"Italian fleet takes Ankara in search for missing cat - Turkish admiral furious at being accused of smuggling the cat on board and scuttles in middle of Black Sea in protest!"

 

"500-year-old Hapsburg empire crumbles - Archduke retires to villa dreaming of attending Munich beer festival in peace in the years to come!"

 

"Heavy fighting continues in central Europe and Scandinavia - several centres change hands!"

 

Press from Turkey: "F Black Sea - Wishes everyone good luck with the rest of the game!"

 

Hi
everyone,

 

Welcome to your Autumn 1906 adjudication. I'm afraid we need to bid a fond farewell to two of our players this turn - Chris and Archer. Thanks for playing guys, and thanks for sticking it out to the end - I hope we'll see you in another exciting game of Diplomacy soon!

 

 

Here's the moves for Autumn 1906:

 

Austria:
A Budapest Supports A Vienna (*Disbanded*)
A Vienna Supports A Budapest (*Dislodged*)

 

France:
A Burgundy - Munich
F English Channel -
Belgium
A Finland - St Petersburg (*Fails*)
F Kiel - Denmark
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean Hold
A Munich - Silesia
F North Sea Supports F Kiel - Denmark
A Norway Supports A Finland - St Petersburg
F Norwegian Sea - Barents Sea
A Piedmont - Tyrolia
A Ruhr - Kiel

 

Germany:
A Berlin Supports A Munich - Silesia
A Sweden Supports F Kiel - Denmark (*Disbanded*)

 

Italy:
F Aegean Sea Supports A Smyrna - Constantinople
F Ankara Supports A Smyrna - Constantinople
F Ionian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
A Serbia Supports A Galicia - Budapest
A Smyrna - Constantinople
A Trieste Supports A Tyrolia - Vienna
F Tunis - Western Mediterranean
A Tyrolia - Vienna
A Venice - Piedmont

 

Russia:
F Baltic Sea Supports A Denmark - Sweden
F Bulgaria(ec) - Rumania
A Denmark - Sweden
A Galicia - Budapest
A Livonia Supports F St Petersburg(nc)
F St Petersburg(nc) Hold
A Ukraine - Warsaw
A Warsaw - Prussia

 

Turkey:
F Black Sea Hold


 

There's only one retreat to make - that of Austria's Vienna army - and I've autoadjudicated this to off-the-board as this army would only need to be disbanded during the builds anyway, thus giving an extra day's negotiation before the 1907 moves.

 

 

Adjustments:

 

Austria:   Supp  0 Unit  0 Build  0
England:   Supp  0 Unit  0 Build  0
France:    Supp 14 Unit 11 Build  3
Germany:   Supp  1 Unit  1 Build  0
Italy:     Supp 11 Unit  9 Build  2
Russia:    Supp  8 Unit  8 Build  0
Turkey:    Supp  0 Unit  1 Remove  1


 

The builds for Winter 1906 are due from France and Italy by 2000GMT tomorrow, Monday 25 July. Spring 1907 moves are due by 2000GMT Sunday 31 July.

 

I hope you're all enjoying the fascinating cricket at Lord's - I've only just sobered up from Friday long enough to type this message out without my hands shaking! The game is really finely poised at present, could go either way...*

 

Stay chilled mes braves,

 

Jerome

 

*Does he mean dc384 or does he mean the Test Match? Answers on a postcard to the usual address please...!