EMPIRES OF THE MIDDLE AGES, 991 AD ---------------------------------- Deadline for orders for this round: 18:00 GMT Friday January 9th NB France must discard an Event card in 991 orders Starting TURN 1 ROUND 4 Event cards played: 3,7,9,14,15,19,25,28,31,33,37,40,42,43,45,48,49,50,53,54 Church status: schism Empire#1 (German Empire, Otto V?) 11G 5-9-1 Lorraine player: Ed Beach (waveland@smart.net) holding card: 33 RECOGNITION OF CLAIM holding card: 34 RECOGNITION OF CLAIM holding card: 28 RECOGNITION OF CLAIM Empire#2 (France, Lothair) 18G 2-2-2 Ile de France player: Dale Begley (dab@informatics.jax.org) holding card: 31 RECOGNITION OF CLAIM played card: 53 ENLARGEMENT OF KINGS PERSONAL DEMESNE holding card: 30 RECOGNITION OF CLAIM holding card: 37 DYNASTIC INHERITANCE Empire#3 (Burgundy, Herman the Vicious) 8G 5-2-2 Burgundy player: Alan Poulter (grognard@grognard.com) played card: 54 WEAPONS ADVANCE holding card: 49 DIPLOMATIC COUP Empire#4 (Denmark, Sweyn Forkbeard) 6G 2-2-3 Denmark player: Ian Schofield (exrex@sk.sympatico.ca) holding card: 48 DIPLOMATIC COUP holding card: 40 INFLUENCE IN CHURCH HIERARCHY Empire#5 (Poland, Elaenor the Everlasting) 0G 3-2-1 Poland player: Paul Barrett (BarrettPD@aol.com) played card: 50 ENLARGEMENT OF KINGS PERSONAL DEMESNE holding card: 35 DYNASTIC INHERITANCE Empire#6 (Byzantine Empire, Basil III?) 37G 5-9-2 Constantinople player: Chris Fawcett (Yankeeap@concentric.net) holding card: 44 DIPLOMATIC COUP holding card: 43 DIPLOMATIC COUP Empire#7 (Kievan Russian Empire, Vladimir the Saint) 8G 3-5-5 Kiev player: Mark Stansfield (mark_stansfield@cableinet.co.uk) holding card: 42 INFLUENCE IN CHURCH HIERARCHY holding card: 28 RECOGNITION OF CLAIM holding card: 56 MISSIONARY FERVOR Empire#8 (Scotland, Magnate) 0G 5-0-0 Scotland ********************************************************** MAP --- 111R 2 +3 -2 Verona E1 C1 112R 4 +4 +2 Venice SF F3 113R 2 +4 0 Lombardy SF E1 C1 114R 2 +3 +1 Tuscany E1 C1 115R 2 +2 +1 Rome E1 C1 116R -2 +1 -1 Corsica E3 U 121R 2 +2 +1 Naples 122R -1 +1 0 Apulia E6 C6 123R -2 +1 -1 Sardinia E3 U 124E 2 +2 0 Sicily 131R 0 +2 -1 Aquitaine E2 C2 132R 2 +3 +3 Burgundy *E3 C3 133R 2 +2 0 Toulouse E2 C2 134R 0 +3 0 Aragon E2 U 135R 2 +2 +1 Provence E3 C3 136R 0 +2 -2 Valencia E3 141R 0 +2 0 Normandy E2 C2 142R 3 +4 +2 Ile de France *E2 C2 143R 2 +3 +1 Champagne E2 C2 144R 0 +2 0 Anjou E2 C2 151R 0 +1 -1 Leon 152I 0 +2 -1 Castille 153I -1 +2 0 Portugal 154I 2 +3 -1 Cordova 155I 2 +3 0 Granada 211R 0 +3 -2 Northumbria E4 C4 212R 0 +3 -1 Mercia E4 213R 2 +4 -3 Wessex PC41 221R -2 +2 -1 Friesland E1 C1 222R -1 +4 0 Flanders E2 C2 PL24(140) 231R 2 +2 -3 Saxony E1 C1 241R 0 +3 +2 Lorraine *E1 C1 242R 0 +3 +1 Franconia E1 C1 243R 0 +3 +2 Bavaria E1 C1 244R 0 +2 +1 Swabia E1 C1 245R -1 +1 +1 Austria E1 C1 246R -3 +2 +1 Switzerland E3 C3 U 251P -2 +2 +1 Norway SF 252P -1 +2 +2 Sweden SF 253R -1 +2 +1 Denmark SF *E4 C4 F2 311R -1 +1 -1 Pomerania E5 312R 0 +3 +3 Poland *E5 C5 313E -2 +1 0 Volhynia E7 C7 314R 0 +1 +1 Silesia E5 C5 315R 2 +3 -1 Bohemia 316R 0 +1 0 Brandenburg 321E -2 +2 +1 Novgorod E7 C7 322E -3 +2 +2 Muscovy E7 C7 323E -2 +2 +1 Smolensk E7 C7 324E -3 +1 -1 Ryazan E7 C7 325E -2 +1 0 Kiev *E7 C7 331E 0 +1 -2 Croatia 333E 0 +1 -2 Serbia 334E -3 +1 -2 Macedonia E6 C6 401E 0 +3 -1 Adrianople E6 C6 402E 0 +3 +2 Greece E6 C6 403E 4 +4 +4 Constantinople SF *E6 C6 F3 404E 2 +3 +3 Asia E6 C6 405E 0 +2 +2 Trebizond E6 C6 406E 2 +2 +1 Cilicia E6 C6 501P 0 +1 -1 Livonia 502P 0 +1 -1 Prussia 503P 0 +1 -2 Lithuania E7 U 601R -3 +1 +1 Scotland *E8 602R -3 +1 -1 Ireland 603R -1 +1 -1 Wales 604R 0 +1 -2 Brittany E2 C2 701R -2 +2 +1 Hungary 702P -3 0 -2 The Steppes 703P -3 +1 -1 Khazar 704E -1 +1 0 Georgia 705E 2 +1 0 Armenia E6 C6 706M 0 +1 0 Anatolia E6 C6 707M 2 +2 +2 Syria 708M 0 +2 0 Jerusalem 710E 0 +1 -2 Bulgaria E6 F2 U 711E -2 +1 -3 Wallachia E7 -------------------------------------------------- KEY lang/religion pop max-social social name misc SF = Sea Faring En = owned by empire n Cn = claim by empire n Tn = diplomatic tie by empire n U = unrest Fn = fortification level n PCnm = partial conquest by empire n, level m PRnmx = partial conversion by empire n, level m, to religion x PLnm(xxx) = partial language colonization by empire n, level m (language xxx) (see heading notes for participating areas)