Hallo zusammen,
I'm afraid I managed to mislabel the past season's adjucation. Apparently nobody noticed though - or at least didn't point out that goof-up of mine. Clearly my brain had already moved on to retreats/adjustments in the fall. :p
Of course, now you're getting the real deal!
Apparently it's a rather good time to be a navy contractor. For three grand new battleships were baptised with great fanfare, while army generals seem to have had less success clamouring for more war matériel. Quite a different picture from say Winter 1936, when a mere 9% of new armaments investment went into naval buildup (one fleet, ten armies). Nowadays the admirals have their hands on 60% of naval expenditure, obviously with a mind to catching up with the terrestrial services armaments head-start... I wonder how it's being financed... In Germany, prior to WW1 a tax on champagne was introduced to help finance Tirpitz's naval armaments programme. Yep, drinking sparkling wine was a most patriotic endeavour back then.
We now also have our first draw proposal on the table:
- a British-German-Italian-Polish-Turkish five-way draw
The deadline for voting on it will coincide with the coming spring deadline.
As I trust some of you know, there's now also a second 1936 game afoot (DC330). Dirk's trying his hand at GMing and yours truly has entered the fray championing the Fatherland. Hooray, I actually get to play one of my variants! :) If you want to observe the game, I suggest you drop our Duce a note.
Anyway, I've taken the liberty of adding DC330's players to the observer list of this game. Guys, let me know if you don't want to see what these DC319 blokes are up to!
The Spring 1940 Moves are due NLT 6PM CET on Monday, 14 June. So please send my your prelims no later than Saturday.
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 ADMIRALS GET GREATER PIECE OF THE CAKE
PRESS:
PIC OF THE DAY: Finnish machine gun crew in the Winter War 1939-40.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "War is the province of uncertainty; three-fourths of the things on which action in war is based lie hidden in the fog of uncertainty." -Karl von Clausewitz
RETREATS:
Turkey:
disband A Croatia
A Rumania - Dobruja
Portugal:
disband F Portugal
ADJUSTMENTS:
Italy:
Build A Milan
Poland:
Build A Cracow
Build F Latvia
Turkey:
Build F Izmir
Nationalist_Spain:
Build F Valencia
SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP (Winter 1939):
Britain(6+1-1=6): Belgium, +Brest+, -Edinburgh-, Liverpool, London, Netherlands, Tripoli.
France(2+1-1=2): -Brest-, +Edinburgh+, Paris.
Germany(8): Austria, Berlin, Czechia, Denmark, Hamburg, Hungary, Munich, Sweden.
Italy(5+1=6): Algiers, +Croatia+, Milan, Naples, Rome, Switzerland.
Poland(8+2=10): Cracow, Finland, Gdynia, Latvia, Leningrad, Lithuania, Moscow, +Norway+, +Rumania+, Warsaw.
Turkey(13-2=11): Ankara, Beirut, Bulgaria, -Croatia-, Greece, Iraq, Istanbul, Izmir, Persia, -Rumania-, Serbia, Stalingrad, Suez.
Nationalist Spain(4+1=5): Burgos, Madrid, Marseille, +Portugal+, Valencia.
Neutrals(4-2=2): Egypt, Morocco, -Norway-, -Portugal-.
DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (GMT+1)...not local time)
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 |
