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Bayou Blast III
| Deity: | David Fish |
| Start Date: | November 26, 1996 |
| End Date: | January 13, 1997 (48 days) |
| Code used: | Wolfpack 4.? |
| Winner(s): | RedDog Metaxis Luxuria |
November 16, 1996
Sposn' they done gived a war and nobody comed?
Well, that thar is purty much what happend when I done set up that there
Blitz game.
So's heres whats goin on. we'uns gots folks sayin this here news group and
this here game isa dying but this here game empire ain't dead yet!! Cuz....
Bayou Blast III - The Flood is takin apps!!!
This here is the next long term game frum Buford! We'uns had a hoot in the
last two games, but this here time is a bit differnt. The bayou has been
flooded....
After that thar last game I celerbrated a mite too much, drank me a
powerful lot of beer, we'uns talking deity size drinkin. Which, when it come
time to pay that thar rent on th'beer, it done flooded the bayou, so's we
duzent advize y'all t'go swimmin.
Here be all the particulars.....
128x64 world
25 players (Sorry y'all that's all fer this game)
28 Sector starts
Update every 3 days at 8:00am PDT
60 ETU updates
Bigstart already run, so you're fully populated.
Tech log 1.5
Tradeships! (No market this time out)
If'n y'all wanna play, gimme this here info...
Country Name
Rep
Email address
Co-Ruler (if any)
Your favorite beer (gots t'keep out the riff raff you know)
I'm taking apps now, I expect this here thing to fill up rite quick. I'm
shootin t'start the game on Nov 22, wiff the first update on Nov 26 (That be
a Tuesday) The next update after that one is the day after the US
Thanksgivin day, and that update will fire. Christmas schedule will be
announced in the game.
So that thar be it! If'n y'all are curious, the active options list is stuck on
the end
of this here note!!
Buford (AKA Dave)
option ALL_BLEED
option DEFENSE_INFRA
option DEMANDUPDATE
option EASY_BRIDGES
option FALLOUT
option INTERDICT_ATT
option LANDSPIES
option NEUTRON
option NEW_STARVE
option NEW_WORK
option NEWPOWER
option NO_PLAGUE
option NOMOBCOST
option NUKEFAILDETONATE
option ORBIT
option PINPOINTMISSILE
option PLANENAMES
option SAIL
option SHIPNAMES
option SHOWPLANE
option SUPER_BARS
option TRADESHIPS
option UPDATESCHED
Blue coloring on countries in the power charts indicates the eventual winners of the game.
[editor's note: One player in the game, Walter Smith, posted a long set of game updates long after the game finished. These notes are included here in their entirety, without breaking them out by date]
Early on, "Empiremania" (Cathouse) had the lead. Here's the power chart from early on, Dec 4th.
- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Wed Dec 4 22:47:04 1996
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
Empiroman 40 66% 29K 700 0 0 0 1.8K 2.5K 100 0 20 8 25K
Metaxis 30 88% 27K 700 0 0 0 4.5K 3.5K 400 0 20 20 25K
e7 35 79% 25K 750 0 0 0 3.5K 2.1K 250 0 8 2 35K
RedDog 32 82% 25K 768 0 0 0 4.6K 117 197 0 10 23 27K
Asgard 30 86% 26K 350 0 0 0 2.5K 5.0K 1.1K 0 6 6 40K
Furrym 30 81% 26K 450 0 0 0 2.7K 2.3K 200 0 6 2 35K
Aridon 30 94% 26K 300 0 0 0 4.9K 3.5K 400 0 4 2 35K
Praxus 30 93% 26K 200 0 0 0 4.8K 4.6K 450 0 0 2 35K
Dristonia 30 84% 26K 350 0 0 0 3.4K 4.1K 150 0 3 6 30K
Arrakis 30 93% 25K 2 0 0 0 1.6K 4.5K 300 0 0 2 40K
Schytia 30 93% 26K 550 0 0 0 3.4K 3.6K 400 0 9 20 35K
Kaerconan 35 70% 26K 550 0 0 0 3.9K 3.9K 250 0 10 0 35K
Scree 25 96% 26K 200 0 0 0 1.8K 4.4K 1.2K 0 3 2 40K
Luxuria 30 84% 26K 550 0 0 0 2.3K 2.2K 250 0 4 2 30K
Socialist 30 90% 26K 700 0 0 0 1.9K 4.2K 250 0 8 5 35K
Hades 35 72% 26K 400 0 0 0 3.6K 3.0K 2.2K 0 7 1 35K
SandCat 30 96% 26K 300 0 0 0 2.0K 200 450 0 7 2 25K
Ineptia 30 84% 26K 300 0 0 0 3.7K 3.4K 650 0 9 5 40K
Amorica 30 93% 26K 200 0 0 0 3.3K 3.6K 650 0 4 2 40K
Krustylan 30 90% 26K 1.4K 0 0 0 2.1K 1.4K 200 0 10 10 15K
Incognito 30 93% 26K 150 0 0 0 2.7K 3.0K 0 0 4 0 40K
GroundZer 30 90% 26K 550 0 0 0 5.0K 2.1K 250 0 6 1 35K
Oktoberfe 30 87% 26K 600 0 0 0 3.1K 2.1K 650 0 9 2 35K
Sporran_L 35 75% 26K 450 0 0 0 3.5K 750 400 0 7 10 30K
Uberlinge 30 87% 25K 1.2K 0 0 0 4.3K 2.1K 550 0 2 6 25K
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 770 85% 650K 13K 0 0 0 81K 72K 12K 0 190 140 820K
Empiremania, it appeared anyways, had successfully micromanaged his way
to the top of the chart. He was also, from what we could gather, just
a hair behind Metaxis for the tech lead. (Cathouse is a good player).
Then, Metaxis got a good stroke of luck...I believe beep commented
on this earlier in the week...he found Amorica, who had sent out a
raiding party and left his mainland unprotected, and took him out.
Metaxis, RedDog (my country) and Luxuria found out that we were in
the same N/S line of the world, and decided to work together. We'd
clean up the other countries in that N/S stretch, and control the
whole thing, giving us good trade routes and a safe base to take on
the rest of the world from. The Dec. 14th power chart looked like:
- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Sat Dec 14 08:01:05 1996
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
Metaxis 80 89% 68K 3.9K 75 10 0 13K 2.6K 2.9K 0 50 60 25K
Empiroman 50 87% 45K 2.6K 50 10 0 5.8K 4.2K 400 0 40 50 25K
RedDog 52 92% 40K 3.5K 56 10 0 7.3K 3.2K 402 0 28 48 24K
Luxuria 45 89% 32K 3.1K 50 0 0 4.5K 1.4K 450 0 30 40 10K
e7 45 79% 30K 2.6K 0 0 0 7.0K 1.2K 1.2K 0 30 30 40K
SandCat 40 76% 28K 2.8K 75 4 0 3.5K 200 1.8K 0 20 30 50K
Schytia 45 75% 31K 2.8K 75 5 0 5.2K 350 750 0 30 30 3.2K
Dristonia 45 75% 31K 2.5K 25 4 0 4.3K 1.4K 450 0 20 20 10K
Uberlinge 35 86% 27K 1.1K 12 0 0 9.8K 1.0K 600 0 6 8 5.0K
Sporran_L 45 91% 33K 3.0K 21 4 0 5.5K 1.2K 550 0 20 30 15K
Kaerconan 55 79% 36K 1.9K 0 0 0 5.2K 1.8K 600 0 30 20 3.4K
Aridon 30 93% 24K 1.6K 0 10 0 8.3K 1.0K 400 0 10 9 50K
Oktoberfe 35 82% 28K 2.6K 7 1 0 4.2K 950 2.2K 0 20 10 20K
Furrym 30 85% 27K 2.0K 0 0 0 3.6K 400 500 0 20 30 60K
Ineptia 35 84% 26K 2.0K 22 4 0 5.0K 3.1K 600 0 20 20 10K
Praxus 30 95% 25K 2.2K 0 0 0 6.8K 2.1K 100 0 6 8 35K
Krustylan 40 68% 28K 1.1K 0 0 0 3.0K 550 200 0 20 10 10K
Scree 30 93% 25K 500 0 0 0 2.1K 4.3K 1.9K 0 4 2 50K
Hades 45 62% 26K 1.3K 0 0 0 6.8K 1.9K 3.6K 0 20 20 45K
Incognito 25 83% 21K 1.6K 12 2 0 1.9K 600 100 0 4 30 10K
Socialist 30 99% 26K 2.5K 0 0 0 5.5K 2.9K 650 0 10 20 35K
GroundZer 25 93% 19K 3.0K 0 0 0 4.6K 5 200 0 6 7 20K
Arrakis 25 95% 24K 850 0 0 0 2.9K 2.0K 200 0 4 10 75K
Asgard 25 82% 21K 1.4K 0 0 0 4.5K 5.0K 1.6K 0 6 8 25K
Amorica 0 0% 50 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 30K
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 945 84% 720K 53K 475 60 0 131K 43K 22K 0 440 540 690K
Metaxis made good use of his early kill in Amorica to cruise to the
top of the chart, while Empiromana continued a strong 2nd. With the
alliance already worked out, Lux was free to work on his area, and
we were free to battle Krustyland, who had attacked a colony of ours.
(insolent little bugger that he was ;)
The point here being that even though Empiromana might have done
a better job micromanaging his country, getting a bit of a tech
lead on us (except for on Metaxis), etc, bad diplomacy on his
part left him in a weaker overall position at this point. Before
the update on the 20th, things looked like: (meaning, 1 update passed
between the above chart, and this one)
- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Fri Dec 20 07:59:53 1996
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
Metaxis 105 86% 88K 4.2K 100 25 0 17K 4.8K 3.1K 0 60 90 45K
RedDog 118 91% 90K 3.8K 229 55 0 13K 11K 2.7K 0 40 77 22K
Luxuria 75 90% 59K 3.1K 125 20 0 11K 2.2K 4.2K 0 40 50 25K
Empiroman 65 86% 59K 2.1K 25 20 0 6.9K 3.6K 600 0 50 60 25K
e7 70 82% 52K 2.7K 75 10 0 11K 2.2K 2.0K 0 30 40 40K
Schytia 50 78% 33K 1.9K 125 10 0 7.7K 5.5K 2.6K 0 40 30 10K
Oktoberfe 45 85% 37K 2.5K 75 15 29 10K 1.2K 2.2K 0 20 20 40K
SandCat 45 70% 28K 3.5K 200 25 0 3.6K 700 1.6K 0 20 40 40K
Dristonia 45 84% 34K 1.8K 100 15 0 5.2K 700 700 0 20 20 5.0K
Uberlinge 35 90% 28K 1.1K 25 10 0 9.4K 1.0K 1.1K 0 5 8 2.4K
Kaerconan 60 80% 37K 1.6K 50 15 0 6.4K 1.4K 300 0 20 20 2.4K
Sporran_L 50 88% 36K 2.5K 20 10 0 6.0K 650 600 0 20 30 15K
Furrym 35 77% 28K 2.2K 50 10 0 4.3K 400 650 0 20 30 55K
Krustylan 40 68% 29K 1.5K 0 0 0 4.9K 550 300 0 20 30 15K
Ineptia 35 83% 26K 1.6K 100 20 0 5.5K 2.8K 850 0 20 20 5.0K
Socialist 30 95% 26K 1.6K 0 0 0 6.3K 2.3K 550 0 10 20 35K
Aridon 15 100% 15K 1.7K 100 2 0 3.4K 600 150 0 10 4 25K
GroundZer 20 90% 14K 3.1K 0 0 0 4.7K 5 200 0 5 1 15K
Praxus 10 91% 7.0K 1.8K 0 0 0 2.7K 550 500 0 9 6 15K
Hades 20 5% 700 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 20K
Scree 2 50% 800 200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 25K
Asgard 5 96% 4.3K 750 0 0 0 550 0 0 0 3 2 1.2K
Arrakis 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40K
Amorica 0 0% 50 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 30K
Incognito 3 8% 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1.9K
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 980 83% 730K 46K 1.4K 265 29 140K 42K 25K 0 480 610 550K
First, note how much combat took place, with only one update...this wasnt
all "around-the-update" attacks. Again because of successful diplmacy,
our alliance was able to consolidate the entire N/S stretch of the world
by this point...There was a high level of cooperation/coordination between
us, and it paid off big. My country managed to make peace with Krustyland,
and took the forces we would have used on him and took out *two* weaker
countries. (Scree and Incognito). Diplomacy wins again. Empiremania,
apparently working on his own, is only able to grow slowly, so good
micromanagement is no longer a help.
(this is another situation I think the iron PE scheme Ice mentioned
would have been good. Had it been in place, either Scree or Incognito
would have been asked to join us as an iron producer, and not been
killed off...possibly even both of them...)
Empiremania (Cathouse) apparently tried to get others to join him
against us, but the diplomacy was unsuccessful, and by Jan 4th,
things looked like this
- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Sat Jan 4 08:01:56 1997
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
RedDog 201 97% 172K 10K 1.0K 201 1.4K 39K 5.9K 4.3K 10 83 105 52K
Metaxis 145 95% 125K 5.5K 1.0K 180 1.4K 36K 4.5K 3.6K 30 80 120 15K
Luxuria 135 89% 101K 6.5K 550 135 200 25K 6.1K 6.1K 5 50 70 65K
e7 95 98% 86K 6.3K 775 100 1.0K 24K 3.9K 3.3K 0 40 60 60K
Cathouse 80 100% 79K 4.5K 1.0K 110 350 10K 6.3K 2.0K 6 70 60 10K
SandCat 55 93% 46K 4.4K 800 135 300 5.5K 3.9K 1.1K 0 40 40 10K
Dristonia 45 96% 42K 3.7K 675 80 550 6.0K 1.9K 1.2K 10 30 20 3.4K
Krustylan 40 98% 37K 3.4K 750 55 850 7.8K 1.9K 200 0 20 50 10K
Schytia 40 91% 30K 2.6K 575 80 800 6.2K 1.6K 950 1 40 40 5.0K
Furrym 35 94% 34K 2.1K 275 55 0 6.8K 250 500 0 20 30 20K
Oktoberfe 25 92% 20K 2.6K 300 45 0 3.5K 350 2.5K 0 30 20 40K
Sporran_L 30 96% 26K 2.3K 200 40 0 4.1K 24 150 0 20 20 10K
Aridon 30 99% 27K 3.4K 75 10 29 9.4K 1.1K 700 0 10 3 25K
Socialist 30 96% 25K 2.7K 200 40 800 2.6K 1.0K 700 0 20 20 15K
Ineptia 10 49% 4.2K 1.4K 175 35 0 700 300 450 0 0 1 -5.1K
Praxus 1 100% 0 700 0 0 0 1.4K 550 500 0 2 2 -19K
Hades 1 100% 1.0K 50 0 0 0 1 1 100 0 6 0 20K
Uberlinge 2 74% 1.2K 100 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 -2.7K
Scree 0 0% 11 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20K
Incognito 1 100% 1.0K 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 825
Asgard 4 84% 2.2K 50 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 -4.4K
dogs 2 58% 350 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 -261
Amorica 0 0% 50 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 25K
GroundZer 1 53% 100 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1.4K
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 1.0K 94% 860K 63K 8.4K 1.3K 7.7K 188K 40K 28K 70 550 660 365K
And things were pretty much over, with people giving up. Krustyland
and Cathouse, to their credit, resisted...as did Oktoberfest I believe,
but Krusty was overrun and the game ended. (at that point, we bordered
Cathouse). Diplomacy, not micromanagement, won the game.
Note also that the need for raw mil to hold down captured land didn't
slow us down, we just made more mil...and no victims were saved by
che rebellion. All the che/mil control stuff did was mean we had to
make more mil, and shove more in...which we did.
Has the speed of the game changed? Not really; if anything, the
new Wolfpack about units marching thru newly-captured land slowed
us down a bit...that's the change where marching thru a 100%
captured road that has 0 mob costs mob as if it were NOT a road.
To me, the lessons are:
1) diplomacy is way more important than micromanagement
2) the game design needs to find a *good*, *simple* way to
make live fodder more valuable than dead fodder.
I'm sure Scree, Incognito, and GroundZero would agree. :) All
three were located in areas where they would have made great
trading partners.
MadDog of UUCP
No game summary
Blue coloring on countries in the power chart indicates the winners of the game.
- = [ Empire Power Report ] = -
as of Mon Jan 13 08:51:26 1997
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
RedDog 250 97% 220K 12K 2.3K 333 2.5K 60K 4.1K 4.1K 105 127 121 53K
Metaxis 170 97% 152K 8.4K 2.1K 325 3.7K 57K 3.1K 2.9K 80 105 123 37K
Luxuria 184 88% 132K 9.1K 764 197 2.7K 44K 7.1K 6.6K 27 80 81 74K
Cathouse 86 100% 91K 4.7K 1.7K 180 343 14K 4.8K 3.2K 60 58 80 20K
e7 68 97% 63K 4.6K 662 94 0 21K 872 2.9K 0 33 37 88K
Dristonia 52 90% 46K 3.6K 350 100 704 7.2K 1.9K 1.5K 23 34 33 5.8K
SandCat 52 96% 47K 3.0K 1.0K 114 255 8.2K 4.7K 929 0 30 25 34K
Schytia 39 92% 31K 3.2K 817 119 810 8.2K 1.7K 788 5 36 48 3.8K
Aridon 42 92% 34K 2.2K 294 27 27 8.9K 2.4K 1.9K 2 19 10 34K
Oktoberfe 24 93% 19K 860 135 24 998 2.5K 570 202 6 14 6 24K
Socialist 22 88% 18K 1.4K 63 22 839 778 137 432 6 11 21 -1.9K
Furrym 13 83% 6.1K 406 59 36 0 4.1K 8 180 0 7 2 12K
Sporran_L 8 100% 7.9K 911 2 4 0 1.2K 3 50 0 11 4 -104
Krustylan 3 100% 3.1K 95 0 0 0 0 862 0 0 6 0 4.6K
Ineptia 10 58% 5.1K 323 178 35 0 696 322 436 0 0 1 -14K
Praxus 4 52% 728 379 0 0 0 1.4K 530 492 0 2 2 -24K
Hades 0 0% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 18K
Scree 0 0% 11 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 18K
dogs 1 15% 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 -655
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