The Philosophy of Striking First

[lmtoops]

Sorry Tibi, we should be copying you on our communications. I have emailed you the currect battlefield situation email plus a screenshot.

[Tiberius]

Please don't use my old address. I can't read my emails that are going there. Use instead: tibikerekes at yahoo dot com. Thanks!!!

[vondrack]

Just to let you know how it ended...

After I managed to break through the Arabian defenses and disconnected the only source of aluminium of theirs (Hot_Enamel was happy to fall into most traps arranged for him , making it possible for me to claw my way out of a seemingly lost situation), successfully preventing Arabs from starting the last SS part, Hot_Enamel used transport chaining, which I considered an exploit and consciously did not plan for, to deal yet another small doughnut blow, grabbing one of my aluminium deposits for that brief moment he needed to start the last SS part. Game over. Oh, well...

The very last lesson learnt: if I/we consider something an exploit, it does not mean others consider that an exploit, too. With no written and generally agreed to rules, anything and everything can be used. We shall plan even for others using exploits we might consider lowly ourselves.

[Tiberius]

Oh, thanks for the update. The email updates were very interesting also. Unfortunately I didn't have too much time these days to answer, but I read them. A gam full of lessons to learn for all of us

At least it was interesting

[vondrack]

Yeah, not sure if it was that much fun to write all those email updates, but since you asked so nicely...

I won't deny that the end of that game left me with a pretty bitter feeling. Oh, well... at least it was a lesson learnt. Not one lesson, actually, but several lessons.