), Hawaii (haw), Honduras
(hon), Kansas (kan), La Paz (lpa), Lima (lim), London (lon), Mazatlan
(maz), Merida (mer), Mexico City (mex), Nebraska (neb), New Mexico
(nme), New Orleans (nol), New York (nyc), Nova Scotia (nsc), Oklahoma
(okl), Oregon (ore), Panama (pan), Paramaribo (pmb), Quebec (que),
Richmond (ric), San Francisco (sfo), Seattle (sea), Society Islands
(sct), Vancouver (van), Victoria (vic), Virgin Islands (vis),
Washington DC (wdc), Yukon (yuk).


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