__________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 1 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday October 03, 1997 at 03:49 AM EDT by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; Hi, all :) Just want to introduce myself. My name is Hsiao-Chiu Chu and I think I am now in the same game with Arun. I guess that there are not many players in MAC Classic games because Bob is a sub into this game and we are only the second game created ! OK, some background infomation about myself. I am a EE engineer and working at Taiwan. Just returned from USA last November. In addition to Warlord games, I enjoy gardening a lot. Married for 6 years and am currently planning to have kid. (Oh, brother :( ) Hmm, I just found WL3 in local game store, for NT$890 only! About 32 US$. Wow. Hope they make WL3 Mac version soon! Now, if you all leave your standard at the temple, I will be much obliged :) _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday October 06, 1997 at 10:50 AM EDT by "Elam T. Birnbaum" to all players; Hello everyone! Now that the official tournament round starter said, let the games begin! This message contains information on how this round is differetn from the practice round. Read it, it is important! Following this message you will receive a noarchive message containing the archive with the gamefile and revised scenario in it. This is the starting gamefile, so Joe Dude the Great should use this file to start his turn. And then we'll be off! So, without further ado, here is the important information... Round A Rules Reminders! Last Updated 30-September-97 by Bob Heeter Read this message carefully - it contains a lot of essential information! *** Critical Scenario and Rules Changes from the Practice Round *** * Starting Gold: 4200/side * Razing: On Capture only * Round A games will last for 20 turns! * New Gold Rules: The gold limit for Strongholds is now 2500. All the gold is now in strongholds; revert until you get less than 2500. We recommend reverting to get between 2400 and 2500. (The odds of getting between 2400 and 2500 are about 10%, so this takes less reverting than trying to get near 3600!) * Special Builds: The center cities all build griffins! Sack 'em for cash - or build 'em! Note - griffins defending neutral cities are strength 8 (6+2). The neutral cities are set to "active" in the tournament. * New Rule: Two Heroes! You are allowed (and expected!) to revert and get a second hero on Turn 2. *** If you want a second hero, it MUST come ONLY on Turn 2. *** The second hero can come with *any* ally you choose in *any* city you control. You may not replace any dead heroes until *both* heroes are dead. Then the regular hero-replacement rules apply. (Note that once you lose a hero you cannot have more than one hero on the map.) Ask your Moderator or Headquarters for details. The starting gold has been increased to allow the purchase of the second hero. You must report the cost of the second hero and he/she must cost at least 1000 gold. * New Rule: Limited Allies with Replacement Heroes: After Turn 2, all replacement heroes may only come with wizards, ghosts, elementals, or worms. Archons, Demons, Dragons, and Devils are not allowed with replacement heroes - you can only get them from ruins or with your Turn 2 second hero. Warlord, use thy allies wisely! :) * Holidays: The U.S. Thanksgiving Weekend in late November and the midwinter holidays (from December 20 to January 7) will be official "Tournament Holidays". Time limits will not be enforced during those periods, and players do not need to worry about using up vacation time then, although we hope the games will all continue! We expect some games to finish before Christmas, and the rest in January and February. Round B will begin in mid-January after the winter holidays end! More timeouts will be supplied to all Round A players when Round B begins. *** Prizes for Round A *** The four Warlords who write the most entertaining game history will each receive a prize from SSG. The one Warlord who writes the best individual roleplay will also receive a prize from SSG. The awarding of both prizes will be determined after the round ends by a team of moderators (who will exclude themselves from recieving prizes). Elam the Mod _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 1 Gamefile Sent To: Jagged (Orange) (asmang@mail.wm.edu) Date Sent: Monday October 06, 1997 at 06:18 PM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Wednesday October 8, 1997 at 6:18 PM EDT (In GMT-0500: Wednesday October 8, 1997 at 5:18 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A message from Small Player (White) dated Monday October 06, 1997 at 06:18 PM EDT; hero name super hero start gold 4215 start cites 1 start hero exp.0 bild minotor 1300 (I.O.C.) bild light inf (I.O.C.) end gold 2755 end cites 1 end hero exp.0 end in. 40 end ex. 00 -- Derek Baird Official Warlords II World Tournament Round Starter c/o Ivan Baird, CET ijb@nbnet.nb.ca Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 1 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Tuesday October 07, 1997 at 04:25 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Thursday October 9, 1997 at 04:25 AM EDT (In GMT+0800: Thursday October 9, 1997 at 4:25 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday October 07, 1997 at 10:00 AM EDT by Arun Mangalam to all players; ROUND , GAME <02>, TURN <1>, SIDE 02(orange). ========================================================= Gold at Start of Turn: 4215 Jagged pillaged Amsterdam for 175 gold New Build of Giant Bats purchased in Amsterdam for 160 gold New Build of Wolfriders purchased in Locker Room for 450 gold Final Cities: 2 Gold: 3780 Income: 60 Expenses: 0. Final Hero Experience: 2 Change from last turn: 2 *** File Transfer: Round R=A Game xx=02. Next Player's Turn yy=01 Side z=3 P.S. Sorry about the late message. The remailer choked on my "shortcut." _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday October 07, 1997 at 08:01 PM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game A02, turn 01, side 03 Beginning gold:4390gps Hero White Tiger took Squaw Valley and pillages scout for 175 gps. Purchased giant bat(160 gps) and giant(1100 gps) at Squaw Valley. Purchased giant bat(160 gps) and griffin(1700 gps) at CNN Office. Disband the scout at CNN Office. Hero experience: 2, changes from last : +2 Final cities: 2, gold:1270 gps, income: 60 gps, expense: 0 gps. (******************* WAR STORIES *********************) As King Chu enter this strange land with his royal armies, he frowned. "What kind of waste land is this??? Mountains, hills, forest are everywhere, not to mention those swamps!" Thinking back the beautiful haven of Formosa, the glory of war seems not so important anymore. Same discouraged spirit is common among the Royal Army. As a leader in both politic as well as religion of Formosa, King Chu knows what he must do now. "It's time to ask help from the God in Heaven......" he contemplated while retrieving the spellbook from his sack. Opening up the ancient book of wisdom while the incense smoke beginning to fill King's tent, he calm himself down even though he knows this act will reduce his life span for 5 years. "What are the other alternatives? The whole kingdom is waiting for a victorious ending while my enemy in Formosa will surely like to have a chance to replace me." sighed King Chu. Sticking a spell, a piece of yellow paper with indiscernible scripts on it, to the end of a wooden sword, he chanted some ancient spells and lo behold, the spell was burning! "By the command of God in Heaven, DOWN! Star of White Tiger! DOWN NOW!!" As the spell burnt out, a draft of cold wind blew into the tent and candle light were out. But in the same time, a strange blue light filled the tent and inside the light, a strong man appeared! "So, you have called upon the service of me, King Chu?" King Chu nodded without a word. "You know the price to pay, of course?" The man continued. King Chu paled for a moment but gave another nod. Manic laughter burst out of the strong man, "So, my King, the strongest war god, me the White Tiger, is at your service! What is your command?" King Chu handed White Tiger a sealed sack, "Go and attack Squaw Valley. Open up the sack after you are victorious." White Tiger said no more word, he turned and dashed out while releasing a thundering roar! Among the roaring sound, King Chu heard a bone-chilling wailing from his gurading scout. He fell into his chair, knowing the scout has been eaten up alive by White Tiger. He knew it and arranged the scout to stand guard. "With the blood on his hand, I can expect victories..." ......... Next morning, a report from Squaw Valley: White Tiger has conquered the castle and pillaged everything. King Chu took the report without any expression and ordered a series of special retooling of Royal Army. Before the end of day, all is ready. As sun sank into west, King Chu sat on his chair, tired. "Tomorrow," he mused, "the decisive day for this war. Tomorrow......." _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 1 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Tuesday October 07, 1997 at 08:04 PM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Thursday October 9, 1997 at 8:04 PM EDT (In GMT+0200: Friday October 10, 1997 at 2:04 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 2 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Wednesday October 08, 1997 at 05:49 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Friday October 10, 1997 at 05:49 AM EDT (In GMT-0300: Friday October 10, 1997 at 6:49 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A message from Bastard the Raptor (Blue) dated Wednesday October 08, 1997 at 05:49 AM EDT; This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Turn 1 start stats: 1/4215/+40/-25 ========================================== Sielwolf takes CdAmpezzo, pillages for 175gp Orcs built in TheCouch for 300gp Bats built in CdAmpezzo for 160gp ========================================== Sielwolf: 2/+2 End stats: 2/3930/+60/-0 MAJOR OF CORTINA D'AMPEZZO SIGNS HISTORICAL TREATY C. d'Ampezzo, Oktober 8. Today citizens crowded the streets of picturescue town of Cortina d'Ampezzo to hail the ambassador of neighbouring city of The Couch, the hero named Sielwolf. Tons of flowers were thrown to the feet of fabulous Spectator, the noble warrior and explorer. Answering the cheerful greetings Sielwolf held a speech regarding the aim of his mission  the long awaited union between two free cities of The Couch and C.d'Ampezzo was to be signed on that historical day. After the manifestation, accompanied by major and other government officials, Sielwolf honoured with his presence the grand opening of the recently finished giant bats' farm, the pride of Cortinodampezzians. The hero was greatly impressed by achievements the diligent citizens had in batbreeding. Later the banquet were held in the town hall and a historical union pact between two cities were signed. _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 2 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 2 Gamefile Sent To: Jagged (Orange) (asmang@mail.wm.edu) Date Sent: Friday October 10, 1997 at 06:29 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Monday October 13, 1997 at 06:29 AM EDT (In GMT-0500: Monday October 13, 1997 at 5:29 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A message from Small Player (White) dated Friday October 10, 1997 at 06:29 AM EDT; Start gold - 1619 Super Hero 2 arrives in I.O.C. for 1176 gold, and moves to Steve's Hand, where he picks up the 'Official Sponsering!' The elemntal he arrived with moves to take Athens, which is occupied and set to building Hv. Inf. for 300.... Results: cities - 2 gold - 1319 income - 72 expenses - 0 super hero exp - 0 SuperHero 2 exp - 3 (+3) -- Ivan Baird, CET Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 2 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Wednesday October 15, 1997 at 12:13 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Friday October 17, 1997 at 12:13 AM EDT (In GMT+0800: Friday October 17, 1997 at 12:13 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday October 15, 1997 at 12:13 AM EDT by Arun Mangalam to all players; ROUND , GAME <02>, TURN <2>, SIDE 02(orange). ========================================================= Raven arrives in Locker Room with a Dragon for 1138 gold. Gold at Start of Turn: 3840 Jagged visits Ruin and receives Demon Raven visits Ruin and receives Official Sponsoring Dwarves pillaged Athens for 175 gold Demon pillaged Helsinki for 175 gold Demon pillaged Melbourne for 175 gold New Build of Dwarves purchased in Athens for 450 gold New Build of Dwarves purchased in Helsinki for 450 gold New Build of Elephant purchased in Stockholm for 1500 gold New Build of Spider purchased in Melbourne for 700 gold Final Cities: 5 Gold: 126 Income: 150 Expenses: 14. Final Jagged Experience: 5 Change from last turn: 3 Final Raven Experience: 3 Change from last turn: 3 *** File Transfer: Round R=A Game xx=02. Next Player's Turn yy=02 Side z=3 _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday October 15, 1997 at 12:28 AM EDT by Arun Mangalam to all players; Correction for previous archived message (sorry, the one before was for a different game): ROUND , GAME <02>, TURN , SIDE 02(orange). ========================================================= Raven arrives in Locker Room with a Dragon for 1138 gold. Gold at Start of Turn: 3840 Jagged visits Ruin and receives Dragon Raven visits Ruin and receives Hercule's Spear Wolfrider pillaged Paris for 175 gold New Build of Griffin purchased in Amsterdam for 1700 gold New Build of Spider purchased in Paris for 700 gold Final Cities: 3 Gold: 477 Income: 80 Expenses: 4. Final Jagged Experience: 5 Change from last turn: 3 Final Raven Experience: 3 Change from last turn: 3 *** File Transfer: Round R=A Game xx=02. Next Player's Turn yy=02 Side z=3 _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 2 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Thursday October 16, 1997 at 07:17 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Sunday October 19, 1997 at 07:17 AM EDT (In GMT+0200: Sunday October 19, 1997 at 1:17 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday October 16, 1997 at 07:17 AM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game A02, Turn 02, side 03 Beginning gold: 1330 gps. Received hero "GREEN-DRAGON" with an elemental at CNN Office for 1079 gps. Hero "GREEN-DRAGON" found Chariots of Fire at Zak's Zone. (bat +2) Hero WHITE TIGER get a dragon at Von Koughnett Pit. A unit of dragon took both Chamonix and Barcelona and pillaged scouts for 175 gps each. A unit of elemental took both Innsbruck and Sarajevo and pillaged scouts for 175 gps each. Purchased units: Lt. Infantry at both Chamonix and Innsbruck for 160 gps each. Orcish mob at both Sarajevo and Barcelona for 300 gps each. Final hero experience: WHITE TIGER: 5 (was 3) GREEN-DRAGON: 3 (was 0) GREEN-DRAGON's current strength is 7. Final cities: 6, gold: 31gps, income: 140 gps, expense 20 gps. (**********NON-diplomatic messages***************) Oops, guys, I did something stupid and may cause you a little bit of trouble when viewing my new hero. See, to fit into the mystic legend of China, I used Green Dragon as my 2nd hero's name. But trying to differentiate it from real dragon unit ( and I happen to be in GREEN color), I use "GREEN-DRAGON" as hero's name. And this is the trouble. :( When you want to view the stack of my hero, hero's strength will be overlapped by his name :( I didn't know it will happen this way and I have spent 3 hours just to get the hero and his ally right.... Sorry, sorry, sorry. Please bear with me!! I will post my hero's strength in my report to mend this, ok? (************ WAR HISTORY ****************) Next morning, King Chu got news from frontier: "White Tiger tamed a wild dragon to join his command!!" "White Tiger conquered Chamonix !!" "White Tiger smashed the defending scouts unit in Sarajevo and having them as dinner!!" King Chu smiled, lightly, for this hero had caused him 10 years of lifespan to get it, "He'd better be worth it....", mused King Chu... "My lord! My lord! A vision is shown outside the castle! A horrifying big green snake is flying in the sky!!!!!" A panic and gasping castle guard reported. What is this? "No, it couldn't be...", King Chu rushed out of the War Hall unto the top of castle. And there it was! Up in the sky, surrounded by purple mist, a grand creature is flying and circling! It has the scale-cover snake-like body with four giant eagle claws. A tail of flame, a couple huge deer-type antlers and a face of lion with a crocodile mouth! It is not a snake, it is the ancient dragon of Oriental. "So, the legend is true. The Green Dragon always accompanies the White Tiger!" Since no one had summoned White Tiger in the last 300 years, no one had ever met the Green Dragon for the last 300 years...... "So, you ARE the one who summoned White Tiger??" hissed the dragon. "Yes, I am the one." "Hmm, guess you don't have another 10 years to spend on me?" "No......I don't think so." King Chu couldn't hold the trembling in his sound. For he is over 50, and no king ever lived over 70 in Formosa. If he spends another 10 years, it may cause his life right here and now... "No worry. I don't care for your pitiful life. I just want to show the world that I am better than White Tiger! Maybe next time, people will summon me first!" A blinding light shined! King Chu had to cover his eyes and when the light was gone, a slender man was standing in front of him. "Now, let me introduce my servant!" The purple mist suddenly shrinked as the stranger raised both of his arms and lo behold, the mist showed a face! "This is my servant, the combination of Water, Fire, Wood, Metal and Soil, the 5 basic elements of the universe. It will obey my every command! Now, I need something from you to show your respect to me!!" King Chu knew what to do. He pointed his finger to the war standard flipping in the wind, "Take the standard and be the General of my GREEN ARMY". A whirl wind suddenly occured out of the blue, and in the wind, the stranger hissed "Now the GREEN-DRAGON is alive again! AGAIN!" As the wind disappeared, so did the GREEN-DRAGON and his pet elemental. "Now the war begins!" King Chu retired to his chamber to prepare the plan for the war. In the mean time, the GREEN-DRAGON dug up the ancient Chariots of Fire from the waste land of Zak's Zone and the pet elemental added two more cities into the GREEN HAVEN of FORMOSA~~~~ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 3 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Thursday October 16, 1997 at 12:12 PM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Sunday October 19, 1997 at 12:12 PM EDT (In GMT-0300: Sunday October 19, 1997 at 1:12 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A message from Bastard the Raptor (Blue) dated Thursday October 16, 1997 at 12:12 PM EDT; This is a multi-part message in MIME format. A02, Turn 2, Blue Start stats: 2/3990/+60/-13 Morthond arrives on a Dragon in CdAmpezzo for 1246 gp. ********************************************************************* Sielwolf releases two Worms at Yuri's Cenotaph Morthont accompanied by a Demon at McCuller's Fort. Cities of Sydney, Garmish-P, Sapporo, Calgary and Grenoble taken. Each pillaged for 175 gp, 875 gp in total. Griffins built in CdAmpezzo for 1700. Spiders built in Calgary and Garmish-P for 700 x 2 = 1400 gp. Orcs built in Grenoble for 300 gp. Light Cavalry built in Sydney for 200 gp. ********************************************************************* Sielwolf: 5/+3 Morthond: 3/+3 Final stats: 7/19/+160/-13 _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 3 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 3 Gamefile Sent To: Jagged (Orange) (asmang@mail.wm.edu) Date Sent: Sunday October 19, 1997 at 08:46 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday October 21, 1997 at 08:46 AM EDT (In GMT-0500: Tuesday October 21, 1997 at 7:46 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday October 19, 1997 at 08:46 AM EDT by Ivan Baird to all players; Start Supper hero2 exp 3 Start Supper hero exp 0 Start gold 1391 Start citys 2 Supper hero searches Dirk's Cavern and receives 2 gosts Supper hero2 searches Dmning Domain and receives 1 arcone ghost takes LA, builds hv. inf (300) - occupied elemental takes St. Louis, builds hv. inf. (300) - occupied archon takes Antwerp, builds hv. inf. (300) - occupied ghost takes Mexico City, builds hv. inf. (300) - occupied ghost takes Helsinki - occupied end: gold - 191 cities - 7 income - 202 expenses - 16 hero: SuperHero - 3 SuperHero2 - 6 -- Ivan Baird, CET Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday October 22, 1997 at 01:43 AM EDT by Arun Mangalam to all players; ROUND , GAME <02>, TURN <3>, SIDE 02(orange). ========================================================= Gold at Start of Turn: 553 Jagged visits Ruin and receives 2 Wizards Raven visits Ruin and receives devil Devil pillaged London for 175 gold Wizard pillaged Sparta for 175 gold Wizard pillaged MtEverest for 175 gold New Build of Wolfrider purchased in Mt Everest for 450 gold New Build of Heavy Infantry purchased in Sparta for 300 gold New Build of Heavy Infantry purchased in London for 300 gold Final Cities: 6 Gold: 28 Income: 140 Expenses: 15. Final Jagged Experience: 8 Change from last turn: 3 Final Raven Experience: 6 Change from last turn: 3 *** File Transfer: Round R=A Game xx=02. Next Player's Turn yy=03 Side z=3 _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 3 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Wednesday October 22, 1997 at 02:11 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Friday October 24, 1997 at 02:11 AM EDT (In GMT+0800: Friday October 24, 1997 at 2:11 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 3 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Wednesday October 22, 1997 at 03:12 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Friday October 24, 1997 at 03:12 AM EDT (In GMT+0200: Friday October 24, 1997 at 9:12 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 4 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Wednesday October 22, 1997 at 03:18 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Friday October 24, 1997 at 03:18 AM EDT (In GMT-0300: Friday October 24, 1997 at 4:18 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday October 22, 1997 at 07:21 PM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for Game A02, Turn 03, Side 3 Beginning Gold: 151 Hero White Tiger visited Barrow of Bruce and received 2 elementals Hero GREENDRAGON visited Scott's Secret and received 1 devil. Devil took Nagano and pillaged scout for 175 gps. ELemental took and razed Rio !! Elemental took St. Moritz and pillaged scout for 175 gps Elemental took Montreal and pillaged scout for 175 gps Lt. infantry took Beijing and pillaged scout for 175 gps Built: Lt. Infantry at Nagano and Beijing for 160 gps each. Dwarf at Montreal for 450 gps Hero experience: White Tiger: 8 (was 5) GREENDRAGON: 6 (was 3) Final cities: 10, gold: 81 gp, income: 220 gp, expense: 18 gp (************** WAR History and DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE *****) As the expansion went on, heros of Formosa have sent back multiple victorious messages: "White Tiger signed two elementals into his armies of death!" "GREENDRAGON negotiate with devil himself for secret power!" "St. Moritz was seized and next day, Montreal turn GREEN !" "Beijing was surprised by an infantry unit and lower their red flags." "Nagano's people open their gates as Devil approaches!" "GREENDRAGON's elemental friend RAZED and BURNT DOWN RIO!!!!!" King Chu jumped from his seat as he received the last message. "What, G.D. razed Rio?!" "Yes, my Lord," nodded the messenger from GREENDRAGON, "General GREENDRAGON is convinced that Rio is a threat to our eastern border. Scouting report confirmed that A Blue Demon unit is approaching and there is no way to hold the city." "Hmm....." King Chu sat back. "General GREENDRAGON knows this will be a diplomatic as well as military issue, he awaits your next command...." "Tell GD that stop the invasion to BLUE territory and heading NORTH to unoccupied territory." "Yes, my Lord." The messenger bowed and ready to return. "And ASK General GREENDRAGON to refrain from any more razing activities unless specifically ordered by myself!" added King Chu. The messenger nodded as he disappeared. Next morning, a panting horse with an unarmed escort was showing up in front of Bastard the Raptor's castle with a diplomatic envelop from King Chu: "We are sorry for the razed city of Rio, fortunately, none of your people was hurt. We found residents at Rio were quite treacherous and feared that the peace between us will be broken for that city. In fact, Rio can be a forward invading base for both sides. So the destruction of Rio will make sure that any invading force couldn't hide in a city before they attack and leave the invading force in a volunerable position. We didn't recover any loot from Rio nor the pillaged money. If Your Excellency choose to retaliate, we have no option but to respond. But if your units do not cross the border, our troops will refrain from any more hostile action against you. signed, King Chu of Formosa" _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 3 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Wednesday October 22, 1997 at 07:29 PM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Friday October 24, 1997 at 7:29 PM EDT (In GMT+0200: Saturday October 25, 1997 at 1:29 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 4 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Friday October 24, 1997 at 11:46 AM EDT Date Gamefile Due: Monday October 27, 1997 at 11:46 AM EDT (In GMT-0300: Monday October 27, 1997 at 12:46 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday October 24, 1997 at 11:51 AM EDT by bastard to all players; A02, Turn 3, Blue Start stats: 7/166/160/13 *************************************************** Sielwolf gets long named *com+2* item at Langers Liar. Morthond gets TV Rights (+6 gold/city) at Aubert's Crypt. Cities of Seoul and LakePlacid taken and pillaged for 175gp each. City of Dublin taken and occupied. Dwarves built in LakePlacid for 450gp. *************************************************** Sielwolf: 8/+3 Morthond: 6/+3 End stats: 10/66/280/35 Diplomacy: PEACE ACCEPTED, if you let me occupy the city between our domains, or you raze it down. And get that stinky elemental out of my sight. And no offensive troops in reach of my territory. Bastard The Raptor _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday October 26, 1997 at 04:08 PM EST by Derek Baird to all players; Start gold 377 Start cites 7 Start super hero exp 3 Start super hero 2 exp 6 Ghost oqp. Stockholme and bilds hv. Inf. Elemental oqp.Berlin end gold 77 end cites 9 end super hero exp 3 end super hero 2 exp 6 end in.254 end ex. 31 -- Derek Baird Official Warlords II World Tournament Round Starter c/o Ivan Baird, CET ijb@nbnet.nb.ca Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 4 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 4 Gamefile Sent To: Jagged (Orange) (asmang@mail.wm.edu) Date Sent: Sunday October 26, 1997 at 05:15 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday October 28, 1997 at 5:15 PM EST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 4 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Tuesday October 28, 1997 at 04:01 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Thursday October 30, 1997 at 4:01 PM EST (In GMT+0800: Friday October 31, 1997 at 5:01 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday October 28, 1997 at 04:13 PM EST by Arun Mangalam to all players; ROUND , GAME <02>, TURN <4>, SIDE 02(orange). ========================================================= Gold at Start of Turn: 153 Jagged visits Ruin and receives Blessing of Olympus Raven visits Ruin and receives 2419 gp Wizard looted Seoul for 3 gold Griffin pillaged Tokyo for 175 gold Raven pillaged Olympia for 175 gold New Build of Griffin purchased in Sparta for 1700 gold New Build of Spider purchased in Tokyo for 700 gold New Build of Wolfrider purchased in Olympia for 450 gold Final Cities: 9 Gold: 75 Income: 200 Expenses: 46. Final Jagged Experience: 11 Change from last turn: 3 Final Raven Experience: 11 Change from last turn: 5 *** File Transfer: Round R=A Game xx=02. Next Player's Turn yy=04 Side z=3 Diplomacy: Dear White, I will neither take Munich nor the city with Griffin below Munich and I will not venture into your territory, if you will stay away from my territory. You will see my promise when I don't take the gold on your side, as I can easily do with my nearby flying hero. If peace is accepted maybe we can create a strategy combining both forces. Regardless, this is my proposal to you. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday October 31, 1997 at 12:33 AM EST by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; turn report for game A02, turn 04, side 03 beginning gold: 233gps Oh, well, let me be the bad guy to begin the war... Elemental and dwarf took Mexico city loot 4 gp and pillaged scout for = 175 gp WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 =20 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 *1* 0 No=20 DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No=20 Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elemental 5 6 0.77258 <-- Lives! Dwarf 4 5 0.40674 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.22742 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining Then the same elemental unit took undefended city of Helsinki and = pillaged scout for 175 gp Then two elemental units ambushed Super Hero in the hill side near = Helsinski !! WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 =20 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Hill Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 *1* 0 No=20 DEF: 1 1 0 0 0 *2* 0 No=20 Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elemental 5 6 0.73346 <-- Lives! Elemental 5 6 0.41514 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 7 0.26654 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining Dragon unit hunted down the ghost unit near Moscow WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 =20 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Hill Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 N *1* 0 No=20 DEF: 0 0 1 0 0 *0* 0 No=20 Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Dragon 7 8 0.74074 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Ghost 5 5 0.25926 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining Then dragon with a unit of orcish mob took neutral city Moscow defended = by a unit of griffin and pillaged griffin for 850gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 =20 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Neutral city 1 or 2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 N *1* 0 No=20 DEF: 0 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No=20 Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Dragon 7 8 0.62197 <-- Lives! Orcish Mob 2 3 0.11308 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Griffin 6 8 0.37803 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining Elemental unit took neutral city Oslo and pillaged scout for 175 gps Built bats, lt. infantry and hv. Infantry at Oslo for 160, 160 and 300 = gps. Built spider at Moscow for 700 gps. Built lt. infantry at St. Moritz for 160 gps. Final cities: 14, Gold: 186 gp, Income: 300 gp, expense: 24 gp No change in hero experience: White Tiger: 8 GREENDRAGON: 6 (********** DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ***********) Ouch, Jagged has offered a peace treaty that Raptor can't turn down. = Say if I join the peace=20 group with Raptor, then Small will have my full attention. While Small = may be attacked from both sides and the other three groups are together singing "We are the = World" and waiting to the end of Turn 20 to count strength? That won't be fun, will it? :) From what I see, both ORANGE and BLUE invested a lot on spider and = griffin and I don't take=20 those as defense unit. And God knows how I hate griffin squads of = enemies!! So hard to kill :( If ORANGE and BLUE make peace, I guess GREEN, my poor color, will be the = focus of their join force, then only God knows how long can I stand it. The perish is = for sure. Look at my=20 armies, most are light infantries, no match for spiders and = griffins...... So, this is my proposal to Raptor :=20 I took Oslo, and built 3 units. But as you can see, those are for = defense only. My=20 heavy infantry will take years to reach any city of yours. As for the = griffin city to the north, may=20 the stronger one keeps it! =20 PEACE? fine with me, maybe let me to save some light infantries unit to = be slaughtered in the near future. WAR? can't say I like it now, but = if this is your choice, then so be it. In either case, ORANGE will be = the final winner. =20 (************ WAR stories *************) Finally, the first real combat happened and the first blood of GREEN = armies spilled! As hero White Tiger flying north, he noticed the = careless of WHITE hero. "Hmm, is this a sign from God?" The news from = Capital that King Chu is in dire sickness due to unknown cause of food = poisoning, there is no time to ask for permission. "GREENDRAGON didn't = ask for one either." White Tiger mused, "The old man can't blame me = alone." So, he dispatched an elemental with a group of dwarf into = attack! They conquered Mexico city before the nightfall, but the dwarf = unit was smashed by the lance of defending heavy infantry man. Under the = cover of night, the elemental use the speed spell to reach Helsinski. = THE GATE WAS WIDE OPEN!! Took it too. By the sunrise, another unit of elemental has join force and they = ambushed WHITE hero in the=20 dawn. Victorious but with heavy loss. The elemental unit that fought = all night had lost its strength and fell under the sword of the = hero......... In the mean time, hero GREENDRAGON keeps wandering to the east. = Troubling news that=20 BLUE may sigh peace treaty with ORANGE troubles him. Scouting report = shows BLUE has at least one spider city and one griffin city in production, "Better = sent the report back." thought our hero. In the capital, King Chu is in his sickbed. He looked pale and weak = from over a dozen diarrhea. And the incoming news only made his heart heavier. "Now, we must face = the possibility of 3=20 countries joining force together against us......" He look thru the = window to the star-lit sky, "The quest for honor is so filled with obstacles. Now warlords talk for = peace rather than show their color on the battle field. What has the world become to?" Coughing = from the excitement, he=20 issued a general command to all units: "My valiant troops, rumors are = that we may have larger and more difficult test ahead. The other warlords may join their force = to eliminate us. We may have no victory in this combat, but let us fight for honor!" The order, = together with wine from Royal Cellar, are sent to all troops...... _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 4 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Friday October 31, 1997 at 12:33 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Monday November 3, 1997 at 12:33 AM EST (In GMT+0200: Monday November 3, 1997 at 7:33 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 5 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Tuesday November 04, 1997 at 12:53 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Thursday November 6, 1997 at 12:53 PM EST (In GMT-0300: Thursday November 6, 1997 at 2:53 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday November 04, 1997 at 12:56 PM EST by bastard to all players; A02, Turn 4, Blue Start stats: 9/279/+254/-35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Morthond explores Vault of Saves and frees an enprisoned Archon. Two units of light cavalry take empty Seoul. 4 gp looted. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sielwolf: 8/+0 Morthond: 9/+3 Final stats: 10/283/+280/-68 Diplomacy: Dear King Chu, my sincerest sympathy concerning your diarhea... but I still need you to prove your good intensions. Your Devil and Elemental still can reach strategic targets on my territory, and there is some production vectored to the hero hanging out on my borderlands. So, if you do not move Devil & Elemental off my borders, or your hero stucks at my gold ruin, I consider it as a declaration of war and nothing will stop me from signing a pact with Orange. If you do what I want you'll at least have time enough to finish the slaughter of our young White friend's troops... Respectfully, Bastard The Raptor _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday November 07, 1997 at 06:20 AM EST by Ivan Baird to all players; Start: hero exp: 6 gold: 235 Ghost takes and occupies Melbourne. Elemental takes and razes Olympia, loots 4. End: hero exp: 6 cities: 8 gold: 239 income: 228 expenses: 56 -- Ivan Baird, CET Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 5 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 5 Gamefile Sent To: Jagged (Orange) (asmang@mail.wm.edu) Date Sent: Friday November 07, 1997 at 06:20 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Monday November 10, 1997 at 06:20 AM EST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 5 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Saturday November 08, 1997 at 03:07 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday November 11, 1997 at 003:007 AM EST (In GMT+0800: Tuesday November 11, 1997 at 4:07 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Saturday November 08, 1997 at 03:07 AM EST by Arun Mangalam to all players; ROUND , GAME <02>, TURN <5>, SIDE 02(orange). ========================================================= Gold at Start of Turn: 173 Raven visits Ruin and receives Pole of Bubka The following three fights occurred which needed Warbot's exclusive attention: WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Hill Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 1 0 0 *2* 0 Yes DEF: 1 0 0 0 0 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 5 7 0.83036 <-- Lives! Spider 4 6 0.60751 <-- Lives! Spider 4 6 0.33952 <-- Dies.. Wolfrider 4 6 0.09386 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 6 0.16964 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 5 0.04157 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 5 0.00575 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Hill Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 N *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 1 0 0 H *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Dragon 7 8 0.57949 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Archon 7 7 0.42051 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 2 0 *2* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Wizard 7 9 0.78276 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Cavalry, Lt 2 3 0.21724 <-- Dies... Cavalry, Lt 2 3 0.08326 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining Spider pillaged St. Louis for 175 gold Wizard looted Seoul for 14 gold Devil pillaged Rome for 175 gold New Build of Dwarves purchased in St. Louis for 450 gold Final Cities: 10 Gold: 101 Income: 280 Expenses: 56. Final Jagged Experience: 11 Change from last turn: 0 Final Raven Experience: 15 Change from last turn: 4 *** File Transfer: Round R=A Game xx=02. Next Player's Turn yy=05 Side z=3 Dear White, I understand your statement of intent. It is as clear as my battleplan involving your future as a Warlord. Please understand that peace will never be an issue in your case. :) Dear Blue, I will state my intent, forthwith. I plan to take Dublin, with or without force. As you can see with my forces, I am well able to take it. However, in view of Green's quick expansion of empire, I would like to propose a deal. I will not attack you below Dublin or Seoul, if you relent Dublin without a fight. Furthermore, you can occupy and, I strongly suggest fortifying, Atlanta with your Giant Worm. If Green tries to attack you, I will most definitely fight against him. At this moment he has considerable power (clearly seen in the east). Your hero can also delight in the rich treasures down south. If you do this, I will not attack you, unless of course you attack me. This is my oath upon your acceptance. However, if you do wish to fight it out, I am willing, but I am very concerned with Green's rapid progress. Dear Green, I like your admiration for my skills/or lack thereof as a Warlord. However I am not so sure that I will be victorious in the end. This would be my second play-by-email game, so I don't consider myself a seasoned warrior. However if you think I have a fighting chance to be the Ultimate Warlord, then there must be some Truth to it. I think it is too early to tell, though. Regardless, let there be a fair fight till the end. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday November 10, 1997 at 08:34 AM EST by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; Turn report for game A02, Turn 05, side 03 Beginning gold: 462 gps I have been good this turn, no fighting! Only fleeing and regrouping :) Oh, well, I am not so good after all. My hero GREENDRAGON visited ruin = "Dashorst Pit" and got a fly item: Jump of Lewis, then he went to "Goransson ruin" got = some gold. The other hero WHITE-TIGER also visited a ruin "Gary Best's Tomb" and got some = gold. The total sum of gold is 4997 gps!=20 (In the end of this message, I will share with you an easier method to = get maximum gold.) And with the gold I got, following are the constructions : Built wolfrider (450gps) at Nagano. Built Dwarf (450 gps) at Innsbruck. Built archer(1000gps) at Sarajevo) Built elephant (1500 gps) at St. Moritz. Built elephant (1500 gps) at Barcelona. Built dwarf (450gps) at Helsinki. Hero final experience: White Tiger: 11 GREENDRAGON: 12 Final cities: 14. Gold: 109 gps. Income: 300 gps. Expense: 49 gp. First, the Diplomatic messages: Sorry BLUE, I still picked the ruin. However, I also have removed devil = and elemental from the border city Oslo. My devil is headed for the center temple to prepare = the possible conflict with ORANGE. Yes, I still have my hero around because I want to get to = another gold ruin. You don't think I will be stupid enough to attack = your city with Demon and Archon and possibly a hero in it, do you? As for proposal from ORANGE. Well, he is well equipped for Dublin, no = doubt. It seems quite logical to flee and give the griffin city to him. Safer this way, I = admit. But all your vectoring units will be kicked back to original = city. HOWEVER, let us just suppose that you fortify Dublin with another giant worm unit and hero and dragon. Build a couple units = to increase the defense bonus. Then, too bad, ORANGE hero will still = take Dublin. But not without some heavy loss: two of his wizards (+2) = AND a dragon or an archon. So, if you call him bluff, you will hold the = city and he will have to use another entry to enter the center city, = possibly from Munich. Then I will finally meet ORANGE in the battle field. My units are a lot of = weaker than his, but I have time to prepare for it. Besides, I really think he should dispatch a = wizard to hunt down the elemental unit inside his country. Of course, I am guessing all that. This is also my third PBEM game if = practice round count 1. Of course, I dug out the ruin that is in the = other side of the border. Any hostile action from you, I can = understand. To ORANGE: I must say I am kind of sorry, if WHITE's action is the result of my = last message. During my sickness, I "THOUGHT" you were making peace = with BLUE (misread the message). Then after WHITE's turn, I am more surprising than you. Oh well, I will = read it more carefully=20 next time. But I must admire your capability to threaten opponent out = of their city! After WHITE's turn, I thought BLUE will lose his hero to = you right there. Then your move surprised me again! Frankly speaking, even though I thought you are bluffing, I = am not sure what will be my action if I was BLUE. By the way, we both are fighting for the center cities. Let me tell = you what I see. I HATE those center city because they build griffins. = I never know how to catch them, how to defend against them. So, I = pillaged it right away when I got Moscow. I know I built one myself and = if I lost badly in this war, that will be my downfall. I have been = regreting ever since Turn 2. What do you see in center cities? Temple? or forward base for future = invasion (or prevent one)? I must admit that the head quarter really = have the map done well, so tricky! To WHITE: Sorry that this war is not going well for you. But I believe you will = get better and better. In a couple of years, I will be expecting you in = the tounament beat the crap out of me. OK,OK, let me share with you how to get maximum gold without too many = reverting. I have=20 confirmed this with Bob and he said it is legal. However, only = MACINTOSH version of WL2 can perform it, so he didn't mention it. I = have two ruins to explore in this turn and I am kind of greedy to get maximum gold, that will take a LOT OF time. In my = frustration, I thought about this method. Let me tell you clearly. 1. I explore both ruins and added the sum up. If it is much less than = 5000, I revert it. Otherwise, I go to step 2. 2. Now I got gold over 5000 gps which is not allowed, I must figure a = way to discard the excessive amount. How to do it? It is quite = possible that after you got these gold, you build some units. So, I go = to the city I chose, built "useless" units one OVER another, then when I = wasted=20 enough gold to make the sum legal, I then built the desired unit OVER = the useless unit. In this case, the city defense bonus didn't increase = due to the excessive amount of gold. I got maximum gold (4997 out of = 5000!) and no rules are broken and no gamefile is hacked. Everyone = happy:) As an example, I got 6617 gold from the two ruins I explored. So, I = told myself, if I can discard 1620 gps, then I will have 4997 gps left! = Not bad! So, I go to a city, in the empty spot, I built a bat (160gps), then OVER the bat I built archer (1000gps), then OVER = the archer I built another bat (160 gps), then OVER the bat I built an = orcish mob (300gps), then OVER the orcish mob, I built the desired unit. = Since I built units OVRE previous unit, only the desired unit left in = that city and I have wasted 160+160+1000+300=3D1620 gps. =20 Of course, not all the amount over 5000 can give you that chance to make = it closer to 5000. You still need to revert. But with a little bit of = luck and a calculator, you can get a good sum in no time. =20 Don't tell PC players, they will be jealousy :) hee hee hee... As for the war stories, I am too tired today. I still have one message = allowed between turn so I will turn it in later. Too bad you can not = transfer gold between players, otherwise I should charge each one of you = 100 gps for that trick! Just kidding!!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 5 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Monday November 10, 1997 at 08:48 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Wednesday November 12, 1997 at 08:48 AM EST (In GMT+0200: Wednesday November 12, 1997 at 3:48 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday November 11, 1997 at 11:41 AM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; (************ WAR Stories ****************) These days, if you guess the Dept. of Foreign Policy is the busiest department of the whole Formosa kingdom, then you are damned right! The previous Foreign Minister have been released of his duty and sent to the frontier as a cook! He has no place in the battle! Because of his erroneous information about the diplomatic movement in a couple of round before, King Chu has been confused and stunned by the recent movements on the battle field. It was really due to the begging of most generals, that the life of ex-FM was spared. Now he is cooking up dinner for the army of Formosa. Hope he don't mixed up salt with sugar or vinegar with wine........ During the recovering days, the information from battle field were flowing thru King's sickbed. "WHITE ambushed and razed an undefended city of ORANGE!" "WHITE's unit is in direct threat to the capital of ORANGE!" A glance on the map of military units of all countries, King Chu knew that the last hero of WHITE was doomed. Kind of surprise that ORANGE units also took out the lone archon of WHITE, the biggest threat to General WHITE-TIGER if he wants to explore the ruin in the mountain area. Even more surprised was that ORANGE let the BLUE hero go!! Of course, the two wizards unit will be lost in the battle but still, the hero is loaded with command items. Anyway, the biggest surprise came after: ORANGE gathered around a huge army and threaten BLUE to let go of the castle of Dublin!!!!! "Now I have seen everything...." King Chu murmured. He knew very well that if BLUE accept the item, due to the lack of expanding space, BLUE will probably go in to war with King's armies simply because there is no space left! "Nice poker player!" King Chu immediately sent out a messanger to Raptor King, although King Chu himself was not that certain what would he do if he was in Raptor King's shoes. "Let the Heaven to decide the fate of all sides!" King Chu continued to pray by the altar while sacrificing goats. In the mean time, General GREENDRAGON was having the best time of his human life! While exploring the ruins, he found a pair of old shoes, with scriptions of "The Jump of Lewis" on it. But as he tried it on, he flied! Not only he flied, all the armies under his command flied! "Ahh, how I missed the air up here!" thought the once-dragon general. With the flying ability, he easily reached the gold ruin on BLUE side, cleaned up the ruin to build more armies and intentionally ignored the warning from King Chu. "More gold is the path to victory..." gathering his armies, GREENDRAGON ventured east for gold... _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday November 14, 1997 at 01:23 PM EST by "Elam T. Birnbaum" to all players; Bastard's turn 5 is being done by the moderator of the game (Elam Birnbaum). This is the Preliminary Phase of the Lost Player Rules, which states to retreat all units to their closes cities. No change in gold, income, expenses, or hero experience. Gold: 445 Expenses: 90 Income: 254 Hero Experiences: 8, 9 Elam the Mod ---------------------=#| http://www.pixgen.com/elam |#=--------------------- | Elam T. Birnbaum | Programming Engineer | "An engineer is someone who | | elam@pixgen.com | Macintosh Evangelist | spends 3 hours trying to do | | New York City, NY | Expert LEGO Builder | a 2 hour problem in 1 hour." | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 6 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Friday November 14, 1997 at 01:24 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Monday November 17, 1997 at 1:24 PM EST (In GMT-0300: Monday November 17, 1997 at 3:24 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 6 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 6 Gamefile Sent To: Jagged (Orange) (asmang@mail.wm.edu) Date Sent: Sunday November 16, 1997 at 07:26 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday November 18, 1997 at 7:26 PM EST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday November 16, 1997 at 07:26 PM EST by Ivan Baird to all players; turn X --> turn Y = turn 9 start gold 321 End gold 321 income 160 exp.62 cities 7 -- Ivan Baird, CET Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday November 18, 1997 at 12:48 AM EST by Arun Mangalam to all players; ROUND , GAME <02>, TURN <6>, SIDE 02(orange). ========================================================= Raven is now a Cavalier. Gold at Start of Turn: 325 Jagged visits Ruin and receives 2500 gps Raven visits Ruin and receives 2499 gp ***Thank you, King Chu of Formosa. Your tip on maximizing the treasure was immensely helpful. I had one battle this turn.... WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Forests Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 2 0 *2* 0 No DEF: 0 0 1 0 0 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Wizard 7 9 0.72675 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Elemental 5 6 0.27325 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining New Build of Spider purchased in St. Louis for 700 gold New Build of Spider purchased in London for 700 gold New Build of Spider purchased in Rome for 700 gold New Build of Dwarves purchased in Seoul for 450 gold New Build of Elephant purchased in Paris for 1500 gold New Build of Archer purchased in Locker Room for 1000 gold Final Cities: 10 Gold: 274 Income: 280 Expenses: 122. Final Jagged Experience: 14 Change from last turn: 3 Final Raven Experience: 18 Change from last turn: 3 *** File Transfer: Round R=A Game xx=02. Next Player's Turn yy=06 Side z=3 Blue: I hope you are there. I can understand the workload that you might have (I've had thoughts of quitting this game too), so I am waiting one more turn before I have to ravage your kingdom. Please come back, else I have to declare war on you and attack your Hero. White: Why don't you attack south instead of east. You will do a lot better, instead of wasting precious armies. If I have to, I will decimate you within a few turns. BTW, ghosts are such easy targets for attack. Just a warning. :) Green: You are doing quite well. If Blue doesn't come back, and the moderators cannot find a replacement, he will be declared a Lost Player. In that case, it's just you and me in the game. I am just wondering where all this is leading to....Regardless, I thank you again for your very useful tip. _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 6 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Tuesday November 18, 1997 at 12:49 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Thursday November 20, 1997 at 12:49 AM EST (In GMT+0800: Thursday November 20, 1997 at 1:49 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday November 19, 1997 at 11:39 AM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game A02, turn T06, side 3 Beginning gold: 362 gps Blessed dragon took Munich and pillaged griffins for 850 gps. Blessed devil took Atlanta and pillaged griffins for 850 gps. Built Spider(700gps), Giant Bat(160gps) and Lt. Infantry(160gps) at Atlanta. Built wolfrider at Chamonix and Beijing for 450 gps each. Final cities: 16, Gold: 162 gps, Income: 340 gps and Expense: 109 gps. No change in hero experience. (**************DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE*******************) To Raptor King: Welcome back!! I thought we lost you! Please do take a look of my last archive message mentioned about the trick I used to get maximum gold. As for the game, well, you can see the military strength of your troops near our border is immensely strong and I have moved away all the strong units away from the border, only left some weak units inside a ruin to get better protection. I have no intention to start a fight now. If you just stay in your side without moving toward my side, you can concentrate on the large ORANGE troops in your the other border. To Small Player King: Wow, I really thought the capitol of ORANGE would be toasted by your elemental in last turn! You are really hard to predict!! To Jagged King: Hmm, you really gave me a difficult problem with your hero moved south with your hero. Also your position of the other hero that confirmed my suspicion: It was not the Griffin city of BLUE you are after, it must be Munich! Glad that I pillaged the city :) So, we finally will meet at battle again. If you attack the open city of Munich, then we are officially at war. Not much a threat there from me though. (*********************** WAR STORIES ***********************) King Chu was enjoying his birthday with his seven wives when an emergency diplomatic report was hurried in. The new Secretary of Foreign Affairs (may God have mercy on last one. He is a cook for frontier troops now) nervously briefed about the unstable situation inside BLUE country. "The signs show the King, Bastard, was missing. And all BLUE troops were retreated back into cities waiting for new command. In the mean time, massive ORANGE troops are gathered in the north border of BLUE country where they are most vulernable." King Chu mused for some time. "Should I attack while Raptor King was away? Or this is actually a test from Bastard to find out troop movements of ORANGE and us?" He gestured Secretary of FA to wait outside. The he retrieved a couple of coins from the deepest corner of his drawers and prayed to the GODS. "Oh, Wise One, show me the answer that will help me survive this war!" chanted the old man, "Show me thru these coins". After several tossing, he found out the fate of his troops. "Send urgent message to General GREEN-DRAGON: retreat back into Formosa while leaving a small troops near border as observing point. Move the main force NORTH and preparing a showdown with ORANGE troops." So this end his birthday, and King Chu wondered, what kind of present he will receive from the Wise One????????? _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 6 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Wednesday November 19, 1997 at 11:47 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Friday November 21, 1997 at 11:47 AM EST (In GMT+0200: Friday November 21, 1997 at 6:47 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday November 24, 1997 at 05:29 AM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Dear Bastard: I think you can trade in your vacation time in this situation. If your delay is hardware-related, maybe there are other rules to help? Good luck! King Chu of Formosa _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 7 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Monday November 24, 1997 at 04:35 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Wednesday November 26, 1997 at 4:35 PM EST (In GMT-0300: Wednesday November 26, 1997 at 6:35 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday November 24, 1997 at 04:35 PM EST by bastard to all players; A02+++++++++Turn 6++++++++++Blue Start: 9/609/+254/-90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sielwolf picks 2490 gp at Birnbaum's Crypt. Minotaurs built in Sapporo for 1300 gp. Spiders built in Sydney and Grenoble for 2x700=1400 gp. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ End: 9/399/+254/-126 Sielwolf: 11/+3 Morthond: 9/0 _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 7 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 7 Gamefile Sent To: Jagged (Orange) (asmang@mail.wm.edu) Date Sent: Wednesday November 26, 1997 at 09:29 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Friday November 28, 1997 at 9:29 PM EST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday November 26, 1997 at 09:29 PM EST by Derek Baird to all players; start cites6 gold355 gost takes Munich and luts 5 gold end gold 360 end cites7 endexp.87 end ink.100 -- Derek Baird Official Warlords II World Tournament Round Starter c/o Ivan Baird, CET ijb@nbnet.nb.ca Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday November 30, 1997 at 05:43 PM EST by Arun Mangalam to all players; ROUND , GAME <02>, TURN <7>, SIDE 02(orange). ========================================================= Gold at Start of Turn: 432 Raven/Dragon defeats Bat (obvious result) Griffin looted Berlin for 200 gold (obvious result) Jagged looted Dublin for 872 gold WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 2 1 0 HN *4* 0 No DEF: 0 0 2 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 5 9 0.95098 <-- Lives! Devil 7 11 0.87576 <-- Lives! Dragon 7 11 0.62285 <-- Lives! Wolfrider 4 8 0.15633 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Worm, Giant 7 8 0.04902 <-- Dies... Griffin 6 9 0.01039 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 3 unit(s) remaining New Build of Spider purchased in Dublin for 700 gold New Build of Orcish Mob purchased in Dublin for 300 gold New Build of Light Cavalry purchased in Dublin for 200 gold Final Cities: 12 Gold: 304 Income: 332 Expenses: 158. Final Jagged Experience: 16 Change from last turn: 2 Final Raven Experience: 19 Change from last turn: 1 *** File Transfer: Round R=A Game xx=02. Next Player's Turn yy=07 Side z=3 Blue: Ally or foe? Every turn, Green gets stronger and stronger. I don't know why you left your worm giant and griffin behind, when I told you not leave anything there, since I was going to take Dublin. Regardless, I would like to know for sure whether you consider me as an enemy or as an ally. If you are my enemy, you know the consequences. If you are my ally, recognize that green is getting extremely strong with practically three cities in the center(the city owned by White is very poorly guarded). Each army is blessed in the middle. You need to attack his internal (relatively unprotected) cities, otherwise he will attack you and me with full force. His peace with you is just as valuable as his entering your territory to take money. I've lost valuable time waiting for you in your lost turn. So, if you attack down south, I will vector my armies away from yours and into his, and you can do the same. Otherwise, I will have no choice but to attack you. If you do not reply, I will have to declare war and attack you. If you reply and accept the offer of alliance, you must vector your armies towards green and move to attack him immediately. In the game now, there is only you, me, and Green. If you help now, we can each conquer half the map. _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 7 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Sunday November 30, 1997 at 05:44 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday December 2, 1997 at 5:44 PM EST (In GMT+0800: Wednesday December 3, 1997 at 6:44 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 7 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Tuesday December 02, 1997 at 07:44 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Thursday December 4, 1997 at 7:44 PM EST (In GMT+0200: Friday December 5, 1997 at 2:44 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday December 02, 1997 at 09:02 PM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game A02, Turn 07, side 03 Beginning gold: 373 gps Hero "GREEN-DRAGON" explored ruin Max's Manor and received 2500 gps. Hero "White-Tiger" explored ruin Derek's Button and received 1 demon. Blessed devil attacked Munich, loot 25 gps, and razed the city WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 H *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 1 0 1 *2* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Devil 8 9 0.65245 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Ghost 5 7 0.34755 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining Built spider at Innsbruck and Mexico city for 700 gps each. Built dwarf at Mexico city for 450 gps. Built Lt. Infantry (160 gps) and Lt. Calvary (200 gps) at Moscow. Various troops were blessed. Final hero experience: Hero White-Tiger: 14 Hero "GREEN-DRAGON" : 15 Final cities: 15, gold: 688 gps, Income: 320 gps, expense: 146 gps. (*********** DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ******************) To: WHITE Ehh, sorry that I attacked Munich, at first, I thought you would use the ghost to raze the city. Can't afford it fall into ORANGE's hand.... To: ORANGE Too bad I didn't see your move, otherwise I would deploy my troops earlier to counter your movement in the center region. Hope I will not meet you in the second round :) Now, I can't do anything to stop you establishing at Dublin. Saw your re-inforcement.... BUT, I guess you won't be getting the com+2 item after all :) Hey, I spent an elemental for that! To: BLUE I must say ORANGE is very good at word. "Friend or foe?" nice question. Maybe you can ask why he attacked Dublin but not the UNDEFENDED Munich? Now he is getting stronger around center region. If you want revenge, have your dwarf ready. We may plot a join attack on Dublin. Too bad, I thought about do it this turn, but you are a dwarf short to make it possible. Of course, since I am ahead of you in turn, you will get to keep Dublin.... But that will be another turn. Keep alert. Nope, I am not your ally. I don't want to cheat you with that. The join attack will cost me a dragon and a devil with many my fine troops but it serves my needs to weaken ORANGE. In fact, you alone can decide the outcome of this campaign! If you ally with ORANGE, my time are numbered. If we ally together, ORANGE very possibly to be eliminated by the end of Turn 20. About the condition of alliance, I think we can discuss it if you are interested. Oh, by the way, you are not thinking about attacking Oslo, are you? Not a great city, the Hv. infantry built in that city are slow and you will lose at least a giant worm to get it. Not worth it. (********************WAR STORIES **************) The tiding of war brought back excitement and worries... After a break of Thanksgiving, King Chu found out the ORANGE has taken the strong castle: DUBLIN! In fact, ORANGE armies are swarming from left and right into that city, a city with natural defense. A city that may be the beginning of the demise for King Chu. While Munich, another important city was held by WHITE, the defender was too weak. A lone ghost. King Chu sent out special team to conquer the city and razed it before ORANGE can lay a finger on. In the mean time, to protect the to-be national treasure in a ruin near Helsinski, King Chu had to order abandon city from Helsinski. As residents flew out of the grand gate of Helsinski, King Chu can only pray that they will find a better place to live on. "May be now is a good time to find an ally for us!" King Chu mused. The neighbouring BLUE country has been severely damaged by ORANGE armies. A special messanger of King Chu was sent out to Raptor's castle, seeking possible alliance. Only time can tell the outcome............ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 8 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Thursday December 04, 1997 at 11:40 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Sunday December 7, 1997 at 11:40 AM EST (In GMT-0300: Sunday December 7, 1997 at 1:40 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday December 04, 1997 at 11:40 AM EST by bastard to all players; A02, turn 7, blue Start: 8/474/228/109 End: 8/474/228/144 No hero experience changes _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday December 08, 1997 at 07:22 PM EST by Arun Mangalam to all players; Due to pressures of work and research here, I will not be able to play for another month. In other words, I will have to withdraw from the tournament. If you would like I can finish this last turn, so that you may be able to find a substitute. I am so sorry for not telling you in advance. My exams and research have to take priority. I enjoyed playing in this tournament, but alas I did not know the exact nature of playing by e-mail (it is very time-consuming). I know I have inconvenienced some because of this, and my sincerest apologies to you. And again, I thank you for giving me an opportunity to play. Sincerely, Jagged _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday December 08, 1997 at 09:02 PM EST by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; Dear Arun: It is sad to hear that you are going to withdraw from the game. For = the 2 games I am=20 involving right now (A02, and sub for another game) along with 2 = practice games I involved, you are one of those I think have potential = to make it to final 4!! Alas, guess the real world is too much for a = great Warlord like you :-( Hope that there still be chance to meet you on battle field and take = care of yourself. Merry Christmas! Hsiao-Chiu Chu _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 8 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 8 Gamefile Sent To: Jagged (Orange) (asmang@mail.wm.edu) Date Sent: Monday December 08, 1997 at 09:28 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Wednesday December 10, 1997 at 9:28 PM EST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday December 08, 1997 at 09:28 PM EST by Ivan Baird to all players; Derek's Turn Report - as always when he writes it himself, very short! ;-) Start 5 cites 293 gold End 5 cites 293 gold 120in. 87ixp. Moderator, how about them timeouts back as vacation time? -- Ivan Baird, CET Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ The following diplomatic history message is from hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw and is being sent to all the players of the Warlords II game "A02". Dear Arun: It is sad to hear that you are going to withdraw from the game. For the 2 games I am involving right now (A02, and sub for another game) along with 2 practice games I involved, you are one of those I think have potential to make it to final 4!! Alas, guess the real world is too much for a great Warlord like you :-( Hope that there still be chance to meet you on battle field and take care of yourself. Merry Christmas! Hsiao-Chiu Chu _______________________________________________________________________________ Turn Message: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 8 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Sunday December 14, 1997 at 06:19 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday December 16, 1997 at 06:19 AM EST (In GMT+0200: Tuesday December 16, 1997 at 1:19 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following diplomatic history message is from Hsiao-Chiu Chu and is being sent to all the players of the Warlords II game "A02". Turn report for game A02 Turn 8 Side 03 Beginning gold: 862 gps Hero GREEN-DRAGON turned into a Calvalier. Now with Str=6 and moves=24. Hero GREEN-DRAGON explored ruin "Lair of Leung" and received 2500 gps. Hero White Tiger explored ruin Vaillancourthold and received Neptune's Friad (com+2). Built Catapults at Squaw Valley for 1000 gps. Built Spider at Oslo for 700 gps. Giant destroyed 4 orcish mobs near Oslo WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Hill Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 2 0 *2* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Giant 6 8 0.62434 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Orcish Mob 2 2 0.37566 <-- Dies... Orcish Mob 2 2 0.26351 <-- Dies... Orcish Mob 2 2 0.15178 <-- Dies... Orcish Mob 2 2 0.05539 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining Hero experience: White Tiger: 17 (was 14) GREEN-DRAGON: 18 (was15) Final cities: 15, gold: 1662 gps, income: 320gps, expense: 236 gps (**************** DIPLOMATIC messages *****************) WHITE: Guess you will get a hero without ally next turn? BLUE: After ORANGE turned into computer, I have to concentrate my attention to you. The four orcish mobs stayed near Oslo is quite dangerous to my defense around Oslo. You had a chance to move them into a city instead of keeping it within the striking distance of Oslo. Now, you don't have to worry about it anymore. (**************** WAR stroies ***************************) The tidings of war erupted a major storm. The strong nation of ORANGE turned into a robot nation over night. The feared leader of ORANGE, Jagged, disappeared mysteriously. In stead, all military actions are taking over by computer within each city and no one acts like alive anymore. "From the entrance, you can see there is no actions on the road of the Dublin. Not even a stray dog or cat around.", reported by a point scout, "And when I stand before the gate of the city, I can see the defending troops are all in place with swords drawn and bows opened. But no one attack me. They just ignored me when I do not enter the gate. However, a horse wandered into the gate was quickly chopped into burger. Then the soldiers just stood back to their posts. All is so automatically, so inhuman....." King Chu has no idea what happened to the Jagged leader. A fear and respected opponent in this and previous war. "I shall miss him." mused the old King. Now, a new strategy is forming: First, increase the defense around Oslo. Special forces and General GREEN-DRAGON have been sent to there. Second, attack ORANGE at some weak points. Most of ORANGE cities are too strong for GREEN right now, but there are a couple of them will be conquered in the next turn. The new hope of being a winner in this war has encouraged the troops. It has been a long and hard war for all of the GREEN people.......... _______________________________________________________________________________ Turn Message: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 9 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Monday December 15, 1997 at 12:22 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Wednesday December 17, 1997 at 12:22 PM EST (In GMT-0300: Wednesday December 17, 1997 at 2:22 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following diplomatic history message is from bastard and is being sent to all the players of the Warlords II game "A02". A02, turn 8, blue Start: 8/570/228/132 End: 8/570/228/197 No hero experience changes. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following diplomatic history message is from Derek Baird and is being sent to all the players of the Warlords II game "A02". Start 5 cites 314 gold end 5 cites 314 gold ex 124 in 120 -- Derek Baird Official Warlords II World Tournament Round Starter c/o Ivan Baird, CET ijb@nbnet.nb.ca Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ Turn Message: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 9 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Tuesday December 16, 1997 at 05:07 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Thursday December 18, 1997 at 5:07 PM EST (In GMT+0800: Friday December 19, 1997 at 6:07 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ Turn Message: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 9 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard the Raptor (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Wednesday December 17, 1997 at 06:22 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Friday December 19, 1997 at 06:22 AM EST (In GMT+0200: Friday December 19, 1997 at 1:22 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following diplomatic history message is from hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw and is being sent to all the players of the Warlords II game "A02". Turn report for game A02, Turn 09, side 02 Beginning gold: 1746 gps. *Hero GREEN-DRAGON got the promotion of Calvalier with STR=6, Moves=24. *Blessed elemental took undefended city Amsterdam and sacked Griffins and Lt. Infantry for 930 gps, looted 6 gps. *Blessed troops lead by another elemental took city Berlin and pillaged Hv. Infantry for 150 gps, looted 6 gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 2 0 1 *3* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elemental 5 6 0.61474 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 9 0.50142 <-- Lives! Spider 5 8 0.26548 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Lt 3 5 0.09409 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Lt 3 5 0.04138 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Lt 3 5 0.01241 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Lt 3 5 0.00172 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Wizard 7 10 0.38526 <-- Dies... Griffin 6 11 0.14704 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 8 0.00477 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining *Hero White Tiger took Stockholm and pillaged scout for 175gps, looted 31 gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 3 0 0 *4* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 6 10 0.50031 <-- Lives! Dwarf 4 8 0.14179 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Lt 2 7 0.01556 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.49969 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.33997 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.18704 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.07140 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.01281 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining *Demon-lead troops took Los Angeles and pillaged scout for 175 gps and looted 31 gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 N *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Demon 7 8 0.55400 <-- Lives! Spider 4 7 0.30047 <-- Dies.. Dwarf 4 5 0.12039 <-- Dies.. Dwarf 4 5 0.05282 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.01758 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00171 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.44600 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.28802 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.15162 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.05888 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.01405 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00133 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining *Giant destroyed minotaur near Grenoble WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Hill Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 2 0 *2* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Giant 6 8 0.66048 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Minotaur 6 6 0.33952 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining *Built spider in Stockholm, Berlin, Amsterdam respectively, cost 2100 gps. Final hero experience: White Tiger: 19 GREEN-DRAGON : 18 Final cities: 19, gold: 1150 gps, income: 400 gps, expense: 286 gps (*********************** WAR stories *************************) This is a turn of BLOOD!! Green armies lost a dozen troops to the defending forces in the process of conquer four cities. Still, King Chu is not happy. "Why the capital of ORANGE still intact!?", shouted the angry king, "I want that capital!!" "My Lord," replied the messenger from the special force that invading ORANGE country, "the wolfrider that holds the capital of ORANGE is been enhanced due to the mass production of the robotization that happened last turn." "We can't even take a city held by a single wolfrider?!" King still in disblief. "No, all the new troops are much more powerful than the same units trained on normal cities." King sank to his throne, crestfallen.. "However....." messenger hesitated. "Yes?" "There is an information from the wandering merchants that usually trade with ORANGE people," the messenger explained, "they said the new robotized country has a severe problem of economics. That is, they will be out of gold very soon." "Hmm......Get me the Secretary of Economic!" King ordered. And within that dimmed light, King Chu retreated to his quarter for a secret meeting with his followers..... _______________________________________________________________________________ Turn Message: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 10 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Thursday December 18, 1997 at 12:52 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Sunday December 21, 1997 at 12:52 PM EST (In GMT-0300: Sunday December 21, 1997 at 2:52 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ Turn Message: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 10 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Thursday December 18, 1997 at 12:53 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Sunday December 21, 1997 at 12:53 PM EST (In GMT+0800: Monday December 22, 1997 at 1:53 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following diplomatic history message is from bastard and is being sent to all the players of the Warlords II game "A02". A02, turn 9, blue Start: 8/614/228/225 End: 8/614/228/225 (two lt. cav.'s disbanded) No hero experience changed. Green spy giant captured and executed by a Demon near Sapporo. WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Hill Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 N *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 2 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Demon 7 8 0.66048 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Giant 6 6 0.33952 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 10 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard The Raptor-B (Blue) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Thursday January 08, 1998 at 11:19 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Sunday January 11, 1998 at 11:19 AM EST (In GMT+0200: Sunday January 11, 1998 at 6:19 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday January 08, 1998 at 11:22 AM EST by Derek Baird to all players; start cites 3 start gold 179 end gold 179 end cites 3 end in.91 end exp.80 -- Derek Baird Official Warlords II World Tournament Round Starter c/o Ivan Baird, CET ijb@nbnet.nb.ca Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday January 11, 1998 at 11:02 AM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game A02, turn 10, side 2 Beginning gold: 1275 gps. Hero White Tiger together with Demon and one dwarf took control of I. O. C. with following report: WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 3 or 4 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 3 1 0 N *5* 0 No DEF: 0 0 2 0 2 *2* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 6 11 0.82752 <-- Lives! Demon 7 12 0.56398 <-- Lives! Dwarf 4 9 0.10339 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Minotaur 6 8 0.17248 <-- Dies... Minotaur 6 8 0.06465 <-- Dies... Minotaur 6 8 0.01137 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining After the conquering, White Tiger sack the Minotaur and scout production for 650 gps and 175 gps respectively, in the process, 29 gps were looted. Built spider in I. O. C. for 700 gps. Final hero experience: W.T.: 21 (was 19) G. D.: 18 (unchanged) Final cities: 20, Gold: 1429 gps, Income: 440 gps, expense: 338 gps. _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 11 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Sunday January 11, 1998 at 11:15 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday January 13, 1998 at 11:15 AM EST (In GMT-0300: Tuesday January 13, 1998 at 1:15 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 11 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Wednesday January 21, 1998 at 11:39 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Friday January 23, 1998 at 11:39 AM EST (In GMT-0300: Friday January 23, 1998 at 1:39 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday January 21, 1998 at 11:41 AM EST by "Elam T. Birnbaum" to all players; Ok, Bastard's gamefile is now out. I only did one thing, I retreated a griffon to the nearest blue city. Nothing else was changed. I ended the turn and sent it to White in the beginning of his turn. The stats are all unchanged. Lets try and get this game moving again. Elam the Mod _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday January 22, 1998 at 06:45 PM EST by Ivan Baird to all players; Derek will need to incur another timeout, preferably as an 'emergency vacation one :-) ).... Unfortunately, my machine was 'sick' this morning, and thus Derek could not play this evening (I was fixing it....). Since it is now fixed, I have to, unfortunately for A02, keep Derek from playing his turn due to having to work on the Round B scenario and gamefile.... (If anyone is interested in 'playtesting' the scenario, contact Bob - he may have an opening or two for playtesters....) -- Ivan Baird, CET Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 11 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 11 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Saturday January 24, 1998 at 07:18 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday January 27, 1998 at 007:18 AM EST (In GMT+0800: Tuesday January 27, 1998 at 8:18 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday January 26, 1998 at 04:59 PM EST by Ivan Baird to all players; At 11:26 AM -0400 1/26/98, The Warlords II Remailer wrote: >The following query is from "Elam T. Birnbaum" and is being >sent to all the players of the Warlords II game "A02". > >Ivan, I will have to charge you with a minor rules violation for not >accompanying the gamefile you sent with a turn message (tiss, tiss). > >Please send out the turn message as soon as possible. Ummmm..... Got in a hurry and forgot? Didn't think it was necessary??? Just didn't want to????? OK, ok - I typed the address in wrong and it bounced.... And I didn't notice that the bounce was that message! :-( For Derek: Turn Report - A02, T11, S1 cities - 2 gold - 103 income - 40 expenses - 64 Thats it! No troop movement or nothing!!! -- Ivan Baird, CET Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 11 Gamefile Sent To: Bastard The Raptor-B (Blue) (parnass@mail.bkc.lv) Date Sent: Wednesday January 28, 1998 at 03:15 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Friday January 30, 1998 at 03:15 AM EST (In GMT+0200: Friday January 30, 1998 at 10:15 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday January 28, 1998 at 03:20 AM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game A02, Turn 11, side 02 Beginning gold: 1531 gps. *Hero White Tiger with troops took Athens, looted 25 gps, pillaged scout for 175 gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 3 1 0 N *5* 0 No DEF: 0 0 2 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 6 11 0.79405 <-- Lives! Demon 7 12 0.58289 <-- Lives! Spider 4 11 0.25012 <-- Dies.. Dwarf 4 9 0.04960 <-- Dies.. Dwarf 4 9 0.00694 <-- Dies.. Orcish Mob 2 7 0.00007 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Minotaur 6 7 0.20595 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.12725 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.07923 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.04444 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.02185 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00905 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00298 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00071 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00010 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00001 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining *Giant troops took Calgary, 38 gps looted. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Giant 6 6 0.51917 <-- Lives! Infantry, Lt 2 3 0.12901 <-- Dies.. Orcish Mob 2 2 0.01697 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Spider 4 7 0.48083 <-- Dies... Orcish Mob 2 3 0.03355 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining *The war of Grenoble! Two waves won the battle and 38 gps looted. First wave attack: WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 0 0 *0* 1 No DEF: 1 0 1 0 1 NH *3* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elephant 6 6 0.00008 <-- Dies.. Wolfrider 4 4 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Wolfrider 4 4 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Lt 2 3 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 7 0.99992 <-- Lives! Demon 7 9 0.99970 <-- Lives! Archon 7 9 0.99816 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 10 0.98985 <-- Lives! Spider 4 8 0.93790 <-- Lives! Spider 4 8 0.79562 <-- Lives! Spider 4 8 0.47050 <-- Dies... Orcish Mob 2 4 0.05491 <-- Dies... Giant Bat 1 3 0.00359 <-- Dies... Defender wins with 6 unit(s) remaining *Second wave attack WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 HN *0* 0 No DEF: 1 0 1 0 1 NH *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Devil 8 8 0.68115 <-- Lives! Dragon 8 8 0.51492 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 8 0.32714 <-- Dies.. Spider 5 7 0.15619 <-- Dies.. Spider 5 7 0.06217 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 6 0.01479 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 6 0.00283 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 6 0.00021 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 6 0.31885 <-- Dies... Demon 7 8 0.22125 <-- Dies... Archon 7 8 0.10097 <-- Dies... Griffin 6 9 0.03212 <-- Dies... Spider 4 7 0.00214 <-- Dies... Spider 4 7 0.00013 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining Hero experience: W. T. : 23 G. D. : 18 Final cities: 23, Gold: 807 gp, Income: 500 gp, Expense: 323 gp (*************** WAR STORIES *******************) The Battle of Grenoble Rumors that the evil robot spirit has invaded Raptor's realm. Troops are retreated into their castle and people show their worries on their faces publicly. King Chu deemed this as a chance to expand the influence of GREEN POWER as well as give people a chance to flee from robot invasion. So, a secret order was sent out to the field troops near Grenoble and one of the most heated battle took place on a moonless night!! Under the cover of cloudy nightfall, a unit of elephant stampeded into the city of Grenoble with many wolves and some light infantry soldiers. The first thing they ran into is the bats! Giant bats flying all over the place! Infantry soldiers shot arrows into the air, tried to bring down as many bats as possible. But soon, the infantries were eliminated by the blood-sucking creatures. While bats stayed on the corpses of soldiers, green wolves jumped out from nowhere and clean out the rest of the bats. Little did they know, crazy orcs ran out of their hiding place and chopped down many wolves. Green wolves fought bravely, but the best they could do was to vanquish with orcs. The lone elephants now were surrounded by spiders! The fangs of spiders stuck deep into the thick skin of elephants. As the giant animals fell to the ground, they made sure they crumble the spider on their body with them!!!!!! Just when Grenoble troops concentrated on the invading elephants and wolves, a strong troop led by Devil on a Dragon with 1 griffin units and 5 spider units had snuck into the city gate. They were soon spotted but it was too late. 2 units of spiders were blessed at Temple, they together with junior spiders rush into webs span by enemy spiders. You really have a hard time to distinguish which spider is which, at least not from the blue-green blood sipped out from their wounds. Because of the hellish power of devil and the fire-breathing dragon, BLUE hero did not have any influence over his troops. The killing field was everyone for himself. Even the guarding angel of the blue hero could not protect the hero because the spider already sank their fangs into its white wings. The demon tried to fought back, but as he faced non-human animal troops, he lost his touch and was brought down as the breakfast for the hungry griffins. The fate of the hero was doomed when the troops showed up, but he didn't blink or flee. Fought as a real hero of Raptor's realm, he did show GREEN troops the pride of BLUE country. But, as their leader was already captured by robot evils, the King Chu will keep on pressing and releasing more and more people from the slavery of the robot groups! _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday January 30, 1998 at 10:00 AM EST by "Elam T. Birnbaum" to all players; The gamefile for player 3 (Bastard the Raptor) will be sent momentarily. All the rules of the Static Defense were complied with. The following occurred: 1) The last "free" unit of griffons was retreated to Sydney. 2) A light infantryman was built in The Couch. 3) A light infantryman was built in Garmish-P. 4) The game settings were set to "enhanced" for blue. This means that any units arriving from now on have a permanent +2 added to their strengths. So spiders are strength 6 or 8 in city terrain. 5) All stacks inside blue castles were moved to the lower two squares so that you guys can easily determine what units in a city are enhanced and which are regular. The enhanced units are the ones on the top 2 spaces. That completes my contributions to this effort. I will delete Bastard from the game and Small Player (Derek) will have to do the following when he received King Chu's file; 1) End King Chu's turn. 2) Reject any heros that may be offered to blue (highly unlikely since I spent almost all his gold on defense). 3) End the turn immediately. 4) Go into your own turn and proceed normally. There is no need to send anything other than your gamefile to the Remailer, with Bastard deleted from the server, it will be essentially a 2 player game. Elam the Mod _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 12 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Friday January 30, 1998 at 10:00 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Monday February 2, 1998 at 10:00 AM EST (In GMT-0300: Monday February 2, 1998 at 12:00 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 12 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 12 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Sunday February 01, 1998 at 08:09 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Tuesday February 3, 1998 at 08:09 AM EST (In GMT+0800: Tuesday February 3, 1998 at 9:09 PM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday February 01, 1998 at 08:09 AM EST by Derek Baird to all players; Start gold 49 Start city 1 end gold 49 end gold 49 in 24 exp 20 -- Derek Baird Official Warlords II World Tournament Round Starter c/o Ivan Baird, CET ijb@nbnet.nb.ca Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday February 03, 1998 at 07:59 AM EST by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; Turn report for game A02, turn 12, side 02 Beginning gold: 984 gps. *Hero G. D. took Sapporo alone, looted 5 gps, pillaged minotaur for 650 gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 2 1 0 0 *3* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 8 11 0.56285 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Griffin 6 9 0.43715 <-- Dies... Orcish Mob 2 3 0.04374 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining *Hero W.T. took Antwerp, looted 24 gps, pillaged scout for 175 gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 3 1 0 N *5* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 6 11 0.77483 <-- Lives! Demon 7 12 0.53765 <-- Lives! Infantry, Hv 4 10 0.18419 <-- Dies.. Dwarf 4 9 0.03756 <-- Dies.. Dwarf 4 9 0.00366 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.22517 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.15353 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.09542 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.05268 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.02490 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00953 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00269 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00047 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 6 0.00003 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining *Elemental troops took Locker Room, sacked archer for 500 gps and wolfriders for 225 gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 3 or 4 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 1 0 *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 2 *2* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elemental 6 7 0.56394 <-- Lives! Spider 4 7 0.35869 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 7 0.16093 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 7 0.03437 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Wolfrider 6 8 0.43606 <-- Dies... Wolfrider 6 8 0.19702 <-- Dies... Wolfrider 6 8 0.04012 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining *Built spider in Locker Room for 700 gps. *Built elephant in Antwerp for 1500 gps. *Built orcish mob in Sapporo for 300 gps. Final hero experience: W.T.: 25 G.D.: 20 Cities: 26, gold: 63 gps, income: 736 gps, expense: 389 gps *************** WAR STORIES **************** Today, the last stronghold of WHITE was converted to GREEN!! As Field Marshall General White Tiger toured along the main street of Antwerp, he gave a speech to the citizens of formal WHITE country and assured them that: 1. Their lives will not be disturbed and no discrimination against formal WHITE citizens. 2. The troops will do everything possible to prevent invasion from ROBOTS! 3. The citizens will get the first chance to colonize the land as soon as they are "released" from robot control. The citizens were overcome with joy! Truely, they have been helping to defend the mighty armies of GREEN, but no one will remember that! All they see right now are immense opportunities to expand their fortune and wealth! So, the mighty GREEN armies keep on pushing to another front...... _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 13 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Tuesday February 03, 1998 at 07:59 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Friday February 6, 1998 at 07:59 AM EST (In GMT-0300: Friday February 6, 1998 at 9:59 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 13 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 13 Gamefile Sent To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) (hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw) Date Sent: Tuesday February 03, 1998 at 06:38 PM EST Date Gamefile Due: Friday February 6, 1998 at 6:38 PM EST (In GMT+0800: Saturday February 7, 1998 at 7:38 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday February 03, 1998 at 06:38 PM EST by Ivan Baird to all players; Derek's dad here.... I have saved the game at the start of the Orange robots turn - as Derek no longer exists! ;-) Derek here.... "The game was fun!" -- Ivan Baird, CET A+ Certified (Mac and DOS/Windows) Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday February 04, 1998 at 01:37 AM EST by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; Thanks for the game, Derek! It has been fun for me too!! See you later = in the battle field! Hsiao-Chiu Chu ---------- From: The Warlords II Remailer Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 1998 7:38 AM To: King Chu of Formosa (Green) Subject: "A02": Archive Message from Ivan Baird to = all. The following diplomatic history message is from Ivan Baird = and is being sent to all the players of the Warlords = II game "A02". Derek's dad here.... I have saved the game at the start of the Orange robots turn - as Derek no longer exists! ;-) Derek here.... "The game was fun!" -- Ivan Baird, CET A+ Certified (Mac and DOS/Windows) Deitech Computing Member of the Warlords II World Tournament Organizers Team.... Have a Good One!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tournament Game: "A02" Turn Number: 14 Gamefile Sent To: Small Player (White) (ijb@nbnet.nb.ca) Date Sent: Wednesday February 04, 1998 at 08:25 AM EST Date Gamefile Due: Sunday February 8, 1998 at 08:25 AM EST (In GMT-0300: Sunday February 8, 1998 at 10:25 AM) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday February 04, 1998 at 08:29 AM EST by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; Turn report for game A02, turn 13, side 02 Beginning gold: 410 gps. *Elemental troops took Sparta and pillaged griffin for 850 gps. WarBOT beta 8 Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Enemy city 0,1,2 prod Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------