From: eddy@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Sean Eddy)
Newsgroups: rec.games.empire
Subject: French Flat World One (FFW-1), Week Eight
Date: 11 Apr 92 16:16:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: beagle.eddy.703008995
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder


(Readings from the Elven Book of War)

...for thou art charged with a holy Mission, to spread peace and
understanding through the world, to bring love and light to the
hearts of those everywhere; and those that opposeth this holy
Mission shalt be put to the sword and fed to geckos.

For he that hath understanding, I giveth here the knowledge and
power of Jihad.

Thou shalt make war only given extreme cause; if thy neighbor tortures
thy emissaries, or covets thy cargo ships, or appears to be clueless.
Verily, shalt thou then prepare all thy might for war, whilst making
wondrous soothing noises unto the infidel to lull him, and assureth
him that you think him not fodderous. Study thy enemy, knoweth him as
he knows himself; for this is to know his weaknesses, and to know when
he sleeps.

Then, in the dead of the enemy's night, shalt thou smite him down.

First, shalt thou remove all hope from thy enemy's heart; strippeth
his aircover and scatter it to the four winds as grey ashes; lay his
country bare and helpless before your holy wrath, and convinceth him,
by lightning speed and force majeur, that he hath not odds to be
envied by a snowball in the Inferno;

Second; shalt thou remove all power from thy enemy's hand; removeth
from him all means of retaliation; put his planes to the torch,
bomb his supplies, causeth his distribution paths to pass into
the seas, and sow his fields with napalm and mines;

Third; shalt thou remove all land from thy enemy's sight; droppeth
thou legions of grim paratroopers into his nation, and cause it
to pass utterly from his gaze.

For, if this path be followed by the Faithful, surely shalt thy
enemy be delivered those most holy of words: 
	You have several new telegrams waiting... 
	you lost your capital, better designate one

Here endeth the lesson.

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(Murk-o-Vision Weekly Update)

Atlantis was delivered one of the largest sets of "several new
telegrams" ever seen, as over 4500 aircraft clashed over the skies of
Atlantis this week. As of this writing, 1900 Atlantis warplanes are
reported downed or missing in action. Mirkwood spokesmen admit to the
loss of slightly more than 100 civilian jetliners, a handful of
children's kites, and one Fuji blimp.

Now, in the third day of the conflict, Mirkwood bomber pilots are
reporting clear skies as they ruthlessly hammer Atlantis into the
Stone Age. Mechanized infantry divisions and paratroop brigades
are beginning mop-up operations amidst the shattered remnants of
the Atlantean infrastructure. 

The interim Atlantis president, upon realizing the extent of the
damage, retreated to a mountain villa with his treasury and cruelly
offered half-million dollar contracts for the deaths of some innocent
neighbors. Elven Insecurity Service secret agents, armed with B-52's,
have now twice confiscated large sums of the $5.2 million of Atlantean
cash reserves and donated it to the United Way, and have sworn to
bring the evil dictator to justice.

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     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Sat Apr 11 18:02:52 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
 Mirkwood 781   97% 684K  51K  80K 8.9K  66K 159K 7.6K 253K  26K 1.8K   0  1.1M
   Gunjin 410   98% 377K  23K  92K 4.7K  51K 140K 5.7K 146K 6.4K 880    0  735K
  Angband 480   98% 458K  24K  31K 3.9K  41K 107K  31K 115K  29K 830    0  620K
   gambit 425   97% 390K  17K  14K 680   41K  70K  12K  77K  45K 810    0  1.3M
 Atlantis 545   96% 444K  38K  16K 715   12K  22K 2.8K  72K 4.7K 660    0  1.1M
Kryptycth 275   99% 250K 8.8K  17K 950   28K  59K 7.8K  91K  50K 440    0  390K
        1 300   93% 255K  15K 9.7K 935  8.7K  65K 1.9K  27K  27K 250    0  485K
    Hades 195   97% 178K  12K  23K 2.6K 3.8K  44K 8.4K  25K  20K 240    0   95K
Dreadland 180  100% 177K  11K  14K 1.6K  17K  41K  32K  35K  23K 490    0   80K
grassland 150   94% 133K 8.5K 9.4K 1.1K  17K  24K 5.4K  19K  14K 160    0  155K
  Baldric 100   94%  77K 3.0K 1.6K 130  9.6K  22K 6.1K  16K 8.9K   1    0   50K
       13  85   98%  56K 3.4K  75   80  2.5K 3.1K 150  8.8K 2.2K   4    0  680K
Corto_Mal 140   71%  59K 2.7K 350   75  2.8K 5.5K 4.6K  54K 4.9K  20    0   90K
  Yukonia  20   99%  18K 1.1K 3.8K 295  3.3K 5.6K 1.0K  13K 4.3K  40    0 -5.8K
  Bluedom   0    0%   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   10K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 4.1K  96% 3.6M 219K 312K  27K 304K 768K 126K 950K 265K 6.6K   0  6.9M

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- from the lead tank of the Elven Eighth Armored Cavalry
- sean eddy, tom jones
- eddy@boulder.colorado.edu