From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!knight
Newsgroups: net.games.dip
Title: MAH v1n3
Article-I.D.: stolaf.335
Posted: Sun May 16 01:24:36 1982
Received: Mon May 17 00:29:27 1982

'I want you all to go to your windows, throw them open and yell, "I'm...

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 Volume 1 Number 3		MAD AS HELL		May 16, 1982
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		...and I'm not going to take it anymore!"'

					- Network (paraphrase),
					by Paddy Chayefsky

CONTENTS:	General Non-player News
		New Italy
		Fall 1901 Movement Results
		Spring 1901 -- Analysis

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General Non-player News:  

	The movement notations used to report turn results are not
intended to prevent others from participating.  If you are potentially
interested in what's going on here, but don't know how to decipher the
results, write for your *free* Network Diplomacy Guidelines.  If there
is a lot of demand, I will gladly publish them in a future issue.
Until then, I'd prefer mailing out individual copies.

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Since I have not heard from Rich and he has now missed two turns in a
row, we have a new Italy:

	Geoffrey Stone	  ...!decvac!pur-ee!minn-ua!umn-cs!geof 
			  ...!stolaf!minn-ua!umn-cs!geof
		  
	Geof is a senior in computer science at the University of
Minnesota.  He is currently lab manager for the University's center
for Micro-Electronics and Information Sciences (MEIS).  He is also
manager of the Csci dept's VAX system.  In between his duties and
academia, he is an avid gamer.  The connection through pur-ee will
probably be a bit faster than the other route; Geof can also be
reached at minn-ua!geof in case umn-cs is down.

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			FALL 1901

AUSTRIA:	 A Bud - Ser			Build (1) for Winter
		*A Trl - Ven*
		*F Tri S A Trl - Ven*

ENGLAND:	*A Yor - Bel*			No Change
		*F Nrg - Nwy*
		*F Nth C A Yor - Bel*

FRANCE:		*A Bur - Bel*			Build (2) for Winter
		 A Mar - Spa
		 F Mid - Por

GERMANY:	*A Mun - Bur*			Build (2) for Winter
		 A Ruh - Hol
		 F Den H

ITALY:	  	 A Rom S A Ven			No Change
		 A Ven H
		 F Nap - Ion

RUSSIA:		*A StP - Nwy*			Build (1) for Winter
		*A Ukr - Sev*
		 F Bot - Swe
		*F Sev - Bla*

TURKEY:		*A Arm - Sev*			Build (1) for Winter
		 A Bul - Rum
		*F Ank - Bla*

Adjustments (i.e., builds or disbandments) for the "Winter" 1901 game
turn are due in one (1) week, 6:00 p.m., Saturday, May 22.

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From:  cornell!gil
Date:  Mon Apr 26 23:26:34 1982

Subject:  Spring 1901 Movement Analysis

Comments on your game: Russia and Turkey are clearly at war. Russia will
be hard put to have both Rumania and Sevastopol at the end of 1901. In
the meantime, Austria-Hungary has made extremely unorthodox moves. He has
given up any chance of Greece in 1901, and may not even get Serbia if
Turkey decides to be nasty. Austria seems to be trying an attack on Italy,
although I would think a move of F Tri-Adr (he apparently tried F Tri-Alb)
would have been more effective here, although as we can see in this case
it wouldn't have helped much with both Italy's armies being their opening
positions. There is no one who is looking to be a Mediterranean power.
Of course Austria's Tyrolia move could be directed against Germany...

England's moves were standard, but showed a basic mistrust of France (the
Yorkshire move) and gave up the possibility of an early attack on Russia
through Scandinavia (F Lon-Nth, F Edi-Nrg, A Liv-Edi; F Nrg-Bar, A Edi-Nwy,
F Nth C A Edi-Nwy). Russia, on the other hand is showing distinct interests
in Scandinavia (A Mos-StP) and hostility towards England, forcing England
to support its fall move into Scandinavia.

France's opening shows not only a mistrust of Germany, but possible hostility.
He is in a position to get three builds (A Bur-Bel, F Mid-Por, A Mar-Spa), but
that would slow down any entry into the Mediterranean, which appears to be a
naval power vacuum.

Germany's moves give him the possibility of an easy two builds in 1901,
while leaving an army in Munich to guard against the possibility of an
Austrian incursion from Tyrolia. He does not show flagrant hostility against
France (no move to Burgundy (rare) nor to Holland (more common)). He may
be in a joint plan with Russia to attack England in the north.

Italy's moves do not belie his intentions.


All countries have an equal chance of winning! I always enjoyed playing
Austria most myself, often very successfully using an Austro-Turkish alliance
that my postal group first made popular (they said it couldn't be done! They
really did!). Many of the more spectacular victories I have seen postally
have been by some of the better players with Italy. Of course, I've seen
all the others win, too.

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