Hi guys,
not only Baron's "College of Cardinals" variant has crusades. As of now, so does our game! Near all Christendom appears to have united to wage holy war against the Turk.
The Sultan's Tartar hordes have once again burnt down Moscow. Their favourite pasttime in past centuries. Yet, the Ottomans have suffered another Lepanto in the Mediterranean and appear to have been caught unprepared to meet the Imperial advance towards the Balkans.
Elsewhere, there may be some hints at cracks in the Christian "Holy League". As the below press suggests, the Czar probably has few friends in Whitehall.
Jim's about to head off on holiday to Africa and has asked me to delay the fall deadline. Summer retreats are still set for Friday, but the fall is then only on 6 August.
Happy dipping!
Charles
HEADLINES:
THE EMPEROR TURNS EAST
DANISH ATTACK ON STOCKHOLM REPULSED
NEW MODEL ARMY MARCHES THROUGH KARELIA
FRENCH ARMEE DU MIDI ENTERS CATALONIA
WARSAW REASSERTS CONTROL OVER DUCAL PRUSSIA THANKS TO SWEDISH AID
SLAVIC POWERS CLASH OVER THE UKRAINE
SPANISH NAVY CELEBRATES FAMOUS NAVAL VICTORY OFF TUNISIAN COAST
SWEDISH HOME DEFENCE HOLDS
SULTAN SUFFERS FIRST SETBACKS IN YEARS
ENGLISH PRESS:
The citizens of Russia have always been wary of their incompetent Czar but the trust has hit an all-time low. They can't understand why so much of their Motherland has been handed over to those heretics in Anatolia. Friends abroad have begun pressuring their governments to do whatever can be done to stop the senseless sacking of the Third Rome. The Czar is under home arrest due to the treachery. Will he survive his captivity?
ORDERS:
Austria:
A Bavaria - Vienna
A Hesse Supports A Lower Saxony
A Lombardy - Papal States
A Saxony - Prague
A Switzerland Hold
A Tyrolia - Trieste
A Venice Supports A Lombardy - Papal States
A Vienna - Hungary
Denmark-Norway:
F Baltic Sea Supports F Skagerrak - Stockholm(wc) (*Cut*)
F Bay of Luebeck Supports A Mecklenburg - Holstein
A Lower Saxony Supports A Mecklenburg - Holstein
A Mecklenburg - Holstein
A Scania Supports F Skagerrak - Stockholm(wc)
F Skagerrak - Stockholm(wc) (*Fails*)
England:
F Atlantic Ocean - Indian Ocean (*Bounce*)
F Christiania - Norwegian Sea
F English Channel - Irish Sea
A Finnmark - Karelia
F German Sea Hold
F Helgoland Bight Supports A United Provinces
A United Provinces Supports A Rhineland-Westphalia
France:
A Dauphine Supports A Savoy
F Gascony - Cantabrian Sea
A Lorraine Supports A Swabia - Rhineland-Westphalia
A Marseilles - Aragon
A Savoy Supports A Dauphine
A Swabia - Rhineland-Westphalia (*Fails*)
Poland-Lithuania:
A Cracow Hold
A Polish Livonia - Vitebsk (*Fails*)
A Vitebsk - White Ruthenia (*Fails*)
A Volhynia - Ukraine (*Bounce*)
A Warsaw - Ducal Prussia
Russia:
A Pskov - Novgorod
A White Ruthenia - Ukraine (*Bounce*)
Spain:
F Barbary Sea - Strait of Sicily
F Cantabrian Sea - Barbary Sea
A Morocco - Sahara
F Sardinia Supports F Barbary Sea - Strait of Sicily
Sweden:
A Courland Supports A Warsaw - Ducal Prussia
F Gulf of Bothnia - Baltic Sea (*Fails*)
A Lapland Supports A Stockholm
A Stockholm Supports A Lapland (*Cut*)
Turkey:
A Armenia - Crimea
A Azerbaijan - Voronezh
F Black Sea - Constantinople
F Constantinople - Ionian Sea
F Damascus(sc) - Indian Ocean (*Bounce*)
F Naples - Tyrrhenian Sea
A Podolia - Volhynia (*Fails*)
F Strait of Sicily - Barbary Sea (*Dislodged*)
A Turkestan - Moscow
A Voronezh - Smolensk
A Wallachia - Moldavia
Minor Powers:
F Algiers Supports F Barbary Sea - Strait of Sicily
A Ducal Prussia Hold (*Destroyed*)
A Rhineland-Westphalia Supports A United Provinces - Lower Saxony (*Void*)
A Tuscany Supports A Savoy - Lombardy (*Void*)
RETREATS:
Turkey:
F Strait of Sicily
SC OWNERSHIP (Winter 1652):
Austria: Bavaria, Papal States, Prague, Saxony, Switzerland, Trieste, Venice, Vienna.
Denmark-Norway: Brandenburg, Copenhagen, Holstein, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg, Stettin.
England: Bristol, Christiania, Flanders, Ireland, London, Scotland, United Provinces.
France: Brest, Lorraine, Marseilles, Paris, Savoy, Swabia.
Poland-Lithuania: Cracow, Crimea, Ukraine, Vilna, Warsaw.
Russia: Moscow, Novgorod.
Spain: Madrid, Morocco, Portugal, Seville.
Sweden: Abo, Courland, Riga, Stockholm.
Turkey: Belgrade, Candia, Constantinople, Damascus, Moldavia, Naples, Persia, Transylvania, Tunis, Turkestan, Voronezh, Wallachia.
Minor Powers: Algiers, Ducal Prussia, Rhineland-Westphalia, Tuscany.
PROJECTED SCHEDULE (6 PM CET):
Summer 1653 Retreats: 25 July
Fall 1653 Moves: 6 August
Winter 1653 Retreats/Adjustments: 8 August
Spring 1654 Moves: 13 August
Summer 1654 Retreats: 15 August
Fall 1654 Moves: 20 August
Winter 1654 Retreats/Adjustments: 22 August
Spring 1655 Moves: 27 August
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