Fall 1901 orders builds and retreats: the results

Hello Europe! Here's how you're looking at the start of the Spring 02 turn.



(As always, click on the map to embiggenise it)

Please can I have your Spring 02 orders by 7pm, on Sunday 7th March. I am very sorry to everyone as this leaves you with a turn that is two weeks long, however - next week I'm ordering Dunc Wal-Tyr (hopefully I won't get bounced out) and sadly internet is well expensive abroad.

I am sure that you all have plenty to talk about though ;)

When I'm back after the 7th we'll return to the usual one week turn length.

Don't forget to let me know where you want units to retreat to if you think they will be pushed out of where they are. As everyone's nuzzled up to each other's borders have a look at page 6 onwards of the rules about supporting units. It's probably worth playing through different options on jDip too.

And here are the orders I recieved:

Austria (6 supply centres)

F Alb-Gre
A Gal-War
A Ser S F Alb-Gre

Austria captures War, Ser & Gre
Austria builds armies in Bud, Tri & Vie

England (4 supply centres)

F Lon-Eng
A Yor-Nwy
F Nth C A Yor-Nwy

England captures Nwy
England builds an army in Lon

France (4 supply centres)

A Spa Holds
A Bur-Mar ... bounce!
F Bre-Mid

France captures Spa
France builds an army in Mar

Germany (6 supply centres)

A Ruh-Bel
A Kie-Hol
F Den-Swe ... bounce!

Germany captures Bel, Hol and Den
Germany builds an army in Mun and fleets in Ber and Kie

Italy (4 supply centres)

A Tus-Tun
F Tys C A Tus-Tun
A Pie-Mar ... bounce!

Italy captures Tun
Italy builds a fleet in Nap

Russia (4 supply centres)

A Sev-Ukr
F Rum Holds
A Lvn-Swe ... bounce!
F Bot C A Lvn-Swe

Russia captures Rum
Russia loses War
No new builds

Turkey (4 supply centres)
F Con-Aeg
A Bul-Gre
A Ank-Con

Turkey captures Bul
Turkey Builds a fleet in Smy

Spring 1901 orders: the results

Thank you everyone for getting orders in to me! Here's the state of Europe just before Fall 1901.


(click to embiggen)

Please can I have your Fall 01 orders by 7pm, on Sunday 21st February. That gives everyone a week to diplomat at each other this turn. This will be the usual turn length.

Don't forget to let me know where you want units to retreat to if you think they will be pushed out of where they are. Also if you think you're going to capture some new supply centres then let me know what type of unit you want to build and where.

And here are the orders I recieved:

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

England
A Lvp-Yor
F Lon-Eng ... bounce!
F Edi-Nth

France
A Par - Bur
A Mar - Spa
F Bre - Eng ... bounce!

Germany
A Mur-Ruh
F Kie-Den
A Ber-Kie

Italy
A Rom-Tus
A Ven-Pie
F Nap-Tyn

Russia
F Sev-Rum
F StP(sc)-Bot
A Mos-Sev
A War-Lvn

Turkey
A Smy-Ank
A Con-Bul
F Ank-Con

(in future turns I'll stick a date on the map so it's easier to follow what's going on).

A statistical look at Spring 01

While you're all mulling over your opening moves, I thought I'd present a good analysis of opening moves.

There's a lot of good articles on opening strategy on this page.

Retreats and builds

I was meaning to write this at some point this week, but seeing as Neil G asked specifically how retreats and builds will work, here we go...

The turn structure as set out in the rules is below.

Spring
1. Negotiation
2. Teams privately write down and submit orders for each unit
3. Moves are calculated—each player’s moves happen simultaneously.
4. Any units pushed out of territories retreat if possible or are disbanded.

Autumn
1. Negotiation
2. Teams privately write down and submit orders for each unit
3. Moves are calculated—each player’s moves happen simultaneously.
4. Any units pushed out of territories retreat if possible or are disbanded
5. Adjustments: gaining and losing military units

Basically, for e-mail Diplomacy (or how I've played it), turn phases 1. and 2. happen at the same time with you all talking and submitting orders up to the deadline. The deadline is when I kick in and work out phases 3. 4. and 5. if it's an Autumn turn.

This means you need to submit new builds and retreats along with your orders.

Retreats

If you think that a unit may be dislodged from the position that it is in then you can specify a territory for it to retreat to. This territory must be one it is able to move to during a normal movement phase - so no ordering fleets over the Alps and into central Europe :)

I'm happy to take different options for retreats, as long as you make it clear which order they are in -

eg, "if the fleet in Greece is forced to retreat then it will move to Albania, if Albania is occupied then it will retreat to the Ionian Sea".

Be clear when ordering retreats so that I'm certain what it's doing in different circumstances, if it's not clear what you want the unit to do then it'll retreat somewhere random - likewise if it doesn't have a retreat order it'll go somewhere random.

If there's nowhere for the unit to retreat to then it'll be disbanded.

Builds

Similarly, if you have occupied a new supply centre in Autumn, you will get to build a new army or fleet in one of your home supply centres (assuming you've not found yourself at the recieving end of a 6 way alliance and have some home supply centres left).

Again, specify what you want built, and in which supply centre. Again, I'm happy to take contingency plans -

eg, if I have captured one new supply centre then I will build a fleet in London, if I have captured two new supply centres then I will build a fleet in London and army in Edinburgh.

(Tim - if you build a fleet in Saint Petersburg then don't forget to say which coast!)

One final point, dont forget that supply centres are only captured during the Autumn/Fall phase of a turn. If you move a unit into a neutral supply centre this spring, and straight back out again in Autumn then you don't capture it and you don't get to build any new units.

Cool, hope that's cleared things up.

Edit - just realised, at some point you might find yourself with more units than supply centres. If this happens during the adjustment phase of Autumn then the relevent amount of units will be disbanded. I'll pick these at random unless you say what unit/s you'd prefer to be disbanded

Cool, hope that's cleared things up. More so.