Hey all,
I enjoyed my extremely short-lived time as Archduke, but abdicating seemed like the right call. Best of luck to Mike in improving Austria's position, especially in dealing with a retreat order unlike the one he would have made. 
I'm sure I'll play again with many of you in the future.
-Nick
2010/6/10 Charles Féaux de la Croix <charlesf(at)web.de>
Hi guys,
 
much as Nick was looking forward to playing out his 
recently assumed position as Archduke, he - on his own initiative and without 
any encouragement of mine - selflessly chose to offer Mike his 
former position.
 
Under those circumstances I see no reason why I 
ought to object to Mike's return and hence welcome him back to the game 
with immediate effect.
 
My understanding is that we all welcome a 
generally more lenient policy. This way we will have also arrived at it in 
this particular case, albeit by a rather circuitous route.
 
Nick will thus have served as a de facto temporary 
replacement and I thank him for his constructive role in all of this. As 
Nick has expressed an interest in instead playing in a later 1648 game I might 
run, I shall then offer him as a small thankyou first choice among the 
nine great powers.
 
I've now rescheduled the Spring 1660 Moves for 
Wednesday, 16 June 6 PM CET.
 
Cheers,
 
Charles