Love Conquers? Part IX.

[St Jon]

24hr Rule long passed - Turn to Madrid.

PDRF OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE

To: Tomas de Torquemada
Subject: A Gentle French Nudge.

It would appear that whilst accepting my neighbourly gesture of an express Air Ambulance home you chose to discharge two of your young Law Students far too early from their Hospital Beds. Sadly, as warned, they proved too enfeebled to survive. One, obviously inadvertantly, wandered into an Airforce Testing Range and died from shock when a rocket exploded nearby whilst the other lost his bearings completely and perished under an SNCF Fast Freight Train carrying supplies for the Verteuil Garrison. It seems that one of your Diplomats, obviously the boy's mentor, was just too elderly and frail to survive the harshness of the climate upon our border and died from exposure.

Equally tragic was your failure to heed my warning as to the perilous nature of the shallow waters around the French West Coast. As predicted, your hulk just proved to be no longer seaworthy and foundered with the loss of all lives. You have my sympathies. If only it had followed it's sister ship into blue water it just might have survived it's journey home! A mysterious accident also seems to have occured to the West of Faverges; another ancient Spanish vessel suddenly sprang a leak but luckily I was able to despatch a Battleship in time to rescue the entire crew although, unfortunately, the Passenger Deck was flooded immediately and no survivors were found from there.

I would suggest that you just accept the fact that these antiquated old vessels are no longer fit for service, even as training ships, and place them on display somewhere where they can be admired for what they truly are - relics of a bygone age! The fate of your Law Students should also serve as a reminder of the need for adequate health care, bed rest after trauma and the ill-wisdom of sending little more than children into such hazardous places as French Testing Ranges.

Strangely it appears that this series of tragic, but easily avoidable, accidents has resulted in the dimunition of the diplomatic standing between our two nations. I have therefore immediately despatched a Peace Envoy to Reus to resolve this, I trust he is treated with the respect that his status as Commissar of the Lille Cooperative merits.

Your Constant Friend and Neighbour,
Chairman Jon, PDF.

END OF DESPATCH

[MOBIUS]

Indeed this has been a most strange set of circumstances...

It is with great sorrow therefore that we have to report that the Battleship sent into Spanish waters to save one of our SOL's itself got entangled in Spanish fishing nets and whilst attempting to free itself collided with an undisclosed number of French Merchant ships!

Unfortunately all vessels sunk with all hands aboard before Spanish coast guard services could get near...

In a seperate incident, a French Pikeman appears to have got lost and stumbled into Spain's own bombing range within the city limits of Leon! Our condolences to the Pikeman's family!

Spain is deeply aggreived about the loss of the Diplomat and Lawyers who were en route to Lille in an attempt to press home Spain's legal claim to the Granada river area! Spain has repeatedly asserted her claim to the river area since records began - Spain even allowed a small French colony and listening post to be established at the mouth of the river in view of our friendly relations with St. Jon... These relations have been strained since the coming of a communist government in France. Spain therefore reiterates that she does not appreciate the occupation of Spanish territory by currently ten military units and the building of a farm also on Spanish land.

Kindly withdraw your forces and dismantle the railroad and farming structures on Spanish land, Spain grows weary of having to repeat these requests over and over again - but above hopes that this spate of freak accidents is now finally at an end...

As for the Inca, given that there was no reply on this subject and that the offending units have now been removed Spain has called off further 'peacekeeping' actions.

Spain is a peaceful nation that only wants to be left alone. In the past minor encroachment has been tolerated, however it appears that far from being appeased those guilty of encroachment become eager for more. No more!

[Keygen]

No turn received Mobius.

Please resend.

[hexagonian]

Strange, the state of war that now exists in the world began with my temporary stewardship of Greece.

The dominoes are all falling in place - now France has seen fit to expand their regional conflict to encompass Spain. I have heard of no peace between Inca and France that would cause a sudden shift of aggression either... what ever happened to the phrase 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'?

...unless there is something more sinister going on! The smell of shameful opportunism seems to be in the air.

Greece continues to be watchful.

[King Thor]

--- Chairman Thor Address's his nation tonight, let us listen in-----

.... I have watched my nation bullied and beaten. I can watch this no more.
I have watched the greed and envy rise amongst my neighbors, but now I shall protect whats mine.
If war is inevitable, then so be it! Our people stand willing to give up their lives to defend our mother!
IF the hounds from hell have come to our door, drueling for our blood.. FINE!
We shall quench their thirst...
Let us Unleash the Dogs of war!

Tomorrow the Sun shall rise upon a new world. A world in which there will be hardship and sacrifice, but we will not give up! We will not surrender! We're going to live on! We're going to Survive! We will make it clear in no uncertain terms ... That they can take our lives, but they can NEVER . TAKE ... OUR FREEDOM!


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Our letter to the Spanish Dictator,

We wish to inform you that we have had to conduct a series of strikes against terrorist base camps. It is unfortunate that they were operating from within your borders and our military personnel needed to cross your border in order to pursue these criminals.

We are sure the Spanish leader will understand the need to exterminate these foes of civilization, and not be alarmed by us taking temporary control of a small region of Spain in order to find the terrorist groups hiding in the mountains, so that we can bring them to justice.

Perhaps you can help us, for our intelligence agency indicates that the Fascist ideals that your government preaches have directly led to the forming of these terrorist groups that want to exterminate all 'inferior races'.

we sympathize with the loss of so many ships at sea, and hope that the design of newer Spanish vessels will keep them from sinking so often and so readily.

You have our best wishes, and our prayers.

Chairman Thor, of the Incan Republic.

[hexagonian]

Slightly Off-Topic...

Sorry about this, but I have a 40 hour monthly limit on my free internet provider at home, which was filled up last night. My son has been online a lot this month.

I am planning on going to a friend's house to check for turns, but I am also going to be gone most of tomorrow with the family, so any Greek turns that do come in will have to wait until Sunday. I will check Sunday afternoon - but I cannot be going over there a lot to keep checking for them, so if the turn is not in when I check, it will have to wait until Monday night.

I will also be able to download a turn from work on Monday, and should be able to play and send Monday night, as that will renew my internet account for the month of October.

Back to the nuttiness...

[St Jon]

Turn to Madrid.

Party Statement

France has found herself in something of a conduary.

A special meeting of the Party Secretariat was convened to discuss both the dramatic events of the last Turn and the Inca Peace Offer.

After long debate it was decided that the wrongs suffered by France from the desolation of a single Fishery were as to nothing when compared with the Economic Terrorism practiced by our long thought friends.

The discovery of a Capitalist "PigDog" behind his desk deep within French territory was the final straw! You have infringed upon our land, declared unilateral borders at whim and have set upon us a myriad of vile agent's of the disgrace that is Fascistic Capitalist Greed!

The PDRF has therefore signed a formal Treaty of Alliance with Chairman Thor with the sole aim of bringing tyranny to an end. We call upon the people of Spain to rise up against your oppressors and join us in the fight for justice for the proletariat.

This day, 28/09/01, shall forever be remembered as 'Liberation Day'! The citizens of Reus and Alicante need no longer live in fear of oppression and, once they have recovered from the initial shock, those still living in Montello should feel equally content. It is a great shame that a few villages were razed to the ground during the APF manouvres but it must be understood that those who seek War must bear the guilt! France also regrets her need to use 'tactical' nuclear weopons but hopes that the World recognises that she was left with little choice when faced with the sheer power that 'was' Spain.

Chairman Jon, PDF.

[MOBIUS]

Finally this phoney war between France and Inca has been exposed as the sham that it truly is!

Since the beginning Spain has been suspicious of the dubious pretext of war used by the French to attack the Inca, and the goals of little strategic value...

While all along the world's two vile pollution belching communist nations have been thick as thieves planning a huge surprise attack on Spain by using this tissue of lies as a devious and despicable cover up in order to mass their vast armies along Spain's borders for a massive strike! Not even the legendary attack by the Japanese on 'Pearl Harbour' can compete with the sheer underhand audacity - the sheer and outright violent and cowardly attack on six Spanish cities!!!

Do not heed the poisionous lies of the French!!!

How could two nations at war only the last cycle suddenly become allies and strike with such a planned and overwhelming force!!?

What is truly staggering is that with the World teetering on the brink of environmental disaster - the French decide to use nukes, hitting one of the World's largest cities, Montellano!

The French have the deaths of over 12 million civilians on their hands!

'liberate'? 'Tactical'?

All out nuclear war perpetrated by France - nothing more, nothing less!

If liberation is death in the communist lexicon, the Spain will not rest until every French and Incan military unit has been 'Liberated' from the face of this earth!!!

Spain's initial responses have been crushing! Whilst taken aback by the sheer size of the enemy forces ranged against us, Spain has been in preparation for such an attack since Greece's self imposed exile upset the delicate balance of power and France and Inca concocted such a hair brained scheme that, when the dust settles, will prove to be the greatest irony!

Had France and Inca not wasted time putting their forces through such an intricate charade, and merely attacked with surprise en masse - Spain as a peaceful and unsuspecting nation would truly have been taken by surprise!

Spain now calls for an environmental crusade against the filth being spewed by the communists and asks for the Fascists of the World to:

unite against tyranny!

unite against unprovoked aggression!

destroy the filthy subhuman communists and their lap dogs!

Do not stand by and watch our green and peaceful world get torn apart by war and pollution! If you do nothing, the communists will destroy more cities with their nuclear weapons!

If you do nothing - your own countries will fall victim to the death and decay emanating from the cancerous sores of these agents of destruction as dead areas multiply in your once verdant lands, and whole cities sink beneath the waves!

We Spanish, call upon the Greeks and Welsh to stand by us shoulder to shoulder so that we may destroy the global terrorism wrought by the evil of communism!

news from the front

Dozens of enemy units have been destroyed in the Spanish counter offensive!

Incan airpower outside the recently lost city of Pamplona has been comprehensively wiped out!

Alicante has been retaken!

As have the blackened husks of Montellano and Reus, although the survivors of Reus had to be dispersed as the city had taken too much damage!

The French force outside Granada has also been neutralised!

Spain mourns for the cities of Cojones and Cabron - utterly destroyed by the merciless French butchers!

Spanish losses have been mininal due to the expected nature of these attacks and the fact that the Spanish army has been massively bolstered by the professionalism of the many extra Fascist units drafted in these last few years!

Spain salutes her fallen men, women and children as true heroes!

Muerte a los agresores!


Tomas de Torquemada

[Keygen]

" So the French and the Incans launched a surprise attack against our neighbors. They even used nukes! Wales condemn the use of nuclear weapon against any nation. This is getting out of control...

I ask for the immidiate cease of fire and sign of peace treaty otherwise might have serious implications!"

General Constantine

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Turn 171 to Hex.

[The True Demosthenes]

Sorry to interupt, but is Hex back in business?

Surely this is good news for everyone!

[hexagonian]

Hey Demos, good to see ya. I'm in retirement, but made a promise to Rick to fill in for him about 5 months ago, so I'm making good on it. Don't know about coming back again though, too many other things going on in my life.

Back to the game...

‘’Great Eye, terrible news. Nuclear war has been unleashed on the world.’’

‘’A terrible tragedy, indeed. I do not think that Great Xenophon EVER anticipated this occurance, for he never prepared Me for this possiblity. It is Our hope that he will return soon, for the decisions made by Greece may very well alter the course of history. What to do, what to do...’’

Greece remains watchful.

Hextapul has spoken!

As Rick will be back on Wednesday, please forward the next turn to both him and I - I do not know who will be doing it.

[King Thor]

It appears that the Spanish military has begun assisting us in removing the Terrorist camps in the hills of pampalona, we regret any casualties that the Spanish may have suffered in the cross fire.

Also, we are greatly alarmed by the outbreak of nuclear war between France and Spain! It appears the French have shifted their goals from us to the Spanish! This is a terrible tragedy, and we hope that the two nations reach a peaceful settlement. We will remain neutral through this conflict and confine ourselves to the removal of the terrorist organizations that were responsible for the sinking of 4 of our Destroyers and the bombing of one of our Freight trains. The Incan republic does not wish to be dragged into a bloody nuclear conflict.


Incan officials were alarmed at the news that the Greeks have launched an unprovoked attack upon Incan divisions gaurding her borders. It appears that the Greeks even captured a key Incan city. We wish to know the justification behind these unprovoked attacks?

What was it? Why does the impostor of our great founder send his troops to attack us? We wish to make things clear

- the Greek nation and the Incanc Republic have always enjoyed a friendly relationship. Why do you attack us even though the noble Xenophon made it clear to you that, our relationship should not be soured? Why do you threaten the bond between our countries? Perhaps you hope to cease control of it??

- Was it that you are angered about the fact that the names of the Incan cities had changed? Even if your deluded mind DOES believe that you were the founder of our great nation, I will have you know, that it was the Dictator Quinns who changed those names before.. not I! If this is what the war is about, you could have simply requested me to change them and I would have seriously considered it!

- Are you greedy? Ah! But what do you have to gain from capturing a strategic, but otherwise valueless Incan city? What would you hope to gain from attacking a poor Incan nation, that is so weak that it must deploy its full military might just to eradicate a bunch of rag tag terrorists!

- You were bored and wanted a piece of the action? .. Why not join us in eradicating the terrorist camps holed up within fascist Spain instead of killing innocent Incan civilians? Thats right! Why not join us in eliminating this menace. It is true that our small military operations 'might' just help the French in their aggressive war, but ignore them! Look at the great service we will have done humanity!

If none of the above were the reasons you attacked, then I demand to know the real reason! And I demand that you leave Incan territory immediately! And I demand an apology Also send some of your fine Greek women this way if at all possible!

[MOBIUS]

Just to let you know...

Apparently Jon has screwed his PC by installing Windows XP.

He asked if we could wait for him to fix it.

I said OK - what do the rest of you think, seeing as it's a sensitive time in the game?

[King Thor]

oookay!

[Keygen]

And I was wondering what's the hold up for.

Well, you know my policy about nexting people

[St Jon]

Hi Guy's,

I am sorry not to have sent you all individual emails over this but, amongst most other things, XP has trashed my Address Book.

As part of my vain attempt to resurrect some form of order I would deeply appreciate it if you could all send me a Test email so that I can log your current addresses to save for the complete system reload I am going to have to do. My new email address is jonfurderer@nutshell.net and it would help me.

I do hope you all can appreciate my desire not to call upon Birdman to Sub for me at the very start of a war and he is the only other CtP player that I have in my Hotmail Address Book.

I am fully aware that far more than 24hrs has elapsed and I know that I cannot backup all the Files I need to before I FDISK the the lot and reload all my old software in a matter of a few days. Sadly I have to work graveyard shifts at the moment so my time is limited anyway but next week it's back to days.

I apologise again but I cannot tell you exactly when I will be back to full order but it is a matter of several days.

Regards All,
Jon.

[Rick Elkins]

Hi guys,

I'm back, and see that little has transpired in our sleepy little game while I was away.

I'm OK with a delay while Jon gets his computer back to speed.

Rick/Xenophon

[TheBirdMan]

jonfurderer@nutshell.net

So that's were you're hiding you mail now?!

Think you change e-mail addresses faster than even Keygen and Hunter used to earlier this year.

Now you probably miss your chance to play as ALLY with Lung and Swissy as I have invited Keygen in instead of you in the Alliance-game(s).

[Keygen]

So when is Jon going to fix his PC?
Isn't two weeks enough time to fix it?
Either he need to buy an entirely new PC and doesn't have the money or that was just an excuse to withdraw from all of his games and disappear

Guys, has anyone any contact with Jon?

[King Thor]

Or maybe this is part of his delaying tactics to allow for the return of Rick since Hexatapul is obviously an evil tyrant bent on world domination.

[Keygen]

Originally posted by King Thor
Or maybe this is part of his delaying tactics to allow for the return of Rick since Hexatapul is obviously an evil tyrant bent on world domination.

But Rick is back

[hexagonian]

Me, evil...I don't think so.

Merely maintaining Greek security in a very difficult time.

[Keygen]

OK guys, I suggest to wait until weekend and if Jon haven't shown up since then I will post for a permanent sub. Unless BirdMan is willing to take over

[TheBirdMan]

I'm his sub - so of course I'll play.

[Rick Elkins]

Well, if Jon is having long-term problems of some kind, you may need to take over, Birdman.

[TheBirdMan]

I'm ready for a turn.

[MOBIUS]

Well I emailed Jon a few days back saying 'the natives were getting restless', he said he'd post on this thread to say what's going on, but hasn't...

Guess we should pass those turns to Birdman until we hear from Jon...

Welcome aboard Max!

P.S. Is this your email addy Thor? mustansir_g@hotmail.com I have sent an email to say let's continue.

[TheBirdMan]

Turn to the spanish.

An eye for an eye.

A cowardly spanish nukeattack has been repayed this morning.

The spanish target is nothing but ruins now. 80% of the polulation are dead. The spanish garrison destroyed.

Other sad news received Paris this morning. The greeks war against the incans.

Pls think twice. The defeat of a weak nation as the incans will not change your position in this game of power. Only a major part of Spain can do that. Eat or be eaten, learn that now - or learn that later. If you choose the latter, then remember these words.

On behalf of our great leader, his holiness St. Jon.
General Maxim of the french armed forces.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by TheBirdMan
An eye for an eye.

An eye for an eye...

Who started this nuclear war!!?

France and her Incan lackeys will reap what they have sown - two large Spanish cities have been hit by the communists and millions of citizens murdered! A further two have been 'sacrificed' for the greater good of Spain as she finds herself in need of defending herself against the communist scum!

Whilst France was dealt a severe blow last cycle, her Incan lapdogs were the target this cycle with the retaking of Pamplona, the sinking of an Incan naval squadron outside Madrid and the utter destruction of two whole divisions of Marines E. of Menorca!

Spanish actions against France were still strong with the taking of Dijon and strikes as far inland as Cannes, where production was halted by Spanish Lawyers and many trade routes pirated!

Spain will not stop until our soldiers stand proud over the corpse of the French military machine!!!


Tomas de Torquemada

[faded glory]

umm guys I know I dont play in this game.....But I did recieve a turn

Anyway, my bets are that mother earth will win this game . You guys keep it up and there will be absolutely nothing left nothing