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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volume 1 Number 3 MAD AS HELL May 16, 1982 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information: Steve Knight ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!knight harpo!stolaf!knight