From: hill@norman.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: SS vs XG scrimage
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:41:04 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


 writes
> 	Side Salad asked that this game be a scrimage before it was
> played. It's possible that they would like to change their minds now.
> 
> SS AWAY: ROM
> XG HOME: FED
> 
> 	Because SS was short one player at the start of the game, I sat 
> out for the initial bombing run and logged in but didn't play for about 
> 5 minutes until Rudabega Boy joined.

Wrong.  SS was short 2 players in the beginning.  Yupa showed up about 3  
minutes into the game.  We played very tentatively in the beginning,  
because I figured it would be a core battle.  (it was 8-6 afterall)  This  
is why we didn't send a full scale bombing wave in.  And was why we were  
down for the first hour.  They had 30+ more armies than we did (that  
survived until we killed them on carriers).

Well, it was still 7-8 until about 10 minutes into the game, Non-Stop!!  
showed up...Yupa (who had only played twice in a month and a half) subbed  
out for Tomato Boy (Videodrome).

> 	Yupa (Under some salad name) subbed in for about 30 minutes until
> Tomato Boy showed up.

> 	XG seemed to take the lead in initial bombing and made some gains 
> into the SS front line, taking Reg and Cap for some time.

This was a result of our poor bombing.  We killed alot on carriers, but  
they had SOO many.  They advanced all the way to sir, when we started to  
slowly grind back.  When Tomato Boy (videodrome) subbed in, we really  
started to rock.

We arranged our attack to try to retake key planets, and ogg and bomb as  
much as we could.  We were still down about 20 armies at this time.

> 	Eventually, the initial armies ran low, and Tomato Boy subbed in.  
> SS slowly pushed back XG to retake their front line.  The battle
> intensified on Org and Reg, mainly Org.  With about 50 minutes
> remaining, the game was paused twice -- first so that BaconBits Boy
> could make a phonecall, and then just afterward because Balton was still
> in the bathroom.  The reactions of the players makes me even more
> determined that I don't like Half-Time.

Why?  There was NO problems, as far as I could see.  The pause feature  
really helped.  The game would've had to have been 1 hour instead of two  
if I couldn't have made that phone call.  The fed captain sent continue,  
and when we were ready, I sent continue.  We resumed for a few seconds,  
and the game was paused again because balton was still out.  This is NOT  
the fault of the pause feature, but the fault of the XG team captain for  
sending a continue when his team was not ready to continue.  Don't blame  
it on the pause feature, hugh.

> 	At about 20 minutes, SS made a serious push and took all of XG's 
> front line.  XG spent the rest of the game fighting to retake it.  At 
> zero, SS was up only Org, so Overtime began.  SS rather quickly indied 
> Rig for the win.

I'd say it was about the 40 minute mark when we finally started to push  
them into their space.  By 20 minutes in, we consistently had 2-3 planets  
on the front, and traded Ceti (agri) a few times.

At the end, something in our attack broke down.  We lost 2 front line  
planets (that were at 4) within 5 minutes of the end.  This brought  
overtime.

An interesting note:  We couldn't take out a SB at the beginning of OT  
because I SB had died minutes before.  This is a bug, right?

> 	It was a fun game, and I look forward to the official one.  I'm 
> very curious to see how this will effect people's INL predictions.
> 
> ZZnew guy
> Ringman of Xgolems
> 
> PS
> 
> I assume that Rick will post stats.

Ditto.  The game should be quite interesting.  Rick prob won't post stats.   
He sent them to the captains.

Warsong was their MVP, in my opinion.  He constantly was a nusance, and  
played very well.  Cruton Crunch(Duck) and Erect Cucumber(Yea Boy!!!!) had  
a GREAT game, with solid performances from psycho feta (psycho bomber) and  
Egg Slice Boy (ryche).  Great game guys!!!

Rob
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