Hi guys,

since I received a full set of orders and no request for me to delay the adjucation until after the deadline, the winter chill's arriving somewhat early this year. And as the Baltic freezes over, the wharves in the Duchy of Courland are being kept busy by Poland's first-ever building of a Baltic squadron! This is a first for this variant. Roger, the Pole in the previous playtest, was however the first to build a Polish squadron, albeit one designated for Black Sea duty rather than for patrolling Baltic waters.

That being said, it's a long way for Poland to project such naval power from Courland, the erstwhile "Holland of the East", as the enterprising Kettler dukes of Courland were able to. After all, they founded Courlandian colonies as far off as Africa and the West Indies...

1655 AD has been by all accounts a year of continued East-West struggle, with Russia and Northern Germany being arguably the focal points of military action. Shall these trends continue into 1656? Stay tuned.

Given players' Easter schedules, I've shifted the spring deadline to Wednesday, 7 April.


Cheers,

Charles

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PLAYERS:
AUSTRIA: Mike Hoffman <mrh(at)panix.com>
DENMARK-NORWAY: Marc Ellinger <mellinger(at)blitzbardgett.com> (eliminated Winter 1653)
ENGLAND: Harvey Morris <hmtucaz(at)gmail.com>
FRANCE: Nigel Phillips <nephilli99(at)hotmail.com>
POLAND-LITHUANIA: Jorge Saralegui <jmsaralegui(at)gmail.com>
RUSSIA: Mikael Johansson <m_don_j(at)hotmail.com> (eliminated Winter 1650)
SPAIN: Dirk Knemeyer <dirk(at)knemeyer.com>
SWEDEN: Matthew Kelly <kelly058(at)verizon.net> (joined Winter 1652)
TURKEY: Aidan Slattery <AiSlattery(at)aol.com>

PROCLAMATIONS:
o WALLENSTEIN LEVIES A BOHEMIAN ARMY FOR THE EMPEROR
o THE SUN-KING INSPECTS NEWLY LEVIED REGIMENTS AT ST GERMAIN
o NEW TUNE ALL THE RAGE IN WARSAW: "RULE POLONIA, POLONIA RULES THE WAVES!"
o SPANISH TREASURER KEEPS THE PURSE-STRINGS NICE AND TIGHT
o THE SULTAN'S FASCINATION WITH ALL THINGS NAVAL FADES

PRESS: None.

ADJUSTMENTS:











Austria:
Build A Prague

France:
Build A Paris
Build waived

Poland-Lithuania:
Build F Courland

Spain:
Build waived

Turkey:
Build A Damascus

SUPPLY CENTER OWNERSHIP (Winter 1655):

Austria(5): Bavaria, Prague, Saxony, Trieste, Vienna.
England(: Abo, Bristol, Christiania, Ireland, London, Scotland, Stockholm, United Provinces.
France(12): Brest, Copenhagen, Flanders, Lorraine, Lower Saxony, Marseilles, Paris, Rhineland-Westphalia, Savoy, Swabia, Switzerland, Venice.
Poland-Lithuania(9): Courland, Cracow, Moscow, Novgorod, Prussia, Riga, Vilna, Voronezh, Warsaw.
Spain(10): Algiers, Madrid, Mecklenburg, Morocco, Naples, Papal States, Portugal, Seville, Tunis, Tuscany.
Sweden(3): Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Stettin.
Turkey(11): Belgrade, Candia, Constantinople, Crimea, Damascus, Moldavia, Persia, Transylvania, Turkestan, Ukraine, Wallachia.

DEADLINE SCHEDULE: (all orders are due NLT 6PM CET (i.e. GMT+1)...not local time)




o Spring 1656 Moves: 7 April



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