King Of The Hill                BLANKETYBLANK                   Turn Two

  DEBUT CONFLICT IN THE WEST            N O R T H
  FIRST BLOOD TO...?                       A/\1
		 WELL, NO-ONE REALLY       /XX\
					 B/\XX/\2               XX IMPASSABLE
A big round of applause to a             /XX\/XX\               XX   SQUARE
lovely bunch of players for            C/\XX/\XX/\3
being wonderfully efficient            /nw\/XX\/ne\             ~~ ROCKY POOL
and letting the game get right       D/\06/\XX/\01/\4           ~~   SQUARE
back on track already. Yay!          /nw\/nw\/  \/ne\
				   E/\05/\12%V  /\02/\5         HH   TARGET
			  north    /  \/  \%  V/ne\/ne\   north HH   SQUARE
			  west   F/\  /\  %\  /V07/\03/\6  east
				 /nw\/  \%nw\/  V/ne\/ne\
Only one conflict this turn    G/\02/\  %\11/\  /V08/\04/\7
on square G4, marked with      /nw\/  \%nw\/  \/  V/  \/ne\
lots of symbol "*"s. The     H/\01/\  %\04/\  ::  /V  /\05/\8
results of said battle       /  \/nw\%nw\/nw\:ne:/  V/  \/ne\
are a little lower down    I/\  /\07%\03::10/:09:\  /V  /\06/\9
on the page.               /XX\/  \%  \:nw:/HH::ne\/neV/  \/XX\
			 J/\XX/\  %\  /:09:\HH/\10/\11/V  /\XX/\10
	       W E S T   /XX\/XX\%sw\/**::HH\/HH\/se\/neV/XX\/XX\  E A S T
			 \XX/\XX/V01/\**/\HH/\HH::05/\12%\XX/\XX/
Des Langford has sent    1\/XX\/swV/sw\/  \/HH\:se:/  \%se\/XX\/A
me notice that he will     \XX/\07/V08/\  ::HH/:04:\  %\06/\XX/
be impressively far out    2\/  \/  V/  \:~~:/se::  \%  \/se\/B
of the country in late Feb   \  /\  /V  /:~~:\03/\  %\  /\12/
and early March. A turn      3\/  \/swV/sw::se\/se\%  \/se\/C
before you go would be great   \  /\03/V05/\02/\09%\  /\11/
if you could manage it, Des.   4\/sw\/swV/sw\/se\%  \/se\/D
				 \09/\04/V11/\08%\  /\10/
			  south  5\/sw\/swV/  \%  \/  \/E  south
			  west     \10/\06/V  %\  /\  /     east
				   6\/sw\/  V%se\/  \/F
** Results of conflict taking        \12/\  /\01/\  /   Simon: you ordered  
** place on the square G4            7\/  \/XX\/se\/G   unit sw01 to stand  
				       \  /\XX/\07/     on H3 and your unit 
Mark Sheiham moved his unit nw08       8\/XX\/XX\/H     sw07 to move from   
SE from G3 to G4 this turn.              \XX/\XX/       I3 to H3. BADOING!
Simon Hornby moved his unit nw02         9\/XX\/I       sw07 did not move. 
NE from H4 to G4 this turn.                \XX/                             
The ensuing conflict saw much clash       10\/J      Press from Martin Bates    
of metal and guns and violence and      S O U T H    (SE) to SW and NE: 
that, but proved inconclusive. Both                  Bounce me first and
units were equally strong, and the                   I'll bounce you back,
two of them destroyed each other.                    no problem.
The square G4 now lies empty.

NE: Des Langford, 8 Hornbeam Lane, Barnehurst, Kent DA7 6HH
NE: Phone 01322 348905
NW: Mark Sheiham, Flat 1, Balcombe House, Taunton Place, London NW1 6HA
NW: Phone 0171 723 2395. Mark lives in London - use the London number!
SW: Simon Hornby, 41 Larkin Close, Cambridge CB4 2ER
SW: *PHONE NUMBER REQUIRED* (please?) E-mail simon.hornby@elmail.co.uk
SE: Martin Bates, Somerville College, Oxford OX2 6HD
SE: *PHONE NUMBER REQUIRED* (if you have one...?) some0148@sable.ox.ac.uk

OK, folks! That's all for issue 4 of G.I.T., which is very nearly right back
on track, now being GIT Including Train. The games not adjudicated here are
THE DEAD POOL, in which nothing has happened, because no-one's died yet
[by the way, TurboNick wanted to play, but didn't get his list in in time,
so, just to keep up the tradition, I'm NMRing him. People can play along if
they like; Nick would have picked 1) The Queen Mother, 2) Robert Runcie and
3) Neil Tennant, but if one of them dies, don't phone in, it's just for fun]
and FANTASY CHEF, for which I am missing second-course orders from Geoff
Brown, Andy Mansell and Pete Birks. Should they all get their orders in well
in advance of the next OMR deadline - like by the 4th of February - I'll do
an extra-special GIT 4-and-a-bit just for them, else I'll adjudicate with
the orders I have in GIT 5, which will come with OMR 18. I hope to see lots
of you at OxCon. Have a month that's so good it blows your socks off. TTFN!