From: jwh@cs.bham.ac.uk (James Hawtin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Europe vs Australia 20:0
Keywords: DOOSH europe oz australia INL ENL
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:05:30 GMT
Reply-To: jwh@cs.bham.ac.uk
Organization: School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK


Europe 20:0 Australia DOOSH!!!

Well the much hyped Europe vs Australia game finally took place on Saturday.
This resulted in a close game with a genocide for the Europeans after 100 mins
of the 120 mins regulation game.

The game started with the "away" side the Europeans were asked to choose
first the Australians being gentlemen even though as we all know they are all
convicts :-P. After some persuading they agreed to choose first as they had
more lag, and chose Federation with Bet and Alt Agri. We then chose Romulan
with Dra and Sir Agri. The After a bit of spodding around, the game started
with the Europeans a player down, someone did not get up! A move I thought
would be fatal. As everyone would expected the game started predictably with
at lot of Assault ships flying arround. I was bombing my third target only
look skyward as see all are armies had gone.

Perhaps that was not helped by Newlook jumping in a starbase a setting off to
protect Sir our first Agri and not arriving in time, then heading back to
Dra only to have that bombed before he returned, A move he deeply regrests!
So he spent most of the rest of the game taking revenge on carriers in a DD.

After the inital baby / baby burning by taking and not protecting planets,
centred arround Org and Cet. Both sides were getting baby flat. This
required better approach. So initally Yoda and myself (wibble) went Scout
Bombing getting those naughty little babies before they could be transferred
to our planets. Then Yoda commandeered the starbase, as a baby concentrator,
a role he fulfilled very well, and I switched to Suicid Scout Bombing,
forget about dying get the babies, ratio about 0.3 at the end of the game!
The baby battle was gradually won by us.  

Well then of couse there was Alatar "Hmm I though you said you were ogging
why do you have 10 kills then?" He seemed to have an amazing way of surviving
oggs and ogging others whilst still taking planets? I wish I could :]

Our tactics at the end were a bit bad or rather the Australians were a bit
good, having left Alp for Last Planet Stand they completly ignored it and
only defended Earth! Good idea so we eventually twinked it as it was no good
for a lps. The problem was then Earth! Which basically ended with a mass
attack with Alatar and 007 amongst others all carrying to Earth whilst Yoda
took the base for a spin, down there. 007 getting genocide, he seemed to have
a bad game being ogg when carrying 4 armies 3 times in a row so this was
sweet revenge!

Their MVP has to be talkie toaster for not only having a cool
name but also managing to scum 4 planets and ogg lab 4 times when carrying! lab
I think had a bit of an off day being ogged 9 times when carrying, a total
of 20 armies burnt! However he did manage to get Matty carrying 4 and 
ICMP Redirect with 8.

I would like to thank, as I am sure we all do ZZnew guy for the use of the
server, very dedicated staying up the night to watch .) the server gave me
a nice steady 200ms lag quite playable really!

I well I hope the Europeans can enter a Euro - INL team next term, I guess
as the Australian beat the Americans that makes us best :O)


  The galaxy has been conquered by the Romulans:
  The Romulans:
              Alatar (R8) with 10 planets and 82 armies.
             The Kid (R4) with 6 planets and 67 armies.
                Yoda (Rf) with 5 planets and 67 armies.
              wibble (R1) with 4 planets and 94 armies.
                 lab (R2) with 2 planets and 120 armies.
                 007 (R6) with 2 planets and 18 armies.
            Newlook  (R5) with 1 planets and 14 armies.
  The Federation:
                dean (Fe) with 4 planets and 74 armies.
      talkie toaster (F9) with 4 planets and 57 armies.
       wabbit_hunter (Fc) with 3 planets and 59 armies.
       eat my banana (F0) with 0 planets and 99 armies.
              wabbit (Fb) with 2 planets and 28 armies.
      Slartibartfast (Fa) with 0 planets and 84 armies.
       ICMP Redirect (Fd) with 0 planets and 34 armies.

More stats to follow.


Thanks Guys for the best game of netrek I have had, perhaps someone from Oz
can tell their side.

			James.
Commodore wibble

Euro - Minister for Reinformation.
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA