Spring 955: The once so mighty Danes, after their devastating defeat last year, have decided to use their ultimate weapon.
And thus Hedeby goes up in flames.
No doubt much to the dismay of the Swedes that arrived after a long journey across the Bornholmer Sea from Kalmar. Worse, they can't even get to the Danish army to give room to their frustration as the Norse army coming in from the North from Jylland, with the same intentions as the Swedes, has blocked their way. And so the Danes consider themselves really lucky with the two attackers that abounce, because where could they have gone otherwise? Not so lucky is the Danish fleet which is stuck in Oerne after its attempt to take the Kattegat bounced with the Norse trying the same from Skaggerak. And Bruge, where once the Danish flags flew over the settlements, could not resist the Burgundy armies from Flanders and Dorestadt. Although Dorestadt was surprised to find the Burgundy army from Groningen knocking at their door.

Plenty of fighting going on in the rest of the world although it looks like the Slavs receive most of the blows. The figthing over the Slavs southern and eastern border continues. Their army in Kaffa is under siege by the Romans from the Khazar Empire with support from the roman fleet in North Black Sea. With nowhere left to go, the Slavic army is disbanded. And have the Slavs just opened a front along the northern border now that they have taken Aldeigjuborg from the Swedes while its army moved into Ingermannland?
Pest, the last of the Independent nations, caught between Roman armies in Transylvania and former Independent state of Buda, see their region overtaken by the Romans; their hopes to maintain their independence with support from the Slavic armies to the north were quickly shattered. And so Pest follows the fate of the other Independent states of Buda, Jorsal and Alexandria.
The Swedes, Slavs and Burgundians have skirmishes at the borders of Hessen and Brandenburg. Norse and Arabs clash in Nantes and Asturias. The Arabs seem to more successful consolidating their positions on the Iberian Peninsula.

Adjudication for S955:
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ArabCaliphates:
A Burgos Supports F Lisboa - Asturias
A Cordoba, no move received
F Gulf of Cadiz - Lisboa
F Lisboa - Asturias
A Toulouse - Nantes (*Bounce*)

Burgundy:
A Auvergne - Savoie
A Avignon, no move received
A Bavaria - Hessen (*Bounce*)
F Berber Coast - Gulf of Cadiz
A Champagne - Tours
F Dorestad Supports A Flanders - Bruges
A Flanders - Bruges
F Groningen - Dorestad (*Fails*)
F Gulf of Lyons - Berber Coast
A Koln - Oldenburg
A Lombardy - Pisa
A Nantes - Maine
A Paris Supports A Nantes - Maine
A Rouen Supports A Nantes - Maine
F Strait of Sicily Hold
A Tirol - Bavaria (*Fails*)
A Verdun - Flanders

Danmark:
A Hedeby DES Hedeby
F Oerne - Kattegat (*Bounce*)

EasternRomanEmpire:
F Alexandria - Eastern Mediterranean Sea
A Buda - Pest
A Graz - Praha (*Fails*)
A Khazar Empire - Kaffa
F Miklagard - South Black Sea
F North Black Sea Supports A Khazar Empire - Kaffa
F Palermo Hold
A Palmyra Hold
A Paristria - Cumaniya
F Smyrna - Miklagard
A Spalato - Buda
A Transylvania Supports A Buda - Pest
A Trebizond - Khazar Empire (*Bounce*)
A Valakia Supports A Paristria - Cumaniya
A Venezia - Graz (*Fails*)

Independent:
A Pest Hold (*Dislodged*)

SlavicNations:
A Burta - Cumaniya (*Fails*)
A Hamburg - Brandenburg (*Fails*)
A Holmgard - Aldeigjuborg
A Kaffa Supports A Burta - Cumaniya (*Disbanded*)
A Kjonugard Supports A Ruthenia
A Mordvin - Burta (*Fails*)
A Praha Supports A Ruthenia (*Cut*)
A Przemysl Supports A Ruthenia
A Ruthenia Supports A Praha
F Vladimir - Khazar Empire (*Bounce*)

Norge:
F Bay of Biscay Supports F Irish Sea - Mid Atlantic Ocean (*Fails*)
A Hastings - Cornwall
F Irish Sea - Mid Atlantic Ocean (*Fails*)
A Jylland - Hedeby (*Bounce*)
A Kvenland - Helsingjaland
F Lindisfarne - Sea of England
A London - Essex
A Maine - Bretagne
F Mid Atlantic Ocean - Asturias (*Fails*)
A Noirmoutier - Nantes (*Bounce*)
F North Sea - Dogger Bank
F Sea of England - English Channel
F Skagerrak - Kattegat (*Bounce*)
A Skegness - Jorvik

Sverige:
A Aldeigjuborg - Ingermannland
F Baltic Sea Hold
F Birka - Gulf of Bothnia
F Bornholmer Sea Convoys A Kalmar - Hedeby
A Brandenburg - Hessen (*Bounce*)
A Gdansk Hold
A Jomsborg - Mecklenburg
A Kalmar - Hedeby (*Bounce*)
F Reval - Gulf of Finland
A Uppsala - Tiundaland
A Vitebsk - Memel

No retreats so we're on to Fall 955.
Deadline for Fall 955 orders is Thursday, Oct 9 at 23:00 GMT.

As usual I have included the DPY file and 2 files (MAP and BMP) for the Variants Viking folder so you will have the same information as me.
Frank