Dirk,
Given the bounce in Rome, my press kind of looks a little silly now. But I guess that we in the Ministry of Truth can simply rewrite history ... again ... and again ... and again ...

---- Dirk Knemeyer wrote:
A tumultuous season. The end game seems to be crystallizing: Britain and Poland were part of a shaky middle, and this year we see it is Poland who exercises some upward mobility to try and break into the lead group with Italy and Turkey, while Britain loses ground and now juggles a more shaky position. Germany's back appears broken, the Republicans glimmer of hope takes a hit, and France and the Soviets keep playing out the string. But those French...in Rheinland now?!

There are 3 retreats this season; upcoming deadlines at the end of this note. And, don't look now, but we have some beloved player press!!!

Italian Press:

After their holiday in Valencia the Italian marine corps has returned refreshed to Rome, ready to fight new battles for the expanding empire. Despite terrible propaganda that has occasionally appeared in the Italian media - propaganda frowned upon by el Duce and his government, as he has always been fairminded regarding legitimate socialism - about evils of the Spanish Republican regime, the visit was a friendly one, with fine food, good companionship and fun in the sun and the waters.

As the history books will say (once they have been altered) the friendship between Spain and Italy has always been strong, no matter the internal politics of each peaceloving peoples. There has never been any war between us. Guernica was never bombed; Valencia was never occupied.

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PLAYERS
Britain - sunchung / Sun Chung / sun.chung(at)gmail.com
France - DrSwordopolis / Nick Powell / nick.s.powell(at)gmail.com
Germany - charlesf / Charles Feaux de la Croix / charlesf(at)web.de
Italy (and Nationalist Spain) - raistlin / David Gould / davidchegould(at)bigpond.com
Poland - smileyrob / Robert Stein / smileyrob68(at)gmail.com
Turkey - Wladimir7 / Wladimir Mysonski / wmysonski(at)gmail.com
USSR (and Republican Spain) - Nitsch / Karsten Nitsch / karsten.nitsch(at)gmx.de

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HEADLINES
The joys of securing Hamburg more than offset by British losses in Netherlands, Norway
You cannot stop the French: you can only hope to contain them!
Hamburg and Munich fall as talk of a Fourth Reich grips a weary populace
Haphazard Italian orders do not prevent myriad military successes
Resurgent Poland committed to being an important part of the endgame
White Russians for everyone as Stalin keeps the boys alive in his new capitol
Africa is the next frontier for rangy Turks
Ruthless German aggression improbably costs the Republicans Valencia

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Britain:
A Belgium Hold
F Denmark - Hamburg (*Fails*)
F Hamburg - Berlin (*Bounce*)
F Ireland Supports F Irish Sea - South-Western Approaches
F English Channel Supports F Irish Sea - South-Western Approaches
F Irish Sea - South-Western Approaches
F North-Western Approaches - Atlantic Ocean (*Fails*)

France:
A Gascony - Brest
A Picardy - Rhineland

Germany:
A Austria - Rome (*Dislodged*)
A Munich - Austria (*Disbanded*)
A Rhineland - Netherlands
A Saxony - Berlin (*Bounce*)

Italy:
A Catalonia - Marseille (*Fails*)
A Czechia - Munich
A Hungary Supports A Slovenia - Austria
A Lorraine Supports A Czechia - Munich
A Marseille - Switzerland (*Fails*)
F Morocco Supports F South-Western Approaches
A Slovenia - Austria
A Switzerland - Munich (*Fails*)
A Valencia - Rome (*Bounce*)
F Tyrrhenian Sea Convoys A Valencia - Rome
F Western Mediterranean Convoys A Valencia - Rome

Poland:
A Archangel Supports A Byelorussia - Moscow (*Cut*)
A Byelorussia - Moscow (*Fails*)
A Leningrad Supports A Archangel
A Slovakia - Transylvania (*Fails*)
F Sweden - Norway
A Volhynia - Cracow
A Warsaw Supports A Volhynia - Cracow
A Western Ukraine - Rumania (*Fails*)

Turkey:
A Bulgaria - Serbia
A Cracow Supports A Eastern Ukraine - Western Ukraine (*Dislodged*)
A Eastern Ukraine - Western Ukraine (*Fails*)
A Egypt - Tripoli
A Kazakhstan Supports A Moscow
A Moscow Supports A Siberia - Archangel (*Cut*)
A Rumania Supports A Cracow (*Cut*)
A Siberia - Archangel (*Fails*)
F Suez - Libyan Sea
A Transylvania Supports A Cracow (*Cut*)
F Atlantic Ocean Supports F South-Western Approaches (*Cut*)
F Black Sea Supports A Rumania
F Libyan Sea - Ionian Sea

USSR:
A Stalingrad Supports A Moscow

Republican_Spain:
A Gibraltar Supports A Madrid
A Madrid Hold
A Navarra - Gascony
F South-Western Approaches Supports A Gibraltar (*Dislodged*)

Retreats:
German A Austria can retreat to Czechia or South Tyrol or OTB.
Turkish A Cracow can retreat to Silesia or OTB.
Republican Spain F South-Western Approaches can retreat to Bay of Biscay or Galicia or Portugal or OTB.

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Winter 1942 Builds:

Britain
Disband

Germany
Build?

Italy
Build

Poland:
Build

Turkey:
Build

Republican_Spain
Remove

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Ownership of supply centers

Britain: Belgium, Denmark, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Liverpool, London.
France: Brest, Paris.
Germany: Berlin, Czechia, Hamburg, Munich.
Italy: Algiers, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Marsailles, Milan, Morocco, Munich, Naples, Rome, Switzerland, Valencia.
Poland: Cracow, Finland, Gdynia, Latvia, Leningrad, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Warsaw.
Turkey: Ankara, Beirut, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Istanbul, Izmir, Moscow, Rumania, Serbia, Suez, Tripoli.
USSR: Stalingrad.
Republican_Spain: Burgos, Madrid, Portugal.

Britain: 6 Supply centers, 7 Units: Remove 1.
France: 2 Supply centers, 2 Units: Build 0.
Germany: 3 Supply centers, 3 Units: Build 0.
Italy: 12 Supply centers, 11 Units: Build 1.
Poland: 9 Supply centers, 8 Units: Build 1.
Turkey: 14 Supply centers, 13 Units: Build 1.
USSR: 1 Supply center, 1 Units: Remove 0.
Republican_Spain: 3 Supply centers, 4 Units: Remove 1.

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Upcoming Deadlines (all orders are due at 5 PM EST, GMT -5)
Winter 1942 Retreats/Adjustments, Thursday October 7
Spring 1943 Prelims, Friday October 8
Spring 1943 Orders, Tuesday October 12
Summer 1943 Retreats, Thursday October 14
Fall 1943 Prelims, Friday October 15
Fall 1943 Orders, Tuesday October 19

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