CivDiplomacy in Moderation..

[TrailblazingScot]

You did all get the e-mail I sent out?

 

[Richard III]

No, I didn't!

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Newsflash:

Italians stop the rot!

German forces collapse to the combined might of Russia and France!

Bulgarian grave-diggers mourn the end of the golden age of grave-digging as the Turks and Austrians avoid massacuring each other!





Fall 1908:

France:

F Yorkshire - London
F English Channel supports F Yorkshire - London
F Holland - Kiel
A Belgium - Holland
A Ruhr - Munich
A Burgundy supports A Ruhr - Munich
A Marseilles - Gascony

Austria:

A(Tus)-Rom
A(Rum)-Bul
F(Alb)-Ion
A(Ser) S A(Rum)-Bul
A(Bud) - Rum

Russia:

A:WAR-SIL
A:MOS-WAR
A:UKR sup SEV
A:SEV hold
F:NOR-SWE

Italy:

F Aegean Sea S F Greece
F Greece S F Aegean Sea
A Rome H

Germany:

A Den S A Kiel
A Kiel S A Mun
A Mun S A Kiel
A Lvp -> Yor
A ven -> Pie
F Ska -> Nth
F Edi S F Ska -> Nth
F Lon holds

Turkey: GET THE MOVES IN ON TIME!

A Arm holds
A Bul Holds
F Con S A Bul
F Bla S A Bul


Map attached: waiting for German retreat/disband orders.

No reason not to send in your build orders (to all others).

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Retreats: Autumn 1908

A Munich retreats to Berlin
F London retreats to Wales


Therefore Winter 1908 builds/disbands:

Germany: 2 disbands
France: 2 builds
Russia: 1 build
Austria: no change
Italy: 1 build
Turkey: no change


DEADLINE: Noon (whatever your local time) on Monday the 12th of August 2002.

That includes you SNEFIX

 

[Magnus]

Carolus Magnus was meeting with his ministers and informing them of results on the battlefieds, he spoke of the amphibious assault of Holland and the sack of London, the reversal in the North at Edinburgh, and the dramatic victory at Munich. And on the subject of Munich, there came a question from the Minister of wine:

"Your highness, I seem to remember many years ago, before this conflagration became so enormous, that a certain rash Corporal of yours led and ill-advised sortie across the Rhine, which was repulsed by the German border patrol, and clearly gave direct impetus to the dual invasion of France from the combined might of England and Germany which nearly destroyed our country, although in an ironic historical twist, eventually led to France being where she is today, among the most powerful and glorious nations of Europe."

"Ahhh yes." replied the King "He was promoted to General and led the cavalry charge through the Black Forest that won the battle back in October. I told him to get it right this time."

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Newsflash:
Will Russia rescue or ravish Germany?
Will Venice be restored to Italian rule?
Will the French be driven out of London?
Will I be rich?
Will I be famous?

We'll find out in Spring 1909


Winter 1908

Russia: builds F St.Petersburg WEST Coast

France: builds F Marseilles and F Brest

Germany: disbands A Pie and F Edi

Italy: builds F Naples


Deadline: 1 pm Sunday at your local time

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Some friendly abuse:

Snefix and Toasty are allergic to meeting deadlines...

Magnus is starting to deviate from abbreviations as realpolitik knows them: it is "ruh" for Ruhr not "RUM" as you did give me in one order AND it is "lyo" not "GOL" for the "Gulf of Lyon".

Russia, supporting Prussia from Silesia is not the same as supporting a move by your army Warsaw to Prussia.

Germany...you ordered 2 supports for your army in Kiel, which you moved thus wasting all the support moves.

P.S please C.C your diplomacy to me...

Abuse ends


Your despised GM had internet problems which had the deadline been meant wouldn't have slowed the game down...but I'm back now with a 50 times faster connection


Newsflash:


Turkey and Austria appear to have arranged a cease-fire...

Italian and Austrian forces fail to avoid each other in a war of desperate maneouver.

Germany retakes London after the French abandon it to engage in a large naval engagement near dogger bank.


Spring 1908


Russia:
f:swe-nor
f:stp-fin
a:sil sup pru
a:war-pru
a:ukr sup sev
a:sev h

Italy:
F NAPLES-TYRRHENIAN SEA
F GREECE-IONIAN SEA
F AEGEAN SEA-GREECE
A ROME-VENICE

France:
F MAR - GOL
A GAS - MAR
F BRE - MAO
F LON - NTH
F ENG supports F LON - NTH
F HOL supports F LON - NTH
A BEL - RUM
A BUR supports A BEL - RUH
A MUN - KIE

Germany:
A Den S A Kiel
A Kiel ->Holland
F Nth S A Kiel -> Holland
F Wal -> Lon
A Yor S F Wal -> Lon
A Ber S A Kiel

Austria:
F(Ion) - Tys
A(Ser) - Alb
A(Bud) - Ser
A(Tus) - Ven
A(Rum) H

Turkey:
A Arm - Smy
F Bla - Arm
F Con Holds
A Bul Holds

 

[TrailblazingScot]

1 retreat needed:

The German North Sea fleet...it can retreat to Heligoland, Skagean, Edinburgh, Belgium or the Norweigan Sea.


Can I get that in as soon as possible...


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[TrailblazingScot]

MAP POST PROPERLY DAMMIT!!!




It didn't post properly

 

[TrailblazingScot]

One last attempt...I e-mailed it out to the players.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

NEWSFLASH!

The German fatherland falls...German armies flee to the East to surrender to the tender mercies of the Russian Horde rather than surrender to the French!



The Italians reclaim Venice from the German Empire as the Austrians fail to protect their erstwhile allies.

In Bulgaria bored Turkish forces enjoy watching a battle between Italians and Austria, which ended up in a disappointing draw.

Bone-headed Russian General Slobodoba continues to send frontal assaults upon Armenia which fail to make any head-way as always!



Russian orders:
Aru - Ber
A:Sil support Aru to Ber
A:Ukr - Sev
A:Sev - Arm
F:Fin - Swe
F:Nor support F:Fin to Swe

France:
F NTH - DEN
A RUH - KIE
A MUN S A RUH - KIE
F HOL S A RUH - KIE
A BUR S A MUN HOLD
A MAR - PIE
F LYO S A MAR - PIE
F ENG - LON
F MAO HOLD

Germany:
A Berlin to Munich
A Kiel S A Berlin to Munich
A Den S A Kiel
A York S F Lon
F Lon Hold
F Edi Hold

Austria:
A(Ser) - Bul
A(Rum) S A(Ser)-Bul
F(Ion) - Tun
A(Alb) - Ser
A(Tus) - Rom

Italy:
F NAP-ROM
A ROM-VEN
F GRE-BUL/sc
F AEG S F GRE-BUL/sc

Turkey: no moves recorded. Not waiting any longer.


See map for results:


Winter builds/disbands:

Germany: no change
France: no change
Italy: no change
Austria: build 1
Turkey: no change
Russia: build 1 (remember to indicate coast if a fleet in St.Pete)

SP count: highest to lowest

France = 9
Russia = 7
Austria = 6
Germany = 4
Italy = 4
Turkey = 4


Austria and Russia have 48 hours to get their builds in.

Snefix...please give in orders EVEN if it is merely of mutual support.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Winter 1909

Austria:
Build F(Tri)

Russia:
Build F (North Coast St.Petersburg)


Players are asked to make the necessary adjustments and have been e-mailed the updated realpolitik file...



THE DEADLINE FOR SPRING 1910 MOVES IS THIS WEDNESDAY AT 8 PM YOUR LOCAL TIME.

I will be doing NMR from now on if deadline missed by even a second -unless a request is made for an extention 24 hours before.

This game will end in Winter 1914.

Message ends

 

[Magnus]

Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
This game will end in Winter 1914.

So what happens after 1914? I doubt anybody will be even close to 18 centres by then, so will the country with the most centres be declared the winner, or will the result be a 'Draw Including All Survivors'?

 

[TrailblazingScot]

I am sure I'll think of something

 

[Flatlander Fox]

He's already got a plan it seems!

 

[TrailblazingScot]

If I was to setup a game to GM again I would set-out some timelimit to the game.

The reason being to give those players whose nations can't win a reason to fight on -survival. In an open-ended game they face near certain destruction and have little to fight for and once any desire to fight goes then the game loses interest and these players drop-out.

Not everyone fights no matter what the situation is

 

[Magnus]

Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
Not everyone fights no matter what the situation is

Oh I do! I do what I can with whatever I have, hopeless or not, if I am breathing I am scheming!

You should still list victory conditions as soon as possible, nobody wants to end a game on a GM's whim.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Spring 1910: Newsflash

Admist the chaos in Italy the French armies focus on an indirect maneouver leading them through the Alps to the heart of the Austrian Empire!

Commander of Daneland is heard to mutter: roll up this map we'll not be needing it for the next 10 years!

In a season where news is merely a response to French action it can be said that the defense of London has been compromised and the Austrians face a dilemma concerning Tunis.

In the East there is peace and calm but how long can they sit idle whilst the rest of Europe is becoming a colony of the eternal French Empire?

Spring 1910: moves

Austria:
A(Tus) - Ven
F(Tri) - Adr
A(Alb) S A(Ser) - Gre
A(Rum) S A(Bul) H
F(Tun) - Tys

Germany:
A Den holds
F Edi to Nth
A Yor S F Lon
F Lon Hold

Italy
A VEN S A NAP-ROM
A NAP-ROM
F AEG S F GRE
F GRE H

France
A KIE S A MUN
A MUN S A PIE - TRL
A BUR S A MUN
A PIE - TRL
F NTH S F MAO - ENG
F ENG - WAL
F MAO - ENG
F HOL S F NTH
F LYO - WES


No retreats required...the deadline for moves for the fall of 1910 is 9 pm Wednesday GMT + 8 hours.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

My apologies concerning the delay of Autumn 1910...I was hoping to receive some orders from Italy. It t'was not to be so we have mutual support as there iis no ambiguity about support orders. A bit of a blow to Austria except to say that there attack was a bit of a shot in the dark.


Another thing to note...I'd prefer e-mail as regarding this game to be sent to my hotmail account: kittenOFchaos@hotmail.com

I am giving up AOL and already have uninstalled it so I am just using their remote e-mail server at present.


Newsflash!

Tunis, Rumania and Vienna are lost by the Austrians to French and Russian forces! Speculation exists as to whether they were gambling on the inactivity of the Russians and Turk and the activity of the Italians...well, 1 out of 3 isn't bad!

Cold comfort for Austria would be that Turkish forces merely watched as the Austrian army left Serbia and marched to Trieste!

The Germans exiled in Denmark and Britain will also be dis-heartened this Christmas as London fell to French marines...
Making a last stand in the tunnels of the Underground German troopers were expelled as noxious gas was pumped in! Germany protests most vigourously that this is against the Geneva Convention...whilst the French claim it is merely the by-products of a pungent new garlic soup they've invented.


Moves Autumn 1910

Russia:

f@nor-skag
f@stp-nor
f@swe sup f@stp-nor
a@ukr-rum
a@sev sup a@ukr - rum
a@ber sup a@sil
a@sil sup a@ber

Austria:

F(Adr) C A(Alb)-Apu
A(Alb)-Apu
A(Tun)-Rom
F(Tys) S A(Tun)-Rom
A(Ser)-Tri
A(Rum) H

France:

A Burgundy Supports A Munich
F English Channel Supports F North Sea - London
F Holland Supports A Kiel
A Kiel Supports A Munich
A Munich Supports A Kiel
F North Sea - London
A Tyrolia - Vienna
F Wales Supports F North Sea - London
F Western Mediterranean - Tunis

Turkey:

F Con S A Bul
A Bul S F Con
A Smy S F Con
F Arm Stands

Germany:

A Yor S F Lon
F Lon Hold
F Edi to North Sea

Italy: no moves recorded

Mutual Support
F Gre S F Aeg
F Aeg S F Gre
A Ven S F Rom
F Rom Stands



Only one retreat: the Austrian Army in Rumania. Options are Galicia, Serbia or Budapest! Nathan can I get that retreat in as soon as possible.


Winter builds/disbands will be as follows:

Austria: disband 3
Russia: build 1
France: build 3

When you can managed to rouse yourself to get orders in I'll process them

 

[Richard III]

Well, I owe France a free visit to the patisserie! I thought I was in time for that move, wasn't, and what difference did it make!!!

I will be back in time to organize myself for the Spring move. Oh, and "no disbands."

Proof that Italians fight better when they stand still...

Richard III of Italy