Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address. For the complete text go to
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/farewell.htm .July, 2005.           Deadline for all games: Mon, August 22
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Welcome to Tinamou #57, produced by Dave Partridge,
15 Woodland Drive, Brookline NH, 03033 (email: rebhuhn of rocketmail.com ). Tinamou now appears on the web in conjunction with TAP. The web page has everything you’ll find here including maps. Go to Jim’s index page /Postal/Zines/TAP and check it out, your comments and suggestions are welcome! TOPFantasy Football
: Yes, it’s that time again! Once again I will offer two games, Weekly Winner Pick and Simple Fantasy Football. See below for rules.Gunboat with press: Five signed up so far.
Perestroika Diplomacy: Add an economic twist to the classic game. Centers generate revenue, armies and fleets must be maintained, and treasuries can be sacked! Rules are available on request.
Signed up: Art Schleinkofer, Harold Reynolds, Karl Schmit, Graham Wilson
Standard Diplomacy:
Game Opening: Standard Diplomacy
Signed up:
Just the results please: Don’t really know what to call this one as I just came up with it. Perhaps it’s been tried before. The twist for this variant is that each season only the ending unit positions are published, not the orders. You’ll know who went where, but not who helped whom, or want may have been tried unsuccessfully.
Signed up: Doug Kent, Graham Wilson, Art Schleinkofer
Industrial Waste:
A new game for 3-4 players. Manager your factory and build your products, but beware, increased production means more waste, and if you aren’t careful you’ll find that working in a sludge pit affects your productivity and the bottom line.
Game Opening:
Railway Rivals: Anyone have a favorite map they want?
Brendan has volunteered his REVISED Victoria map.
Signed up: Brendan Whyte, Brad Martin, Richard Weiss, Andrew Glynn
Richard has suggested some possible maps:
Two maps from Dampfross – Ireland and Russia seem appealing as well.
If any of these are appealing to anyone let me know. I just need someone to send me a map.
Transcontinental USA: Eric Brosius’s variant. Now that we’ve play tested it once we’ll try again with a few modifications to reduce the east coast congestion a bit.
Signed up: Eric Brosius, Conrad von Metzke, Mike Barno, Brendan Whyte, Andrew Glynn, Richard Weiss (Will start when Perdu winds down.)
Outpost: Sign up for the next game to start when the current one finishes
GAME START: Dyson, Michael Lowrey, Karl Schmit, Cary Nichols, Eric Brosius, Andy York, Chris Hassler, Kevin Wilson
Snowball fighting: Current game is over. Anyone interested in another go? 4 signed up so far, Need a few more.
Golden Strider: It is to running what Breaking Away is to bike riding. See Tom’s szine off-the-shelf at
http://www. olympus.net/personal/thowell/o-t-s/index.html for some games in progress.Signed up: Tom Howell, Dennis Menear
Sopwith: Snoopy just started. I’ll start taking names now for the next game if anyone’s interested.
Brendan Whyte
Catan: Settlers or Seafarers, player choice: Signed up: Brad Martin, Al Tabor, Andrew Glynn
Reader’s Choice: I’m open to anything, just send me the rules and if I think I can run it, I’ll offer it.
TOPFantasy Football
Weekly Winner Pick: Each week, each player submits a team name. If the team does not win that week, the player is eliminated. Players may use a team only once during the season. Last player remaining wins.
Simple Fantasy Football: Each player submits a list of the teams in an ordered list. Teams are then assigned to players as follows:
If only one player has a team as the first choice, the player gets the team. If there are multiple players who choose a team, then if a single player has the lowest resolution score, that player gets the team. If there are multiple players with the same resolution score, then a die roll determines the result. All players start with a resolution score of 0. If a player wins a tie their score is increased by 1. If a player loses a tie, their score is reduced by 1. Players will have two or three teams depending on the number of players in the game. Each week, if the team wins a game, the player who owns the team gains one point. The season is broken into four quarters. Trades for any unclaimed team can be registered at any time during a quarter although they only take place when the new quarter starts. Thus a player who begins the game with the Bills and registers a trade of the Bills for the Jets on week 2 will continue to score the Bills until week 5, at which point the new quarter starts and the Jets begin to score for that player. As soon as the trade was registered in week 2, the Bills became available for other players to trade for. A team traded away during a quarter can not be acquired again during the same quarter. The winner is the player with the most points at the end of the season. See
Persephone, Standard Diplomacy: Fall 1901
Country |
Player |
Address |
Austria | Graham Wilson |
48 Harbourview Cresent Toronto, Ontario M8V 4B1 |
England | Karl Muller |
3154 East Lydius Street Schenectady, NY 12303-5035 |
France | Fred Wiedemeyer |
Box 92010, Meadowbrook R.P.O. Edmonton, AB T6T 1N1 CANADA |
Germany | John Power |
18 Tilton Court Baltimore, MD 21236 |
Italy | Matt Sundstrom | 1760 Robincrest Ln. S. Glenview, IL 60025 |
Russia | Cary Nichols | 756532-938 South FM1673 Snyder, TX 79549-8812 |
Turkey | Hank Alme |
506 Paige Loop Los Alamos, NM 87544 |
Fall 1901 Moves
England lands on the continent. Italy attempts some trickery but the French switch his maps on him. Russia achieves the dubious distinction of having all his moves fail. Bulgaria and Sweden remain unaligned.
Country | Moves |
Austria | f alb - gre, a vie - gal, a ser s t a bul – rum |
England | f nth c yor - bel, f nwg – nwy, a yor – bel |
France | f mao - por, a mar - spa , a bur – mar |
Germany | f den – swe, a kie - hol, a ruh – mun |
Italy | f tys - tun, a rom -tus, a pie s f a spa – mar (nsu) |
Russia | a war - gal, a ukr - rum, f bla s ukr - rum, f gob – swe |
Turkey | a ank h, a bul - rum, f con – bla |
Winter 1901 Adjustments
Austria | tri, bud, vie, ser, gre | build 2 |
England | lon, edi, lvp, bel, nwy | build 2 |
France | bre, par, mar, spa, por | build 2 |
Germany | ber, mun, kie, hol, den | build 2 |
Italy | ven, nap, rom, tun | build 1 |
Russia | sev, war, mos, stp | even |
Turkey | con, ank, smy, rum | build 1 |
TOP
Persphone Fall 1901
Carrier Pigeon (2003E), Standard Diplomacy, Fall 1906
Postal negotiations only
Due to a filing error, the Cloak of Invisibility was granted to Russian units last turn. This power has been returned to the Romulans and Russian units are now visible again. Apparently invisibility was not kind to the Russians! The E/F alliance marches onwards, gaining six centers and dominating over half of Europe. Austria bounces Turkey out of Smy, frustrating Russia’s attempt to move into Ank. R and T continue to trade "why don’t you write" complaints and Italy falls by the wayside.
Country |
Player |
Address |
Austria | Cary Nichols | 756532-938 South FM1673 Snyder, TX 79549-8812 |
England | Robert Dowrey |
76 Potter Avenue
Orchard Park, NY 14127 |
France | Karl Schmit |
1509 O'Keefe Rd De Pere, WI 54115 |
Germany | Hank Alme |
506 Paige Loop Los Alamos, NM 87544 |
Italy | John Power |
18 Tilton Court Baltimore, MD 21236 |
Russia
|
Doug Kent |
Unit F #30694-177 Federal Correctional Institution McKean PO Box 8000 Bradford, PA 16701 |
Turkey | Fred Wiedemeyer |
Box 92010, Meadowbrook R.P.O. Edmonton, AB T6T 1N1 CANADA |
Summer 1906 Retreats
Italy: A Pie -> VenFall 1906 Moves
Country | Moves |
Austria | a tri – vie, a ser s a rum, a rom – nap, a bud s a tri – vie, a rum s a ser, f ems – smy |
England | a ruh s f a bur- mun, a kie-ber, f bal s a kie-ber, f swe h, f nth h, a nwy-stp, f nws-nwy |
France | a bur-mun, f mao-naf, f wes-tun f nap s a rom, a tyr-ven, a pie s a tyr-ven |
Germany | out |
Italy | f tys h, a ven h |
Russia | f stp – nwy, a sil – mun, a boh – vie, a gal s a sev – rum, a sev – rum, a mos – ukr, f ber h, f arm – ank |
Turkey | a ank – smy, f bul/ec – blk, a gre - bul a alb – gre, f ion – aeg |
Retreats
Russia: F Ber – Pru, OTB
Italy: A Ven – Tri, Apu, Tus, OTB
Winter 1906 Adjustments
Austria | tri, bud, vie, ser, rum, rom | even/disband 1 |
England | lon, edi, lvp, bel, hol, den, kie, ber, swe, nwy | build 3 |
France | bre, par, spa, por, mar, nap, ven, tun, mun | build 3 |
Germany | out | |
Italy |
|
out/disband 1 |
Russia |
sev, war, mos, stp, |
disband 4 |
Turkey | con, ank, smy, bul, gre | even |
Press:
turk-gm: can you really really make the russian units disappear off the map like that for good?
England to France - I hope I remembered to write. You Didn't.
England to Turkey - This may take a while. Tell these other guys to write once in a while!
England to Austria - Welcome to our little squabble. I have no morals or scruples and will gladly sell out to the highest bidder or best offer. How about you?
R -> E: I knew it was coming when I saw the last turn's results, but I had to chance it. Oh well. I won't hold it against you.
R -> T: I know mail goes both ways... I haven't had any from Canada in at least <five> months.
Ed note: The word <five> in Doug's letter was illegible to me, but I'm sure that if it's not five, it's a big number (<:
TOPCarrier Pigeon Fall 1906
TOP
Breaking Away: Keep Pedalin’ Orville
And we are off! Remember that for the first turn only if there are five or more riders on a square, then the square before that one is treated as if it were empty (so riders on the overcrowded square replenish with a 3, riders on the next square count only the overcrowded square’s riders, etc.)
Big East Basketball Coaches (Jim Burgess) 0 points
A |
Rick Pitino |
1 |
5 |
9 |
15 |
|
B |
Tim Welsh |
4 |
8 |
13 |
||
C |
Jim Calhoun |
3 |
7 |
10 |
||
D |
Jim Boeheim |
2 |
6 |
8 |
:
Anti-Nihilists (Karl Schmit) 0 points
A |
Walter Sobchak |
2 |
6 |
8 |
14 |
|
B |
Donny |
3 |
7 |
15 |
||
C |
The Dude |
1 |
8 |
11 |
||
D |
Brandt |
1 |
5 |
10 |
A |
Westley, aka The Man in Black, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts |
2 |
6 |
9 |
13 |
|
B |
Inigo Montoya, aka the Spaniard |
3 |
7 |
15 |
||
C |
Fezzik, aka the Giant, aka the Brute Squad |
4 |
5 |
11 |
||
D |
Buttercup, aka the Princess Bride |
1 |
7 |
8 |
(Brendan Whyte) 0 points
A |
Abel |
2 |
6 |
10 |
12 |
|
B |
Baker |
3 |
8 |
14 |
||
C |
Charlie |
4 |
7 |
9 |
||
D |
Dickhead |
5 |
5 |
6 |
A |
Dale Earnhardt |
1 |
4 |
11 |
14 |
|
B |
Jimmy Spencer |
3 |
8 |
14 |
||
C |
Geoff Bodine |
2 |
4 |
14 |
||
D |
Tony Stewart |
1 |
1 |
14 |
A |
Brick |
1 |
5 |
9 |
15 |
|
B |
Lumber |
4 |
8 |
13 |
||
C |
Wheat |
3 |
7 |
10 |
||
D |
Ore |
2 |
6 |
8 |
Press:
MIKE to JIM and DAVE: I'm looking forward to this game. Particularly eagerly do I anticipate less obnoxiously gloatful gonna-win press from JB's team, and the resulting reduction in smack-loudmouth-loser-upside-the-head press from MB's team.