Hallo zusammen,
Emperor Louis V managed to defend his beleaguered throne for another year and indeed has managed to wrest the Electorate of Saxony from the Habsburg pretender to the imperial crown. Yet the Bourbons have suffered defeats elsewhere, for Switzerland was conquered by an Austrian army while the remnants of Cromwell's Scandinavian expeditionary forces descended upon wealthy and papist Flanders. Considering how Cromwell's army has treated the equally Catholic Irish, this is probably not such a good time to be Flemish... This also incidentally mean that the Protestants in the Empire have a new champion for their cause after having had no greater power to turn to after the demise of Sweden.
In the Mediterranean the Sultan lurched forwards into Tunis and the Western Mediterranean after having lately focused only on Italian conquests.
The Polish republic has equally sought to expand her influence westwards and have pushed the Turks out of Greater Poland, liquidated England's erstwhile Scandinavian empire but for a defenceless Finnish enclave and have sailed through the Oresund.
All in all, quite a dynamic picture!
The Winter 1659 Retreats/Adjustments are due Friday, 4 June, 6 PM CET. Note that the number of adjustments for a number of powers depends on how the two pending retreats play out. Remember that adjustments may be made conditional on the preceding retreats.
Liebe Grüsse,
Charles
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PLAYERS:
AUSTRIA: Mike Hoffman
DENMARK-NORWAY: Marc Ellinger (eliminated Winter 1653)
ENGLAND: Harvey Morris
FRANCE: Nigel Phillips
POLAND-LITHUANIA: Jorge Saralegui
RUSSIA: Mikael Johansson (eliminated Winter 1650)
SPAIN: Dirk Knemeyer
SWEDEN: Matthew Kelly (joined Winter 1652, eliminated Fall 1658)
TURKEY: Aidan Slattery
PROCLAMATIONS:
o HOFBURG CELEBRATES SUCCESSFUL HELVETIAN CAMPAIGN
o REMNANTS OF CROMWELL'S SCANDINAVIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES MAKE FOR FLANDERS
o EMPEROR SEIZES SAXONY
o POLAND IS THE NEW MASTER OF SCANDINAVIA
o SPANIARDS RE-ASSERT THEIR CONTROL OVER MARSEILLES
o TUNISIAN EMIRATE ONCE AGAIN FIRMLY UNDER OTTOMAN SUZERAINITY
PRESS: None. :(
ORDERS:
Austria:
A Bavaria Supports A Saxony - Swabia
A Brandenburg Supports F Stettin - Mecklenburg (*Void*)
A Prague - Saxony (*Fails*)
A Saxony - Swabia (*Dislodged*)
A Trieste - Venice
A Tyrolia Supports A Venice - Switzerland
A Venice - Switzerland
England:
A Christiania - Flanders
F Ireland - Scotland (*Fails*)
A London Hold
F North Sea Convoys A Christiania - Flanders
A Yorkshire Supports F Ireland - Scotland
France:
A Brest - Paris (*Bounce*)
F Bristol Supports F Scotland
A Dauphiné Supports A Switzerland - Savoy
F English Channel - London (*Fails*)
A Hesse - Saxony
F Holstein(ec) - Copenhagen
A Lorraine Supports A Swabia
A Lower Saxony Supports A Mecklenburg - Brandenburg
A Marseilles - Paris (*Disbanded*)
A Mecklenburg - Brandenburg (*Fails*)
F Scotland Supports F Bristol (*Cut*)
A Swabia Supports A Hesse - Saxony
A Switzerland - Savoy (*Disbanded*)
Poland-Lithuania:
F Baltic Sea - Scania
A Cracow Supports A Warsaw - Greater Poland
A Lapland Supports A Northern Norway - Christiania
A Northern Norway - Christiania
A Novgorod - Karelia
A Riga - Courland
F Scania - Skagerrak
F Stettin Supports A Brandenburg
F Stockholm(ec) Hold
A Turkestan Hold
A Warsaw - Greater Poland
Spain:
A Aragon Supports A Gascony - Marseilles
F Cantabrian Sea - Brest (*Fails*)
A Gascony - Marseilles
F Gulf of Lion Supports A Savoy
F Morocco Supports F Seville - Cantabrian Sea (*Fails*)
A Savoy Supports A Gascony - Marseilles (*Cut*)
F Seville - Cantabrian Sea (*Fails*)
Turkey:
F Adriatic Sea Hold
F Aegean Sea - Constantinople
A Constantinople - Bulgaria
A Greater Poland Supports A Brandenburg (*Dislodged*)
F Ionian Sea - Tunis
A Lombardy - Switzerland (*Fails*)
F Papal States(wc) Supports A Tuscany
A Persia Hold
F Sardinia Supports F Tyrrhenian Sea - Western Mediterranean
F Sicily - Tyrrhenian Sea
A Silesia - Slovakia
A Tuscany Supports A Lombardy (*Ordered to Move*)
F Tyrrhenian Sea - Western Mediterranean
PENDING RETREATS:
Turkish A Greater Poland can retreat to Prussia, Silesia or OTB.
Austrian A Saxony can retreat to Silesia or OTB.
PENDING ADJUSTMENTS:
Austria:
Build?
England:
Remove
France:
Build
Build
Poland-Lithuania:
Build
Build?
Turkey:
Build
Build?
SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP (Winter 1658):
Austria(7): Bavaria, Brandenburg, Prague, Saxony, Trieste, Venice, Vienna.
England(5): Abo, Christiania, Ireland, London, Stockholm.
France(15): Brest, Bristol, Copenhagen, Flanders, Holstein, Lorraine, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg, Paris, Rhineland-Westphalia, Savoy, Scotland, Swabia, Switzerland, United Provinces.
Poland-Lithuania(11): Courland, Cracow, Moscow, Novgorod, Prussia, Riga, Stettin, Turkestan, Vilna, Voronezh, Warsaw.
Spain(7): Algiers, Madrid, Marseilles, Morocco, Portugal, Seville, Tunis.
Turkey(13): Belgrade, Candia, Constantinople, Crimea, Damascus, Moldavia, Naples, Papal States, Persia, Transylvania, Tuscany, Ukraine, Wallachia.
DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (i.e. GMT+1)...not local time)
o Winter 1659 Retreats/Adjustments: 4 June
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