From: loney@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Patrick Loney)
Subject: Euro III update (Week 4)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: :The state of being organized
Date:  3 Sep 1992 09:03 EST  

     As promised, this past week in Europe has been a fun one.  At least to
watch.  Several countries paid the price for the sake of other's entertainment.
So here's what happened.

     After several days of planning, setting stratagies, and negotiations,
the top dog was taken down by a combined attack.  Macedon was starting to pull
away from the pack and was headed towards a sure victory.  Knowing that indi-
vidually, they could not attack the leader, several countires banded together.
Earlier this week, the countries of Romania, Urartu, and Ukraine with a tiny
bit of help from Egypt launched massive artillary, air, ground, and sea att-
acks against Macedon.  Over 120 Macedonian fighters stood ready to defend the
homeland, but the weight of the three and 1/2 was too much.  With in an hour,
enemy planes had a free fly zone over much of Macedon.  At that point, a fourth
country, Czeckoslovakia (hey, I'm gettng good at typing that) joined in.
     After this point, things get fuzzy.  First of all, Macedon had a huge
number of bars.  Several of these banks fell to the attackers.  Fearing a
counter attack, the attackers put the bars on the market to move them out.
Remember that this market has a 12 hour time delay.  Macedon signs on at this
point and sees the carnage going on.  He also sees his precious bars up for
sale.  Several lots were put up for sale so Macedon makes huge bids to block
other countries from buying them.  Sometime early next morning, all the
sales go through.  Macedon has enough cash to handle each sale individually, but
not all the sales combined.  He ends up with (what must be an empire record)
-$1,250,000.  In good spirit, the attackers call a truce untill the deity can
decide what to do.  After much debate, the deity patches things up and the
attack continue.  Later that day, Macedon re-designates all of his sectors
into enlistment centers and leaves a gracefull parting announcement.  He
also re-defines the FLEER PARTING COMMENT by putting 220+ units of food on the
market at $1000/unit.  At one unit per lot.  Now when anybody typed in the
command "market", they got pages and pages of lots with one unit of food for
sale.
     Well, the deity fixed this by buying all the food himself and changing
Macedon's representative's name.  My only commant was that is was a very
childish thing to do.  Anyway, Macedonian bones are being picked over right
now.

     The other major war of the week was (emphasis on "was") the Seville vs
France/Castile war.  This war was settled when Ireland needed more space.  So
he sent his high tech air force over very lightly gaurded French territory.
No longer having to fight both France and Castile, Seville was able to eat
up Castile.

     Currently, the only major action going on right now is the "Denmark" 
incedent.  Denmark was down to 6 sectors due to a Macedonian attack.  After the
combined offensive against Macedon was successful, Denmark was able to re-
build to over 25 sectors.  The only problem was that Denmark was short of
space and had to put his capitol on the coast.  And that is where Uppsala
pinpoint bombers and landing craft found it.  Before sacking the Denmark capitol
the Uppsala aircorp destroyed the majority of Denmarks fighter cover in a
single huge bombing raid.  Initially wanting only the cash from the capitol,
Uppsala decided he better get the Denmark sectors before some other lush did.

     In much more light hearted, non-intense wars, the countires of Nigeria
and Mauritania have been at it back and forth and both are talking a good
fight but niether has shown the drive to take the other out.  The same can
be said for the Carthage/Cyrenicia war.  These two wars have been on low heat
for the better portion of the game.  I guess neither side has enough tiddly-
winks to take out the other.

     The "I really love empire" award goes to Portugal.  For almost a week
he fought on with only 2 - 4 sectors.  He finally fell for good when he ran
out of money.  Guerrillas continue to fight on though.

     Tech levels are at up to the second generation of planes.  Fighter 2's,
escort 2's, lt bomer 2's, and long range bombers are starting to show up at
factories in several countries.  Jet tech is still at least a week away
though.


     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Thu Sep  3 07:40:01 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
   Urartu 225   83% 167K  10K 3.0K 375  2.5K  41K 2.3K  59K 3.4K 160   20  380K
Petrozova 240   93% 192K 6.0K 3.5K 145  7.0K  28K 1.1K  74K 3.4K 170    2  275K
    Vaaso 190   89% 141K 9.3K 5.2K 390  6.8K  34K 2.0K  33K 1.9K 210   30   55K
  Ireland 150   90% 131K 7.7K 2.4K 225  6.1K  13K 3.3K  29K 3.6K 190    7  130K
  Romania 145   97% 113K 7.8K 1.9K 420  4.3K  21K 2.7K  34K 7.0K 150   10  185K
Czechoslo 145   98% 133K 4.8K 625  165  3.4K  25K 3.2K  41K 2.1K  50    2  110K
  Uppsala 100   90%  84K 3.3K 4.2K 400  5.6K  16K 1.4K  28K 1.8K 210   10   70K
  Holland 115   86%  87K 3.6K 1.6K 210  1.7K  16K 1.8K  22K 6.5K  60    0   25K
  Ukraine  90   97%  78K 2.3K 1.8K 180  2.2K 6.2K 1.2K  22K 3.5K 140    7  115K
 Carthage  80   88%  56K 4.5K 225   75  850  5.8K 600   11K 1.0K  30    8  195K
  Seville 100   79%  57K 1.3K 100   45  2.1K  12K 650   17K 750   50    0   75K
Mauritana  80   90%  43K 1.6K 875  265  1.3K  12K 800  8.4K 3.0K  30   10  110K
  Georgia  65   93%  53K 2.9K 1.3K  70  450  8.2K 650  9.5K 650   50    0   20K
  Nigeria  70   74%  44K 1.7K 1.2K  45  1.1K 6.0K 1.1K 8.7K 1.3K 100    1   40K
    Egypt  35   93%  32K 2.1K 300   30  450  1.6K 550  7.5K 900   10   10   55K
Cyrenicia  35   94%  27K 2.5K 175   15  200  1.0K 450  4.7K 200    5    4   30K
  Iceland  15   99%  15K 150  350   30  450  6.0K 500  9.1K 500    9   10   85K
  Macedon  55   78%  15K 2.9K 100   45  150  1.7K  48  2.8K 150   10    3  5.0K
  Denmark  20   63% 7.4K 850  125   25  200  700  250  3.5K   2   20    0   50K
    Urals   5   82% 2.0K  50    0    0    0    0    1  1.1K   1    0    1   60K
   Russia  10   56% 250    7    0    0    0  400   22  300  100    0    0   60K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 2.0K  89% 1.5M  75K  29K 3.2K  47K 254K  24K 424K  42K 1.6K 140  2.1M