Hi guys,
so another two minor powers bit the dust this year. Those Rhenish bishops and the Kingdom of Portugal are the last ones standing. I wonder which of these will first fall. And what the odds are of these two surviving for another year.
None of you have objected to the scheduling over the holidays. So I take it you're all happy for us to proceed as planned.
Happy Dipping!
Charles
PLAYERS:
AUSTRIA: Samy Elias mailto:zzzurn@gmail.com
DENMARK-NORWAY: Andrew Tanner mailto:damienthryn@gmail.com
ENGLAND: George Atkins mailto:georgewrites@outlook.com
FRANCE: Lynn Mercer POLAND-LITHUANIA: Wladimir Mysonski mailto:wmysonski@gmail.com
RUSSIA: Leif Kjetil Tviberg mailto:Leifkjetil@getmail.no
SPAIN: Ben Bratter mailto:mandrathrax@live.com
SWEDEN: Andras Vaski mailto:avaski@hotmail.com
TURKEY: Douglas Kent mailto:dougray@yahoo.com (abandoned by Bryan Laferriere in Fall 1652)
HEADLINES:
EMPEROR CHRISTENS FLAGSHIP OF FLEDGLING IMPERIAL NAVY
ENGLISH PRESS:
Dateline Brest: French forces have abandoned their group conversations with Austria and started massing around the Bretagne region, near Brest. Apparently, they have learned that the English have installed proper privies and make-shift sewers in the town and are quite excited to see and experience how they work.
As for the natives of Brest, many have already commented on the fact that for the first time in memory, they can smell the ocean and the flowers. Children were amazed to discover that the sky was not permanently filled with clouds of flies, buzzing around the filthy streets like some kind of fog. Citizens have started waving the British flag in public. "Maybe we'll win the hearts and minds of the French through good works, rather than cannon shot and bayonets," opined one naval captain. But there are contrary opinions, too.
"Really, now", quipped one English politician just leaving a pleasure house he had investigated, "I just don't get this here fascination with all things French. After all, if they 'ad not invaded Italy in the 16th century and learned 'ow the Italians cook, they would still be eating food worse tasting than ours. And why can't the bloody Frogs speak their damned words the way they are written!?"
RETREATS:
Poland-Lithuania:
A Warsaw - Cracow
Spain:
A Morocco - Algiers
ADJUSTMENTS:
Austria:
Build F Trieste
England:
Build A London
Russia:
Build A Moscow
Build F Crimea
Spain:
Remove F Tuscany
Sweden:
Build A Riga
Turkey:
Remove A Candia
SC OWNERSHIP (Winter 1653):
Austria (10): Bavaria, Belgrade, Papal States, Prague, Saxony, Swabia, Switzerland, Trieste, Venice, Vienna.
Denmark-Norway (7): Brandenburg, Christiania, Copenhagen, Holstein, Lower Saxony, Stettin, United Provinces.
England (8): Brest, Bristol, Flanders, Ireland, London, Morocco, Scotland, Seville.
France (5): Lorraine, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Savoy.
Poland-Lithuania (5): Cracow, Moldavia, Transylvania, Vilna, Wallachia.
Russia (8): Crimea, Damascus, Moscow, Novgorod, Persia, Turkestan, Ukraine, Voronezh.
Spain (4): Algiers, Naples, Tunis, Tuscany.
Sweden (7): Abo, Courland, Ducal Prussia, Mecklenburg, Riga, Stockholm, Warsaw.
Turkey (2): Candia, Constantinople.
Minor Powers (2): Portugal, Rhineland.
PLANNED SCHEDULE (3 PM GMT):
Spring 1654: 16 December
Summer 1654: 18 December
Fall 1654: 23 December
Winter 1654: 1 January |
