Hey people (veterans especially)

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Lazerus


You are noob, me God, i challenge you foolish person, my spear will beat your missile !!




life would be boring without the odd eccentric clown.

Ya and occasionally I would rise to a challenge. While I have never claimed to be the best player here, it always bugged me if someone new would show up and claim to be the best.

[binTravkin]

Ya and occasionally I would rise to a challenge. While I have never claimed to be the best player here, it always bugged me if someone new would show up and claim to be the best.

It's not only you.. I might not be the best, but I have beaten dozens of these "bestests" and now I first try to learn as much as I can about a player who says he's good before even trying a game with him.

It's always nice to play with some really good player, but the "bestests" get me bored because they soon lose and blame everyhing and everyone for that, not themselves..

[Flubber]

Yup-- and even if someone can beat me they are far from the best. The best I ever played was buster. He dominated in a veterans challenge game I opposed him in. It was a 4 player with no AI and he just rolled over one of the other players. I capitulated when he controlled a good two-thirds of the map and with dominant population and Projects.

[binTravkin]

The best I ever played was buster.

I want to play with him!

It was a 4 player with no AI and he just rolled over one of the other players.

Was he so good that he beat even your combined powers?
Or did he manage to "divide and conquer"?

[Flubber]

Originally posted by binTravkin






Was he so good that he beat even your combined powers?
Or did he manage to "divide and conquer"?

Well-- one player made the unusual choice of the cult and it seemed like he made the mistake of attacking buster early. The result was buster picked up some bases and then I think got some resources not to kill this cult player, including a pact. I pacted with the other player and even gave him a crapload of tech-- I probably gave 3 tech for every one I got back. . .. I built up a good armed force but buster declined battle with me and just invaded and then chopped and dropped my pactmate.

We were probably at around tech parity but with the addition of my pactmates bases, busters tech rate quickly ballooned to around twice mine. With PBs on the horizon, my key bases were in range of some of his secure bases while I had no hope of hitting his interior


In retrospect though I made a crucial early error. The map is the veterans map over at CGN. It has 4 identical continents, 1 for each player in each corner (no wrap-around) and a sprawling center continent. Every landmass was 8+ tiles from its nearest neighbor. My mistake was not grabbing an early foothold in the centre continent. It cost me as a strong set of outposts could have gven me some defensive depth. . . when I played the same map in veterans6 game I went to the centre early and was ahead when mongoose disappeared. I had eliminated one player entirely and controlled 2 continents and all the centre. Paul and mongoose had teamed up but I occupied about a third of Paul's continent and had just taken out a dozen of Mongooses satellites before nuking him with a reactor 4 PB. (taking out about 4 Projects and about 80 population).. We were only about a dozen techs from transcending so a very fun game . .. I thought I should win since I had a 2 tech lead and control of the satellites with something like 10 ODPs and some of each otehr kind wheras all my opponents satellites were dust - - - - -- err sorry to babble so much-- probably the most fun game I played


Back to Buster . . .. I see my error now but still doubt it would make a difference. The parts of his game I saw was just methodical and efficient. His tactics were flawless-- he had an advantage and exploited it without any undue risk to himself. Also I was far from his only victim-- take a look at the game records-- he won a lot--- Now no one is unbeatable but buster has the credentials to say he is one of the best.

[binTravkin]

Well, what can I say - I hope one day I meet you and then maybe at some later date (to heal my wounds after your onslaught) I meet Buster in a PBEM!

[Flubber]

Originally posted by binTravkin
Well, what can I say - I hope one day I meet you and then maybe at some later date (to heal my wounds after your onslaught) I meet Buster in a PBEM!

Well the way I played the last few games, you would kick my behind. Good play takes time and I was making large and obvious mistakes since turns were usually rushed ( forgetting to gift a tech when playing more than one faction, losing units to a worm I could have killed but forgot, failing to keep track of an opponent's military construction etc). In a tough game I used to keep a record of what my opponents were building in every base to estimate the possible position of their units etc etc.


While I would love to play more PBEMs I just don't see having the time for a long while. Before the baby, I would play a LOT when my wife worked. But now she works less and when she does, I have baby Flubber.


If you want to play buster, go over to cgn.. . . He runs that site and there seems like there are games still going on

[binTravkin]

Yeah Im also involved in 5CGN games..

[livid imp]

Originally posted by Flubber
Before the baby, I would play a LOT when my wife worked. But now she works less and when she does, I have baby Flubber.

Same here. I used to get up on a weekend. Jump on the computer and only break 2 or 3 times all day for food and bio.

Now i have two boys to wrangle. Now get four hours sleep per night just so I can squeeze in a few hours of game time. I want my bachelor days back