I like the way you picked Italy, yet your location says MUC (I’m assuming Munich?). If this is so, how could you live with yourself? 
We southern Germans are rather Italian by heart … just a quick hop over the Alps.
Plus, now that my armies are being rapidly diminished, I can always blame it on lax Italian work ethics 
I would rather blame it on the hypernationalistic blondes who invade the Italian beaches every summer.
What?
Yes, put the blame on the Swedes. Those darn northern tourists.
What?
Well, kids. Still no word from our missing party. I’m going to shoot off another message here shortly, and I’ll probably give the offending player until tomorrow morning at the very latest.
Should the Swedes be “taught a lesson?” 
FYI, the turn has been adjudicated and our Russian players was NMRed. I had hoped to avoid this, but I haven’t heard a word from him. The results have been mailed.
Note to the Russian Tsar, email me ASAP.
Ooh! Ooh! Let me play, I’d like to be two Russias at once.
Wikkit, if I don’t get some feedback soon, i may just have to take you up on that.
And if I do badly, I still win, since I predicted the imminent death of Russia an page 5.
I would offer to take over the Russian position, but that would be unfair to Turkey. I know his secrets. I know his master plan. Actually, I could sell the Turkish state secrets to the highest bidder. :dubious:
I take cash in advance.
What about a money order?
First you give him the fifties, then the twenties, then tens, fives, twos, ones…
Well, he is in a bad position, which is when most NMRs occur.
Note to other players: this is incredibly bad form, and will not get you invited into a lot of other games. If you things go bad, remember that it’s part of the game. Be a mensch and play until completio.
Omni: I’ve got a couple of other players filed away who wanted to be in a game, in case you need to find a replacement.
What are you talking about, Shibb? He’s almost conquered Germany!
Oh, and please don’t let Jonmarzie be Russia. The state secret thing is true. :eek:
I’m sure it’s all part of the Master Plan[sup]TM[/sup]
Well, I still haven’t heard a peep from Russia and if I don’t hear anything by sunday, I’m going to put the game on hold. No sense in NMRing a nation two turns in a row if he’s just going to be replaced anyways.
Players, has Russia been communicating with anyone in the past couple turns? Before I remove him from that game I want to be clear that he’s truly a dead stick.
Nothing to me. I sent a few emails a while back during the game and never received any sort of acknowledgment.
He hasn’t been communicating with me either - and he used to send mails all the time…I was actually wondering what had happened.
Not with me, either.
Though that isn’t surprising.