Have fun Joe. Hope the Bun-Buns are well. They're doing prime. It was like pulling teeth trying to find them boarding where I'm going (my nephew is allergic to rabbit fur, as we found out last year) but my sister has offered to let me put the buns up in her enclosed garage, so that takes care of th...

Leave of at least semi-absence Christmas week from Sunday/Monday to Friday/Saturday, depending on when I decide to start out and return. I'll try to keep up from my iPhone.

Acquired yesterday: the PERFECT board game for this game, Victory Games' "Pax Britannica":

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1209/pax-britannica

Especially appropriate since the Scramble for Africa is now full-on.

Shucks, and just when I was getting comfortably used to a nice, leisurely, slow-paced game too!

Signing up for Austria-Hungary (cleared it with Admin).

Graf Taaffe here from BCS - took me a few days to think of asking for the forum URL.