Summer 953:
The Danish fleet in Sea of England retreats to the English Channel;
The Slavic army in Vladimir retreats to Rostov.

Fall 953 deadline is on Tuesday Sep 9 at 23:00 GMT.


## The Poll ##
The Poll was going to close today but since we had only 3 responses sofar, including mine, I have extended it.
* Should we change the default Viking Victory conditions for a Solo to say that it requires a minimum of 26 SCs, or 50% of the total?
Yes, let's change it as sugested 66% [ 2 ]
No, let's keep it the way it was (26 SCs or more) 33% [ 1 ]
Total Votes : 3
You can still participate. Just go to http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4475.


## Modified RealPolitik files ##
As you can see on the attached maps Scorched Earth areas are now easier to distinguish.
A fire will be burning the SC for one Major season and the SC will have vanished after that, but throughout the remainder of the game the Scorched Earth itself will show throughout that country (as a nice deep brown color).

For those of you who use RP to provide orders and try out various scenarios, you need to download the attached MAP and BMP file to your RP/Variant Files/Viking folder on your PC. Only then will RP show you the attached DPY file with the same information as mine (re. map layout and SC counts).
For those who don't there is always the latest GIF images.

Frank