From: duelge@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jason Duelge)
Subject: Re: Chainsaw II - End of Game - Temekula's viewpoint
Reply-To: duelge@schaefer.UUCP (Jason Duelge)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 19:28:50 GMT

In article <hassink.722540502@manning> hassink@cs.UAlberta.CA (Hassink Brian John) writes:
>Over the weekend all the remaining countries more or less conceeded the win to
>the Temekula/Vulgaria/Sardar alliance
>
>There was a unified coalition to take down the top players (as per usual), but
>the effort was uncoordinated and came too late to effect the outcome of the
>game. Pern/Albania/beep/and badlands (who fought well for a few updates before
>bowing out) slugged it out with Vulgaria and a few of his allies.
>
>Vulgaria deserved the win, being at war with no less than 3 active countries at
>once. And, in spite of losing an airbase with a significant number of aircraft,
>Vulgaria weathered the storm and even managed to make some small gains.
>
>Temekula, being content for a while to just supply aircraft and arms to his
>allies, sprang back to life and munched up some easy pickings to gain a huge
>lead on the power chart. At this point, the remaining countries saw the
>futility of continued resistance and acknowledged the win.
>
Lets put things into perspective.
Vulgaria is as guilty as Temekula of 'munching easy pickings'.  However,
Vulgaria declared war on three people at once, badlands, Spitzbergen and
another country i can't remember the name of.  He even made an announcement
about 'taking on more than one'.  Fine.  He's a good enough fighter.
However, Pern/beep/Albania then declared war on him.  So, while he was
going for easy pickings, he might have bit off more than he could chew.
As badlands was beating Space Madness, and beep devoured Shockwave, Temekula
found it was busy with 'real world' homework ... and unable to fight.
Also, Temekula was surrounded by 'easy pickings'.
Temekula supplied planes to Vulgaria and Space Madness.  I received telegrams
from Space Madness saying 'i'm dying, you can take my ships', and telegrams
from Vulgaria asking for, at different times, shells, planes, guns.
Also, after the Vulgar made the mistake of not putting mil in a coastal
airbase, losing 20 or so fighters, he made an announcement saying that 
'his side lost' etc, and sent me telegrams insisting that i give him planes.
 Now, i consider Henk (the Vulgar One) to be my friend, but he threatened
to BACK-STAB me if i didn't start fighting the enemies that *he made*!
I was not at war with any of these people, yet he was insisting i start
fighting them.  I tried to explain to him i was busy, and SHARED NO BORDER
with any of his foes!
Anyway, Space Madness didn't die.  Temekula was able to take some Eclipse
sectors, and using these as a forward base, i was able to sneak in and
sack badlands capital (to the tune of 55K) with a quickly typed at the update
attack.  badlands fell shortly after this, as i continued to apply pressure.
beep fell to the combined forces of Vulgaria and Sardar, with some help
(albeit minimal) from CTE (with Temekulan planes!)
So, as we all pat Vulgaria on the back for winning this game, perhaps you
might be interested in hearing the Temekulan side of the story.

Again, this is *not* a flame, of Henk, or any of the allies.  I had a
great deal of fun playing this game, and enjoyed the alliance.  However,
Henk brought me into the war.  A war i really didn't have time for, or
(perhaps) interest in fighting.

>Sardar also went on the offensive and captured former Shockwave territory
>recently aquired by an aggressive beep.
>
>     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
>      as of Mon Nov 23 12:16:01 1992
>
>         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
> Temekula 200   93% 151K 3.9K 1.9K 325  5.6K  19K 4.0K  78K 5.2K 190   40   40K
> 27990.00
> Vulgaria 140   90% 108K 1.9K 1.4K 280  1.1K  10K 900   36K 3.1K  80   40   40K
> 17076.17
>   Sardar 110   92%  98K 2.0K 1.1K 245  3.6K  13K 1.1K  49K 6.7K  70   30   15K
> 15230.00

The three of us won it.  If someone wants to argue that 'Vulgaria did more
than Temekula', i'll be happy to present an alternative viewpoint.
Of the five 'easy pickings' i acquired, four of them reacted to my declaration
of war.  Only one of the five (and only 15 of the sectors i acquired) were
from an 'inactive country'.

Jason -- Temekula
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| Jason Duelge                                                              |
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