From: regius@cs.utexas.edu (Regius S. Gunawan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: LaggU beat HB (snif)
Date: 10 Oct 1992 10:07:50 -0500
Organization: UT Austin, clueless div.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: grit.cs.utexas.edu
Summary: Damn those pops. ^_^

From: regius@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Sorry if anyone got this twice.  Just realized that
the newshost here at cc is no better than sunscreamer's
Posting this for sunscreamer (whose newshost still busted)

== begin real post
In the INL upset of the season, Lagg U upended Hell's Bagels 10-8-0
in regulation time -- but the match was closer, yes, closer, than
the score shows.

We let a member of Illuminatus Cartel play for them.  In hindsight,
this was one of the major factors in the match.

The game began with the usual counterintelligence ritual of fake
misdirected team and personal messages.  I scored three, but none
of them seemed to work, so they go in the attempts column.  One
of their players sent 'watch out for r9, he's a really great scout';
this gambit succeeded, so that goes in the Information Success
column; but it's true, I am the greatest scout bomber in the history
of netrek, so it doesn't count as a Misinformation Success.  The
score as the game started was thus HB 0-3-0-0 and LU 1-1-1-0.  We
were up on Valiant Attempts, but they led in the all-important
Flattery category.  This may have keyed the win for them.

Bombing was dead even.  We forewent the RJones Memorial Ogg Strategy
and the Red Shirt Commemorative Destroyer Bomb Reentry Scum Opening
and even the First Annual Hell's Bagels Letter-Making Gambit.  We
just BOMBED THEIR PLANETS.  Seemed to work pretty well.  Someone
notify the think tanks.

We handled the bombing-to-regular-role transition fairly well.  Our
scummers rolled over their front line, grabbing their near-front agri
and threatening to go deep.  They fought back, though; their base
patiently protected Alt, their close agri, and picked up its armies
as it popped.  And popped.  And popped.  They achieved equality.
They popped.  And finally, our front line began to tremble under the
continual onslaught of jolly young farmers from Alt.  We ogged fairly
well -- we scoutbombed fairly well -- we took planets fairly well --
but you can't beat what felt honestly like a 50-60 army surplus over
the course of the game.  Every Fed with a kill could walk away and
pick up and take his shot at our planets.  When we got kills, we
would hover around for five minutes and die on our sterile agris.

With 45 minutes left in the game, we ghostbusted.   Our captain 
got busted, too, so no pause could be effected until several
pops had happened.  Their avalanche of armies took us down to five
planets after the break.  About this time, I went from ogging to
scoutbombing and our token CMU boy went from scoutbombing to ogging
and scumming; this move seemed to help.  Loudly asking ourselves,
"do we want to lose to Lagg U?", we levered ourselves back into the
game, wresting back our agri.  Our oggers began to put the cuffs on
any offenders they saw.  And I and my elite scoutbombing cadre finally
got off our butts and kept them level, except for the obscenely-pulsing
life verdant on the dread Alt.

At 7 planets back into the game and 20 minutes to go, we ghostbusted
again.  By the time we were able to get back into the game, we had
lost Hyd and Ald.  It was starting to look pretty grim.  We had to
wrestle one of our players to the floor and pump him full of Thorazine
after he started screaming something about the humiliation of defeat.
Finally docile and firmly bound, he was relegated to scoutbombing.

With 10 minutes left to go, we went into fifth gear.  Our planets
popped at last, giving us enough armies to take back two of our
front liners, forcing overtime.  We took back Reg.  We reduced Ind
to a barren, airless, rock-strewn mass.  We took Ind.  But then,
under the cover of their base, they took Ind back -- with just 4
minutes left to go in the game.  Pursuing their takers, we
inadvertently iced their base.  Some of us got kills; we raced
back to our planets to find just enough armies to force overtime
with.  Under tremendous barrages of oggers, we picked up and 
dropped on Indi only to have it reinforced.  The bloodbath 
around Indi was incredible.  Finally, with one minute to go, I
picked up our last two armies in my scout, put the patented
sunscreamer juke left juke right run like a jackal move on
two oggers, raced for Ind behind a flying wedge of four cruisers,
orbitted the planet, started to beam the necessary armies, and
was killed by secondary explosions.  With just a few seconds
left, they took Reg, and that, as they say in Jamaica, was that.

My personal kudos to a *very* good Lagg U team for a very good game.
We kept asking each other what the heck we were doing wrong, and what
we needed to do better; the answer was always "pop more armies."  I
think HB is a better team, but LU took excellent advantage of their
situation and managed to stop us when they had to.  If only the game
had gone on for five more minutes!  If only, if only.

The MVP nod has to go to Cookie Monster, F0, for his relentless
planet scumming.  Future Lagg U opponents take note: assign someone
to brutalize him, and always watch when he has kills.  

The close second goes to their base, who played a great heads-up
game, protecting the hundreds of armies that flowed out of their
space.  He'd be my MVP pick, but he kept addressing me as the
famous sunscreamer, and he even thought I was an Admiral.  Fella,
the operation to remove fluid pressure on the brain is called a
lobotomy, and patients can go on to lead completely normal lives.

It was a very disappointing loss for HB, considering our visions of
the playoffs.  I enjoyed myself, though, and that's what counts.
Thanks again, guys!  Very sportsmanlike game.

rear ensign sunscreamer
minister of truth, HELL'S BAGELS
=end real post, begin clueless babble

Could the captain of LaggU send us all the stats.
I'd like to see them.  Thanks

^_^ no clue ^_^ - did I see a 9th person holding the
		  network link to the world? -
ps. my part of the post is smiley(tm) captioned for the
    humor impaired.  i'd put the copyright owner of the
    system if i can remember the name