From: cammarta@bucknell.edu (aaron cammarata `93)
Newsgroups: rec.games.empire
Subject: Fodder Frenzy III Results! (longish)
Keywords: fodder, newbie, Break?  What's that?
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:59:01 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.


	Game Report is at the end...Don't forget to check the keywords!

	At long last, the Fourth Fodder Frenzy comes to an end.  The
power chart and tech levels, etc are as follows:

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Wed Apr  8 11:12:44 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
  Croatia 141   98%  97K 2.1K 1.7K 348  173   28K 4.3K 9.1K 651   33    0   11M
137061.64
Belgariad 110  100% 110K   0    0    0  2.0K   0  227   83K   0   11    0   11M
126473.09
    Zzyzx 153   99% 138K 2.4K 3.2K 252  2.5K  34K 5.6K  35K 3.2K  72    0  8.9M
124130.19
Ravenloft 397   99% 300K 3.3K 201  203   16K  45K 4.9K  90K 1.4K  16    5  5.5M
114563.98
  Skondia 175   97%  98K 263    1    0   17    1   19K  11K 5.4K  12    6  6.6M
 88458.26
newbiedom 193  100%  77K 437    0    4    0  2.2K  44  1.3K 735    1    1  4.1M
 58166.64
       Io 113  100%  74K 1.3K 3.6K  24  9.1K  19K 1.3K  13K  17K  13    0  2.9M
 50181.25
Grand_Sel 203  100%  41K 194  805   69  720  3.4K 411  925  1.7K   8    0  2.6M
 40126.66
    Ghost 146   93%  62K 2.2K  10K 786   13K  36K 1.7K  13K 2.1K  57    0  1.2M
 33152.54
      NIN  79   99%  28K 140    0    5    0  4.0K  10   16K   2    0    1  2.4M
 31430.93
Plainsbor  69  100%  12K 163    7   19    0   26K 1.4K 1.0K 3.3K   0    0  2.0M
 31380.79
 Kythamil  99  100%  72K 5.9K   0    0    0   18K 336   34K 5.7K   0    0  1.2M
 30977.68
  Honolee  92   90%  27K  95    0    0    0   22K 457   12K   0    0    0  1.8M
 27217.54
  Batland 206  100%  55K 4.8K   7    0  2.1K 8.0K 1.2K  22K 249   45    0  652K
 23885.27
Inominatu  63  100%  21K 330    0    0   17   24K 291   43K 1.1K   0    0  1.3M
 22026.35
CheckerLa  32  100%  31K  21    0    0    0  726    3   38K   0    0    0  1.3M
 17180.53
  Eurasia  90  100%  18K   2    0    0    0    0  350    0   69    0    0  1.1M
 16768.44
 Kwantoum  97   98%  27K 2.0K  13   14    0    1  480   17K  14    2    1  396K
 11471.91
    Ocean  37  100% 7.4K   0    0    0    0   12    0    0    0    0    0  565K
  8112.51
 Dagorlad  26  100% 6.7K  97    0    0    0    0  507  2.0K   0    0    0  342K
  5360.76
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.5K  97% 1.3M  26K  20K 1.7K  46K 269K  43K 443K  42K 270   10   67M

	Tech levels were:

 #    name             tech     research    education happiness cap-location
 1     Ghost            289.50     86.82        0.06       0.00  2,32
 2     We_Made_It        98.42     56.11        0.00       0.00  1,-57
 3     Jinx              96.81     60.56        0.00       0.00  -24,48
 4     Plainsboro        97.10     52.87        0.00       0.00  55,29
 5     Atlantis         102.24     59.97        0.00       0.00  -31,9
 6     Beastor's_Doma   102.75     58.08        0.00       0.00  14,20
 7     Popocatepetl      99.67     60.25        0.00       0.00  -2,46
 8     zog               99.06     58.83        0.00       0.00  -23,45
 9     C.I.S.           103.49     60.28        0.00       0.00  -11,25
 10    Gondawana         97.96     61.52        0.00       0.00  19,-11
 11    Marioland        102.33     61.50        0.00       0.00  -6,28
 12    Belgariad         87.10     53.56        0.00       0.00  -49,51
 13    Crashenburn      100.58     49.22        0.00       0.00  -4,-10
 14    Selentia         103.38     57.95        0.00       0.00  48,56
 15    Retville          96.70     58.89        0.00       0.00  -52,22
 16    NIN               92.71     48.91        0.00       0.00  -10,-28
 17    Ravenloft        132.95     54.81       20.37      16.42  13,47
 18    Croatia          461.95    305.04       60.68      35.64  51,33
 19    Ocean             73.08     55.02        0.00       0.00  -51,-1
 20    GoonGreen         92.99     58.27        0.00       0.00  -30,-30
 21    Grizzly           98.67     52.19        0.00       0.00  -24,28
 22    Greenville        98.91     58.09        0.00       0.00  55,-3
 23    Kythamil          93.94     43.20       62.62       0.00  24,22
 24    Inominatus        87.71     50.36        0.00       0.00  12,22
 25    Honolee           83.76     55.12        6.01      15.58  39,-7
 26    newbiedom        208.28     76.03        1.41       0.01  -3,-39
 27    Keenset           81.89     57.92        0.00       0.00  -31,-9
 28    Eurasia           87.82     45.44        0.00       0.00  -63,39
 29    Skondia           82.46     53.00        0.00       0.00  30,-24
 30    Zzyzx            512.00    230.78       24.01      17.01  30,32
 31    Batland           77.22     42.36        0.00       0.00  -33,41
 32    Grand_Seljuk     214.88    106.62        0.00       0.00  -15,13
 33    Kwantoum          82.24     36.93        0.00       0.00  -57,-9
 34    Dagorlad          87.68     53.01        0.00       0.00  56,46
 35    Cybertopsy        97.87     44.74        0.00       0.00  -42,10
 36    Indochina         92.71     48.35        0.00       0.00  8,-16
 37    Resvon            92.06     57.70        0.00       0.00  -58,4
 38    Io               204.92     53.15       36.91       0.00  53,-1
 39    Yorkshire         89.26     56.22        0.00       0.00  -45,-11
 40    CheckerLand       82.32     56.45        0.00       0.00  -34,26
 41    Old_Man           82.21     51.80        0.00       0.00  13,35

	The list follows the new format we decided upon for deciding a
winner.  The "Wins" column indicates the number of games won by that
player individually.  The "Ally" column is how many games won as part
of a winning alliance, rather than alone.  A player is placed on
"Alum" status when he/she has won 3 games in each category.

Name	|	Wins	|	Ally	|	Alum	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Ghost	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Plainsbo|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Belgaria|	1	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
NIN	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Ravenlof|	1	|	1	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Croatia	|	0	|	1	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Ocean	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Kythamil|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Inominat|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Honolee	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
newbiedo|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Eurasia	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Skondia	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Zzyzx	|	0	|	1	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Batland	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Grand_Se|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Kwantoum|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Dagorlad|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Io	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Checkerl|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Old_Man	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
Ocean	|	0	|	0	|	N	|
---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
Total	|	2	|	1	|	0	|

	Notice: The '1' in the "Ally Total" column indicates the total
number of games won by an alliance, not the total number of ally win
points accumulated by countries.  Remember, if your name is not on
that list, and you would like to register, let me know.

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			   Game Report
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	Editor's note:  Historical Masculine is the case used in all
pronouns, and is *NOT* meant to imply that females can not or should
not play empire, nor that they cannot be every bit as good as any
other player, of either (or any) sex, or anything else sexist like that.
	Mils charged from the very beginning as Ghost wasted no time in
declaring a low-tech, high military cost war against Batland.  Having
earned the honor of drawing First Blood, he relentlessly pounded at
Batland's border, making little headway at first.  Batland prompty
replied by starting up forts and enlistment centers along the border,
but couldn't seem to fight his way into Ghost territory.  It seemed
the 300 or so military advantage on Ghost's side proved too much for
Batland to catch up to.  
	When asked to comment as to why he started a war this 
early in the game, a spokesperson from the Ghost government was 
quoted as saying: "We just wanted to make sure the attack command
worked.  Besides, he had forts on the border.  If I didn't attack
first, he would have, eventually.  And since when do you need a reason
to attack someone in Empire?  Huh?!  Why don't you go pester some
newbie, and leave me alone!"  At this point the representative "me."
from Ghost shoved the interviewer, and the ensuing brawl was not
resolved until 14 hours later, when the Ghost government realized that
it was more fun to fire on enemy sectors with their shiny new guns
than it was to fight reporters...
	Radio Free Grand_Seljuk came on line at about 10:15 a.m., with
reports from Mr I.M. Geek, minister of science & technology,
announcing the world's first laser guided slingshot, and with it came
tech buildup, arms buildup, and the rumblings of the first wars with
guns & shells.
	Grand_Seljuk took an early tech lead, a lead which he would
never lose through the course of the game.  First to ship, plane, and
nuke tech, this newcomer to the game showed that he had what it takes
to keep a delicately balanced economy up and running, and still have
time to throw nukes around like rice at a wedding...
	Airborne battles were kept to a surprising minimum, and most
airspace violations brought us back to the age-old conflict between
Ghost and Batland.  Ghost reached plane tech well before Batland, but
inefficient bombing runs throughout the Ghost/Batland border knocked out
the same sectors over and over, rather than taking out large areas of
land, to prepare for paradropping.
	Ships were also kept to a minimum, as the power chart
indicated, since the world was largely land.  I don't recall seeing
any ships being sunk, but that was probably because none were sailed,
either.
	It seems that Newbies have an inbred fascination with nukes.
As the countries slowly reached nuke tech, sometime around 6:00 p.m.
on Tuesday, if I remember correctly (which I probably don't), the
world slowly turned into one huge radioactive wasteland.  Reports flew
in about newbies who "didn't know how big an explosion it would be,
and wanted to know if you (the dieity) could fix my sectors up
again..."  No, kid.  Go away.  You bother me.  Next time don't drop it
2 sectors away from your cap, even if it is centered on enemy
territory.
	Total pandemonium broke loose as newbies realized that with
their new B-52s, they could bomb those mysterious ???s way over there,
regardless of who it was...And it seemed that everyone was at war with
everyone else.
	When the dust settled, 3 countries stood on top of the big
mess.  Croatia, Zzyzx, and Ravenloft allied in the end to cinch the
game, by a huge margin, more than enough to meet the winning criteria.
As you can see, their alliance total was in the 370 K region, and the
nearest competitor couldn't have had more than 216 K points.

					Aaron


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-- 

					Aaron


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cammarta@bucknell.edu|     "Life is pain, Highness.
                     |         Anyone who says differently is selling something."
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