From: rtaylor@honors.uoregon.edu (Russ Taylor)
Subject: Pixe@gatech game ends in nuclear firestorm!
Organization: Very little indeed.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 05:00:39 GMT


Well, actually not, but it got your attention ,right?

At 11pm Saturday night, the lastest in a series of gatech games (not to be
confused with Bloodbath Empire :)  came to a close, with the Almight
Protector
firmly in the lead. *

* Note that this and all following statements are from the perspective of
the
Protector.  But then, he who wins writes the histories, correct?

Roughly 12 hours earlier, my co-ruler (none other than the famous Narnia)
declared victory, barring objections from the other players.  Thule, by far
the
biggest threat, elected not to contest the victory. Possibly due to his
lack
of nuclear weapons.  Ix, the other country in a posistion to object, wisely
realized that his limited cash flow would be insufficent to gain him
victory.
The other countries were not consulted :)

Protector, for those interested, was the sole winner of the game, and is
a co-ruled country consisting of Lord Blackthorn (myself) as clean-up crew
and economic watch dog (and the one who seized the 150 sector base of the
country, of course), and Narnia as the military brains behind the outfit. 
I played using no tools or scripts except autodist, accountant, and fchk
(only
autodist does any actual moves), and just the basic client, along with an
ethernetted Macintosh IIsi for easy cut-n-pasting.  Narnia (hope I'm not
blowing your secrets) uses xemp when possible, but did most of his playing
over a modem, with what I assume was just a basic client once again.  So
remember kiddies...you don't need a better client to win, you need balls
(sorry TOG....make that guts :), TIME, and a cerebral cortex.  <- joke
This was my first win and second survival, and Narnia's first solo win
(he has won as part of a power block in the past).  Protector had only 1
ally, Toyland, though Thule and Ix were on very good terms.

A power report follows.  Of the 23 countries who broke sanctuary, only 9
remained, with Pagodia, Finland, Orleanais and Napa effectively destroyed
(Orleanais by about 16 50kt 100% made in Narnia nukes, in case you
wondered).
Orleanais, and I belive Ix, were both replaced by new players late in the
game.
Countries wiped from the map include:

(Protector kills):  Wamic, BattleZone
(Wamic Kills): Endor
(other kills :):  DragonEmp, Kelewan, Soxland (again!), Nastrond (who broke
late, but fought on with only 2 sectors), and several others who I can't
remember :)  no slam intended

 
     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Oct  3 23:11:41 1992

         sects eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship
money
Protector 390  93% 264K  14K  22K 3.0K  24K  58K 3.2K 205K  18K 254   91 
155K
    Thule 355  91% 256K  12K  12K 1.6K 6.0K  50K 3.1K 155K 8.4K 290   80 
340K
       Ix 195  98% 162K  13K  14K 1.9K 6.0K  29K 950   89K 3.3K 100   50  
45K
  Baldric  70  97%  62K 3.7K 4.0K 220  1.1K  13K 650   40K 750   90   10  
75K
  Toyland  75  97%  59K 4.9K 3.1K 470  9.8K 8.9K 1.7K  18K 2.6K   0   30  
80K
     Napa  45  89%  37K 2.5K 5.0K 1.0K 2.6K 2.4K 650   10K 750   30   20  
10K
Orleanais 115  66%  31K 700  1.2K 180  150  4.2K 150  8.4K 100    8    4  
65K
  Finland  25  93%  13K 450  100   30  100  2.9K  50   14K 850    0   10 
325K
  Pagodia  10  86% 1.9K 300  125   35    0  650    4  4.5K  31    0   10 
-66K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 1.3K 91% 886K  51K  62K 8.4K  50K 169K  10K 544K  35K 760  310 
1.0M

I have no final report to publish, but at the close, Ix had the highest
tech
of the viable countries (about 325), while Protector had 306 tech. Both Ix
and
Protector were capable of building nukes, but Ix did not have the cash flow
(+50K an update for us) to support a sustained nuke-fest.  Thule lacked the
research to build nuclear devices.

The game was played on a medium sized map (128x64), with most countries
breaking on large (150 sector) start islands, broken up into 45 sector
divisions by diety-owned borders.  2 smaller (35 sector) start islands also
broke.   Most of the surviving countries owned one or more of the large
islands, Protector claimed both of the 35 sector islands.

Bridges did not produce food, and the following options were present (with
a brief commentary):

(basic BBN code for ships and planes....the best code in my book ;)

all_bleed  one of my favorite mods....makes it harder to pull ahead in tech
easy_bridges   but no bridge food took the fun out of it :(
slow_war    I love this mod....makes life easier when you don't have to
worry
            about sneak attacks from neutral countries
dr_nuke     the only reason to have research, IMHO
davy_jones  prevents sea-targeted nukes from hitting land sectors...really
            made it much harder to make Orleanais glow. I like it.

and some others that I can't remember....

A brief history of the major events (according to Protector historians):
(since there have been no prior postings, figured I'd sum up the game)

After playing three games under the title Lord Blackthorn, and Uppsala in
Euro III, I decided the time had come to advance beyond newbie status. 
Accordingly, I chose the name Protector, from the Larry Niven book of the
same name. The Protector are the extremely intelligent adult form of a race
called the Pak.  Humans (according to the book :) are descended from a
failed 
attempt to colonize the earth, failed because all the Protectors died out,
leaving the breeders to evolve into us.  Why the Protector?  Because of
Niven's comment on the first thoughts of a human turned Protector:

"I've been very, very stupid"

     The warriors of the Pak broke through the diety-held borders, to find
that
their only neighbor was Wamic, a close ally and personal friend :(
Things looked grim indeed....with some sound military advice, Wamic quickly
overwhelmed the vacationing Ewoks of Endor, and we began to lay plans for
the conquest of the world.  
     Sadly, the real world (read: girl friend and job) intervened, and
Wamic was forced to retire from the game.  In a somewhat controversial
move, he chose to turn his sectors over to an ally (me), rather than
getting an unkown replacement.  With this new found land, I quickly set
about building a massive economy, all the while sucking gold to fill the
ever-hungry Protector National Bank (and a masssage parlor).  I also set my
sites on one of neighbors, the inoffensive BattleZone, whilst the
destruction of then-leader Orleanais and #4 power Finland.  Protector
experienced a meteoric rise in power and cash flow, rising to the #2
position on the chart before personal considerations (i.e. a half-hour
commute to campus just to play) reared their ugly heads, and I turned the
game over to Narnia, an ally from a previous game.
    A few weeks later, I moved back onto campus for the beginning of fall
term, and approached Narnia with co-ruling Protector.  (Narnia had already
sent me a few letters to the effect of "I can't believe you're giving this
country up")
I logged on to find much had changed....Protector now occupied a Pagodia
colony and BattleZone's 35-sector start island, and was engaged in a
general pig-pile
on Finland and Orleanais (who by then had been replaced by a substitute
player,  quite good one too).   Orleanais was quickly restrained to a
150-sector island,
while Finland withstood continous pounding for over a week before moving on
to other things.  
     A mad scramble to seize the remants of Finland ensued, with Protector
gaining a large portion, including some much needed resources.  Orleanais
set
about making his country damn near impossible to crack....Narnia used all
of
our F-16s mobility several times trying to strip his cover.  But, a
discovery
in the deep basement of Protector Labs (tm) turned the trick....yes, the
Pak
had developed nuclear weapons.  And had the cash flow to use them....one
week
and a drop from 500 to 100 K later (our money), Orleanais was finished as a
world power, with over 16 nukes dropped, and an air force of 8 B-52s and 80
F-16s in place.  Thule, an almost-ally, had suceeded in capturing Finland's
capitol, but was robbed of most of his gains when I targeted the capitol
with
a 50kt warhead before he could take it.  At this point, we declared
victory,
and the game drew to a close.  


Here are some of the Protector votes for awards.....

Big mouth, little gun:  the original Orleanais, for declaring I would be in
    BIG trouble if I attack his fodder (BattleZone), when he hadn't even
landed
    a ship on his island. You and what army, Orl?  :^)

Code bug from Hell:  the multiple update bug bit us twice....once producing
2 
    updates (and a timewarp backwards), the other a mostly unfixable
4-update
    screw.  But the game survived, in any case (made 150K that way, too)

Arms merchant Supreme: continuing the tradition inspired by Uppsala Arms,
Protector led the world in naval, air, and nuclear power for most of the
last
half of the game.  Highest tech ain't everything, folks....I'd take a
massive
cash flow any day.

Most Uncrackable nut:  the second Orleanais....took lotsa nukes to break
his
air and fort cover.

Eternal Fodder award: (sorry)  Soxland, who has been wiped out in 4 of 5
games
I've played in (but then, I've been killed in 3 out of 5 of mine)

Cool Diety award: Warlock and Fizban, for putting up with near-continuous 
bitching (yes, from Protector too) in the first month of the game

Best co-ruler award: (highly biased)
Narnia, couldn't of won this without him, bet he could of without me,
though
(would've taken another week or two :)

Grammy award, for the only empire song in the game:
Protector, for his inspired :) version of Rawhide....

> Announcement from Protector, (#22)  dated Wed Sep  9 03:57:37 1992
Research, research, research, get that research rolling!
Cure 'em up..send 'em out...cure 'em up...send 'em in...
Build them nukes...research!


And, finally, the Empire Cartographer's assocation gives a big hand to Ix,
who
provides us with this impressive map of the world, note the predominance of
Cs (Protector).  Big hand for taking the time to do this, Ix.

Thanks to all who stuck through this long and quite possibly boring
posting...
it ain't every day you win an empire game, ya know.

Disclaimer:

The above are the highly biased opinions of one Brennan the Protector,
formerly
known as Lord Blackthorn.  If you don't like it, win your own damn game :)
If you already have, send flames to /dev/null (or
gbush@useless.washington.dc,
all the same to me)

See ya next game! (unmanitoba, if I remember right...)
 
       The World According to Ix ...




   - - Fizban (#0)            O - Orleanais (#2)         3 - 3 (#3)

   F - Finland (#4)           P - Pagodia (#6)           N - Napa (#7)

   T - Thule (#10)            S - Soxland (#11)          p - phaedrus (#13)

   A - Toyland (#16)          I - Ix (#18)               B - Baldric (#19)

   C - Protector (#22)






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Note that by the end of the game, Protector (C) owned more of the Finland
than is currently shown :)
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