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England: Removes 1 unit
France: Builds 1 unit
Italy: Builds 1 unit
Turkey: Removes 1 unit
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 Turkey to France
Prince Boar,
Many thanks for your attacks into the Med. I look forward to mutually
beneficial cooperation between us against the Italian.
That was certainly an interesting turn of events there in Lowlands. Of
course, I have been hoping for EF cooperation, and I can only hope that the
Bel/Pic maneuver might have been pre-arranged, though I must confess that the
possible motivation behind it escapes me. Does this indeed mark renewed EF
hostility?
I look forward to seeing the game resume its former pace, and I hope we can
regain our former levels of communication.
Ali
Message from Turkey to England
Ivy,
That was certainly an interesting turn of events there in Lowlands. Of
course, I have been hoping for EF cooperation, and I can only hope that the
Bel/Pic maneuver might have been pre-arranged, though I must confess that the
possible motivation behind it escapes me. Does this indeed mark renewed EF
hostility?
I look forward to seeing the game resume its former pace, and I hope we can
regain our former levels of communication.
Ali
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 Turkey to Germany
Fredd,
Yes, I'm still alive and kicking. Things have been crazy for me lately; it
looks like I'll be job-hunting come next week. I've also been finding it hard
to wrap my mind around anything besides the obvious events in the news.
However, I'm now looking forward to seeing the game get started back up again.
So, the Turkish embassy is now re-opened for business.
I'm sorry I couldn't support you against Russia. If I had seen a way to
eliminate Russia outright, I'd probably have gone for it. But even a one- or
two-unit Russia could put me in a world of hurt in terms of my war with Italy.
If France does indeed follow through in anti-Italian efforts, then it will
give me far greater flexibility in that regard.
I was sorry to see the Tri idea didn't work. I'm amazed that he left Venice
open. Roberto seems to be a very crafty player. In any case, I did not
breathe a word about Tri to anyone else -- nor would I have done so even if I
knew for sure what you planned, which I didn't. My plan at present is to
disband A Ank, thereby leaving me in Galicia. If Italy turns to fight France,
it will give us much more opportunity to work together in Austria. I would
still welcome the opportunity to support you into Vienna if you're so
inclined.
Ali
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 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 England to Turkey
My dear Ali,
>That was certainly an interesting turn of events there in Lowlands.
I thought you might be more impressed by events in the Mediterranean.
> and I can only hope that the
>Bel/Pic maneuver might have been pre-arranged, though I must confess that the
>possible motivation behind it escapes me. Does this indeed mark renewed EF
>hostility?
Pre-arranged all the way. I suggested handing over Belgium to France in
order to stop Italy. [You owe me, Ali; you owe me. 8-) ]
France then suggested the convoy so that I would not lose my mainland army.
Without immediate and intense action against Italy, he would have destroyed
you and used the gain to defend the western Mediterranean. He would easily
have gained a 13 or 14 center stalemate line. Even with immediate action,
I was not sure that France would get there fast enough to stop Italy.
However, Italy's long streak of brilliant moves just ended. He could have
been in Galicia. He could have been in Venice. He could have been in the
Ionian. He could have been in the Eastern Med. He should have been in
most of these places after the fall move, but he is in none of them. He
was too preoccupied with what the Italian army in Tyrolia might do.
>I look forward to seeing the game resume its former pace, and I hope we can
>regain our former levels of communication.
I feel pretty good in spite of the sacrifice of a center. Germany is in
trouble in Holland, and Denmark, and StP. With any luck I should be able
to recover a couple of centers fairly easy. Provided, of course, Russia
and France continue to cooperate with me.
So, now looking far down the road with rose-colored glasses, you and I
still have that 2-way ending to look forward to. Isn't Diplomacy such an
easy game?
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 Russia to Turkey
Ali,
Germany continues to be a thorn in my side, so I won't be able to
help you against Italy this Spring, but this also means I'm not going to
be demanding that you vacate Sev, either. Looking at the map, I
would think it would make the most sense to disband A Ank, but
that's your call. Please let me know what, if anything, you hear from
Fredd, and I'll reciprocate regarding Roberto.
Nick
Message from France to Turkey
Ali:
Congratulations on guessing correctly. You managed to
keep both Rumania and Bulgaria and not give ground in
Galicia. I expected that you would be pleased with my
movement into the Mediterranean. As for England and I,
we continue to work on our relationship. I am hopeful
that diplomacy can bring a peaceful resolution to our
situation.
Italy is already pointing out that by my attacking him,
you will become very large and dangerous. I of course
realize that this will happen. I just hope to become
large enough to balance you. The difference is that I
have a less secure defensive position. As I ponder the
future, I recommend that you and I work to keep this
situation stable. It may be wise for your to grow
slowly. We are afterall, shooting for the two-way draw
that we agreed upon in 1901! :-)
I do not know what it makes sense for you to remove. I
image that Italy will either build an army in Venice or a
Fleet in Naples.
Germany hinted that you offered to work with him against
Italy. I think that we should try to keep Germany and
Italy from working together. Let's just not help either
of them grow. We want to cut both of them down to size.
Then the four of us can figure out what to do next.
--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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