Turn Tracking Thread of Mabb: 2

[Lazerus]

Shade once every 20years as its a council proposal.
How'd you manage to be within range of 3 bases ? i thought all the worm filled fungus would have blocked easy troop movement and i was def outside drop range.

Breaking treaties i don't actually mind that much, but seeing as im not a builder i only make pacts when i intend to keep them, hence i feel betrayed by the backstab.

Herc, i hope, won't finish me off since i gave him several technologies as a gift for not joining in. Another turn having a laugh for me

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Lazerus
Shade once every 20years as its a council proposal.
How'd you manage to be within range of 3 bases ? i thought all the worm filled fungus would have blocked easy troop movement and i was def outside drop range.

When I opened the turn you only had two bases left, Smokestack Hill and Labor Trust . take a look at the map again -- my base staples of life is only 10 tiles from smokestack hill with a road available and the exact same situation for spanner works so I had TWO bases and two possible approaches to successfully destroy your base. I actually think your other base is within drop range of darsnan if he could drop a rover on a river/road to it and use aircover to either blast through or ZOC past the worms.

Originally posted by Lazerus Breaking treaties i don't actually mind that much, but seeing as im not a builder i only make pacts when i intend to keep them, hence i feel betrayed by the backstab.

I often feel the same way but I have made pacts just for trade-- THis may sound weird after I jumped you but I keep my word . .. In our case I intentionally never committed to anything with you.

Originally posted by Lazerus Herc, i hope, won't finish me off since i gave him several technologies as a gift for not joining in. Another turn having a laugh for me

makes sense from his point of view and yours to do that deal. Whether he feels any ongoing obligation to you is his decision. The ecodamage is hurting herc the same as me . . . the only one facing negative impacts relative to the other humans is darsnan.

the worms must play after you and before me, if you ended with 4 bases, so if herc or darsnan do not get you, you will get one more turn . . . then the worms should kill the base as there are more of them than you have population points in your last base, unless you can blast the worms somehow

I am still suprised you are hitting darsnan and not me. I assume distance and defences were the reason. PLus I guess that reducing the population of someone with the cloning vats is sort of an empty threat if the base retains its improvements and facilities

Note to darsnan/ hercules

He has 5 x-choppers-- 4 of them are damaged at least 30% and one is undamaged so it must be in a base or airstrip somewhere-- ACTUALLY it is in a hercules base... so hercules is allowing one pactmate to base units in his base to attack another pactmate

It gets even stranger when you consider that darsnan has units in hercules bases as well

[Lazerus]

The worms razing bases may explain it, however i normally see the damage they do when i click turn complete
Theres alot of worms in there, i cant remember if you have the dream twister and im assuming ur still in FM so thats gonna be tough
Yes i know the pact is nice for trade bonus, but its a game, i like to stick in character most of the time and just make them when im forming an actual alliance, if i want to cancel i'll complain at their SE settings for a few turns then go down to treaty and distance myself from them or something like that.
No point in killing the worms, waste of good gas

I am still suprised you are hitting darsnan and not me. I assume distance and defences were the reason. PLus I guess that reducing the population of someone with the cloning vats is sort of an empty threat if the base retains its improvements and facilities

exactly it, he can't pop boom aswell therefore i can do serious damage to his hopes of winning.

its a strange little world aint it

[Hercules]

Schhhessh, I wish I had read these most recent posts before I played. I thought they were just the normal turn tracking and didn't visit the thread since 30 nov. Very interesting and I think useful to have a post mortem analysis.

I saw Lazerus's empty base but thought Flubber or Darsnan would make the final threat call as I was still in Pact. Also I thought Flubber or Darsnan would think it a tad cheeky me delivering the final blow.

With the Global Shade proposal passed I thought the eco threat was sort of eased but I now understand that may not be the case.

Re Laz's chopper in my base. I was surprised but asssumed Lazerus was retreating there temporarily.

Anyway turn 2238 played already and now sent to Darsnan.

[Darsnan]

Hmm, my Anniversary Day for signing onto this game ( 2 years I've been involved in this game now!)! Anyways, kudos to Lazurus for sneaking around to my unprotected rear and doing some damage there!
Onwards one more time to Foreman Lazurus!


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[Lazerus]

Turn sent.


The Drones bow out of this game now, worms finished off the last base, got in a few more gasses on darsnan before the inevitable though

Theres 2 reloads, when i clicked turn complete and died i got the flash through of score etc but no option to save and the game closed. I looked for a save and saw an usual autosave so i loaded that to check i was sending the right thing,again got the score flash through but this time i got the "good im done now go away" screen, clicked the top first thinking it would ask to save before it closed, it didnt, thus explaining the second reload where i stayed, clicked turn complete for the second time and the password screen for flubber came up with the save and exit option.
First time dying hence the not knowing what to do ... i don't like dying

btw Herc, Darsnan has emptied several bases so i couldn't gas them, quickly drop those troops in


Oh well, Farewell people, good luck with the rest of the game
*wanders off to find another pbem to fill the void

[Hercules]

Thanks for playing Lazerus and the reasoning.

[Flubber]

Thanks for filling in Lazerus-- I know it can be tough to be a a replacement and your participation was appreciated

2240 on to hercules

[Flubber]

hello-- Is hercules away ??

[Darsnan]

I received the turn Thursday. Will play tonight.


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[Hercules]

Turn 2241 to Darsnan

[Flubber]

2242 to hercules


Headline news

The univesity sent a strongly worded diplomatic message to the Peacemakers, indicating the UNiversity's strong distaste for nuclear weapons. The Peacemaker's acquisistion of nuclear weapons will once again expand the nuclear club to two nations. The Drone nation was eradicated when they failed to heed warnings about the threat posed to others by their increased nuclear arsenal .The Cycon nation has had a nuclear weapon for a number of years but has heeded university requests that the weapon not be brought inot range of key university facilities.

Headline news has also learned that the university itself has a set of plans for a nuclear weapon and a team of scientists preparing a production facility. An unamed source indicated " we really don't want to build these monstrosities but cannot afford to be the only nation without one"

An official spokesman denied that a university nuclear production was in the current plans stating " WE have no nuclear weapons nor are we currently producing any or planning to produce any. Our policy is to seek disarmament, not join a nuclear arms race". The spokesman reiterated this as the official university policy despite being bombarded with questions relating to evidence that the university is preparing to test its own nuclear device.

[Flubber]

Mabb- turn received and played-- 2243 to hercules

[Hercules]

Turn 2243 to Darsnan


The Peacekeepers started their nuclear programm as a response to the late Drone leader's PB production. The authorities have invested a considerable amount of time an money on this project and would not wish to abandon the project when it is so near to completion. Nor has the project been rushed.

But of course we will look to place it in a secure base so that it causes less concern. A side benefit of building a PB it seems, is that one doesn't have to build prototypes when new technology is discovered.

[Flubber]

So a PB serves means no prototyping-- I did not know that . ..