From: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny)
Subject: Re: November Classic: US vs AU
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:25:14 GMT
Summary: Full report

Here's a full report.  

Conquer! Sun Nov 22 13:33:20 1992

  The galaxy has been conquered by the Romulans:

Aus were Romulans with Reg/Rom agri, US were Feds with Veg/Ear agri.  The
initial bombing runs went slightly to the Feds.  I had 25 plus the armies
on Romulus, while Balton managed to save 25 plus Vega and Earth.  However
our oggers used the lag advantage and things were soon back to square.
[ The bombing on both sides was pretty good throughout the game - 
wabbit_hunter and Spaceace! did a good job SC-bombing for us, and Flee! and 
Passing Wind did for them.  Their anti-scout bombing was better 
(our was non-existent) but this was probably offset by the lag. ]

Nothing changed hands for a while, then we traded Reg (our front-line agri)
a couple of times.  After a while we got our act together (and replaced
eat my banana with Matty) and started ogging more effectively, and then
the fight moved to the Fed front line.  Canopus held out but we held Organia
and Rigel for most of the second half of the game.  Towards the end of the
game we seemed to be using the lag advantage to ogg, and I think that's what
turned the tables.  [ lag was 650-700ms with very low loss, at least 
initially ]  Final result 12-8 (I think).

    Name               Hours      Planets     Bombing     Offense     Defense
    Totals            341.52       12011      364898       63561       73728

Lieutenant Commanders:
  1 Clown               1.85     14  1.73   222  0.91    90  2.11    65  0.76

Lieutenants:
  2 Billy Bragg         1.86      8  0.99   144  0.58   110  2.56    50  1.00
  3 Attila the Hun      1.86      5  0.62   109  0.44   111  2.58    81  0.62
  4 Spaceace!           1.85      8  0.99   214  0.87    51  1.19    76  0.65
  5 Purple haze         1.83     12  1.50    96  0.39    50  1.18    77  0.64
  6 wabbit_hunter       1.90      3  0.36   164  0.65    61  1.39    55  0.92
  7 Helix               1.83      6  0.75   127  0.52    45  1.06    78  0.63
  8 Matty               1.20      2  0.38    46  0.29    77  2.76    46  0.70
  9 Warsong             1.49      3  0.46   125  0.63    55  1.60    75  0.53
 10 Slartibartfast      1.79      1  0.13    27  0.11    63  1.52    28  1.71
 11 Balton              1.01      2  0.45    64  0.48    51  2.19    69  0.39
 12 Flee!               1.84      2  0.25   166  0.68    33  0.78    82  0.60
 13 Passing Wind        1.81      1  0.13   131  0.55    41  0.98   114  0.43
 14 Sting               1.29      1  0.18    77  0.45    33  1.11    57  0.61

Those who didn't play a full hour
    eat my banana       0.63      0  0.00    50  0.60    16  1.10    15  1.12
    ZZnew guy           0.89      2  0.51    24  0.20    33  1.60    52  0.46
    ryche               0.46      2  0.99    69  1.12    22  2.05    26  0.48
    ICMP Redirect       0.51      0  0.00    51  0.76     3  0.26    10  1.36
    xor                 0.79      4  1.16    76  0.72    23  1.26    16  1.32

The US MVP is a bit hard to pick.  Purple Haze took most of the planets,
but their scout bombers did a great job, and Warsong and Balton managed to 
ogg well despite the lag.  However my vote is Balton, for doing more with a
700ms lagged base than I would have thought possible [ Spaceace! xsged me
into a base on bronco sometime last week (to stop me SC bombing his armies :), 
so I have some idea what it's like. ], including saving lots of armies at
the end.  He also lead the ogg wave that killed me after I moved up to Reg,
that may not have been significant given the final result, but the Feds
would have had no chance at all with a live Rom base sitting on the 
frontline at the end.

Our best players were undoubtedly Clown, Billy Bragg and wabbit_hunter.  
Spaceace! did a good job, I was expecting him to do more coordination 
and take fewer planets!  I should never have lost our base, and my 
phaser-locking sucked throughout.

Who do I send the logfile to to get the latest in snazzy stats?

ICMP Redirect - SC bomber with lag
Death - scumming for Admiral with ratings 12+
danny - best base in the Southern Hemisphere