Hi folks,

Unfortunately, our fearless General Lee has failed to show up for battle and, after repeated attempts to contact him, I have sought out and found a replacement for the Confederate position. Everyone, please welcome Jim Atkins to the game. Jim is coming in to make sure that the South does rise again.. =) My thanks to Max for playing out the position up to this point.

We'll give a little bit of time for Jim to negotiate and set the new Fall 1865 deadline for Wednesday, October 31st (11:59 PM GMT.) That's not as much time as I'd like to give him, but I feel its the most I can allow seeing as a) we've already had a long extension on this turn and b) my travel schedule in the later half of this week just plain stinks and Wednesday is the best day for me to adjudicate.

As well, with this set of late orders and subsequent replacement, I definitely feel that my good graces are being taken advantage of. Most of the players in this game lock in prelims way ahead of time and do not deserve these long delays to mar their game experience. I sincerely thank you folks for the patience you have shown. Moving forward in this game, to prevent these delays from continuing, I will change my NMR policy.

From Fall 1865 onwards, late order submission will result in an NMR being handed out to that country. All country units will hold in place. Three NMRs in a row will result in me finding a replacement for that country. IF ANY PLAYER HAS ANY PROBLEM WITH THIS POLICY, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IMMEDIATELY.

Once again, thanks for hanging in there everyone. Hopefully with this NMR policy, we'll be back to popping out the major turns once a week just as before.

Cheers!

Trout