Corrected subject…

RETREAT!
Yen F Hsiangping can retreat to North Choson Sea.
Neutral A Lu can retreat to Nan Lintse or Nan Tsechuan.

(everyone should order the single Neutral retreat)

BUILD!

Chii: Build 1 or 2 (should submit conditional upon the Neutral retreat)
Chin: Build 2
Chu: Build 1
Hsiung-Nu: Build 1 (for capturing 2 SC’s)
Shu: Build 2

RETREATS and BUILDS are due TOGETHER on Tuesday 11/11, 10am Pacific!

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After careful rereading the wiki article on this variant (www.dipwiki.com/?title=Mandate_Of_Heaven) I believe a proper interpretation of the neutrals ordering is that only if a majority of the players AND those players being in control of a majority of the units on the board order a neutral to do something, then it will do it… not simply the order for the neutral which got the most votes. So – 2 of the neutral orders I sent out last time were as a result of a neutral being a clear winner over any other choice, but not a majority of the players. So these are hereby revised:

Neutral Retreats:
A Ba - Nanchin
disband A Chungshan
A Han - Chou
disband F Tung Yueh
A Wei - Hsi Handan

The only change is the F Tung Yueh DISBANDS as a result of confusion, it does not go to SCS. And A Chungshan still disbands, tho as a result of confusion, not a majority order. The other 3 units DID get at least a matching 4 powers ordering them.

The implication of this is that as long as 7 players are active in the game (or even 6), it will take 4 players cooperating to get any neutral unit to move.

Now – to delay or not for this? Well playing it out, the Fleet in SCS would not do anything for this turn as a result of your collective orders, so it is non-impacting on the game that it does hereby NOT EXIST and we’ll move onward with the f01 results.

NEUTRALS: All fail to do anything – they hold
A Chou
A Handan
A Hsi Handan
A Hsi Yueh
A Lu (*Dislodged*)
A Nanchin
A Pei Choson

When ordering the neutrals, please COPY the above small section, and write your orders after that. It will make it easier for me to paste such into a spreadsheet for majority comparison.

PLAYERS:

Chao:
A Chinyang Supports A Tung Chinyang (*Cut*)
A Tung Chinyang Supports A Chinyang
A Wei Supports A Chinyang (*Disbanded*)

Chii:
A Lintse - Lu
A Sung Supports A Lintse - Lu
F Tsechuan - Lintse

Chin:
A Han Supports A Shang - Wei
A Pei Shang - Chinyang (*Fails*)
A Shang - Wei

Chu:
A Chen - Pengli (*Bounce*)
A Tung Yueh - Pengli (*Bounce*)
A Ying - Nanchin (*Fails*)

Hsiung-Nu:
A Choson Supports A Nan Hsienpi - Hsiangping
A Nan Hsienpi - Hsiangping
A Shanggu - Yubeiping (*Bounce*)

Shu:
A Ba - Pei Choushi
A Daiyeng Supports A Hanchung - Ba
A Hanchung - Ba

Yen:
A Chungshan Supports A Nan Yubeiping
F Hsiangping - Yubeiping (*Dislodged*)
A Nan Yubeiping Supports A Chungshan