From: loney@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Patrick Loney)
Subject: Euro III update
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: :The state of being organized
Date: 27 Aug 1992 10:51 EDT  

     After three weeks of play, this past week has seen the mass introduction
of planes.  However, the ground war still seems to be the prefered method of
battle.  Generally, this is becoming a text book game (with some exceptions).
The countries in the top half of the charts are devouring the countries in the
lower portion of the charts.  Urals, Lithuania, Normandy, Arabia, & Estonia
can all testify that being low on the totem pole is akin to looking for another
game to play in.  Insurance agents, lawyers, and rats have all been seen leaving
the nations of Egypt and Iceland in anticipation of hostile annexation.

     There have been two exceptions to the normal.  I guess this is normal also
so it's not really the exception but I will exand on them anyway.  The Seville
versus Castile/France war has been at full force for over two weeks now.  The
former leader of Castile was going to bow out after leaving his country in a
shambles, but a brave volunteer took over and has rebuilt the economy.  The
current situation has Seville on top of both France and Castile in the power
chart and in the money situation.  But France has been able to hold her own
lines and Castile has made a small amount of progress.  All three nations
are being passed up in the power chart, but every other country in the area
seems so entertained by this war they seem to be leaving them alone.

     The second exception could be called the Great Gaul Grab or the Massive
Macedonian Backstab, depending on which side of the fence you sit.  It all
started way back when Gaul attacked Holland.  Gaul was a top 3 country and
Holland was a middle of the pack runner.  However, Holland also claims the
persona of the Death Angel and vowed to fight on.  For almost a week, both
sides fought to a stand still.  Then secret negotiations between Gaul and
Normandy set up a combined land/sea assault on Holland by Normandy.  Caught
off gaurd, Holland fought back bitterly.  After several days, he had managed
to beat Normandy off of his homeland but at the cost of losing ground to Gaul.
Gauls larger economic machine was sooner or later going to finish Holland off.
     Then Macedon entered the fray.  Macedon had a treaty with Gaul that was
signed up to the middle of September.  Disregarding this, Macedon flung himself
into Gaul early Saturday morning.  The combined Holland/Macedon attacks brought
Gaul down from at one point the number two spot to a client without a server.
At one point, France took time out from the Seville war to grab parts of Gaul
and Ireland made Normandy into a beach head.  The end result is no more Gaul
and Normandy.

     Tech levels are still progressing evenly.  Several people are on the same
turn and most everybody can make offensive and deffensive planes.  The exception
is Czeckslovakia, who even though he is high in the charts, is low in the tech
game.  He and Carthage are the only viable countries not to have built planes
yet, although Carthage does have a navy.

     The current power chart is listed below.  Keep in mind that 68 countries
broke in this game and we have had only had 21 updates.  the current leaders
(Petrozovadsk and Macedo)n are less than 1% away from each other in terms of
their power ranking.  The upcoming week promises to be lots of fun.

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Thu Aug 27 09:01:25 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
Petrozova 190   88% 135K 3.8K 575   95  2.6K  16K 3.5K  37K 3.3K 100    2  115K
  Macedon 180   86% 135K 4.7K 875  200  850   21K 2.1K  37K 3.9K  60    6  175K
   Urartu 125   92% 107K 4.4K 1.0K 125  350   21K 1.6K  22K 1.6K  40   10  145K
    Vaaso 135   88% 102K 5.1K 900  125  1.3K  12K 2.9K  22K 2.0K  70   10   20K
Czechoslo 115   92%  86K 950   75   10    0  6.7K 3.0K  18K 3.0K   0    0  105K
  Romania  85   96%  75K 4.0K 625  155  1.6K  14K 3.3K  19K 4.8K  30    8   75K
  Ireland  90   96%  74K 3.1K 625  100  2.5K 8.0K 2.1K  14K 1.0K  70    5   85K
   Russia 105   87%  75K 2.1K 850   95  600   11K 1.0K  11K 1.2K  50    0   45K
  Uppsala  90   92%  66K 1.4K 1.3K 155  1.5K  11K 900   17K 1.3K  70    8   25K
 Carthage  80   91%  64K 4.0K 175   75  1.0K 4.2K 2.1K  16K 1.6K   0    6  100K
Mauritana  80   94%  50K 2.8K 1.3K 105  650  5.5K 1.6K 6.1K 3.2K  20    1   45K
  Nigeria  75   83%  55K 2.3K 375   65  600  4.8K 2.5K  15K 2.3K  20    5   40K
  Holland  85   79%  49K 3.4K 450   95  500  7.3K 800   12K 2.7K  20    0   25K
  Denmark  50  100%  49K 850  200   30  150  7.3K 2.8K 8.8K 3.4K   8    1  110K
  Ukraine  55   92%  43K 1.3K 725   60  550  4.8K 950  9.0K 2.7K  60    3   80K
  Seville  65   80%  47K 1.5K 100   30  1.9K 4.3K 300  9.2K 500   20    0   90K
 Bulgaria  45   95%  38K 1.6K 250   80  550  400  350  4.8K 2.1K  60    0   10K
  Georgia  50   88%  38K 1.2K 225   40  650  4.2K 500  6.8K 850   20    0   30K
   France  50   74%  37K 1.6K 275   50  150  2.7K 750  8.1K 600   30    2   40K
   Sweden  35   97%  29K 1.9K 375   35  1.1K 6.7K 450  8.5K 700   60    0   10K
Cyrenicia  40   92%  27K 2.1K 250   20  100  1.9K 350  3.4K 200    3    7   35K
  Castile  40   78%  28K 850    6   15  200  2.0K 250  4.2K 150   10    0   15K
    Egypt  25  100%  26K 1.0K  50   10    0  1.7K 250  4.6K 350    0    1   45K
  Iceland  15   99%  14K 500   25    0    0  2.5K 600  6.0K 400    0    6   85K
    Urals  15   74% 6.8K 650   12    0    1  1.8K  31  1.4K   6    0    1   60K
Lithuania   5   67% 2.6K 400    0    0    0    0    0  400    0    0    0   25K
 Normandy   4   98% 1.9K 150    0    0    0    0  200    0  450    0    1   30K
 Portugal   3   89% 2.5K 300    0    0    0    0    1  1.6K   0    0    1   10K
   Arabia   2   95% 250    0    0    0    0    0   23    0   50    0    0   35K
     Gaul   1   53%  45  100   25    4    0    0    0  150    0    0    3   35K
  Estonia   1    2%   2    1    0    0    0    0    0    1    0    0    0   10K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 1.9K  89% 1.5M  58K  12K 1.8K  19K 183K  35K 323K  44K 810   90  1.7M