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England: Removes 1 unit
France: Builds 1 unit
Italy: Builds 1 unit
Turkey: Removes 1 unit
Message from Italy to France
> France: Fleet Mid-Atlantic Ocean -> Western Mediterranean.
Sigh!
After all I did for you? This is how you repay me?
Message from Italy to Turkey
I have an offer for you. Remove the fleet in Smyrna and I will turn my
complete attention over to France. It's become plainly obvious, you're the
only one in this game that utters a word of truth. If you accept this
offer, I ultimately expect to support your winning position. I'm not sure
what will happen if you decline.
Life is Beautiful,
Roberto
Message from Italy to England
Wondering which side of the fence you're sitting on these days? I
understand if you'd prefer not to divulge such information but I can't
imagine you're planning on having four measly units sit back and watch FGT
grow at the expense of Italy.
I am prepared to immediately halt my Turkish advance and devote 100% of my
energy towards either/both of FG. You have my solemn word that, once turned
west, I will not lose site of the Western goal. Yes, this unfortunately
means that Turkey will survive and prosper but I'm afraid he was going to do
that anyway due to the interference of FG.
Life is Beautiful,
Roberto
Message from Turkey to Italy
Roberto,
Thank you for your letter. I have to admit that at present I'm not real eager
to disband my fleet. You have deceived and attacked me twice; you are the
board leader by a good margin; your forces are now 50% larger than my own; and
your forces remain poised to further attack Turkish interests.
Be that as it may, I am above all a pragmatist. Should conditions turn
around, I will pursue whatever course seems best for Turkey -- and that may
well include renewed relations with Italy. If I were to agree to your
request, what do you foresee in terms of our balance of power and posession of
centers in Balkans and Austria?
Ali
> Message from Italy to Turkey in 'titleist':
>
> I have an offer for you. Remove the fleet in Smyrna and I will turn my
> complete attention over to France. It's become plainly obvious, you're the
> only one in this game that utters a word of truth. If you accept this
> offer, I ultimately expect to support your winning position. I'm not sure
> what will happen if you decline.
>
> Life is Beautiful,
>
> Roberto
>
Message from Italy to Turkey
>
> If I were to agree to your request, what do you
> foresee in terms of our balance of power and
> posession of centers in Balkans and Austria?
>
You can have two of GRE/SER/BUD plus I will support you into MOS/WAR if not
directly then by indirectly supporting your position in northern Russia (ie:
I wouldn't do anything to stop you from getting there or holding them).
Here's the story. I was the last one to enter orders. I really don't want
to play this game anymore. I suspect this may be my last game of Diplomacy
for sometime (sometime=several years). France and Germany came at me
because, in Germany's words, 'I can't win if you do'. Well, I don't give a
rat's behind who wins or loses this game. I'd just assume it be over.
Thus, as the power who I feel should win this game and thus the tournament,
I am offering to be your puppet and see you to victory. The goal would be
to get you to at least one more unit than me and then setting up a stalemate
line. The west would be forced to either accept the draw and declare you
victor or fight amongst themselves to try to get more units than you. If
the latter were to happen, I would continue to move west and allow you to
take my centers to maintain your lead and the stalemate line.
Truth be told, even if you don't accept my offer, my moves don't change. I
am forced to move to defend against the unprovoked attacks.
aeg-ion
gre-alb
tri-tyr
ser-tri
vie-boh
bud-vie
Take advantage of these moves if you like, but do remember that I will be
responsible for blocking the Ionean from French control so the more units
(fleets) I have the better for your long-term survival.
Life is Beautiful,
Roberto
Message from Italy to France and Germany
You may squash the 800 lb gorilla but you'll create a 1 ton turkey in the
process.
Boar, if you are confused by my terminology, seek clarification from Fredd.
Roberto
Message from France to all
1906 Symposium on Philosophy, Europe and
Everything.
- by Prince Xavier Boar
[This is Stuart Scott here, I'm back!! I was finally let
out of the Turkish prison. They stamped a serial number
on me, but I will not tell you where! Let's just say
that I will not ask anyone to kiss it for a while. I
hope that Reece was not too obnoxious in my place. It is
my goal to be the most obnoxious one!]
You may notice that the Symposium is early this year.
Due to complications surrounding trying to move the
Superbowl, we asked that the conference move their date
earlier, rather than waiting for spring. Being great
guys, they agreed to do it. A few millions Francs did
make them more amenable. The Prince was eager to get
started so lets roll the speech.]
Good people of France, given the stressful times I
thought that I would start out with a little
light-hearted philosophical humor.
Descartes sits down at a sidewalk café and orders some
coffee, black.
The server ask "are you sure that you do not want any
milk, it is excellent today."
Descartes retorts, "I think not!"
And then *poof* he immediately ceases to exits!
[Chuckle, hey maybe this guy is not as boring as Reece
made him out to be.]
The year 1905 has shown a reversal in fortune for France.
Many of the foreign invaders have left France and we
have formed a nice ring of defense around the country.
By some quirk of fate, we even have a build to complete
the circle. Our fleets were aimed at defending on all
fronts. We wanted to avoid Italy returning to the
Western Mediterranean. In case Germany moved to
Piedmont, we wanted to be in place to defend Marseilles
without using our armies, and we did not want the English
to sneak back into the Mid-Atlantic Ocean. Luckily none
of those occurred.
Although things are looking better, we are still not out
of the water yet. An English army remains within our
borders. German, England, and Italian forces are all
nearby. We have a lot of diplomatic and tactical work
ahead of us. Rest assured that the Dauphin and I will do
everything in our power to protect both your homes and
your families.
[I like that ring defense thing. I wonder if it would
stop Michael Jordan? Now that he is returning, his age
may be the only thing that could stop him. It will be
fun to watch. Will his come back be as dramatic as the
French, the Turks, or the Russians. We will have to get
a panel of ESPN experts together to analyze who had the
best come back.]
[We now skipped the sensitive stuff and will not jump
right to the philosophy part. Somehow the Prince manages
to identify with a famous actor, as I will mention
below.]
Philosophy
Today's lecture is on the philosophy of Albert
Schweitzer. Schweitzer struggled to find the meaning of
Civilization. And his discoveries are appropriate for
the conflicts that we find in Europe. Many think that
being civilized is proven by intellectual or material
accomplishments, or the territory a country may own. He
felt that only human beings who achieved a certain
positive stability in their ethical relationships could
fully enjoy those material benefits.
His problem was defined by the Lion and the Zebra. The
latter is often food for the former. But what is clearly
good for the lion (getting fed) is not good for the Zebra
(getting eaten). There are no principles to ameliorate
this situation and bring about a happy ending. But this
evolutionary ethic does need to hold for humans, our
thoughts and feelings allow to transcend this instinct.
We can attempt to avoid such predicaments and solve them
when we must.
His solution was a "reverence for life", that means
respecting the will-to-live of every living creature.
Although in our power struggles in Europe, we may not be
able accomplish the true essence of his goals. In many
ways we are stuck as the Lion and the Zebra. Growth must
come at the expense of someone else. But it is my hope
that we can continue to try to live to up to his
principles of respect, and yes, reverence for all great
powers and we deal with this seemingly unsolvable
problem.
[If I am following this, I think that he basically
restating Al Pacino. And here I can at best paraphrase
"On any given Sunday you are either going win or you are
going to lose. The question is, will you win or lose
like a man? This Boar guy is almost as deep at Al.
Wow!]
[The Prince wants me to mention that he will try to write
individual letters later, after the philosophical
reception.]
[Stuart]
Message from Germany to Italy
Roberto:
Due to events in the north, it looks like I'll have to recall my army
in TYR. This is also due to Turkey not finding it within himself to
support me this last turn. Or even to answer any press. Amazingly
enough his first press to me came just after the moves processed. You
have clear sailing against him as far as I'm concerned.
Good guess on TYR and Venice.
Fredd
Message from England to Italy
Good Roberto,
I thought you might finally write. It's good to hear from you.
No one knows better thay you how much I wanted English/Italian action
against France. I have been pleading for it since before the first move.
It certainly would have been in my best interest, but you decided that it
was not in your best interest. I do admit, though, that in your shoes I
may have reached the same conclusion.
Now we have an English/Italian war anyway, because France concluded that
you were in danger of gaining an unstoppable position.
>Wondering which side of the fence you're sitting on these days? I
>understand if you'd prefer not to divulge such information
I don't minding divulging my position. You and I have always been fairly
straight with each other. My position is that I don't want to see anyone
run away with an easy victory. So I cooperated with France this past turn.
>I can't imagine you're planning on having four measly units sit back and
>watch FGT grow at the expense of Italy.
Germany won't grow. Turkey is still shrinking. It will be a while before
France can get anything from you, if ever. All that I can predict for the
immediate future is that your growth will now be slowed or halted. That
gives me a little time to try to recover. We may still have a future
together in a realligned world, but I need a few units first.
I don't expect to take any anti-French action in the immediate future. I
have helped him this fall, and now I hope that he will help me in return.
Hang tough. I would rather be in your position than mine.
Most cordially,
Ivy
Message from England to all
Friends,
We seem to have a judge bug operating. I got the following message
appended to return messages from USIN:
>Adjustment orders for Winter of 1905. (titleist.021)
>
>England: Defaults, removing the army in Picardy.
>
>
>Orders not received for all units. If complete orders are not
>received by Mon Oct 01 2001 12:22:44 -0500, you will be considered late.
>You will be considered abandoned if nothing is received by
>Thu Oct 04 2001 12:22:44 -0500.
Defaults! When the deadline is not until Monday.
Then I submitted an actual removal and received a response that seems to
indicate that all is now OK:
>'Wait' status set.
>
>Adjustment orders for Winter of 1905. (titleist.021)
>
>England: Removes [censored]
Perhaps others who had adjustments got strange defaults prematurely as well?
I set "wait," because I still don't know what removal I will ultimately
choose. I have also alerted Doug in a separate message to the master.
Ivy
Message from Master to all
I checked the status of the game and don't see any errors -- I think that
the message back from the judge for removals always says "Defaults, ..."
even if the game isn't NMR and it's not really going to make your decision
for you.
Just a little strangeness in the way the Judge works, that's all.
Doug
PS: I'm off to New Jersey for 24 hours -- driving down to Pine Valley
Golf Club (the best -- or at worst, second-best -- course in the United
States). I don't get to play, but I'll be watching the final of the
"Crump Cup" tournament. P.V. is only open to the public for six hours
each year, so this is really my only chance to see the great course in
person. I'm kind of a golf nut, in case you hadn't noticed . . .
Message from France to Italy
Roberto:
I understand that you are upset with my being in the
Mediterranean. I noticed that you had a very good shot
at 10 centers, well everyone pointed it out so it was
hard not to notice. You very easily could have moved my
way in anticipation of that position. I thought that
there was a real chance at a bounce. Even if you held,
as you did, I was of course very concerned about your
size. It was also a requirement from both England and
Germany to help me in the North.
Given where I am, there is no certainly that a war
between us inevitable. What can you do to alleviate all
the concerns? My units could easily shift another
direction, especially in the spring.
--Prince Boar
England: REMOVE Fleet North Atlantic Ocean
France: BUILD Fleet Marseilles
Italy: BUILD Army Venice
Turkey: REMOVE Army Ankara
Centers
England: 4
France: 6
Germany: 6
Italy: 9
Russia: 3
Turkey: 6
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