PTWDG AAR (After Action Review)

[DeepO]

Well, this post perhaps, but if the forum ever opens, I invite you to read through the 900 post turn threads in the Lego war, and tell me how much of that was useless information. It will take you a couple of hours, but consider that at the time, several of our members were typing over 12h a day to fill it, while the others tried to keep up. I remember vmxa complaining that he was always 2 pages behind, no matter how fast he tried to read

DeepO

[Rhothaerill]

Oh I believe you. I was an active part of the strategy forum and AU forum for a while until I finally lost interest in playing SP games so I know quite well the windiness....err, prolific on-topic writing tendencies, of many members of GS.

It's like Arnelos posting in a political discussion at MZO.

[Krill]

Ah, as bad as I felt after that event, those turn threads are truely amazing. The forum visibly slowed down on those evenings.

several of our members were typing over 12h a day to fill it

Primarily You, DeepO, and Aeson, although Cort and I got about 60 posts each from those threads. It was frantic.

[Master Zen]

Hmm... I probably don't have more than 2000 posts in the GoW forum, and that's pushing it.

I am also willing to bet I'm the top poster in our forum so I honestly doubt the GoW forum breaks the 10,000 post mark. Probably somewhere in between 5k-10k.

My team, unsurprisingly, got bored to death during the post-Bob war building spree. I think I was the only one enjoying it since I'm somewhat of a builder who still hasn't come out of the closet.

[DeepO]

Originally posted by Krill
Ah, as bad as I felt after that event, those turn threads are truely amazing. The forum visibly slowed down on those evenings.

It's true... everyone was refreshing so frequently, that it took a while to get through. 'poly couldn't keep up. Frantic indeed...

DeepO

[Master Zen]

Btw, this is the little spreadsheet which had our buildup timeline before the Lego War. It was for Panzer32 who took charge of the team while I was computer-less in Geneva.

Btw, the black line is the date we launched our ships. It was also coincidentally the turn I finally had a computer again.

[DeepO]

It's different for a player when building, as opposed to the others. Nobody is interested in all the litle tweaks, and you can't really plan this as a team neither. Instead, you can do other stuff, like start threads on post-Lego defenses around the time you discover steam. But I agree, you need members who enjoy this, to keep any interest in the forum at building times.

DeepO

[DeepO]

Hum. Looks like I forgot to install Office at my last computer crash... I can't open it. I'm certainly interested in information like that, MZ. We kind of settled to a certain thread template ourselves, but I don't think any GSer ever used something like Excel. All calculations were done by hand, most in the head. A lot of the tweaking were last moment things we spotted.

DeepO

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by DeepO
Hum. Looks like I forgot to install Office at my last computer crash... I can't open it. I'm certainly interested in information like that, MZ. We kind of settled to a certain thread template ourselves, but I don't think any GSer ever used something like Excel. All calculations were done by hand, most in the head. A lot of the tweaking were last moment things we spotted.

DeepO

It's not very elaborate DeepO, since the actual building orders were explained in the forum (I can quote that post if you want). It is simply a timeline which shows each city's production and what it would be finishing building on what turn. You can also check what was each city's waste considering what it was building (the only real waste was two bombers built in Dreadnaughtica after it had finished building Destroyers).

Also it does not include the first half (more actually) of the buildup since it was done only for the turns Panzer was to be playing.

[ZargonX]

Hehe, went back to the very first page of our Lego forum, and found this little post from Odin on Nov 11th, 2002:

Once we get a few good size cities we should be able to expand like a giant ameoba, barbarians permiting. If we give a far-flung city for peace let's not give away one that may have a good resorce later in the game, we don't want Glory of War to get uranium.

How right he was!

[Master Zen]

Here's another spreadsheet I had, this one for the nuclear building program. It's quite confusing though since I did it only for myself so I really didn't have need of explaining much - consequetly I think even I forgot what much of it means

From what I recall:

The first colum has the city's production, the red-colored turn tiles show the accumulated production so far. The "Dif" column shows the shields that are still needed. The x27, x25 etc columns show how many of those type units would need to be disbanded so that we could rush the nukes. The "Tot" column shows how many extra shields would be obtained from the disbands thus it needed to be equal to or larger than the "Dif" column.

There were some changes done mid-way through. For starters we only built 5 nukes on that first turn since the 6th nuke would have been impossible to launch (no nuke sub for it). Also once we conquered Roleplay, the extra cities messed up the corruption of our core cities so the next phases had to be slightly adjusted. I don't remember if those changes were made to the sheet or just in my head so if the thing is messed up, don't blame me.

What might be interesting though is our "target" list. In the event it ended up being rather different that what we had thought of initially. All in all GoW built 14 tactical nukes and we used 7 of them (I could be wrong, must check battle reports)

-MZ

[Ennet]

Originally posted by Master Zen
I guess that's what pissed my team off so much, not just the fact they didn't want us to explore their land, but the fact that they didn't want that, yet considered it their right to explore ours.

It was a while back, but if i remember correctly it was more the delayed tech trade that upset us. I dont remember clearly if we had a signed deal or not, but when they wouldn't send us writing until after we moved out of their terretory most people on the team got mad. Honestly it could have been easily resolved if they just given us the tech and we then moved out of their claimed lands, that way we didn't need to lose thoose turns of precious research. So we felt pretty much like they partially atleast, broke the deal.
The privacy of their lands i think noone was too upset about, that was a logical wish.

[Ennet]

ohh sorry i was a page behind, didn't realise anyone would want to post so many posts it would exeed the fist page! :S

[Krill]

I've been meaning to ask this question for a long time: Where to RP start the game? Where was their capital originally founded? I joined the game after RP had palace jumpto , and lost, Pamplona, so I have no idea...

[Master Zen]

Madrid, which was apparently on the site of New Madrid.