The Armistice Day Newsletter No.15

It’s terrifically bad form to be apologising On Canada Day (July 1), we shall be with only two issues under my belt, but it is bopping to and Bruce ARMISTICE DAY No.15 my fervent hope that the situation will not Johnston’s Touring Jukebox (or the Beach drag on too long. Now that I have secured Boys, as they insist on calling themselves) employment which commences on July 2, at Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre. Since A Diplomacy zine from Stephen Agar, 47 Preston Drove, Brighton, BN1 6LA. the likelihood that a new (or at least a it’s also my mother-in-law’s birthday, I am Email [email protected]. Web page: http://www.armisticeday.com. reliable, refurbished) computer will grace working on some way of lessening my guilt This rather thin issue is free to current subscribers the Gooch study very soon has gone from and her annoyance at being placed second negligible to probable. in importance to a raucous pop band (her words). I can get Mike Love’s autograph Let’s talk Editorial easily enough, but choosing the words I’d DIVERSIONS Regrets. I have so many tantalising topics like him to write is a tricky task. After all, Well, this issue is already two weeks late, to cherry pick from Ontario’s rich history, it Myra is scarcely going to be impressed by so faced with the choice of delaying it by Volume II : Issue 3 : July 2002 saddens me to report that I simply cannot the fact that I can get backstage and chat another 10-14 days and doing a full issue, Rip Gooch take the risk of working on disposable with the Lovester and his comrades. We or putting out something immediately as a 48-4600 Kimbermount Avenue editorial instead of the essential game shall see. The concert will be fun. The games-only issue, I have opted for the Mississauga ON L5M 6Z5 Canada reports. With the thought that the computer Amphitheatre is an excellent open air latter. Don’t worry, I won’t be charging Electronic mail: [email protected] might decide to reset and thereby render venue, and Canada Day is always anyone for this issue – I just didn’t want any Telephone: +1 905 603 1956 itself inaccessible for another week celebrated well here. I hope the Boys of you to think I’d folded or something like th remaining uppermost in my mind, I must attempt a rendition of “O Canada”! Seeing that. Deadline: Thursday 15 August proceed to the important stuff. Next time should go some way Since the last issue two things of A Foreshortened Issue around I shall have given myself adequate towards adequate compensation for not preparation time to provide you with a few having on tour this year. But significance in my life have happened. One Verifying DMI Data Pool. Anyone who has is we are in the process of moving house gems to engage your interest. we have been spoilt. The tour ever come across these dread words writ in 2000 and the tandem concert with Paul and have had an offer accepted on a By way of context, I’ll tell you that Pat and I large across a frozen screen will know that I Simon last year should suffice after all. I’m detached house in part of Brighton called spent last weekend in Montreal witnessing have been experiencing the most so glad Brian finally gave in to demands Patcham. Of course there’s lots that can go an embarrassing 3-game sweep of the Blue frustrating of computer problems. For the that he visit the home of his greatest fans in wrong and the move might never happen – Jays by the powerful Expos. We thought uninitiated, the problem appears to be the the UK. I trust everyone grabbed the but we put our house on the market a we’d take this opportunity to be present at result of incompatibilities between an opportunity to witness his band’s stunning couple of days ago (at £455,000 – aren’t what might be the final meeting between overly-upgraded computer and an recreation of the Greatest Album of All house prices ridiculous?) and there seems Canada’s two major league teams in uncooperative operating system. The Time! to be a lot of interest. Olympic Stadium, given the promise of suggested fixes range from a new contraction next season. Next month The second event is that my job will almost motherboard, Bios chip or power supply to THE GAMES certainly disappear in the next three months reinstalling Windows. None of these options Montreal visits Toronto, and we’ll be in the is available to me, so every day I simply Skydome for this historic event. RR1868IW - Isle of Wight – and it will be a while before I know have to switch on my stepdaughter’s fragile Atikokan - Round 1 whether I have a job or not. The unit of Yesterday I was attempting to play cricket which I am a Director is being merged with machine with as much trepidation as I can in Kincardine again. I’m still struggling with Many thanks to Charlie for sending a copy three other units (to form a new Royal Mail muster, in the hopes that this will be one of my bowling, and the freshly recruited South of the original Railway Modeller map. This letters division)– and you don’t need to be a the occasions when it chooses to African youngster mustered the necessary game gets off to a mercifully clean start. genius to see that they don’t need four sets cooperate. I think it probably has more to mix of bravado and foolishness to place The die rolls for Round 2 are relatively kind. of Directors… Time will tell, and being an do with the weather than anything else. himself at silly mid-off just in time to take a Don’t expect this to remain the case. A optimistic soul I am trying to look on this is Today is June 24, and the last time I stunning catch from the fourth ball I faced. reminder: there are only two throws in an opportunity rather than a threat. managed to type anything was June 18. It looks as though my role will continue to Rounds 3, 4 and 5! However, it is rather unnerving. If the worst be in the field or behind the stumps for The weather is currently cool (about 23º) BUM, Jim Reader, Yellow: comes to the worst I guess I should know in some time to come. I have resolved to and relatively dry. The past week has 1a: (Newport) Blackwater Q8. time to pull out of the house move. enlist Pat’s help with my bowling. She’s alternated between hot and humid (up to 1b: (Q8) T9. very good with her baseball glove, and a All players who don’t have Internet access 32º with a Humidex in the mid-40s) and 1c: (T9) Shanklin; (U10) V9. cricket ball is only a little bit bigger than a will find their game report(s) attached to this thunderously wet. With the prospects for 20 + 12 = 32 sheet. Those who do will have to look at the rest of this week tending towards baseball. All I have to do is persuade her http://www.armisticeday.com where there another hot spell, I am charging through the that she’ll be perfectly safe acting as my GWR, Charlie Wilson, Brunswick Green: are up to date game reports for all games. preparation of this issue in the expectation target. Your wishes of good luck would be 1a: (Newport) O5 N5 Carisbrooke. that the few short evening hours are all I appreciated. 1b: (Carisbrooke) N7 L8.

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(Carisbrooke) M6. next time. So far that’s one gamestart per Martin, Charlie Wilson. 1 wanted for the Next Time - Armistice Day Issue 16 20 + 6 = 26 issue. Not bad. I hope we can keep it up! optimum 6-player game, but will start next I do have a few things planned for next time with 5 if no other takers come forward. HANTS, Bruce Edwards, Purple: Couchiching is an Ojibway-Chippewa issue: Austria Map AUS: 4 players wanted. 1a: (Newport) R4 Whippingham. Indian Reserve on the Western shore of Spain Map SP: 5 or 6 players wanted. The Genesis of Diplomacy – a 1b: (R4) Haven Street U6. Rainy Lake in the Rainy River district, 4 km • Trans-Canada Map Experiment: Ryan discussion on a very early draft of the 1c: (U6) W5 Ryde. North of Fort Frances. Its name is derived Congdon, Kevin Lee, Jim Reader, Charlie Diplomacy rules sent to me by Allan 20 + 18 = 38 from an Indian word meaning “at the edge Wilson. Calhamer (when the game was called of a whirlpool”. Simply using the term Build allowance for Round 2: 3, 5, 4 Realpolitik) “Indian” is significant, indicating that it is Playlist

unclear from which of the many native RR1869NL – Netherlands The Fillmore Concerts – The Allman • Taking Germany Out by David languages the name originates. The Bobcaygeon – Delay!! Brothers Band, The Circle (1968-1972) - Malinson prominent tribes in the area were Ojibway, Spirit, Life Is Sweet – Maria McKee, Kevin Lee, Brad Martin, Allan Stagg and Cree and Algonquin, but guides employed • A review of all editions of Diplomacy Barnstorm – Joe Walsh, Sweet Insanity – Charlie Wilson. Stephen has only just by the early trappers and hunters came produced for the UK market Brian Wilson (Boot), Dumb Angel - Sean emailed your snail mail addresses. I guess from many other tribes (the Mississauga, MacCreavy • A Variant Bank update and a variant he’s been otherwise engaged. If you all Delaware, Odawa, Potawatomi and based on Northern Ireland (tasteful!) supply your start preference information Iroquois all dwelt in Upper Canada), so it is immediately, there’s a chance that we no surprise when specific origins of words There wouldn’t have been much of a letters might have Round 1 orders received and cannot be identified. The present day column this issue anyway / So please adjudicated in time for the next issue. Sorry aboriginal grouping is an amalgamation of write and help make next issue a good one! about the delay, guys! Brad has already the Ojibway and Cree, whose language has supplied me with orders; he has a copy of mutated into a hybrid known as Oji-cree. the map which, I trust, is the same version Rainy River is well named, as the area is as mine. green and picturesque. The town of Rainy River also has a major claim to fame. It is at Bobcaygeon sits on three islands formed the extreme Western end of the longest by the Little Bob and Big Bob rivers and the street in the world. Yonge Street starts at Trent Canal at the junction of Pigeon and the waterfront in Toronto and extends all Sturgeon Lakes. The community was the way to the US border at this point in founded as a mill center in 1832, but now North Western Ontario. I’ll write some more thrives on summer tourism due to its on this topic in a forthcoming issue. picturesque location and attractive lock in the town centre built in 1833 to connect the Trans-Canada Map Experiment Pigeon and Sturgeon lakes. The name

Nothing. No progress this time around, I’m derives from the Indian Bob-ca-je-won-unk, afraid. Unless this computer decides to let meaning “shallow rapids”. Bobcaygeon has me type later in the week, I shall hold over

recently gained fame thanks to a song by the debate. If anyone has thoughts on August 2002 th Canadian band The Tragically Hip. Visit format or content, please let me have them. http://www.thehip.com/pp-seven.htm for a I really shouldn’t need to start the ball look at the lyrics. rolling, after all. Take a look at a map of

Canada, identify the main population areas RR????SWE – South Sweden - and terrain, and ponder the best approach Couchiching - Gamestart to constructing a sequence of maps which Mads Clauson-Kaas, Philip Honeybone, can be linked together in one final grand Brad Martin, and Charlie Wilson. We hoorah. Simple, what? [email protected] have enough for a start on this map. Please Railway Rivals Waiting Lists supply your postal addresses to me immediately so that I can send your maps. South Sweden Map SWE: Mads Clauson- Brad probably already has one, but unless Kaas, Philip Honeybone, Brad Martin, Friday 16 DEADLINE: he says otherwise I’ll still send a copy in Charlie Wilson. List Full!! See Gamestart case there are later versions doing the announcement above. No.15 DAY NEWSLETTER THE ARMISTICE From: Stephen Agar, 47 Preston Drove, BRIGHTON, BN1 6LA.

rounds. Mine is dated 1986 (emulation 3). Northern Italy Map P: Christian Bien, message: personal Space for = credit/status Your current Hopefully we’ll have this game underway Bruce Edwards, Philip Honeybone, Brad

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