Austerlitz Newsletter August 2008.

Au155 GAME WIN!!

Au155 - our longest running Austerlitz game ever has finally ended on July 1825 after an amazing 734 battles.  The last few game years was fought out between 2 great alliances - Spain (Gerry Elliott), France (Chris Cornwell) and Naples (Brendan Brown) against Morocco (Mark Phillips), Russia (Juha Niininen), Sweden (Stu Watts) and Duchy of Warsaw (Mike Byrne).  The latter being victorious after a great contest.

It is estimated this game ran for over 8 years realtime, starting way back in year 2000 and running 210 turns.  Stu Watts (Sweden) and Mike Byrne (Warsaw) were in the original start up and played every turn.  It was only fitting that these 2 guys along with Mark Phillips as Morocco were declared the winners.

The end game maps have been posted on our forums to let you see how Europe looks after 17 years of warfare.

Thanks for a terrific game guys!!

NEW SPREADSHEET LAUNCHED!!

We are pleased to announce that a new spreadsheet turn calculator has been designed by Chris Matthews and this is now available to download from http://www.austerlitzpbem.com/spreadsheet.htm.

It allows an emperor to play with builds and finances without all the number crunching and human error, a change of mind is as difficult as pressing a button. Other features include;

Economics - estimates food production and displays trend on a graph (helps stop starvation), highlights raw material shortcomings for producing EcPts and Textiles. Also has a wine usage graph for those drunken sailors.
Colour Map generation - compares the all nations population, population density (for selecting that rich country to invade) and lists all the production sites. Colour terrain maps are also included to help plot invasions.
Trade - estimates revenue from sales and costs from purchasing.
Army - as well as automatic build/trainingand headcount raise calculations it lists federation troop
types (for organising), highlights troops that are not trained, highlights troops that are elite (over EF)
Navy - as well as the building and repair calculations it lists all fleets with their ship make-up and loading capacities

Barracks - automatically sums cash and economic point transfers to the relevant barracks for all actions.

DOWNLOAD THE SPREADSHEET NOW!!

Email Game Prices

The restructuring of the email game prices has been discussed on our forums lately and our ideas put forward have received excellent feedback.  We have altered the prices of all email games to the following-

£4.00 per turn - Great Britain and Russia

£3.50 per turn - Austria Hungary, Spain and France

£3.25 per turn - Prussia and Ottoman Empire

£3.00 per turn - Holland, Kingdom of Portugal and Morocco

£2.50 per turn - Sweden and Duchy of Warsaw

£2.00 per turn - Confederation of the Rhine, Denmark, Italy and Naples

Please note these costs will only relate to new games starting after Monday 22nd August 2005.  Any games running before this will remain at the same price as before.

This is a trial basis and we can alter any position that seems too high or too low in the future if need be.

You can check out the Available Game Positions link for positions free in new games.

Best wishes,
Sam