From: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny)
Subject: Re: Europe vs Australia 20:0
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:08:24 GMT
Keywords: DOOSH europe oz australia INL ENL

In article <Bz9E57.1oG@cs.bham.ac.uk> jwh@cs.bham.ac.uk writes:
>Europe 20:0 Australia DOOSH!!!
>
>Well the much hyped Europe vs Australia game finally took place on Saturday.
>This resulted in a close game with a genocide for the Europeans after 100 mins
>of the 120 mins regulation game.

Most embarassing.

We were a player up for the first 40 minutes, but their lag was better (200ms 
against 700ms).

The game was flat for the first 30 minutes with Org and Cet being traded
back and forwards a couple of times.  Then the Europeans got their act
together and started ogging and SC bombing... we couldn't retaliate with
the ogging very well because of the lag, and they never looked back.
(our extra player left at this point, which didn't help either)

>Perhaps that was not helped by Newlook jumping in a starbase a setting off to
>protect Sir our first Agri and not arriving in time, then heading back to
>Dra only to have that bombed before he returned, A move he deeply regrests!

Aha!  That could be another reason we managed to stay even for the first
part of the game, as I managed to save 25 armies and never had less than
ten on board for the first hour (after than they got serious about their
SC bombing).

>a role he fulfilled very well, and I switched to Suicid Scout Bombing,

You did a good job too.

>Well then of couse there was Alatar "Hmm I though you said you were ogging
>why do you have 10 kills then?" He seemed to have an amazing way of surviving
>oggs and ogging others whilst still taking planets? I wish I could :]

Alatar is unquestionably your MVP.  Quite a spectacular performance.

>Our tactics at the end were a bit bad or rather the Australians were a bit
>good, having left Alp for Last Planet Stand they completly ignored it and
>only defended Earth! Good idea so we eventually twinked it as it was no good
>for a lps. The problem was then Earth! Which basically ended with a mass
>attack with Alatar and 007 amongst others all carrying to Earth whilst Yoda
>took the base for a spin, down there. 007 getting genocide, he seemed to have
>a bad game being ogg when carrying 4 armies 3 times in a row so this was
>sweet revenge!

>Their MVP has to be talkie toaster for not only having a cool
>name but also managing to scum 4 planets and ogg lab 4 times when carrying! lab
>I think had a bit of an off day being ogged 9 times when carrying, a total
>of 20 armies burnt! However he did manage to get Matty carrying 4 and 
>ICMP Redirect with 8.

That was in the base!  I don't want anyone to think I'd carry 8 armies
otherwise.  Talking of base oggs, I think the Europeans could do with
some work on their base ogging - I was expecting to live for about 5 minutes
and ended up playing over an hour with almost 50 kills!!!  Flying a 700ms 
lagged base is a nightmare, and I should never have been allowed to store
and pass on so many armies (I reckon well over 50 armies were picked up off
me by carriers in the course of the game).

I died when I cloaked, found one of the oggers was actually locked onto me
(this may explain why they were having so much trouble ogging me, it's not
too bad when all the ships fly straight at you from one direction!) and
didn't uncloak fast enough (may have lost a packet).

>I would like to thank, as I am sure we all do ZZnew guy for the use of the
>server, very dedicated staying up the night to watch .) the server gave me
>a nice steady 200ms lag quite playable really!

A west coast server next time, we had 700ms lag.

>I well I hope the Europeans can enter a Euro - INL team next term, I guess
>as the Australian beat the Americans that makes us best :O)

Ummm... We beat the US 12-9 on OUR server.  I think we would take you
to small pieces if you played us on our server!

ICMP Redirect - SC bomber with lag
danny - best base in the Southern Hemisphere