- "THE FAT LADY SINGS" TOPS CHARTS AROUND THE WORLD- ARCTIC PENGUIN SIGHTINGS DOCUMENTED BY BRITISH SCIENTISTS IN EXILE
- USA RELOCATES CAPITOL TO RUPERTLAND
- DUTCH TO WORLD: ALL YOUR CENTERS ARE BELONG TO US!


Yes, folks... You can breath that sigh of relief and wonder now. After 522 days - Guns, Germs and Steel wraps in a Dutch solo. My hearty congratulations to Rudi for blazing through this onslaught and bending the board to his will. An Imperial game - even a "short" one - is no easy feat to solo in, and I take my hat off in awe. Very well done!


And huge commendations go out to all our other players as well for playing this meat grinder out to the bitter end. Any game of this variant is, by nature, brutal. My thanks to everyone involved for their efforts. This one deserves a HUGE pat on the back. =)


The business of Fall 1880: All the end-game proposals failed once again. However Holland broke through the stale-mate lines in Russia and took matters into their own hands - with the Tsars assistance. With 70 supply centers reached, we close the book on Guns, Germs and Steel.


I'd love to see end-of-game statements from everyone on this one. There were some results that I still can't quite bring myself to believe...


But, enough with the editorializing Trout. Give the people the results... =P Fall 1880 - the final turn of Guns, Germs and Steel 1264 / DC110 - is attached below. Congratulations once again to Rudi and to all the players of this monster. It's been one hell of a ride. *grin*


Cheers!


Imperial Toast-Master Trout


Movement results for Fall of 1880. (1880 FALL)

China: A Manchuria (mac) Hold.

France: F Adriatic Sea (adr) Supports F Greece (gre).
France: F The Azores (azo) Supports F Bay of Biscay (bob).
France: F Bay of Biscay (bob) Supports F Nantes (nan).
France: A Berlin (ber) Supports A Kiel (kie).
France: A Bosnia (bos) Supports F Greece (gre).
France: A Brasilia (bra) Supports F Recife (rec).
France: F Brazil Current (bcu) Support F South Georgia Islands (sgr).
France: F Cameroon (cmn) Supports F Okrana (okn).
France: F Canary Seaway(cny) Supports F Cape Verde Islands (vrd).
France: F Cape Verde Islands (vrd) Supports F Canary Seaway(cny).
France: F Coast of Argentina (cag) Supports F Brazil Current (bcu).
France: A Cochabamba (coh) Hold.
France: F Drake (dra) Supports F Brazil Current (bcu).
France: F Falkland Islands (fal) Supports F Brazil Current (bcu).
France: A Galicia (gal) Supports A Sevastopol (sev) (*Cut*).
France: F Grain Coast (gcs) Supports F Middle Atlantic (mat).
France: F Greece (gre) Supports A Bosnia (bos).
France: F Gulf of Guinea (gog) Supports F Okrana (okn).
France: F Gulf of Lyon (lyo) - Gibraltar (gib) (*Fails*).
France: F Holland (hol) Supports A Rouen (rou).
France: A Kiel (kie) Supports A Berlin (ber).
France: A La Paz (lpa) Supports A Brasilia (bra).
France: F Middle Atlantic (mat) Supports F Recife (rec).
France: F Nantes (nan) Supports F Bay of Biscay (bob).
France: F Okrana (okn) Supports F Gulf of Guinea (gog).
France: A Paris (par) Supports F Nantes (nan).
France: A Quito (qto) Supports A La Paz (lpa).
France: F Recife (rec) Supports F Middle Atlantic (mat).
France: A Rio de Janeiro (rdj) Supports F Recife (rec).
France: A Rouen (rou) Supports F Holland (hol).
France: A Ruhr (ruh) Supports A Kiel (kie).
France: A Rumania (rum) Supports A Sevastopol (sev) (*Cut*).
France: A Serbia (ser) Supports A Bosnia (bos).
France: F Sicily (sic) Hold.
France: A Silesia (sil) Supports A Berlin (ber).
France: F South Georgia Islands (sgr) Supports F Brazil Current (bcu).
France: A Stuttgart (stu) Supports A Kiel (kie).
France: A Tawarek (twr) Supports F Tripoli (trp).
France: F Tripoli (trp) Supports A Tunis (tun) (*Cut*).
France: A Tunis (tun) Supports F Tripoli (trp).
France: F Tyrrhenian Sea (tys) Supports A Tunis (tun).
France: A Wallacia (wlc) Supports A Rumania (rum).

Holland: F Aegean Sea (aeg) Supports F Eastern Mediterranean (eas) - Ionian Sea
(ion).
Holland: F Angola (agl) Supports F Damaraland (dml).
Holland: F Antarctic Indian Ocean(ain) - Goodhope (goo) (*Bounce*).
Holland: A Armenia (arm) - Baku (bku) (*Fails*).
Holland: A Aswan (asw) Supports A Dar Es Sallam (dar) - Fezz (fzz) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Baku (bku)(wc) - Black Sea (bla) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Barrier Sea (brr) Supports F Tasman (tas).
Holland: F Black Sea (bla) - Rumania (rum) (*Fails*).
Holland: A Bokhara (bkh) Supports A Orenburg (orn).
Holland: A Botswana (bsw) Supports F Transvaal (trn).
Holland: A Cairo (cai) - Syria (syr).
Holland: A Canton (can) - Wuhan (wuh) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Caroline Islands (crl) Hold.
Holland: F Celebes Sea (cls) Supports F Irian Java (ija).
Holland: A Congo (cng) Supports F Angola (agl).
Holland: F Constantinople (con) Supports A Sofia (sof).
Holland: F Coral Sea (cor) Supports F South West Pacific (swp).
Holland: F Damaraland (dml) Supports F Angola (agl).
Holland: A Dar Es Sallam (dar) - Fezz (fzz) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Eastern Mediterranean (eas) - Ionian Sea (ion).
Holland: F Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco) Supports F South West Pacific (swp).
Holland: A Evenki (eve) Supports A Yakutsk (yak).
Holland: A Fezz (fzz) - Tripoli (trp) (*Fails*).
Holland: F Formosa (for) Supports F South China Sea (scs) - East China Sea
(ecs).
Holland: F Fuchan (fuc) - Shanghai (sha).
Holland: A Georgia (geo) Supports A Perm (prm) - Moscow (mos).
Holland: F Hong Kong (hko) - Fuchan (fuc).
Holland: A Inner Mongolia (img) Supports F Shanghai (sha) - Peking (pek).
Holland: F Ionian Sea (ion) - Crete (cre).
Holland: F Irian Java (ija) Supports F New Guinea (ngu).
Holland: A Irkutsk (irk) Supports A Inner Mongolia (img).
Holland: A Kasala (ksl) Supports A Orenburg (orn).
Holland: A Kirghiz (kir) Supports A Mongolia (mon).
Holland: A Krasnoyarsk (kra) Supports A Orenburg (orn).
Holland: A Langchow (lch) Supports F Shanghai (sha) - Peking (pek).
Holland: F Luzon (luz) Supports F Philippine (phi).
Holland: F Luzon Sea (lus) - South China Sea (scs).
Holland: F Madagascar (mad) Supports F Antarctic Indian Ocean(ain) - Goodhope
(goo).
Holland: F Malagasy Channel (mch) - Goodhope (goo) (*Bounce*).
Holland: F Marshal Islands (mhl) Supports F Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco).
Holland: F Mindanao (mnd) Supports F Celebes Sea (cls).
Holland: A Mongolia (mon) Supports A Inner Mongolia (img).
Holland: F New Guinea (ngu) Supports F Coral Sea (cor).
Holland: F New South Wales (nsw) Supports F Tasman (tas).
Holland: F Okinawa (oki) Supports F Hong Kong (hko) - East China Sea (ecs)
(*Void*).
Holland: A Omsk (oms) - Perm (prm).
Holland: A Orenburg (orn) Supports A Georgia (geo).
Holland: A Perm (prm) - Moscow (mos).
Holland: F Philippine (phi) Hold.
Holland: F Queensland (qnl) Supports F Coral Sea (cor).
Holland: A Sevastopol (sev) Supports A Perm (prm) - Moscow (mos).
Holland: F Shanghai (sha) - Peking (pek).
Holland: A Sinkiang (snk) - Kashgar (ksg).
Holland: A Sofia (sof) Supports F Black Sea (bla) - Rumania (rum).
Holland: F South China Sea (scs) - East China Sea (ecs).
Holland: F South East Trades (set) Supports F Barrier Sea (brr).
Holland: F South West Pacific (swp) Supports F Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco).
Holland: F Syria (syr)(wc) - Eastern Mediterranean (eas).
Holland: F Tasman (tas) Supports F Coral Sea (cor).
Holland: A Tonkin (tnk) Hold.
Holland: F Transvaal (trn) Supports F Malagasy Channel (mch) - Goodhope (goo).
Holland: F Tubruq (tbq) Supports F Eastern Mediterranean (eas) - Ionian Sea
(ion).
Holland: A Wuhan (wuh) Supports F Fuchan (fuc) - Shanghai (sha).
Holland: A Yakutsk (yak) Supports A Irkutsk (irk).

Japan: F Edo (edo) Supports F Kuril (kur).
Japan: F Fusan (fsn) Supports F Yellow Sea (yse).
Japan: F Kagoshima (kag) Supports F Yellow Sea (yse).
Japan: F Port Arthur (poa) Supports A Manchuria (mac).
Japan: F Sea of Japan (soj) Supports A Vladivostok (vla).
Japan: F Seoul (seo)(wc) Supports F Yellow Sea (yse).
Japan: A Vladivostok (vla) Supports A Manchuria (mac).
Japan: F Yellow Sea (yse) Supports F Kagoshima (kag).

Russia: A Warsaw (war) - Galicia (gal) (*Fails*).
Russia: A Prussia (pru) - Livonia (lvn) (*Fails*).
Russia: A Moscow (mos) - St Petersburg (stp) (*Disbanded*).

USA: A Alaska (ala) Hold.
USA: A Amazon (ama) Supports A Pramaiba (pra).
USA: F Baltic Sea (bal) Supports F Denmark (den).
USA: A Barcelone (brc) Supports A Amazon (ama).
USA: A Caledonia (cld) Supports A Pramaiba (pra).
USA: F Cayenne (cyn) Supports F North East Trades (net).
USA: F Chesapeake Approaches (che) Supports F North Atlantic (nat).
USA: F Chilean Basin (cba) Supports F Drake (dra).
USA: F Counter Current (ccu) Supports F Hawaii (haw).
USA: F Denmark (den) Supports F Helgoland Bight (hel).
USA: F Eastern Carribean (eca) Supports F Sargasso (sar).
USA: F Eastern Pacific (epa) Supports F Kirbati Sea (kse).
USA: F Eastern Seaboard (ese) Supports F North Atlantic (nat).
USA: F Finland (fin)(nc) Supports A St Petersburg (stp).
USA: F Gulf of Bothnia (bot) Supports A Livonia (lvn).
USA: F Hawaii (haw) Supports F Kirbati Sea (kse).
USA: F Helgoland Bight (hel) Supports F North Sea (nth).
USA: F Hudson (hud) Hold.
USA: F Kamchatka (kam) Supports A Vladivostok (vla).
USA: F Kirbati Sea (kse) Hold.
USA: F Kuril (kur) Supports F Kamchatka (kam) (*Fails*).
USA: A Lima (lim) Supports A Amazon (ama).
USA: A Livonia (lvn) Supports A Moscow (mos) (*Ordered to Move*).
USA: F North Atlantic (nat) Hold.
USA: F North East Trades (net) Hold.
USA: F North Pacific (npa) Supports F Westerlies (wst).
USA: F North Sea (nth) Supports F North Atlantic (nat).
USA: F Norwegian Sea (nwg) Hold.
USA: F Nova Scotia (nsc) Supports F North Atlantic (nat).
USA: F Okhotsk (okh) Supports A Vladivostok (vla).
USA: F Pacific Basin (pba) Supports F Chilean Basin (cba).
USA: A Pramaiba (pra) Supports A Amazon (ama).
USA: A Ruperts Land (rla) Hold.
USA: F Sargasso (sar) Hold.
USA: F Skagerrak (ska) Hold.
USA: F Society Islands (sct) Supports F South Pacific (spa).
USA: F South Pacific (spa) Hold.
USA: A St Petersburg (stp) Supports A Perm (prm) (*Ordered to Move*).
USA: F Virgin Islands (vis) Supports F Sargasso (sar).
USA: F Westerlies (wst) Supports F Kuril (kur).

Unit locations:

China: A Manchuria (mac).
France: F Adriatic Sea (adr), F The Azores (azo), F Bay of Biscay (bob), A
Berlin (ber), A Bosnia (bos), A Brasilia (bra), F Brazil Current
(bcu), F Cameroon (cmn), F Canary Seaway(cny), F Cape Verde Islands
(vrd), F Coast of Argentina (cag), A Cochabamba (coh), F Drake (dra),
F Falkland Islands (fal), A Galicia (gal), F Grain Coast (gcs), F
Greece (gre), F Gulf of Guinea (gog), F Gulf of Lyon (lyo), F Holland
(hol), A Kiel (kie), A La Paz (lpa), F Middle Atlantic (mat), F Nantes
(nan), F Okrana (okn), A Paris (par), A Quito (qto), F Recife (rec), A
Rio de Janeiro (rdj), A Rouen (rou), A Ruhr (ruh), A Rumania (rum), A
Serbia (ser), F Sicily (sic), A Silesia (sil), F South Georgia Islands
(sgr), A Stuttgart (stu), A Tawarek (twr), F Tripoli (trp), A Tunis
(tun), F Tyrrhenian Sea (tys), A Wallacia (wlc).
Holland: F Aegean Sea (aeg), F Angola (agl), F Antarctic Indian Ocean(ain), A
Armenia (arm), A Aswan (asw), F Baku (bku)(wc), F Barrier Sea (brr), F
Black Sea (bla), A Bokhara (bkh), A Botswana (bsw), A Canton (can), F
Caroline Islands (crl), F Celebes Sea (cls), A Congo (cng), F
Constantinople (con), F Coral Sea (cor), F Crete (cre), F Damaraland
(dml), A Dar Es Sallam (dar), F East China Sea (ecs), F Eastern
Mediterranean (eas), F Equatorial CounterCurrent (eco), A Evenki
(eve), A Fezz (fzz), F Formosa (for), F Fuchan (fuc), A Georgia (geo),
A Inner Mongolia (img), F Ionian Sea (ion), F Irian Java (ija), A
Irkutsk (irk), A Kasala (ksl), A Kashgar (ksg), A Kirghiz (kir), A
Krasnoyarsk (kra), A Langchow (lch), F Luzon (luz), F Madagascar
(mad), F Malagasy Channel (mch), F Marshal Islands (mhl), F Mindanao
(mnd), A Mongolia (mon), F New Guinea (ngu), F New South Wales (nsw),
F Okinawa (oki), A Orenburg (orn), F Peking (pek), A Perm (prm), F
Philippine (phi), F Queensland (qnl), A Sevastopol (sev), F Shanghai
(sha), A Sofia (sof), F South China Sea (scs), F South East Trades
(set), F South West Pacific (swp), A Syria (syr), F Tasman (tas), A
Tonkin (tnk), F Transvaal (trn), F Tubruq (tbq), A Moscow (mos), A
Wuhan (wuh), A Yakutsk (yak).
Japan: F Edo (edo), F Fusan (fsn), F Kagoshima (kag), F Port Arthur (poa), F
Sea of Japan (soj), F Seoul (seo)(wc), A Vladivostok (vla), F Yellow
Sea (yse).
Russia: A Warsaw (war), A Prussia (pru).
USA: A Alaska (ala), A Amazon (ama), F Baltic Sea (bal), A Barcelone (brc),
A Caledonia (cld), F Cayenne (cyn), F Chesapeake Approaches (che), F
Chilean Basin (cba), F Counter Current (ccu), F Denmark (den), F
Eastern Carribean (eca), F Eastern Pacific (epa), F Eastern Seaboard
(ese), F Finland (fin)(nc), F Gulf of Bothnia (bot), F Hawaii (haw), F
Helgoland Bight (hel), F Hudson (hud), F Kamchatka (kam), F Kirbati
Sea (kse), F Kuril (kur), A Lima (lim), A Livonia (lvn), F North
Atlantic (nat), F North East Trades (net), F North Pacific (npa), F
North Sea (nth), F Norwegian Sea (nwg), F Nova Scotia (nsc), F Okhotsk
(okh), F Pacific Basin (pba), A Pramaiba (pra), A Ruperts Land (rla),
F Sargasso (sar), F Skagerrak (ska), F Society Islands (sct), F South
Pacific (spa), A St Petersburg (stp), F Virgin Islands (vis), F
Westerlies (wst).

Ownership of supply centers:

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

Austria: 0 Supply centers, 0 Units: Builds 0 units.
Brazil: 0 Supply centers, 0 Units: Builds 0 units.
Britain: 1 Supply center , 0 Units: Builds 0 units.
China: 1 Supply center , 1 Unit: Builds 0 units.
CSA: 0 Supply centers, 0 Units: Builds 0 units.
France: 44 Supply centers, 42 Units: Builds 2 units.
Holland: 70 Supply centers, 64 Units: Builds 6 units.
Japan: 8 Supply centers, 8 Units: Builds 0 units.
Mexico: 0 Supply centers, 0 Units: Builds 0 units.
Prussia: 0 Supply centers, 0 Units: Builds 0 units.
Russia: 2 Supply centers, 2 Units: Builds 0 units.
Turkey: 0 Supply centers, 0 Units: Builds 0 units.
USA: 46 Supply centers, 40 Units: Builds 6 units.





GAME RESULT: DUTCH 70 CENTER SOLO WIN!!