After four years of many bad weeks, this week 100 years ago, was likely the worst week of the war for Imperial Germany. 100 years ago today, the Ottomans signed their armistice. Four days later the Austrians signed their own separate peace, leaving Germany as the only remaining Central Power. Knowing the war was lost, German troops started surrendering & retreating en masse. Gone were the days of futile trench warfare; during these last days, allied troops were advancing often five miles a day in a chaotic and fluid battlefield. All that remained was 1) negotiating the terms of the peace that everyone knew was coming, and 2) continuing to throw away the lives of men, on both sides, in a war that was already over.

I need a retreat from England. You have lots of choices. Can I get it from you by tomorrow 9pm? Your Fall 1903 orders are due on November 6 at 9pm. Let me know my mistakes.

Austria:
A Budapest Supports A Bulgaria - Rumania
A Bulgaria - Rumania
F Greece - Bulgaria(sc)
A Rumania - Galicia
A Serbia Supports A Bulgaria - Rumania
A Vienna Supports A Rumania - Galicia

England:
F Irish Sea - Wales
F North Atlantic Ocean - Norwegian Sea
F North Sea Convoys A Norway - London (*Dislodged*)
A Norway - London (*Fails*)

France:
A Belgium - Holland (*Bounce*)
F Brest - English Channel
F English Channel - North Sea
A Gascony - Spain
F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Irish Sea
A Picardy Hold

Germany:
F Baltic Sea - Sweden
A Berlin Supports A Ruhr - Munich
A Kiel - Holland (*Bounce*)
A Ruhr - Munich
F Skagerrak Supports F English Channel - North Sea
A Sweden - Finland

Italy:
A Apulia Hold
F Ionian Sea - Greece
F Naples - Ionian Sea
A Trieste - Tyrolia
F Tunis Supports F Naples - Ionian Sea

Russia:
F Sevastopol - Rumania (*Fails*)
A Silesia - Galicia (*Fails*)
A St Petersburg Hold
A Ukraine Supports F Sevastopol - Rumania

Turkey:
F Black Sea - Constantinople
F Constantinople - Aegean Sea
F Eastern Mediterranean Supports F Constantinople - Aegean Sea

English F North Sea can retreat to Yorkshire or Edinburgh or Denmark or Helgoland Bight or London.

F North Sea retreats to Helgoland Bight

A bight is a bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. It typically indicates a large, open bay, often only slightly receding. It is distinguished from a sound by being shallower.

Diplomacy teaches me much.