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Right! The game is started! Hurrah!

In the end I went for Cradle of Dominion as the map. Since it's a biggish game as well, I thought it would be a good idea to have victory points. So each capital has a vp, and the winner has to get 7. This is a lot - probably too many in fact - but I thought it was better that the game shouldn't finish prematurely.

I hope everyone's okay with my dictatorial and arbitrary choosing of settings. I think it will make for a very fun game.

Right, so hopefully you will all have received your first turns now. Hopefully the e-mail itself will explain enough for you all to get underway. If not check my FAQ.

The game will be on 24 hour quickhost. That means that it will host either 24 hours after the last hosting, or when everyone's turns are in, whichever is sooner. A bit of thought will reveal that this means both that every turn will host at most 24 hours after the previous one, but that you will always have at least 24 hours after taking your turn to take the next one. Weird, eh? Note that there are 48 hours on the clock for the first turn in case of problems, but hopefully you won't even nearly need that long.

Right, have fun everyone!