Grey Dip Spring 1901 Results

[Dave Boshko]

http://www.geocities.com/dboshko/greys1901.GIF
MISTAKE ON MAP: I forget to delete the A Lvp, there shouldn't be an A Lvp just an A Yor...

France
F Bre-Mao
A Par-Pic
A Mar H

Austria
A Bud-Ser
F Tri-Alb
A Vie-Tri

Russia
F StP-Fin
A Mos-Sev (move fails)
A War-Ukr
F Sev-Arm (move fails)

Germany
F Kie-Den
A Mun-Boh
A Ber-Sil

Italy
F Nap-Ion
A Rom-Ven
A Ven-Pie

Turkey
A Con-Bul
F Ank-Bla
A Smy-Arm (move fails)

England
F Edi-Nth
F Lon-Eng
A Lvp-Yor

[Sed]

Austria would like to ask the same thing...

Do not think the French won't take advantage of this highly unorthodox manuver.

[Sed]

France wishes to assure Germany our alliance will hold up.

We wish to ask England what the hell they are doing, declaring the English Channel a DMZ then violating it...we hope your fleets do not sail for Belgium or French soil.

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[Sed]

England would like to apologise to France for his brief bout of paranoia. You can be assured that no attempt will be made to take French-speaking soil.

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Live by the sword, die by the sword

[Sed]

The French shall accept this apology and we look forward to further co-operation.

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[Sed]

[hint]

Polite enquiry... will the German be bouncing Russia out of Sweden?

[/hint]

[Sed]

This is an interesting opening.

France is in deep deep trouble. But Germany is gone from the equation, so France could very well stand against both England and Italy. However, it does not look like France will get more than one build, while England might get two.

The qustion is, what is most important to France, getting one build themselves, or denying a build to England?

If France moves
F MAO -> Bre
A Pic -> Bel

England will not get more than one build (Nor or Hol), while France might get one build depending on whether England moves Eng to Bre or Bel.

But if France moves
F Mao -> Spa
A Pic -> Bel
France will assuredly get one build, regardless of whether England goes to Bre or Bel, but England will get two builds providing he goes to Brest...

Fun fun fun!

In the south it is equally interesting.

If Trieste goes to Vienna, and Bohemia goes to Vienna they will bounce.

But if Trieste goes to Vienna, and Bohemia goes to Galicia, Venice could sneak into Trieste unopposed. Unless Albania returns to Trieste, in which case Austria loses Greece.


And if Bohemia goes to Galicia, while Silesia bounces Mos -> War, Germany will have Warsaw in a tight little pacakge. Unless Russia bounces Bohemia by moving Ukr -> Gal. Which will assuredly give up Rumania, which is propably a lost cause any way, since Turkey can bounce Russia in either case.

Unless, of course, Turkey decides that Greece is to tempting to deny Austria, which means Austria will have to decide between Trieste and Greece.

Permutations, permutations.

See yall!

Snugglewums


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Live by the sword, die by the sword

[Midshipman]

Well, this makes for interesting reading.
[This message has been edited by Midshipman (edited November 22, 2000).]

[Sed]

France shall not tolerate any English moves toward Bretagne or Belgium. We wish that the Brits trade this for future co-operation against foriegn powers.

If not, France shall be forced to use it's alliance with Russia and Germany against England.

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[Sed]

*Announcement*

Russia-Germany-France Announce alliance to defend against British invasion of France and the Lowlands. Any invasion of Germany will not be tolerated.

However, we give you Sweden and Norway.

I suggest that England not be greedy at this time.



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[Sed]

Italy requests that France vacate Mar and we shall vacate Pie.

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[Sed]

Italy would also like to ask her ally Austria to play A Ser-Bul. This'll help our allies the Russians out: it makes it much tougher for the Turks to take or even bounce them out of Rumania, and on the off chance of F Bla S A Bul-Rum, then you'll simply collect Bul in their wake.

[Sed]

To: Germany
From: The Rest of the World
Re: What the heck are you up to?!?

(insert contents of letter here

[Sed]

England would like to further reassure France that, especially given the current situation on the board, there is no need to worry about an English stab. It is interesting to note, however, that France does not seem to know even the names of his own home centres...

[Sed]

Turkey would like to point out to Austria that an attack on Bulgaria would equal war.

Also, an attack on Bulgaria would give Italy a free walk-in on Greece, or a free walk-in in Trieste. In worst case, Austria would be bounced in greece and lose Trieste, ending up with three centers in fall 1901.

Instead, either support F Alb -> Gre or move Ser -> Gre, in case you want to cover Trieste. After all, Trieste is far more valuable than Serbia.