Moin Moin!

Now, our first year is over. Perhaps this is a good point to mention a number of changes I am considering (in descending likelihood of them being implemented):

- SICILY: A new space adjacent to Naples, the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian.
- ATLANTIC SEABOARD WATERS: Can't think of any better name right now. This would be the Eastern half of an MAO split down the middle, from Ireland straight down to Morocco.
- NORTH SEA/FLANDERS, ENGLISH CHANNEL/UNITED PROVINCES: All these spaces would be made adjacent (two red arrows indicating this).
- SAXONY/BAVARIA: Those two spaces would touch rather than Swabia and Prague meeting another.
- INCREASE OF VICTORY CRITERION TO 20 SCs: Right now not a likely change. But I've always been wondering what the best victory threshold is.

None of these changes I'm contemplating have anything to do with what's going on in our game. Just the general ideas kicking around my head. I'd welcome any thoughts you might have regarding these matters (or have other possibly desirable changes that may occur to you).

Our 1650 Spring Moves deadline is on Wednesday, 15 July. Please make sure I have your preliminary orders by late Sunday. Keeps me from bugging you thereafter.

Liebe Grüsse,

Charles

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PLAYERS:
AUSTRIA: Jorge Saralegui <jmsaralegui(at)gmail.com>
DENMARK-NORWAY: Michael Thompson <psychosis(at)sky.com>
ENGLAND: Chris McInerney <c.p.mcinerney(at)gmail.com>
FRANCE: Nathan Albright <nathanbalbright(at)yahoo.com>
POLAND-LITHUANIA: Roger Leroux <yrl1967(at)gmail.com>
RUSSIA: Mikael Johansson <m_don_j(at)hotmail.com>
SPAIN: Matt Kremer <matthew.kremer(at)yale.edu>
SWEDEN: Wayne Bailey <WBailey(at)nyiso.com>
TURKEY: Dirk Knemeyer <dirk(at)knemeyer.com>


PROCLAMATIONS:
o COMMONWEALTH NAVY REPAIRS TO STATIONS OFF THE COAST OF WALES
o FERDINAND III REENLISTS TRUSTED VETERANS OF THE THIRTY YEAR-LONG STRUGGLE
o DANES ASSEMBLE NEW NAVAL SQUADRON TO FEND OFF DESCENTS ON THEIR CAPITAL
o MAZARIN OPEN STATE COFFERS TO EXPAND FRANCE'S ARMED FORCES
o SEJM PASSES WAR BILL TO EXPAND STANDING ARMY
o NOVGOROD BECOMES GARRISON TOWN NEWLY LEVIED STRELTSY REGIMENTS
o QUEEN CHRISTINA REVIEWS SWEDEN'S GROWN FORCES
o FLANDERS FORCED TO PAY EXORBITANT TAXES TO FINANCE SORELY NEEDED SPANISH WARSHIPS
o GRAND VIZIER BASKS IN THE ADULATION OF NEW RECRUITS
o THE GREAT ELECTOR SURVIVES TO LIVE ANOTHER DAY








MESSAGES: None

RETREATS:

England:
F Scotland - Irish Sea

Spain:
disband A Lorraine
F Naples - Tyrrhenian Sea

Crimea:
disband A Crimea

Transylvania:
disband A Transylvania

UnitedProvinces:
disband F United Provinces

ADJUSTMENTS:

Austria:
Build A Prague
Build A Vienna

Denmark-Norway:
Build F Copenhagen

France:
Build A Marseilles
Build F Brest

Poland-Lithuania:
Build A Cracow
Build A Warsaw

Russia:
Build A Novgorod

Spain:
Build F Sevilla

Sweden:
Build F Stockholm(ec)
Build A Stettin

Turkey:
Build F Constantinople
Build A Damascus

Brandenburg:
Build A Brandenburg


SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP:

Austria(5): Prague, Swabia, Trieste, Venice, Vienna.
Denmark-Norway(4): Copenhagen, Holstein, Scotland, United Provinces.
England(2): Bristol, London.
France(5): Brest, Lorraine, Marseilles, Paris, Savoy.
Poland-Lithuania(5): Cracow, Prussia, Transylvania, Vilna, Warsaw.
Russia(4): Crimea, Moscow, Novgorod, Voronezh.
Spain(4): Flanders, Madrid, Morocco, Sevilla.
Sweden(6): Abo, Christiania, Lower Saxony, Riga, Stettin, Stockholm.
Turkey(5): Belgrade, Constantinople, Damascus, Naples, Wallachia.
Minor Powers(1: Algiers, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Candia, Courland, Ireland, Mecklenburg, Moldavia, Papal States, Persia, Portugal, Rhineland-Westphalia, Saxony, Switzerland, Tunis, Turkestan, Tuscany, Ukraine.

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (GMT+1)...not local time)
o Spring 1650 Moves: 15 July
o Summer 1650 Retreats: 16 July
o Fall 1650 Moves: 22 July

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