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2nd February 2008, 11:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] Re: Game 34
Date sent: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:54:52 +1000
>
> >The other (not so secret) tip was having brainy blokes who worked out how
> to
> >manipulate the market. Steel selling at 11, oh me, oh my, and to think I
> >bought at 3 last turn. I think we have never lost money doing this stuff
> >(the worst we got was not making anything)
>
>
> Steel selling at 11 and I have 6,500 units. Quite exciting really.
I'm only dumping some of mine, the Freeps have been using me to
practice theft on so i try not to leave any spare coins lying around.
>
> >i'm agreeing that SG will be hard to take out. But we are trying to ensure
> >that no DS gets eliminated due to enemy action (its all enemy inaction so
> >far).
>
or SG could do something that made us notice him and we would
have to act. At the moment though hes just propping up other
nations and keeping the home fires warm.
> I know <sigh>
>
> >maybe not. We have a few tactics about the end-game play that we will use
> to
> >drag you down. End-game (also called bug hunting) is where one side is
> >outnumbered at least 2-1, and they lack the offensive capacity to win.
> >Generally it means a palantir on your capital (that shows up your all your
> >M/T's and Cities), burning your capital to the ground (that lowers the
> >morale to all your other pop centres so you can't upgrade your towns - that
> >we couldn't see - to M/T's), and infothr on your remaining pop centres to
> >find your new capital.
In one game i just sat in a tiny village out of the way and just
jumped AG's and Em's in to the Cap and kept up to date where it
had moved to each turn. I think i took the capital 4 times in about 9
turns, plus heaps of kills.
>
> I know all the tactics in end-game. I survived quite a while in Game 22
> when down to about 6 Pops and 5 or 6 characters. I still owned two Pop
> Centres in Gondor too.
>
> >That's funny. We DS have been quite rich for some time.
>
>
> Well I am rich. I just have to keep spending it on thousands and
> thousands of troops.
>
> Guess what ?........ Thats what we are like in Game 34. (You lot are
> actually playing really badly to not of finished us off yet <grin>)
We're practicing. I've never played an Army based nation before, so
we are all just learning new ideas. The teamwork seems to be
happening though. And considering that the Freep are easier to win
with than the DS the return match should be way cool. {:-) ...
Ad Ren.
> Thomas Crane
> Southern Gondor
>
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Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] Re: Game 34
Date sent: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:54:52 +1000
>
> >The other (not so secret) tip was having brainy blokes who worked out how
> to
> >manipulate the market. Steel selling at 11, oh me, oh my, and to think I
> >bought at 3 last turn. I think we have never lost money doing this stuff
> >(the worst we got was not making anything)
>
>
> Steel selling at 11 and I have 6,500 units. Quite exciting really.
I'm only dumping some of mine, the Freeps have been using me to
practice theft on so i try not to leave any spare coins lying around.
>
> >i'm agreeing that SG will be hard to take out. But we are trying to ensure
> >that no DS gets eliminated due to enemy action (its all enemy inaction so
> >far).
>
or SG could do something that made us notice him and we would
have to act. At the moment though hes just propping up other
nations and keeping the home fires warm.
> I know <sigh>
>
> >maybe not. We have a few tactics about the end-game play that we will use
> to
> >drag you down. End-game (also called bug hunting) is where one side is
> >outnumbered at least 2-1, and they lack the offensive capacity to win.
> >Generally it means a palantir on your capital (that shows up your all your
> >M/T's and Cities), burning your capital to the ground (that lowers the
> >morale to all your other pop centres so you can't upgrade your towns - that
> >we couldn't see - to M/T's), and infothr on your remaining pop centres to
> >find your new capital.
In one game i just sat in a tiny village out of the way and just
jumped AG's and Em's in to the Cap and kept up to date where it
had moved to each turn. I think i took the capital 4 times in about 9
turns, plus heaps of kills.
>
> I know all the tactics in end-game. I survived quite a while in Game 22
> when down to about 6 Pops and 5 or 6 characters. I still owned two Pop
> Centres in Gondor too.
>
> >That's funny. We DS have been quite rich for some time.
>
>
> Well I am rich. I just have to keep spending it on thousands and
> thousands of troops.
>
> Guess what ?........ Thats what we are like in Game 34. (You lot are
> actually playing really badly to not of finished us off yet <grin>)
We're practicing. I've never played an Army based nation before, so
we are all just learning new ideas. The teamwork seems to be
happening though. And considering that the Freep are easier to win
with than the DS the return match should be way cool. {:-) ...
Ad Ren.
> Thomas Crane
> Southern Gondor
>
>
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