Hi guys,
I apologise for having kept you waiting. I'm afraid I had trouble accessing the internet. Anyway, made it back safely from my Aegean yachting cruise and enjoying the seaside near Athens. Meanwhile, Europe has not only witnessed pan-continental elections (I'm not exactly enthralled by the results... :( ), but plenty has also happened on our little map:
Spain's assault on Brest was checked by the English navy. Nor did the Escorial make any inroads into the Maghreb. With both Flanders and the eternal city being lost, Spain's armed forces will have to endure some painful downsizing.
Our other power which started off with four units, Sweden, has not fared any better. Her fellow-Scandinavians, the Danes, have seized all formerly Swedish holdings in Germany. The House of Oldenburg thus can firmly claim to be the champion of the Protestant cause within the Empire. Rumour has it that the Lutheran/Calvinist electors are looking to heave Frederick III of Denmark on the imperial throne. What view will the Hofburg take of such a potential challenge to her imperial reign...? Anyway, the Emperor now has Bavaria at his disposal for levying new troops. So Charlemagne's inheritance is proving quite handy at a time when the Habsburg's ancestral domains are already fully garrisoned.
Farther East, Muscovy and Poland-Lithuania have now traded supply centres this year, Sweden having supported the Czar, while the Sublime Porte has sided with the Rzeczpospolita.
As for the other Commonwealth, England, her seizure of the wealthy Low Countries provides the funds for considerably increased military expenditure. I take England's first two years as confirmation of me having by no means made her too weak a power.
Keep in mind that your adjustment orders may be made conditional on any preceding retreats. And I'll adjucate as soon as I'm back online and have a full set of retreats/adjustments (if not expressly asked by a player to wait until the expiration of the deadline).
As for spring deadline, I've now scheduled it for next Monday. 12 AM CET. Not quite sure where I'll be at that stage (Northern Greece? Serbia?). So I can't promise a prompt adjucation.
Cheers,
Charles
HEADLINES:
EMPEROR'S MARCH DOWN RHINE VALLEY STALLED
FREDERICK III SEIZES SWEDEN'S GERMAN DOMAINS
GENERAL ESTATES ELECT CROMWELL THEIR NEW STADHOLDER
SPANISH LANDING IN BRITANNY THWARTED BY ANGLO-FRENCH FLOTILLA
TUSCANY IN NO MOOD TO SUCCUMB TO FRENCH DESIGNS
POLISH HUSSARS SWEEP ACROSS RUSSIAN STEPPES, MOLDOVIA ANNEXED
LITHUANIA REMAINS LARGELY IN MUSCOVITE HANDS
NEITHER SPANIARDS OR TURKS MAKE ANY INROADS INTO MAGHREB
TRANSYLVANIAN PRINCE PAYS HOMAGE TO SULTAN
PRESS:
None. :(
ORDERS:
Austria:
A Bavaria - Vienna
A Franconia Supports A Saxony
A Papal States Supports A Lombardy - Tuscany (*Cut*)
A Prague Supports A Franconia
A Swabia - Rhineland-Westphalia (*Fails*)
A Venice - Trieste
Denmark-Norway:
F Bay of Luebeck - Stettin
F Copenhagen - Baltic Sea
A Lower Saxony - Brandenburg
A Mecklenburg Supports F Bay of Luebeck - Stettin
F Skagerrak - Stockholm(wc) (*Bounce*)
England:
F English Channel Supports F Brest
F Flanders Supports F German Sea - United Provinces
F German Sea - United Provinces
France:
F Brest Supports A Marseilles - Gascony (*Cut*)
A Lombardy - Tuscany (*Fails*)
A Lorraine - Paris
A Marseilles - Gascony (*Bounce*)
A Switzerland Hold
Poland-Lithuania:
A Crimea Supports A White Ruthenia - Voronezh
A Podolia - Moldavia
A Volhynia - Vilna (*Fails*)
A Warsaw - Samogitia
A White Ruthenia - Voronezh
Russia:
A Moscow Supports A Voronezh
A Novgorod - Smolensk
A Vilna Hold
A Voronezh Hold (*Dislodged*)
Spain:
F Cantabrian Sea Supports A Picardy - Brest
A Leon - Gascony (*Bounce*)
A Madrid - Aragon
A Picardy - Brest (*Fails*)
F Seville - Morocco (*Fails*)
F Tyrrhenian Sea - Papal States(wc) (*Fails*)
Sweden:
A Brandenburg - Lower Saxony (*Dislodged*)
A Courland Supports A Vilna
F Gulf of Bothnia Convoys A Riga - Stockholm
A Riga - Stockholm (*Bounce*)
A Stockholm - Scania
Turkey:
A Armenia Supports A White Ruthenia - Voronezh
F Black Sea Supports A Podolia - Moldavia
A Damascus - Azerbaijan
A Hungary - Transylvania
F Ionian Sea - Tunis (*Fails*)
Minor Powers:
F Algiers Supports A Morocco
A Ducal Prussia Hold
A Ireland Hold
A Moldavia Hold (*Destroyed*)
A Morocco Hold
A Persia Supports A Damascus - Azerbaijan
A Rhineland-Westphalia Hold
A Saxony Supports A Lower Saxony - Brandenburg
F Tunis Hold
A Tuscany Supports F Tyrrhenian Sea - Papal States(wc) (*Cut*)
A Ukraine Hold
F United Provinces Hold (*Destroyed*)
RETREATS:
Russia:
A Voronezh
Sweden:
A Brandenburg
ADJUSTMENTS:
Austria:
Build
Denmark-Norway:
Build
Build
England:
Build
Build
France:
Build
Russia:
Build (if A Voronezh has been disbanded)
Spain:
Remove
Remove
Sweden:
Remove (if A Brandenburg has not been already disbanded)
Turkey:
Build
SC OWNERSHIP:
Austria: Bavaria, Prague, Swabia, Trieste, Venice, Vienna.
Denmark-Norway: Christiania, Copenhagen, Holstein, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg.
England: Bristol, London, Scotland.
France: Brest, Lorraine, Marseilles, Paris, Savoy.
Poland-Lithuania: Cracow, Crimea, Transylvania, Vilna, Warsaw.
Russia: Moscow, Novgorod, Turkestan, Voronezh.
Spain: Flanders, Madrid, Naples, Papal States, Portugal, Seville.
Sweden: Abo, Courland, Riga, Stettin, Stockholm.
Turkey: Belgrade, Candia, Constantinople, Damascus, Wallachia.
Algiers: Algiers.
Brandenburg: Brandenburg.
Ireland: Ireland.
Moldavia: Moldavia.
Morocco: Morocco.
Persia: Persia.
Prussia: Ducal Prussia.
Rhineland-Westphalia: Rhineland-Westphalia.
Saxony: Saxony.
Switzerland: Switzerland.
Tunis: Tunis.
Tuscany: Tuscany.
Ukraine: Ukraine.
United Provinces: United Provinces.
PROJECTED SCHEDULE (12 AM CET):
1650 Winter Retreats/Adjustments: 4 June
1651 Spring Moves: 9 June |
