Hallo zusammen,
I'm afraid Michael just missed the deadline and thus uses up one of his two six-hour grace periods. The only previous instance of a player entering grace period territory was Nigs in Spring 1937, though - now that both the USSR and Republican Spain have been eliminated - he won't be needing any more grace periods anyway. In any case, please get your orders in on time as I'd rather not fret about players missing deadlines.
While I devoted the fall's comment section to the Republican cause, I've now chosen something suitably triumphalist for the Nationalists to mark the occasion of Franco's junta being universally recognised as Spain's government. In game terms this means of course that Spain's (yeah, there's only one Spain now) 3 DPs may now be employed much as those of any other great power since Franco's now joined the big league.
In regards to the adjucation it's perhaps worth mentioning that Turkey could not make use of all her gained SCs due to merely having three build-sites available. So the remaining two are effectively waived, though I've chosen not to mark that in the orders section and won't do so either whenever a similar case might occur.
Don't miss the colourful non-GM press further below. Keep it coming, guys! :)
The Spring 1939 Moves are due NLT 6PM CET on Wednesday, 26 May.
Liebe Grüsse,
Charles
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PLAYERS:
BRITAIN: Michael Thompson
FRANCE: Joao Queiros
GERMANY: Ghostine, Jimmy
ITALY & NAT. SPAIN: Dirk Knemeyer dirk@knemeyer.com
POLAND: Kyle Overby-Lee
SOVIET UNION & REP. SPAIN: Nigel Phillips (eliminated Winter 1938)
TURKEY: Repu Maoni
HEADLINES:
o CLYDE WHARVES REPORT IMPROVED QUARTERLY PROFITS THANKS TO INCREASED ROYAL NAVY ORDERS
o FRENCH COLONIAL ARMY SALUTES THE TRICOLORE ONE LAST TIME BEFORE SURRENDERING
o THE DUCE FAVOURS THE REGIA MARINA
o DEFEATED POLES FALL BACK INTO UKRAINIAN STEPPES
o RICKETY TURKISH ARMS INDUSTRY CANNOT KEEP UP WITH ARMED FORCES EXPANSION PLANS
o RED ARMY MELTS AWAY LIKE SNOW IN SPRINGTIME
o CADIZ SQUADRON ADDED TO RESURGENT NAVAL ARMADA
o THE CHATTERING CLASSES DEBATE THE DEMISE OF THE SPANISH REPUBLIC
PRESS:
FROM TURKEY:
New Government - New Turkey?
Last week we followed the forming of the new Government by Celal Bayar. And Today the new president of Turkey İsmet İnönü made a speech concerning the new direction for the Turkish Republic. The biggest part of the address was concerned with the expansion of the Turkish borders. Indeed the last movements were quite extraordinarily vast and aggressive. This let to the rise of the questions about friendship with other nations. To this the second president gave his answer: |Let the nations jealous of our might be our enemies. We cannot trust somebody who tries to judge our Army before our intent. We are better served with destroying, whose who try to count our strength. We will let them appreciate our strength in the most direct way possible. Let these, who stand in our way tremble with fear. These who are our true friends will accept us the way we are." The Masses converged in Ankara before the Çankaya Köşkü cheered and drowned out the more cautious voices, like the concerns of Mehmet Vehib Kaçi: |I don't think that, even the latest gains, Turkey can fight and win the war on all sides. İnönü is making enemies left and right. This is no way to fight a war. We will probably loose badly. I'd say even before next year the gains will be undone and the revolution will be brewing across the Republic." For the moment the cheering still prevails, but should the armies be defeated, than the mood will change abruptly and maybe the president will regret his decisions.
November 18, 1938.
PIC OF THE DAY: "For Spain - a great and free one.", Nationalist propaganda poster. Head and shoulders of a soldier wearing the Nationalist Falangist blue shirt and holding a Spanish flag aloft. His helmet casts a shadow over his face as he looks up. The yoke and arrows emblem of the Falange Española de las JONS [Spanish Fascist Party] is clearly seen on the flag and also centre right of image.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Communists should be crushed like worms." - Gen. Francisco Franco
RETREATS:
France:
disband A Tripoli
Poland:
A Rumania - Ukraine
Republican_Spain:
disband A Valencia
ADJUSTMENTS:
Britain:
Build F Edinburgh
Germany:
Build F Berlin
Build A Hamburg
Italy:
Build F Naples
Poland:
Build A Warsaw
Build A Latvia
Turkey:
Build A Istanbul
Build A Ankara
Build F Izmir
USSR:
Remove A Kurdistan
Remove A Kazakhstan
Remove A Georgia
Remove A Siberia
Remove A Archangel
Nationalist_Spain:
Build F Madrid
SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP (Winter 1938):
Britain(5+1=6): +Belgium+, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London, Netherlands, Tripoli.
France(3-1=2): -Beirut-, Brest, Paris.
Germany(6+2=8): Austria, Berlin, Czechia, Denmark, Hamburg, +Hungary+, Munich, +Sweden+.
Italy(4+1=5): Algiers, Milan, Naples, Rome, +Switzerland+.
Poland(6+3-1=8): Cracow, +Finland+, Gdynia, Latvia, +Leningrad+, Lithuania, +Moscow+, Rumania-, Warsaw.
Turkey(8+5=13): Ankara, +Beirut+, Bulgaria, +Croatia+, Greece, Iraq, Istanbul, Izmir, +Persia+, +Rumania+, Serbia, +Stalingrad+, Suez.
USSR(5-5=0): -Finland-, -Leningrad-, -Moscow-, -Persia-, -Stalingrad-.
Nationalist Spain(3+1=4): Burgos, Madrid, Marseille, +Valencia+.
Republican Spain(1-1=0): -Valencia-.
Neutrals(9-5=4): -Belgium-, -Croatia- (Yug.), Egypt, -Hungary-, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, -Sweden-, -Switzerland-.
DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (GMT+1)...not local time)
o Spring 1939 Moves: (29) 31 May
o Summer 1939 Retreats: 2 June
o Fall 1939 Moves: (5) 7 June
o Winter 1939 Retreats/Adjustments: 9 June
o Spring 1940 Moves: (12) 14 June
o Summer 1940 Retreats: 16 June
o Fall 1940 Moves: (19) 21 June
o Winter 1940 Retreats/Adjustments: 23 June
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