Deadline Summer 1741

Midnight Sunday August 4th

News Spring 1741

The Europe Guardian

Spring 1741

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Plucky Sweden hammered East and West

Tiny Sweden, little more than a minor power, has suffered attack in the east from Russia who poured a major offensive into Finland.

After a brief skirmish around a minor fortress the Swedes were lucky to escape with all their forces intact

The Swedish rearguard hold back the Russians while the army escapes

Meanwhile in the west, although it managed to bring  Norway under its wing, it suffered a reverse in its attempt to seize Mecklenberg where it gave way to an invading English force pushing out from Hanover.

France gambles on abandoning colonies

Louis XV has begun the campaigning season with a bold gesture. He has withdrawn all his forces from his colonial possessions, happily leaving them to an English takeover.

His concentrated European armies have marched into Savoy, where two regiments of Savoyards flocked to his colours. Lorraine and the Palatinate. although unrest here means that although he has recruited an extra regiment, unrest in the province will deny him its income and he cannot post new units there.

more controversialy Louis has also thrust into the Austrian Netherlands where the garrison, mistaking him for an ally has thrown in its lot with the Bourbon.

French infantry welcomed by the  ladies of the Austrian Netherlands

Maps Spring 1741

Maps: Spring 1741

Headlines Spring 1741

European Times
Spring 1741

Headlines

France abandons colonial ambitions: 

England fills the void

Austrian Netherlands overwhelmed

Prussia consolidates in Northern Europe

Sweden faces double threat

Ottoman armies surge North: 

Transylvania converts to Islam

Russia eyes Finland

Plague in Westphalia

Spring 1741: Results

Spring 1741: Results

All Powers had their orders in before the deadline

Points of conflict have been identified, the impact of entering neutral minor countries calculated (using the same criteria if invading a Power with overwhelming odds) and gains and losses quantified.

All Powers have been sent briefings on their current position.

Three Powers need to advise me as to their actions where there is conflict of interest. I doubt any are large enough to generate a tabletop clash.

I will neither request information on builds or set a Summer 1741 deadline until the conflicts have been dealt with.

Attacking minor Countries

Attacking Minor Countries

Before any conflict is resolved, I have decided to vary the procedure for calculating the issue of moving into a neutral territory.

In Consequences of Movement  in  Move Sequence Two Movement Phase I realise there is ambiguity and perhaps contradiction between sections A and B about moving into neutral territory. 

I am therefore reverting to the Attacking Minor Countries Table as provided in SoK. It will be easier to be consistent in methodolgy.

What you need to be aware of is that you need to enter a neutral province with at least the equivalent of it's strength points.  In this round no power loses a unit for entering a province where they are at a disadvantage but they may have been rebuffed.

My apologies for changing it but as I'm God......