Produced by Jim Burgess, 664 Smith Street, Providence, RI 02908-4327 USA, (401)351-0287
(Sometimes I Feel Like) FLETCHER CHRISTIAN: 1999Cgh013, Colonia VIIb Diplomacy
THE DUE DATE FOR SUMMER 1751 IS JULY 10TH, 1999
THE DUE DATE FOR FALL 1751 IS JULY 31ST, 1999
Spring 1751
AUSTRIA (Prosnitz): a budapest-VIENNA, a vienna-BAVARIA, a surinam-BELEM, f trieste-ADRIATIC, f tahiti-SOUTH PACIFIC.
CHINA (Acheson): a peking-WUHAN, a wuhan-TIBET, a xian-CHINGHAI, f amoy-EAST CHINA SEA.
ENGLAND (Power): a ecuador-PERU, a nigeria-KAMERON, f malaya-SIAM, f edinburgh-NORTH SEA, f london-IRISH SEA.
FRANCE (Gamble): a paris-TOULON, f toulon-LIGURIAN SEA, a dakar-SAHARA, a quebec-MASSACHUSETTS, a bordeaux-LEON.
NETHERLANDS (Morris): a antwerp-HELGOLAND, a florida-LOUISIANA, a angola-GABON, f hague-HAMBURG(WC), f melbourne-CORAL SEA.
OTTOMAN (Johnson): a ismir-BAGHDAD, a jerusalem-SUEZ, a baghdad-PERSIA, f istanbul-BULGARIA(SC), f hawaii-CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN.
PORTUGAL (Stimmel): a lagos-LISBON, a alaska-VANCOUVER, a goa-NIZAM, a brazil-ARGENTINA, f lisbon-CANARIES.
RUSSIA (Rauterberg): a moscow-KIEV, a kiev-LITHUANIA, a omsk-MONGOLIA, a cape colony-NATAL, f st.pete(sc)-BALTIC SEA, f vladivostok-KOREA.
SPAIN (Gardner): a madrid-VALENCIA, a mexico-TEXAS, a somalia-ETHIOPIA, f valencia-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA, f manila-PHILIPPINE SEA.
Addresses of the Participants
AUSTRIA: Gene Prosnitz, 2600 Netherland Ave., Apt. 1116, Riverdale, NY 10463, (718) 601-8131 ($5)
CHINA: Bob Acheson, 304-556 Laurier Ave., Ottawa, ONTARIO K1R 7X2, CANADA ($5) racheson at intranet.ca
ENGLAND: John Power, 2021 Westcreek Lane, #20, Houston, TX 77027 ($5) jrpower at bechtel.com
FRANCE: Terry Gamble, 201 Kenney Ave., Barksdale AFB, LA 71110 ($5) velobus at shreve.net
NETHERLANDS: Scott Morris, 12110 Shelbyville Rd., Louisville, KY 40243, (502) 893-8260 ($5) Scottm221 at aol.com
OTTOMAN: Stan Johnson, 12036 S. Potomac St., Phoenix, AZ 85044, (602) 589-0034 ($5)
PORTUGAL: Robert Stimmel, Apt. #57, Casa de Sherry Apts., 2462 North Sycamore Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85712-2541, (520) 326-8369 ($5)
RUSSIA: Paul Rauterberg, 3116 W. American Dr., Greenfield, WI 53221, (414) 281-2339 (E-Mail) prosit at execpc.com
SPAIN: Heath Gardner, 3017 Mayview Road, Raleigh, NC 27607 ($5) dweezil at hempseed.com or bassoon at mindspring.com
Game Notes:
1) Some more reminders that the small maps that are floating around incorrectly have IFNI and TAUREG touching, but really SAHARA should be touching MOROCCO, making it impossible for IFNI and TAUREG to touch. I doubt I blew any adjudications this time, since no one challenged anyone else directly, but please check. I think I got all of the coasts correct, but try to remember to mark them in your orders.
2) Thanks for the explosion of press! It is a bit surprising, but welcome.
3) Since many of you were in Doug Kent's game, I should note that Michael Lowrey has received information from Doug Kent and is preparing to restart the game, probably with himself as GM. You should hear from Michael in the near future.
Press:
(O-A): Have no fear, have no fear, you will be killed right away.
(MADRID - PARIS): You never answered my e-mail. Perhaps there's an ISP problem or something? When you get this, please drop me a line, we need to talk.
(VERSAILLES): With a strong fascist element and government to the north of France and the allied tyrants to the south, the fate of France's monarchy is in peril. To be able to build a large army and navy King Nicolas has decided to send as many troops abroad and recruit more troops from the local populations. French troops are on the move all across the globe. The primary goal of the French is to establish a strong foothold and defense in both the New World and on the Black Continent. After communities are started and the economy improves then French culture will be introduced to the native population. Many of the tribes around Quebec are already adapting to the French Language. The natives of the Cote d'or region are a bit more stubborn about change.
(LONDON ENQUIRER): The Saxons Uniting the Countries of Mother Earth party won parliamentary elections yesterday and announced that they would begin immediately their policy of uniting the world under English rule. "It's become obvious to the English people that no one else is responsible enough to rule themselves" stated new PM Richard Longfellow. "Look at the travesty in the Netherlands. Sure, I'd like to party with Mr. Prink, but to let him run a country ..."
(MADRID - LISBON: I have avoided the "No-Man's-Land" of central Iberia, as we discussed. Let's keep talking about how to further stabilize this region. ((Looks like someone forgot to speak to France....))
(MONTREAL): The Marquis Marcel LaSalle and his partner Louis Marceau are making plans to explore the interior of Neuvaux France and Establish trade routes and colonies all along the great LaSalle river that runs from the thousand Lakes Region south to the Gulf of Mexico. It has been proposed to name the Missouri wilderness after both partners. Since the River that borders the region bears LaSalle's name, the new wilderness may become the Great Marcel - Marceau wilderness, but so far none of the other world powers will change their maps to the new name. They won't even discuss it, it is not a preposterous idea but so far the topic is a mute point.
(MOSCOW to PEKING): See? There are greener pastures out there, and they're a LOT warmer, too!
(KIEV to OTTOMAN): Best to shoot for the "sure things" first, and pick on the nearest big guy thereafter. Remember, you're getting lots bigger just as fast as they are....
(MADRID - VIENNA): As much as I would like to have Naples, I may as well just let you take it. I'm such a nice guy.
(CAPE TOWN): A safari to the Natal was launched recently, loaded primarily with tubs of months-old caviar. The aim is to dump these into the Somali Sea, attracting vast numbers of great white sharks to the area. Hopefully, this will discourage any would-be sailors from Spanish Somalia from venturing into that space (and will reassure those fellows that WE have no ambitions there either)!
(MONGOLIA): Plans were finalized today to create a vast cemetery in the region known as Manchuria. If anyone tries to stop us from taking over that area, the burial grounds will fill up all the sooner....
(NETHERLANDS): Sir Earl Prink announces that he is frustrated that he cannot get an email through to the English Prime Minister. "we wish PIECE! but we can't get our last minutes fears through to the English! Our move in Africa is defensive."
Prink also announces that he agrees with the Ottoman ambassador and wishes to talk further.
The NIKE party has agreed to a joint operation with the Russians. It is our fondest hope that whatever Prink signed on that night filled with vodka and loose woman was in the best interests of the Netherlands. Prink's memory is hazy but he remembers seeing an Austrian behind the curtain. He hopes it was just an alcohol induced vision.
(THE KREMLIN): In the hope of reaching out to his beloved subjects throughout the expanse of Mother Russia, the Tsar has granted a one-time right for a free press to be created; this is for the sole purpose of an interview with Tsar Paul Romanov on whatever topics seem to interest the Russian people.
(THE INTERVIEW):
Q. Greetings, oh Holy Tsar! For the sake of this interview, may I call you Paul?
A. My wife the Empress of All the Russias does not call me "Paul." You will content yourself with the simple honorific "My Lord". Remember that I will not countenance impertinence: with a word, I can have you cheerfully strangled.
Q. As you will, my Lord. The world outside of the borders of Russia seems to be an increasingly turbulent place. What is your view of the situation?
A. Most of the trouble seems to arise in the rivalries of petty States and Principalities. They fight over the same turf, generation after generation. In order to bring peace to those areas, it is necessary for larger Empires to occupy them and to keep a watchful eye on the locals. If they are to continue slaughtering one another, it must be under the auspices of our mandates.
Q. Unprecedented wisdom, my lord! Where would this process be initiated?
A. In areas adjacent to the Russian Empire, of course. It is our fervent wish to prevent the spillover of those local squabbles into our own land; we have sufficient petty jealousies of our own to contend with.
Q. The people of Russia are united in their curiosity about your daughter in law, Catherine of Holstein. What can you tell us about her?
A. The sow is appropriately from a principality of a cow's name; many contend that she is attempting to mate with cows and horses to satisfy her obsession with the size of their members. Perhaps that accounts for her many miscarriages and false pregnancies.
To be continued....