Diplomacy, anyone?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

two coins: both places he has are coastal, so can build fleets or armies.

[Lieutenant Kije]

He can actually only build in Smyrna.  Ankara and Constantinople are both occupied.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

that'll teach me to go by memory. Ok, just one. but make sure it comes up tails. You may need to toss another coin to choose whether tails means fleet or army.

[Lieutenant Kije]

Apparently no flippage necessary: Thanks Gorgon!

While I can't post the map until this afternoon (stupid work computer) I will list where all the new units were built and you can look off the current map until then.

The following new units were built:

Austria: A(rmy) Trieste, A Budapest
France: A Paris, A Marseilles
Germany: A Berlin
Russia: A St. Petersburg, A Sevastopol
Turkey: F(leet) Smyrna

So a new round of diplomacy begins!  Shall we say next Tuesday night -7/8 GMT for a deadline?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Kije, can two units that aren't moving support each other?

so say my two new units aren't going anywhere. They share a border. Are these valid orders?:

A Trieste S Budapest
A Budapest S Trieste

[Lieutenant Kije]

Yes.  Those are legal orders.  

If the army in Treiste were a fleet, you'd have a problem (but it's not and you don't.)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

incidentally, if any of you think I was going to use two armies that aren't particularly near any enemy forces to just sit there and defend each other, well, how about you let me walk through your nation so I can attack someone on the other side? I PROMISE i'll give you back your territory when I'm done. Really I do.  

[Lieutenant Kije]

Okay, the Spring 1902 map on the site has all the units added to it.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

updated version on my site too.

[Lieutenant Kije]

So we're about a day and a half (36-40 hours) from the deadline (Tuesday night -7/8 GMT.)  I've got orders from 4 players already.  Feel free to submit early if you'd like.

[Lieutenant Kije]

For those of you that haven't submitted, orders should be in by tonight sometime.  I've got orders from all but 2 players.

[Lieutenant Kije]

We're waiting on orders from 2 players.  Turkey has said he'd get them in by midday today.  I haven't heard from England (Archon) yet.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

hrm.

Y'know, for my input, we're enough into this, that it shouldn't take 8 or 9 days to get the orders in. Can we have a stricter deadline on the week, so the game doesn't drag on? You post plenty of reminders.

[Lieutenant Kije]

My hard cutoff up to this point has been two days after deadline.  I'll bump it up to one day starting next round, and try and post/email more reminders.  I'm thinking if I get two consecutive no submits then civil disorder is declared for that country (basically, they're out of the game.)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

"The first room has a gigantic turbonium dragon"

*nod* tough but fair