From: wk5w@mtaac.bme.Virginia.EDU (William Thang Katz)
Subject: Clued Game? (Re: Mucus)
Reply-To: wk5w@mtaac.bme.Virginia.EDU (William Thang Katz)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:53:25 GMT

In article <717945920.9256.0@unix2.andrew.cmu.edu>, Tomato Boy
<stimpy+@cmu.edu> writes:
|> Nanci writes:
|> #
|> # Ceri Alun Morgan <cm5m+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> # > Just like to thank mucus, hell peacock, and gandhi for ruining a
|> # > perfectly good game of netrek on bronco, this morning. Thanks
guys.
|> # > 
|> # > -Ceri
|> #
|> # I'm sure they figured you needed to have your ego knocked down a
notch or
|> # two.  I can't say I disagree with them....
|> #
|> # Nanci
|> 
|> Actually, I think the game knocked our egos UP a notch or two. 
|> Ceri and I were the only clue against Balton, EEK, ZZnew guy,
|> gandhi, MUCUS PIG, ignatious,and a couple borgs. (and later, 
|> Passing Wind and Grand Admiral Hell Peacock)

Gosh.  I get included with good company.  Some people might mistake
me for a semi-clue.  But it's VORPAL Gandhi to you, bub.

Also I'm pretty sure (95%) you had a borg on your team.  After we
starting calling him borg, he shut down some of its functions later
in the game.  I definitely noticed the decrease in his ability to
kill.

|> Yet, you guys COULD NOT genocide. You couldn't even come close.
|> It was a total DOOSH fest for us. Gandhi couldn't drop an army
|> to save his life. DOOSH. MUCUS got nabbed with 10 armies on
|> Castor. DOOSH. The borg base covering MUCUS taking Rom space
|> got nabbed with 18 armies. DOOSH. Poor runnerscum ignatious
|> got blown up with 6 armies so many times I lost track. DOOSH.
|> Ceri ended up with over 600 armies "bombed."  DOOSH.
|> Balton was the only one dropping armies with any success.
|> (pesky scout)

The game had several stages.  The only stages in which I attempted
to carry was when MUCUS and I seemed to be the only players intent
on killing you all, and we couldn't get escort to save our lives.
You (Tomato Boy) were also the only effective ogger, so I thought
it was a good strategy for MUCUS to start scumming ROM space while
I kept picking up and running from you in Kli/Ori space.  That way
you'd chase me instead of interfering in ROM space.  And if you
went to ROM space, as you did occasionally, I would take planets
after you passed by.  Besides, armies were plentiful regardless of
all the bombing you guys were doing.  When Passing Wind came in and
we started getting more people taking (you couldn't ogg every one
then), KLIS days were numbered.

Taking ROM space to end a tough KLI defense is perfectly good netrek.

|> First EEK gives up, then Balton quit a couple minutes later
|> after a merry chase of his scout all over Kli space ending in
|> a two army DOOSH. So, of course MUCUS has to go for Rom space
|> since he's too lame to go for Kli space. And gandhi decides
|> to ESCORT him doing it. (even worse) Then a borg base goes up
|> there to escort him. Poor hapless ignatious kept trying to
|> sneak around through Rom space to take Kli planets, and we'd
|> DOOSH him on the way to catch MUCUS. (who, by the way, was
|> runnerscumming like crazy)

You guys had something like 5 players running after Mucus in Fed space.
Can't believe the rest of the ORIS didn't take while you guys were
spending all your time half a galaxy away.

|> Finally, Passing Wind managed to get us (klis) down to two
|> planets since we were chasing da pig all over rom and fed
|> space. 

That came a little later after I stopped escorting da Pig.

|> So we DARED them to go for Kli space instead of 
|> taking 4th space. No way. Too lame. I guess that's what
|> Ceri was upset about. I just enjoyed insulting the hell out
|> of the Orions because they were too scared to go for our
|> planets.

I must admit you were a very good ogger and we never had escort
until the end when taking KLI space.  In an INL game, you would
have been targeted specifically. 

|> Result: timer is never started. galaxy conquered by Grand
|> Admiral Hell Peacock and the Orions by scumming 4th space.
|> I don't think Hell Peacock ever even entered Kli space.
|> 

Cool.

|> The only Orions I had any respect for were Passing Wind
|> and Balton. but Balton quit rather than suffer any more
|>   OOO  OOO
|>  O   OO   O
|> DO   OO   OSH!!
|>  O   OO   O
|>   OOO  OOO
|> 

yes.  Well Deeply Perturbed Men rule.

|> All in all I rather enjoyed the game, even though it ended in
|> a scummy way. But you scummy Orions HAVE to admit, you could
|> NEVER have genocided us. Even with five of our teammates
|> handing out kills and not shooting at phaser locks.
|> 

My thanks to R1 (?) who was always there to provide me with free
kills.  Suggestion: Do not ogg in a scout if you don't cloak and
charge in a straight line :)

Yep.  I was amazed when I entered to find Balton, EEK!, Mucus,
Robin Hood, etc.  on my team.  Wish we could do that more often
so I could accumulate some more clue.

|> --Rick
|> "Bronco Netrek Server. You will never find a more wretched hive of
|> scum and villainy." -- Admiral Kenobi (aka Terence Chang)

-Vorpal Gandhi