What to post publicly about the war

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Trip
Personally, I would make anything you send as short and sweet as possible... "We broke through at Quanto with chained Artillery and I'm sure you know what happened next..."

This is it. This is all we need to say in the PM. Then post the battle report.

[DeepO]

Well, if they ask, they can have the battle report for all I care. I don't think we're going to find any mistakes (or not more than have been made before). Or that could be the sign to post it in public.

Krill, let's keep the battle report as dry as possible. No gloating, no jokes (I'm thinking of removing the "resistance has ended" too, although it tries to lighten up what is a major event), and not too much compassion either. Not yet, anyway.

DeepO

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Krill
Er, so Trip, do you prefer my longer, explantry post or DeepOs short and succint post?

Personally, I think shorter is better. The point is to let Lego know what happened. Not much more is needed than that... it's not like they'll feel any better depending on what or how much is written. Compassion can come in later, as DeepO said. Short and succinct...

[Cort Haus]

I'd agree with dropping the 'Resistance has ended'.

[DeepO]

okay, cleaning up the battle report.

DeepO

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Trip

Personally, I think shorter is better. The point is to let Lego know what happened. Not much more is needed than that... it's not like they'll feel any better depending on what or how much is written. Compassion can come in later, as DeepO said. Short and succinct...

I can't stress enough how much I agree with this. Like Trip said, all that's needed now is ... "We broke through at Quanto with chained Artillery and you can guess the rest."

[vulture]

With regard to writing to Lego, I'd echo Trip and suggest that anything sent within the next ten minutes is better than a perfectly nuanced report sent tomorrow...

[DeepO]

Battle report turn 244: 1270 AD

1. DD stumbles into sub at Abilene 4444788 (name unknown). DD 1/4

Operation Watergrogged.
2. art bombs 5/5 BB Tipperary (or Karina? only looked after bombing). failed.
3. art bombs 5/5 BB Tipperary (or Karina). Tipperary 4/5
4. fighter bombs BB Jackson. Fighter fails.
5. 2/4 DD attacks BB Jackson. 2/4 DD destroyed. Jackson promoted to 2/5.
6. art bombs 4/5 BB Karina. Karina 2/5.
7. art bombs 4/5 Tipperary. fails
8. art bombs 4/5 Tiperrary. fails
9. art bombs 4/5 Tipperary. Tipperary 3/5
10. art bombs 3/5 Tipperary. Tipperary 2/5
11. art bombs 2/5 Karina. Karina 1/5.

12. transport attacks 2/5 BB Jackson. counter bombardment failed. Transport destroyed. Jackson 1/5
13. transport attacks 2/5 BB Tipperary. counter bombardment hits. Transport destroyed. Tipperary 2/5
14. transports attack 2/5 BB Tipperary. Transport destroyed. Tipperary 2/5.
15. transports attack 2/5 BB Tipperary. Transport destroyed. Tipperary 2/5.
16. transports attack 2/5 BB Tipperary. Transport destroyed. Tipperary 2/5.
17. Transport attacks 2/5 BB Tipperary. Tipperary sunk. Transport promotes to 3/5
18. Transport attacks 1/5 BB Karina. Transport destroyed. Karina 1/5.
19. Transport attacks 1/5 BB Karina. Karina sunk. Transport 1/4.
20. Transport attacks 1/5 BB Jackson. Jackson sunk. Transport 1/4.

watergrogged totals:
9 bombardments, 5 hits totalling 6 hp. 10 attacks. 1 DD and 6 transports lost. Lego lost 3 BB.



21. Marine attacks Quanto Mechanico. 2/4 BB sunk. Bomber destroyed. Quanto Mechanico taken.

22. Marine captures explorer (1st sappers) at Quanto Mechanico 3.
23. Marine captures explorer (2nd sappers) at Quanto Mechanico 33.
24. Marine captures 3 workers (Ann was one of them, I think) at Quanto Mechanico 1.

25. Quanto Mechanico abandoned. We lost 2 transports (3/5 and 1/4).

26. New city created "Quanto 6"

27. Tank captures Nou Camp.

28. Tank captures Sandonorico

29. Tank captures Karina. (forbidden palace destroyed?)

30. Tank captures Oasis.

31. Abandoned Oasis.

32. New city built: Oasis 8.

33. Tank captures Farmerville.

34. Tank captures Forkmouth.

35. Farmerville abandoned.

36. New city built, "Farmer 8".

37. Tank captures Red Bricks. We control the Sistine Chapel.

38. Tank captures Tarzania.

39. Red Bricks abandoned.

40. New city built, "Red Bricks 8"

41. Tank captures Legopolis. Fighter destroyed. Smith's Trading company controlled. Bach's Cathedral controlled.



The (first) battle for Fort Stanwix
42. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment fails. Inf killed. Tank 3/4.
43. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment fails. Inf killed. Tank 3/4.
44. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank killed. Inf 1/4.
45. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank retreats (1/4), inf 4/4.
46. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank destroyed, inf 1/4.
47. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank retreats (1/4). Inf 4/4.
48. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank destroyed. Inf promotes to 2/5.
49. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank destroyed. Inf 4/4.
50. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment fails. Inf killed, tank 3/4.
51. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Inf killed. Tank 3/4.
52. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank destroyed. Inf 2/4.
53. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank retreats (1/4). Inf 2/4.
54. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment hits. Tank destroyed. Inf promotes to 4/5.
55. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment fails. Inf killed. Tank 3/4.
56. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment fails. Tank retreats (1/4). Inf 2/4.
57. Tank attacks inf. defensive bombardment fails. Inf killed. Tank 2/4.

Fort Stanwix total:
16 Tank attacks. 10 succesful defensive bombardments. 6 infs killed. 6 tanks killed.



58. MI captures settler at Legopolis 22.
59. Marine captures 3 workers at Legopolis 3
60. Marine captures 3 workers at Dye Fields 47
61. Marine captures 3 workers at Dye Fields 41
62. 3/4 Marine captures worker at Ahhmyfoot 7.

63. Forkmouth abandoned.

64. Sandonorico abandoned.

65. Tarzania abandoned.

66. Karina abandoned.


Grand total:
9 bombardments, 5 hits totalling 6 hp. 27 attacks. 4 retreats. 10 successfull defensive bombardments.
We lost 1 DD, 8 TR & 6 T.
Lego lost 4 BB, 1 sub, 1 bomber, 1 fighter, 6inf, 2 explorers, 13 workers, 1 settler, 9 cities.

This should be the cleaned up version.

In the comments thread:

Once Vox has played its turn, we're going to include some screenshots. For the moment, they might give away too much info.

DeepO

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by vulture
With regard to writing to Lego, I'd echo Trip and suggest that anything sent within the next ten minutes is better than a perfectly nuanced report sent tomorrow...

I agree. Let's send something short and to the point very soon.

[DeepO]

okay, 10 minutes deadline, or this will stay here forever.

CH, The "you can guess the rest" thing, is in my eyes about the same as "Legopolis has fallen", maybe only a little less respectful. The 2 sentences surrounding it, are only meant to express our sympathy with the team, if we only send that one sentence, I think we better don't send anything at all, as it seems a gloat.

Other than that, I don't care.

10 minutes... either give some good arguments, or the version above gets sent.

DeepO

[Jon Shafer]

What I wrote was just an example, definitely not what I'd send. My point was that I would suggest something short that just explains what happened.

[vmxa1]

I like it to go out now as well and I would drop the part about you know what came next. I know we all are trying not to be cruel and such, but who knows how others will see it.

The less said the less that can be misinterpreted.

[DeepO]

Further, (while waiting ), I propose to publish the battle report at least 12h after Vondrack reads his message, or in case he asks for it.

And I prefer to do it while I'm still here for a couple of hours, and not just before going to bed. I want to avoid everyone posting his comments... as said before, I do not need to be the voice of GS, but I do think we need one voice, instead of everyone at once.

DeepO

[DeepO]

Dear Legoland,

this is a time of both joy and grief for us. We thought we should give you a heads up, before we make anything public.... Legopolis has fallen. More details will be unveiled later, but we just wanted to let you guys know that we feel for your loss, even if we were responsible. We know how much time you invested in building, what we un-builded in one turn time.

Kind regards,
Gathering Storm

this is the proposal, vmxa. Not the Trip sentence.

DeepO

[DeepO]

message sent. Vondrack was last on line around 3h30 ago... I'll check when he reads it.

DeepO