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
DELAYED!! - THE DUE DATE FOR SPRING 1759 IS MARCH 16TH, 2002
Pre-Spring 1759
AUSTRIA (Prosnitz): a SWISSE, f BISMARCK SEA, f NAPLES, a BURGUNDY, a BULGARIA, a AMAZON, a ISTANBUL, f MELBOURNE, f IONIAN SEA, a BOLIVIA, a FLANDERS, a GREECE, f SAMOA, a RHINE, f EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA, f TASMAN SEA, a SAVOY, f WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA, f TAHITI.
CHINA (Acheson): f PEKING, f AMOY, f YELLOW SEA, f EAST CHINA SEA, a CHINGHAI, a SINKIANG, f SOUTH CHINA SEA, f SUBIC BAY, f MALAYA, a MAHRATTA, a KASMIR, f VLADIVOSTOK, a SIAM, f WEST PACIFIC OCEAN, a BURMA, a BORNEO, a BENGAL, a MONGOLIA, f JAPAN.
ENGLAND (Power): a BRAZIL, f NORTH SEA, f NORWEGIAN SEA, a MANAUS, a SUMATRA, f MID-ATLANTIC OCEAN, a ASHANTI, f AZORES, f ANDAMAN SEA, f SURINAM, f VENEZUELA, f ONTARIO, f NEW ZEALAND, a MOROCCO, a ANTWERP, a GABON, a RICEFE, f HUDSON BAY, f BAHIA, f NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, f PATAGONIA, a CONGO, a ARGENTINA, a GHANA, f MALAY SEA, f ENGLISH CHANNEL, f BELEM.
OTTOMAN (Schleinkofer): a BAGHDAD, f PERSIAN GULF, a ARABIA, f IZMIR, a PERSIA.
RUSSIA (Rauterberg): f GOA, a CAPE COLONY, a ANGOLA, f BAY OF BENGAL, f SOMALI SEA, f BARENTS SEA, f CRIMEA, a KIEV, f NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, f KHANDESH, a CAUCASUS, a HAWAII, f ARABIAN SEA, f SE ATLANTIC OCEAN, f OREGON, a LITHUANIA, a ROMANIA, a DENMARK, f JAVA, f VANCOUVER, f PUNJAB, f NORWAY, a URAL, a AFGHANISTAN, a HANOVER, a HAGUE, a KATANGA, f ALASKA.
SPAIN (Partridge): f MANILA, f MEXICO(WC), f SOMALIA, f GULF OF CALIFORNIA, f CALIFORNIA, f GULF OF MEXICO, f TOULON, f PHILIPPINE SEA, a HUELVA, a MANITOBA, a PANAMA, f GIBRALTAR, a TAUREG, f KOREA, f CARIBBEAN SEA, f TAIWAN, f YEMEN, a ARAGON, a BORDEAUX, f GULF OF ADEN, f SOLOMON SEA, a NUMIDIA, f GULF OF PANAMA, a EGYPT, f CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN, f SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN, a LEON, f ALGERIA, f CORAL SEA, a KENYA, a COLOMBIA, a FEZAN, a TUNIS, a MISSOURI, a LIBYA, f VALENCIA, f TARAWA.
Supply Center Chart
AUSTRIA (Prosnitz): (has 19)
BUD, VIE, TRI, TAH, pps, sav, ecu, peru, gre, sam, bol, bul, par, MEL, NAP,
fij, ist, bav, ven
CHINA (Acheson): (has 19)
PEK, WUH, XIA, AMO, tib, NAN, sin, jap, manch, mon, nep, mah, sia, bur, cam,
ben, vla, MLA, bor
ENGLAND (Power): (has 27)
NIG, EDI, LON, kam, ire, gab, sum, con, ant, uga, arg, togo, SUR, QUE, gha,
bel, vol, bah, BRA, DAK, vza, ric, ont, ifn, azo, nwz, mor
OTTOMAN (Schleinkofer): (has 5)
IZM, BAG, oms, jer, persia
RUSSIA (Rauterberg): (has 28)
MOS, KIE, CAP, STP, CRI, pol, moz, swe, mal, zam, den, rom, han, die, nwy, GOA,
nat, niz, hag, cey, ANG, ALA, kha, van, ore, HAW, afg, jav
SPAIN (Partridge): (has 37)
MAD, MEX, SOM, VAL, MANILA, cal, tun, rab, eth, hon, tex, nwg, ken, lis, lag,
FLO, lou, iwo, num, tau, ohi, vir, gua, tar, tim, cub, tai, bdx, sud, wak, mas,
manit, tou, fez, egy, yem, kor, col
Neutral: none
(Total=136)
Addresses of the Participants
AUSTRIA: Gene Prosnitz, 2600 Netherland Ave., Apt. 1116, Riverdale, NY 10463, (718) 601-8131 ($5) ProsnitzE at aol.com
CHINA: Bob Acheson, 807-556 Laurier Ave., Ottawa, ONTARIO K1R 7X2, CANADA ($5) racheson at magma.ca
ENGLAND: John Power, 18 Tilton Court, Baltimore, MD 21236, (410) 933-8827 ($4) natjohn2 at home.com or jrpower at bechtel.com
FRANCE: Hank Alme, 506 Paige Loop, Los Alamos, NM 87544 almehj at swcp.com
OTTOMAN: Art Schleinkofer, 3120 Holly Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154-1708 Krolart at aol.com
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) trauterberg at wi.rr.com
SPAIN: Dave Partridge, 15 Woodland Drive, Brookline, NH 03033 rebhuhn at rocketmail.com
Game Notes:
1) See elsewhere for Bob Acheson's comment, but with both Bob and Gene being ill this month, I thought a delay was advisable. I hope Gene will be able to continue, if not, I remind people that I need standbys for this game desperately!!! See my exchange with Gene below....
Press:
(FOR PUBLICATION FROM GENE PROSNITZ):
Hi Jim,
To Dave, Paul, and Jim: Thanks for the good wishes re. my health. I had a brain tumor, the surgeon said he could not remove everything. Now they have to do radiation treatment, starting next week. That's done by applying the radiation to the head.
Recovery from the surgery is tough. It's difficult to walk without being unsteady and staggering... Gene Prosnitz
((The magic of how those radiation machines work is one of the most brilliant in the history of medicine. In the early days, they worked like the X-Ray machine in the Dentist's office with a single beam and they basically did huge damage since they could not be focused. Then, a brilliant young doctor figured out that if you built a circular device that focused many, many low power beams on the center of the circle, you could get a huge amount of focused energy there without doing damage elsewhere. Good luck. I've heard people tell that story in ways that make you cry. Here is one of those versions, my favorite because of the potential Diplomacy context....
Here is the challenge. You have machine that can deliver radiation via an intense beam through the skin to destroy cancerous tumors in underlying organs and tissues. The overlying skin and normal surrounding tissues are much more sensitive to radiation than the tumor such that small doses of radiation can damage the skin but will not destroy the tumor. If one were to deliver the necessary dose of radiation to eradicate the tumor, one would also seriously damage the overlying skin in the path of the beam. So how would you deliver enough radiation to eradicate a cancerous tumor located below the skin (say in the abdomen) without harming the normal overlying skin and tissue directly in the path of the radiation beam?
This challenge was posed to college students who had little or no medical knowledge and no knowledge of radiation therapy. For the most part, they all failed to come up with the solution when left to struggle on their own to develop a solution to the problem. In a second group of comparable students, they were first provided with a seemingly context-free story about a battle over a kingdom. The kingdom under siege was an important center of commerce and trade situated at the center or hub of a number of roads that radiated out from the city like spokes from a wheel (all roads led to this great kingdom). These centripetally radiating roads were the only access to the kingdom. The roads were defended to varying degrees by an army that could never be sure of the direction of an attack. The strategy of the defenders was to mobilize and concentrate their a rmed forces on a particular road at the first sign of attack (assuming that the attacker was concentrating its full force against the kingdom from one direction). To make things even more challenging, the defenders also did not have a real good way to determine the size of the attacking force. But due to the lay of the land and the way the narrow roads choke off the forward charge of attackers, it would be difficult for even a larger more powerful attacking force to overpower a defending force concentrated on one road. The question posed to the students was what strategies would you consider as leader of the attacking army to overpower the kingdom? What would you do?
Most students see an advantage in distributing their force to attack down each and every road leading into the city. The defenders cannot adequately defend all roads simultaneously. In response to the attack, the defenders will first concentrate most of their forces on one road-assuming this to be the major assault. The defenders will have a difficult time estimating the concentration of the attacking force and the battle over the single road that they decide to defend with the bulk of their force will be pretty much a stalemate. At the same time, smaller attacking forces are sure to make their way down less defended or undefended roads, quickly assembling a gathering army (coming all kinds of directions) at the very center of the kingdom. By distributing the attacking force down a number of roads all at once, the aggressor has ensured the best chance of delivering a concentrated fighting force directly into the center of the kingdom.
What do you figure happened when these students (primed with this seemingly context-free metaphor) were handed the radiation therapy problem? The majority figured out a way to solve the problem-deliver small doses of radiation (less than the amount that would damage the overlying skin) centripetally from a number of directions such that the accumulating radiation dose arriving at the tumor (center of the kingdom) is strong enough to destroy the tumor.))