CELEBRATION!  I finally got the DC 285 group to work in my GMail.  This makes me happy.  Does it make you happy?  Probably not.  But the moves are in!  Will they make you happy?  We'll see!  Greece/Persia do some switching and Egypt swings hard east.  Rome blocks Carthage at every turn, and is that Cato the Elder I hear cheering?
 
Map attached, check for errors.  Need 1 retreat from Persia: Sinope must go to Bithynia, Cappadocia or Chersonesus, or OTB.  Deadline for retreat is tomorrow at 6 EST but if I get the retreat with "final" in the subject of the e-mail, I'll adjudicate sooner.
 
Rome:
A Etruria Supports A Vindobona - Rhaetia
A Roma Hold
F Sicilia Supports F Tyrrhenean Sea - Punic Sea
F Tyrrhenean Sea - Punic Sea
A Vindobona - Rhaetia
Carthage:
F Berber Sea - Punic Sea (*Fails*)
F Ligurian Sea Supports A Tarraconensis - Massilia (*Fails*)
A Massilia - Rhaetia (*Fails*)
F Punic Sea - Ausonian Sea
A Sardinia Hold
A Tarraconensis - Massilia (*Fails*)
A Thapsus Hold
Persia:
F Antioch - Cilician Strait
A Cappadocia - Galatia
F Cilician Strait - Miletus
A Dacia Supports F Miletus - Byzantium
A Damascus - Armenia
F Miletus - Byzantium
A Sinope Supports A Cappadocia - Galatia (*Dislodged*)
A Tyre Hold
Greece:
F Aegean Sea - Sparta
F Black Sea Supports A Galatia - Sinope
A Dalmatia Hold
A Galatia - Sinope
A Illyria - Macedonia
Egypt:
F Alexandria - Egyptian Sea
A Cyrene - Leptis
F Egyptian Sea - Libyan Sea
A Jerusalem Hold
A Marmarica - Phazania
F Messenian Sea - Gulf of Tacape
F Minoan Sea Supports F Cilician Strait - Miletus
A Thebes - Bayuda

--
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing. The shadow, even the darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you - That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding onto something."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."