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LUTZEN - Game Pre-Start
GM Brian Frew
Game is about to start

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
F(Tri); A(Bud); A(Vie)

ENGLAND
F(Edi); F(Lon); A(Lpl)

FRANCE
F(Bre); A(Mar); A(Par)

GERMANY
F(Kie); A(Ber); A(Mun)

ITALY
F(Nap); A(Rom); A(Ven)

RUSSIA
F(Sev); F(StPsc); A(Mos); A(War)

TURKEY
F(Ank); A(Con); A(Smy)

GAMESTART INFORMATION

LUTZEN [3 week deadline]

Welcome to your new Diplomacy game on Diplomacy 2000. The game is named after the battle of Lutzen in which the great Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus was killed, though the Swedes won the battle. Minor quiz can you think of any more battles where the winning commander was killed? I can think of Brian Boru (Clontarf), Wolfe (Hights of Abraham) and Nelson (Trafalgar).

GM Brian Frew - brian_frew@lineone.net (note there is an underscore between brian and frew).

The line-up is…

Harvey Jones - harvjones@deloitte.com.au - Austria
Lloyd Mitchell - lloydmitchell@serieux.net - England
David Queenan - d.a.queenan@tesco.net - France
Alan Allport - allport@ee.upenn.edu - Germany
Craig Shadbolt - craig_ts@postoffice.utas.edu.au Italy
Tim Sweeney - clnencap@telenet.net - Russia
Geerten Eijkelenboom - eijkelenbg@hotmail.com - Turkey

All bar two of you got a high preference choice, but great enthusiasm for Germany and France ensured that a couple of you didn't. Unavoidable I'm afraid, but I can't be accused of favouritism, as the two people affected were the two I have previously met.

Please (if you have not already done so) make sure that you get a copy of the house-rules off the Diplomacy 2000 site. For those of you not familiar with the British / European convention, note well that this game will run on 2 game years. In other words I need conditional retreat orders for all units for which a retreat is possible for each season. In the Autumn season I need disband and build orders. Build orders can be conditional on the location of other units but not on other players' builds.

Please try to send me a provisional set of orders for Spring 1901 as soon as possible - apart from being a sound practice anyway, it confirms to me that you want to play. Orders can be changed at any time up until the deadline. I will confirm back receipt of orders to you so that you know they have
arrived.

The deadline for orders will be Friday 20th April 2001 at 6.00 PM GMT. Although I will accept late orders up until the time when I adjudicate you would be very unwise to rely on this as I will be dealing with the game on Friday nights on most occasions.

You may commit any sort of horrible act upon each other but DECEPTION OF THE GM is totally forbidden.

I hope that you enjoy the game.

All the best

Brian Frew
Page last modified on 14th January 2007