__________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 1 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday February 24, 1998 at 08:07 PM EST by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; OK, let me try again! King Chu of Formosa ---------- From: =A6=B6=BCS=AC=EE Sent: Monday, February 23, 1998 3:50 PM To: 'warlords@pixgen.com' Subject: B01,Bomber,intro Hi from Taiwan! My name is Hsiao-Chiu Chu and I am glad to open a new = game with all of you! Hmm, let's see. It seems I don't know most of = you guys, have we met before? Oh well, I am an electrical engineer working at Taiwan. Got back from USA 1.5 = years ago. My favorite hobby is gardening (sorry SSG). Playing = warlords tournament is for the prize so I hope that I can make it to the final 16. (Everyone in the final 16 got a prize, right?) In this game, I will play King Chu of Formosa. For your information, = Formosa is when Dutch first found Taiwan from Europe, they named it = Formosa. Later on, when they board the island, oops, already populated, = too bad. Formosa means "beautiful island" or something like that. My = three heros will be named as GreenDragon, WhiteTiger and RedSparrow. = But since WL2 doesn't like long names, I will change them into GrDra'n, = Whitger, and ReSpar. There are named after feared ancient Chinese gods = of war, so beware! 8-) Anyway, hope we all enjoy this game! =20 Hsiao-Chiu Chu PS. Max, I found the file, sorry :) =20 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday February 25, 1998 at 07:04 PM EST by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hic to all! Stats at the beginning: 1 city, 13039 golden beers (+64/-25). My first incarnation, Zagreus, the early Dionysos, the wild Hunter, emerges from Zeus' Thigh(1). (That's where I am from, too). He inspires a few ecstatic, drunken Bacchae to eat the lone scout who lived there. That was just a stupid animal, anyway... He then proceeds to free the NW Elemental and the NW Ghost, to help him (and me) bring Wine, Love and Peace to the humans of this world... The Elemental takes and pillages the neutral city of 13 (which should bring us luck...) (+175 gb). He renames it from the Pink Elephants he sees in the neighboring fields... Productions built: - Griffins in Zeus' Thigh(1): - 1700 gb. - Elephants, of course, in 13 Pink Elephs (that's how I see them, after spending so many beers...): - 1500 gb. That's all for now. Stats at the end: 2 cities, 10014 gb (+112/-0). Zagreus' exp.: 6 (+ 6). Diplomacy: Awaiting your offers of allegiance or alliance... Enjoy my mistakes. Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday February 27, 1998 at 11:51 AM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game B01, turn 01, side 02 Beginning gold: 13039 *Hero GrDra'n arrived at city 2. The scout was disbanded at once. The city is renamed to DragonCave(2). *Hero GrDra'n released an elemental from NE Elemental ruin. *Hero GrDra'n released a ghost from NE Ghost ruin. *Elemental took city 22 and pillaged scout for 175 gps. *Lt. Calvary built in both DragonCave(2) and 22 for 200 gps each. Final hero experience: 6. Final cities: 2, gold : 12814 gps, income: 112 gps, expense: 0 gps. ***********Diplomatic message********************************* Well, nothing much here to say. If I must say something, how about "Please don't kill my hero!" _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday March 02, 1998 at 10:26 AM EST by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template *********************= *** REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 01, SIDE 3. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.= ) Lord Elric arrives in Imrryr (03). Gold at Start of Turn: 13214 gp Lord Elric visits Ruin SE Ghost and receives 1 unit of Ghosts Lord Elric visits Ruin SE Elemental and receives 1 unit of Elementals ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch chea= ts! Scout disbanded. City 33 taken (pillaged 175 gold) *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new buil= d) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html New Build of unit type Griffins purchased in city Imrryr (03) for 1700 = gold New Build of unit type Unicorns purchased in city 33 for 1100 gold Final Cities: 2 Gold: 10414 gp Income: 112 gp Expenses: 0 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctl= y. Lord Elric Experience: 6 Change from last turn: +6 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=3DB Game xx=3D01. Next Player's Turn yy=3D01 Sid= e z=3D4 The sad Emperor Elric sat on his Ruby Throne thinking about the irony in the world. Here he was, the last Sorcerer Emperor of the decadent Melnibon=E9an Empire. The only one intellectually active in an age when mos= t Melnibon=E9ans prefer to dream of past Glories, using drugs to spend their lives in a semi-aware state of the World around them. Rumours heard from the Traders that dared challenge the perils involved with trading with the Rulers of the Dragon Isle was that the Young Kingdoms were indeed throwing lustful looks at the Riches hidden within Imrryr, The Dreaming City. Elric knew deep down that he had the power to rise his people once more to rule the World the way the Empire had done in old Ages. His people were far beyond the mere humans populating the larger parts of the World. He himself was a perfect example of that. Albino and defect since birth, he had been kept alive only by the use of the exotic herbs found on the Dragon Isle. His physical inability had lead him to spend much more time in the sanctury of the old Imperial Melnibon=E9an Library, a place without likeness throughout the world. Books concerning the summoning of Elementals and the Creatures of Chaos without any match in the rest of this Dimension were found here. By the age of fifteen Elric had read all these books. By the age of eighteen he had no master in the art of Magic throughout the World. By the age of 20 his father, Sadric the Eighty-sixth died and left the Empire in the hands of Elric. Now Elric wore the Ring of Kings, the evidence of him being Emperor of Melnibon=E9 and a valuable tool in the Art of Summoning since buried inside were the Bounds his ancestors had made to the various Elemental and Beast Lords on the peak of their Power. Elric, four hundred and twenty-eighth Emperor of Melnibon=E9, slowly rose from his Ruby Throne. The time had come. His decision was made. Elric would follow the suggestion his cousin Yyrkoon had made, time after time. The Young Kingdoms had forgotten what real Might looked like. The barbaric hordes roaming around the deserts would need to be pushed down before another one looked at the Towers of The Dreaming City and dared to think about pillaging the City. His cousin was obvious about who he thought should be sitting on the Ruby Throne and making that decision, but Elric had let him even voice that opinion, a clear difference between Elric and his ancestors. Not even Sadric would have allowed such a thing to take place. But this was Elric's problem, his intellectual childhood and made him think a lot, sometimes more than was healthy. But the time for thinking was passed. The spies had been caught this very morning in the Labyrinth, the intricate cave-system leading into the harbour of Imrryr. Torture had revealed the plans of expansion and Elric had been forced to call to Arms. While Yyrkoon was left in charge of the raising the troops, Elric himself went in search for magical help. "Lady Lassa, Lady of the Air Elementals, your loyal servant Elric of Melnibon=E9 is calling for your help." "Long ago was it since a mortal dared to seek the help of Me." "I beg you, Lady Lassa, to remember the Bounds made in the Early Dawn between my Ancestors and You!" "Long ago was that indeed, even the way my People count the years. And never in this time has Your People broken the trust granted to you so long ago. Long have I seen upon the World and much like You dreamed of the Days of Greater Glory for Our People." "Those days could come back when once again Your People is worshipped throughout the world and the Dragons fly through the World with Melnibon=E9an Warriors on their backs!" "I fear that time is passed and the World is moving and both our People will soon be forgotten, however the Melnibon=E9ans have always been fun to discuss the Ways of the World with and you have indeed been like a True Melnibon=E9an Sorcerer Emperor from the Past and I will honour the Agreemen= t made when the World was young. I will send you some of my most trusted servants, may the Speed of the Wind be of help in your Quest for Glory!" "Thank you, Lady Lassa, never will the Lady of the Air and Wind be forgotten while I am Emperor of the Dragon Isle!" Elric lay panting down on the floor and felt somewhat relief. The Lady of the Air was known to be hard to depend upon, but the speed of her Air Elements was of outmost importance. However an even larger Challenge lay ahead of him.. "Arioch! Arioch! Blood and Souls to my Master! Help me Arioch, this is Elric, Emperor of Melnibon=E9 calling upon you to honour the Bounds between the Lord of The Seven Darks and the Emperors of Melnibon=E9!" "Elric, my favourite Mortal, finally I get to meet you.." "Arioch, I beg for your help. When my People started with Magic, many hundred Generations ago, they encountered you and the other Lords of Chaos. In return for the Souls offered to you by Melnibon=E9ans throughout the years you promised to help the People of the Dragon Isle when they needed help. Once again I want to offer you Souls in return for your favours." "My, my, Elric. Is the time finally here for the Dragon People to reclaim their Rightful Place as Rulers of the World? Very well, I will help you in return for the Souls you encounter during your War. I will assist you and your cousin, the two last decendants of the True Melnibon=E9an Emperors wit= h the gift of the Two Swords!" "Stormbringer and Mournblade? Dark indeed are the stories about how our ancestors used them to conquer the known world and lead War against the Lords of Law themselves!" "Yes, Dark are the stories indeed. Remember to aim The Swords carefully. They are thirsty for more than the mere Blood of your Enemies. You did promise me both Blood and Souls! Farewell my favourite Mortal, our destinies lay twisted together and I will try to help you whenever I can.= =20 However yours is only one of a thousand dimensions and even a Duke of Hell is limited and cannot be in too many places at one time." "Farewell my Lord! I promised you both Blood and Souls and that is what I am going to give you." Elric was unable to rise from the floor, the last summoning had taken the ounce of strength from his weak body, depleting the drugs he used to simulate a normal strength. Finally he rose to his knee and saw the Two Swords, floating in the Air in front of him. "Yyrkoon!" Yyrkoon came after a short while and his eyes widened when he realized what he saw in front of him. He reached out for the nearest Sword, realized that Elric was there and looked at him. "Yes, Yyrkoon. I have spoken with Arioch and he has given us this gift. The Two Swords!" Yyrkoon grabbed the nearest Sword and drew it from the scabbard! "Mournblade!" Elric drew his Sword too. "Stormbringer!" The Swords themselves started to howl, a demonic cry that would have driven normal Mortals mad, but these were no mere Mortals, these were the last decendants of the Sorcerer Emperors of the Dragon Isle! Elric felt Power pulsating from the Sword into his body and he felt a strength never felt before. A quick glance at Yyrkoon's demonic grin assured him that Mournblade was feeding Its owner the same way. The world tremble when the Melnibon=E9ans prepared for War! /Eskil +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Eskil Swahn | | Eskil.Swahn@LDC.lu.se tfn +46 46 222 4986 | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday March 03, 1998 at 02:27 AM EST by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Wolfgang awakens in Black Bell 04. Raised from birth to know nothing but war and battle, he is anxious to ply his trade. It has been many years since his sword has been wet with blood, and as soon as he sets sight on an unarmed, unskilled scout, he lobs off his head with a quick swipe. Wolfgang despises anyone who has'nt the courage to go into battle. Instead of scouts, Wolfgang prefers more powerful allies, who can travel farther, and even fly! Wolfgang searches the 2 ruins near Black Bell and releases an Elemental and a Ghost. The Elemental goes north to take City 43. It is renamed Black Spine 43 and Wolfgang instructs Giant Bats to be built there, as well as in Black Bell. Wolfgang rests and plans his expansion, and looks forward to the arrival of his gifted brother...Taurus. Start gold 13039 + pillage 175 - builds 320 = end gold 12894 Wolfgang exp. 6 / strength 5 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 2 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday March 04, 1998 at 06:05 PM EST by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hic to all! Stats at the beginning: 2 cities, 10126 (immediately drunken/reduced to 8957) golden beers (+ 112/-0). Zagreus's exp.: 6. My second incarnation, Bacchus, the Lydian Dionysos, emerges among the 13 Pink Elephs with a Devil for 1169 gb, after 27 reverts, 8 rejected heroes... and 3 computer crashes. :-( 4 neutral cities taken and pillaged each for 175 gb (+ 700 gb): 12 and 15, by the Ghost; 17 and 52, by the Elemental. Productions built: - Hv. Inf. in 52 Weeks: - 300 gb; (no better idea yet for the name... wait for next turn?) - Archers in 12 Monkeys: -1000 gb; (not family-related!) - Catapults in Sem's 17 Charms: -1000 gb; (the city is named from my mother, Semele) - Unicorns in Zeus' 15 Thunders: -1100 gb (yeah... my dad is powerful!) -------- -3400 gb That's all for now. Stats at the end: 6 cities, 6257 gb (+ 256/- 0). Z's exp. still at 6; B.'s exp. still at 0. Diplomacy: Peace and Love to All! Enjoy my mistakes. Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday March 06, 1998 at 11:25 PM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game B01, turn 02, side 02 Beginning gold: 12926 *Hero Wi'Tiger was enlisted on city (22) with a dragon for 1044 gps. *Four neutral cities were taken by elemental (city 25 and 53), ghost(city 27) and lt. calvary (city 23) and renamed into Bull Horn(23), Spider Web(27), Griffin Den(25) and Zoo Enter(53). Each were pillaged scout for 175 gps. *A bunch of construction: --built giant bat at DragonCave(2) --built elephant at Tiger Cage(22) --built griffin at Griffin Den(25) --built spider at Zoo Enter(53) --built spider at Spider Web(27) --built minautor at Bull Horn(23) Final hero experience: Wi'Tiger: 0 GrDra'n: 6 Final cities: 6, gold: 6522, income: 256, expense:4 PS. Max, can I be restored of the timeout? I wasn't able to send it out last night due to remailer problem. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday March 08, 1998 at 01:40 PM EST by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Well....this is odd. When i opened yellows game file, it said that it could'nt find the scenario and did I wish to search for it(which I did). I located the scenario through the dialogue box(Mac Classic B in my Warlords folder) and the game fired up no problem. Should I send the gamefile to you guys as a noarchive? let me know what you think. Steve _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday March 08, 1998 at 09:56 PM EST by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Hi all, The scenarios that I have in my folder are- Round A mac classic 1.2 Round B Mac Classic I just unstuffed and opened the last gamefile that Chu sent. It opened fine, did'nt even ask for me to locate the scenario file. Hope this helps. Steve _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday March 11, 1998 at 07:31 PM EST by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 02, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Lord Yyrkoon arrives in Tanelorn (33) for 1308 gp bringing 1 Devil. ### (Maximum allowed gold is 1800 for a ruin/sage; 3600 for a stronghold.) ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! City Dhakos (56) taken (pillaged 175 gold) City Nihrain (35) taken (pillaged 175 gold) City Hwaamgarl (32) taken (pillaged 175 gold) City Dhoz-kam (37) taken (pillaged 175 gold) *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html New Build of unit type Spiders purchased in city Dhakos (56) for 700 gold New Build of unit type Spiders purchased in city Nihrain (35) for 700 gold New Build of unit type Minotaurs purchased in city Hwaamgarl (32) for 1300 gold New Build of unit type Catapult purchased in city Dhoz-kam (37) for 1000 gold Final Cities: 6 Gold: 6318 gp Income: 256 gp Expenses: 0 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 6 Change from last turn: +0 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 0 Change from last turn: +0 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=02 Side z=4 Diplomatic message to Blue present below: "Cousin Yyrkoon, I am sending you West to explore the remains of the old Sorcerer Markoon's Tower. From what I can make out of this old Scroll I found after a dangerous visit to one of the Astral Planes, guided by none other than Arioch himself, there should be an artifact of Great Power. A Dragon Helm blessed by Lady Lassa herself. While you seek out that artifact I will head North myself seeking its Mate in the Ruins of Catoon." "Yes, Cousin. I look forward to try out this Sword in real combat." A demonic grin slowly spread across Yyrkoon's face as he slowly stroked the 6 feet long Black Sword. "I know the feeling. These Swords feel almost alive by themselves. Sometimes I get the feeling we are not so much using them as it happens to be in their interest to help us at the moment. However without Stormbringer I would once again be forced to use the drugs to keep my Strength up. Now the Sword feeds me strength every day." "I also got some other supernatural help to make your journey quicker and faster, Yyrkoon. Arioch promised to send you a servant from the Lower Hells to guide you on your journey." "Excellent! I feel like nothing can stop me now! I truly feel completely invincible like nothing stand between me and Total Conquest of this Dimension and then maybe it's time for me to look elsewheres.." "Really, Cousin? Aren't you forgetting who your Emperor is? Remember that it is me that Arioch has promised support! Don't get any ideas. The Right to Rule is mine and not yours! However we have no need to fight. Wealth and Pleasure will surely be enough for the both of us. But you are not supposed to plunder the West!" "Why??" "I want you to make sure you seek peaceful contact and bring a message of peace to the Thriving Blue Kingdom in the West. I am sure that we have no current interest in overstreching our resources in this war and currently I feel our Neighbour in the West will do more good on our Side than be added to the list of Enemies we have in the North! The only thing we have to work out will then be whether our Future Ally prefers Ruins or Cities. You see on the Natural Border between our Empires is both a City and an Ancient Ruin located. Personally I would probably prefer to Conquer the City and let our Ally Loot the Ruin on Gems. Especially since from what the Spies I sent out have reported. He seems even more intent on rushing North than I have been but I have not been able to completely map his every intent. I am sure however that the Enemies in The North has already started to have problems with their finances. Rumours have their troops have already started demanding large amounts of gold to fight for their Cause while our troops still know they fight for the Right Cause!" _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday March 12, 1998 at 01:12 AM EST by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Taurus emerges in Black Spine with a Devil ally. The ensuing celebration costs 1034gp but is well worth it. Wolfgang joins with a Giant Bat and prepares to search a ruin for a much needed Command Item. The ghost pillages the cities- 42 and 45. The Elemental can only take one city this turn, city 47, but the sacrifice will prove valuable in the future. Word from the eastern front is that the red nation desires peace between our two mighty armies. Wolfgang smiles in satisfaction. This is excellent news, as Wolfgang was'nt looking forward to a war on two fronts. Wolfgang and Taurus decide on what armies to build in their new cities and then send a message to Lord Elrick: Mighty leader of the Red Nation, we desire peace also and agree not to attack any of your armies or cities on the eastern side of the battlefield. We would desire city 07 in exchange for you searching the ruin, since your Hero is closer to the ruin and can search it quicker and then get back up north and into the action you so desire. In exchange we agree to cooperate in any future plans you may wish to discuss with us regarding our common enemies. We also agree not to block access to the southern temple, so all of our armies may be blessed and gain the strength to erradicate the evil White and Yellow hoardes. Good luck on the battlefield! Wolfgang Start gold 13006 - Taurus 1034 + pillaging 525 - builds 5310 = end gold 7187 Builds and Name Changes: Black Hole 45 - Pikemen Black Bell 04 - Elephants Black Gold 42 - Bats and Dwarfs Black Spine 43- Archers Black Death 47- Griffins income 232 expenses 20 Wolfgang exp 6 str 5 Taurus exp 0 str 5 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 3 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday March 13, 1998 at 07:02 PM EST by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hic to all! Stats at the beginning: 6 cities, 6513 golden beers (+ 256/-35). Zagreus's exp.: 6; Bacchus's: 0. Zagreus finds Command Item A after defeating an old guard. Bacchus finds Flight Item H after defeating a Loafer (what ever that is...). Neutral city 51 taken by the Ghost and pillaged for 175 gb (+ 175 gb). Productions built: Spiders in 51, which is renamed according to what the Spiders will have to bring me... See by yourself, Wolfgang! (- 700gb) Stats at the end: 7 cities, 5988 gb (+ 280/- 36). Z's exp. at 9; B.'s exp. at 3. Diplomacy: To King Chu: My respects, Sire. It seems that the foolish Northerners from the South leave us no choice but to teach them a good lesson... Let's make peace to have our hands free! Will you agree with a standard peace proposal? Something like: 1) division of the world in two parts; 2) no trespassing without earlier agreement - except in case of urgence, of course; 3) no Elemental or other unit in striking distance of the other's low defended cities; 4) sharing of our common northern temple; 5) sharing of the city and ruin in the middle North (which one would you prefer?). Of course, as a gesture of good will, I left our temple open for your Elemental. Enjoy my mistakes. Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday March 16, 1998 at 12:32 PM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Game report for game B01, turn 03, side 2 Beginning gold: 6774 *Hero Gr'Dran found command item D. *Hero Wi'Tiger found fly item G. *Spider took city 26, ghost took city 54, Lt. Calvary took city 21 and each pillaged scout for 175 gps. *Built dwarf at city 21 for 450 gps. *Built griffins in DragonCave(2) for 1700 gps. *Built spider in city 54 for 700 gps. *Built Hv. Inf. in city 26 for 300 gps. Hero experience: Gr'Dran: 9 Wi'Tiger: 3 Final cities: 9, gold: 4149, income: 340, expense: 34 ********* DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ************ AH, good, the war is approaching. I almost thought this will be one of those boring game that everyone will be nice to each other. Now, first, thanks to WHITE that you let me choose the border city/ruin. I would very much like the city and my Lt. Calvary will occupy it on turn 5. I agree that we share the ruin in our border and I will propose following items to intensify our united forces: *After we eliminate those down unders', we will share the cities that we grabbed during our victories. *If there are too many turns left after our total victory, I propose that we will rest for two turns before we meet each other in the battlefield. Now, we need a strategy. What do you have in mind? We can be defensive or offensive. To be offensive, I will propose that we pick one enemies and concentrate our attack forces on. Since we two countries are in the order of 1 and 2, we should have the advantage of time. From the way our enemies expanding, I propose we took out BLUE first. Of course, this will be a very early proposition and we can always change it during our actions. Before we unleash our forces from hell, let us drink up for our victory! King Chu of Formosa _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday March 17, 1998 at 06:55 PM EST by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 03, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Gold at start of turn: 6574 gp. Lord Elric searched ruin SE Command and found Command Item B. Lord Yyrkoon searched ruin Lower SE Flight and found Flight Item E. ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! City Bakshaan (35) taken (pillaged 175 gold) City Myrrhn (36) taken (pillaged 175 gold) *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html New Build of unit type Spiders purchased in city Bakshaan (35) for 700 gold New Build of unit type Elephants purchased in city Myrrhn (36) for 1500 gold Final Cities: 8 Gold: 4724 gp Income: 316 gp Expenses: 42 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 9 Change from last turn: +3 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 3 Change from last turn: +3 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=03 Side z=4 _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday March 18, 1998 at 12:15 AM EST by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; A message to Lord Elrik: I heard no mention in your last turn of our pending alliance and aggreement on the city and ruin. Before I play my turn I would like to hear back from you if possible. Wolfgang _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday March 18, 1998 at 03:40 AM EST by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Wolfgang decides to take a leap of faith and move his armies before the return of the red armies messenger. Hopefully the terms of the alliance will be acceptable to Lord Elrik, and judging by his moves, they are. Wolfgang searches a ruin and finds the southwestern command item. He will go on to get the flight item and then join the battle which will have begun by then. Taurus searches a ruin and receives the much needed flight item. Other armies are sent to expand the blue empire. The elemental takes city 58 and then goes on to receive a blessing. A pikeman takes city 57. The ghost takes city 41 and the devil finally takes city 46. All cities are pillaged of their worthless scout. Builds and renames: Black&Blue 58 - spiders Black Gorge 41 - wolfriders Black Doom 46 - Minotaurs Black Wing 57 - Griffins Start gold 7399 + pillaging 700 - builds 4150 = end gold 3949 income 340 expense 29 Wolfgang exp 9 str 5 Taurus exp 3 str 5 cities 9 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 4 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday March 19, 1998 at 08:31 PM EST by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hic to all! Stats at the beginning: 7 cities, 6232 golden beers (+280/-77). Zagreus's exp.: 9; Bacchus's: 3. Neutral cities taken this turn: 14, by a devil; 16, by an elephant; 11 by an unicorn; all pillaged for 175 gb (+ 525 gb) Productions built: Minotaurs in 16: - 1300 Spiders in 14: - 700 Spiders in 11: - 700 Total: - 2700 Stats at the end: 10 cities, 4057 gb (+ 364/- 78). Z's exp. at 9; B.'s exp. at 3. Diplomacy: To King Chu: I agree with your propositions of last turn. [No time for more, as I'm quite hungry and thirsty] Enjoy my mistakes! Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday March 22, 1998 at 09:01 AM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game B01, turn 04, side 02 Beginning gold: 4455 gps. *Elemental with a spider took neutral city 65 and the spider was killed in action. (No warbot report for apparental result). The spider in city 65 was pillaged for 350 gps. *Built Hv. Inf. in city 65. No change in hero experience. Final cities: 10, gold: 4505, income: 404, expense: 45 (*********** DIPLOMATIC message ***********) To White leader: *The lone dragon unit near our border is heading for blessing in the temple. Please grant access. *Blue did expand fast in the last turn and I see you have defended well against their aggression. Hope that I can do the same thing. *Red also moved well, let us hope they make more mistakes in future turns. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday March 25, 1998 at 10:34 AM EST by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 04, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Gold at start of turn: 4998 gp. Lord Yyrkoon searched ruin Southern Gold and found 1242 gp. ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! City 34 taken (pillaged 175 gold). City 64 taken by a blessed Elemental and a Spider. Unfortunately did the Spider not make it to the Victory Banquet. *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html New Build of unit type Pegasus purchased in city 34 for 2000 gold Final Cities: 10 Gold: 4415 gp Income: 404 gp Expenses: 49 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 9 Change from last turn: +0 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 6 Change from last turn: +3 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=04 Side z=4 "Dear Ally in the West! As you probably realized I have nothing directly to question about our pact. I think the Scum in the North should be taught a lesson instead.. Dare to make agreements about what they should do after winning the war against the South. We are the ones that should make those plans. Which reminds me. Do we or do we not have a truth for two rounds after Round 10 when we have crushed the puny Northern Armies? Nice blocking of the temple with your Elemental btw." _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday March 26, 1998 at 01:45 AM EST by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Wolfgang approaches the ruin that will grant him the power of flight, a powerful advantage in this watery, marshy land. Taurus searches a ruin to the north and is joined by an anxious ally, a demon. The devil takes city 44 and renames it Black Velvet. Meanwhile the ghost takes city 07 and renames it BlackBalled. Things look to be going well, and the next few turns will decide the outcome of this game for the white mongrels. a message to my blue ally: I agree with the two turn truce after turn 10. If we work together in joint attacks we should be able to knock out the white and yellow defences on the front line and then continue our momentum and overrun their troops. I will send word if I see any interesting opportunities. Once we get our troops in proximity to each other in the centre will be the time to strike!!! Good Luck... Wolfgang start gold 4260 + pillage 350 - builds 2400 = end gold 2210 income 388 expense 72 Wolfgang exp 9 str 5 Taurus exp 6 str 5 cities 11 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday March 26, 1998 at 01:48 AM EST by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Did i day *blue* ally?!?! I meant red of course! _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 5 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday March 27, 1998 at 10:54 PM EST by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hic to all! Stats at the beginning: 10 cities, 4343 golden beers (+364/-95). Zagreus's exp.: 9; Bacchus's: 3. Zagreus finds Flight Item A in the ruin where you would expect to find it. Bacchus enters the North Gold ruin, and after fighting many Aristocrats, finds 1237 gb. My Elemental, helped by an Hv. Inf. (who vanishes in the attack), takes central neutral city of 61 and pillages it for 350 gb. Slurp! Productions built: Spiders in 61, for 700 gb. Griffins in 52, for 1700 gb. Stats at the end: 11 cities, 3530 gb (+ 428/- 92). Z's exp. at 12; B.'s exp. at 6. Diplomacy: Peace and Love. The calm before the storm, probably. Enjoy my mistakes. Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday March 31, 1998 at 08:32 AM EST by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Game report for B01, turn 05, side 02 Beginning gold: 4868 *Hero Wi'Tiger found a devil to join him. *Hero Gr'Dran found a flight item. *Lt. Calvary took neutral city 05 and pillaged scout for 175 gps. *Spider took neutral city 24 and pillaged scout for 175 gps. *Built Lt. Infantry and giant bat at WarCenter(62). *Built spider in city 24. *Built catapult in DwarfDome(21). *Built archer in city 05. Final hero experience: Gr'Dran: 12 Wi'Tiger: 6 Final cities: 12, gold: 2198, income: 452, expense: 62 ************ DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ************ Sorry guys about the delay, I was sick for over a week due to flu... _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday April 02, 1998 at 07:23 AM EST by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; Gold at start of turn: 4770 gp Lord Elric searches Ruin Upper SE Flight and finds Flight Item D. Experience: 12 (+3) City 31 taken and pillaged for 175 gp. Spiders built in City 31 for 700 gp. Final Stats: Cities: 11 Gold: 4245 gp Income: 428 gp Expenses: 85 gp _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday April 05, 1998 at 01:20 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Wolfgang searches a ruin and gains the flight item. A griffin is blessed at the south temple. In the west, a Devil takes city 08 and pillages it for 175gp. It is renamed BlackOut 08 and Hv. Inf. are built there. Bats and Lt. Inf. are built at Black&Blue 58. Soon the battle will begin... start gold 2526 + pillage 175 - builds 620 = end gld 2081 income 412 exp. 103 cities 12 Wolfgang str 5/ exp 12 Taurus str5 / exp 6 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday April 06, 1998 at 06:27 PM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hic to all! Stats at the beginning: 11 cities, 3866 golden beers (+428/-124). Zagreus's exp.: 12; Bacchus's: 6. This must definitely be the calm before the storm... A mighty one? Productions built: L.Inf. and Bats in White Wine (11): 2x -160 = -320 gb. Stats at the end: 11 cities, 3546 gb (+ 428/-124). Z's exp. at 12; B.'s exp. at 6. Diplomacy: - Do we need to report blessings? I saw Steve was the first to do so in his last message... I have an Elemental (twice blessed), a Ghost, and 2 spiders blessed by now. - To my Formosian Ally: Greetings and best wishes! I made a move towards the central city of 65, as you didn't look interested in it (you didn't plan to send your Hv.Inf. there, did you?) and I didn't want it to fall into southerner hands (Red seems ready to move). Let me know if you have any ("tactical"?) objection. I didn't do anything definitive, as you can see. - To my dear Dark Blue enemy - don't be afraid, we can still avoid a stupid war. Just send all your armies back to your capital... :) Otherwise, you'll get what you asked for: a good fight! Hehe... - To Red: greetings. Just stay on the other side of the mountains, far away... Enjoy my mistakes. Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 6 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday April 07, 1998 at 12:57 AM EDT by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; ************* DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ************* Dear WHITE ALLY: After checking out the current gamefile, I can see that you tried to move to central cities. However, I can see your double-blessed elemental is crucial to be near temple, and even if you capture the central cities, elemental has to back out (the stronghold of Red in central cities is tough), kind of waste your resource. In the other hand, if I send my double-blessed elemental, I can "take care" of the problem of central cities to certain degree, at least I can prevent the BLUE to grab two central cities. I will wait for your response/comment before my next move! Yours, King Chu _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday April 07, 1998 at 11:15 AM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hic to all! Here is my answer to the diplomatic message of my Yellow Ally: Dear friend, Thank you for reminding me that a twice-blessed Elemental can take a central city (did you say 7 + 1 - 7 is superior to 0? I never thought of that! - dammit! I think I hear some people laughing now... I can understand why!). First of all, keep the pressure on Red. Concerning 65 (and 66), after checking the gamefile, I don't see how you would take it this turn: your Elemental is a bit too short. Both Red and Blue are not closer to get them now. If you keep pressure on Red and force him to concentrate on your common front, only Blue (& his blessed griffin and ghost) should be our main concern for these cities. So it should be my job to take care of him... I'm not so sure my Elemental is more crucial near the West temple than yours is near the East one... and I'll dare to kindly remind you that you should soon have *two* cities more than me, which means I would gladly have one more production center... Be sure that if you let me "take care" of this problem, city 65 (and I hope city 66) won't ever come into evil hands... If fortune helps us, I would feel obliged to you and gladly help you get into 66 or another city, if some "accident" happens to 66... Anyway, we have one more turn to think about it, I believe. We'll see which tricks the pityful southerners will try to oppose to our glorious armies on our way to victory (and more precisely how Blue early attack develops in the West :). I would suggest that you do a conservative move, allowing you to keep both possibilities open for next turn - to take 65, or to use the Elemental to crush the Red Necks... If you prefer to concentrate on one thing, I ask you to leave 65 to me. But of course, decision is yours for now, and whoever takes 65 will be obliged to the other. May the force of the Wine be with you! Enjoy! Dionysos. ************* DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ************* > > Dear WHITE ALLY: > > After checking out the current gamefile, I can see that you tried to move to central cities. However, I can see your double-blessed elemental is crucial to be near temple, and even > if you capture the central cities, elemental has to back out (the stronghold of Red in central cities is tough), kind of waste your resource. > > In the other hand, if I send my double-blessed elemental, I can "take care" of the problem of central cities to certain degree, at least I can prevent the BLUE to grab two central cities. > > I will wait for your response/comment before my next move! > > Yours, > King Chu > _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday April 08, 1998 at 09:33 AM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Game report for B01, Turn 06, Side 2 Beginning gold: 2588 gps. *Troops blessed left and right. *Spider took neutral city 6 and pillaged the scout for 175 gps , later built a spider for 700 gps. Final cities:13; gold: 2063; income: 476; expense: 144 (**************** DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE **************) To WHITE ALLIES: I concur with your assessment and made no move to the central cities. Sorry didn't vobal about the double-blessed elemental earlier, thought you have some other considerations over there. After you capture city 65, you are free to raze city 66 since it is hard to guard that city. Don't worry about me, I have no intention to keep that city anyway if my elemental moves in. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday April 10, 1998 at 08:41 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; Gold at start of turn: 4588 gp Spiders built in Hwaamgarl (32) for 700 gp. Spiders built in Dhoz-kam (37) for 700 gp. Lt Inf built in Myrrhn (36) for 160 gp. Giant Bats built in Myrrhn (36) for 160 gp. Final Stats: Cities: 11 Gold: 2868 gp Income: 428 gp Expenses: 150 gp Damn ghost.. Time to shoot some birds.. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday April 12, 1998 at 02:30 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Two pikemen take city 63 and pillage it for 350 gold. Nothing is built, since it will not be here for long. Otherwise just troop movements.... start gold 2390 + 350 pillage = end gold 2740 income 476 exp 157 wolfgang str 5 exp 12 Taurus str 5 exp 6 2 pikemen take city 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 0 0 *0* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Pikeman 4 4 0.50660 <-- Lives! Pikeman 4 4 0.23785 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Spider 4 7 0.49340 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday April 15, 1998 at 12:10 PM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hic to all! Stats at the beginning: 11 cities, 3850 golden beers (+428/-124). Zagreus's exp.: 12; Bacchus's: 6. After many, many, many reverts (perhaps an hour - but I was doing other things at the same time, so it's perhaps not as bad as we were afraid; the 3 first Heroes coming in the right city asked for more than 1500 gb!), suddenly she appeared in all her beauty, among the bodies of 51 (nearly-)Dead Smurfs, Aphrodite, the goddess I venerate most - not really linked to my cult, at the most a distant cousin, but I know you'll love her (even if you don't, she has the power to force you to do so...). And she asked only for 1088 beers, which couldn't be as golden as her magnificient hair... [I hope our Swedish specialist of blonde girls and/or beers will like this comparison...]. Her pet Demon was gently sent back to home - we won't need him for our victorious campaigns! OK, we definitely need a battle here... but where is the enemy? Empty blue city of 63 taken by Elemental (pillage: + 105 gb). Frustrated to find noone to play with or even a production to pillage, he burns it to the ground. Nah! Zagreus finds a pet Demon in the corresponding ruin. Blessings occurred. Stats at the end: still 11 cities (damn it!), 2867 gb (+ 428/-201). Z's exp. at 15; B.'s exp. at 6, Aphrodite's at 0. Diplomacy: - To my dear Formosian Ally: I'm so angry about myself! I had to delay my taking of 65 to raze 63, which I should have burnt last turn, as well as 66. Sorry about that; it's just a matter of time anyway :). However, it will be interesting to see which of the two fools from the other part of the world will dare to take it his turn... - To my dear Dark Blue enemy: have fun with the reverts, if you really think you have to do them... As a great general once said in another world: "I have your bats". Even if your little trap was quite obvious... Enjoy my mistakes. Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 7 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday April 19, 1998 at 10:50 AM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game B01, turn 07, side 02 Beginning gold: 2395 gps. *Hero RedSpr'w joined the great fight for 1155 gps at City 54. *Hero GreDrag'n found a demon near city 54. *City 06 was razed for security reason. (NOW I regret to build a spider there :-( ) Hero experience: GreDra'n : 15 (wait for promoting next turn!!) WhiTiger: 9 RedSpr'w: 0 Final : Cities: 12 Gold: 1240 Income: 452 expense: 196 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday April 24, 1998 at 07:07 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; Gold at start of turn: 3146 gp Dyvim Slorm emerges in City 64 for 1174 gp. Due to misunderstandings he starts by pillaging and burning the city to the ground. Lord Elric searches Ruin SE Demon and finds a loyal Demon. Lord Yyrkoon searches Ruin SE Devil and finds a loyal Devil. Final Stats: Lord Elric: 15 exp (+3) Lord Yyrkoon: 9 exp (+3) Dyvim Slorm: 0 exp (+0) Cities: 10 Gold: 1972 gp Income: 364 gp Expenses: 280 gp Dear Ally: As you can see I was forced to raze and abandon city 64. If you have any suggestions on how we will organize a defense against the possibility that the Evil Scum tries to force their way down the middle I am glad to hear them. You might even want to wait until after they have made their moves to voice them.. Another fun thing to note is that not even razing a city is due course to activate the Save-option.. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Saturday April 25, 1998 at 12:42 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; The gods must be with the Blue Nation, a mighty Hero, only known as The Jackal, emerges in BlackOut 08. He proceeds to sink the spider navy that sits in port near White Wine. Meanwhile, Taurus leaps upon an opportunity to kill the mighty Zagreus. He carries his Devil/Demon/Griffin to within striking distance and unleashes them upon Zagreus. Only the Devil survives, and rejoins Taurus to safety on the shore. Other armies are positioned for the final assault to the North...In the South, Wolfgang releases a Devil from a ruin, and anxiously awaits the battles to come... To my Eastern Ally: It appears your stalemate near the temple might tip in favor of the evil yellow Nation. This will be bad for both of us. Try and take care of that damn yellow Ghost/spider that is forcing you to waste your resources, fortifying your southern cities. Good Luck, if I see any opportunities, I will send a message, after our enemies take their turns. I *do* have a few ideas that might help... Start gold 2785 - The Jackal 1048 - builds 1200 = end gold 537 income 412 expenses 213 Wolfgang Exp - 15 str 5 Taurus exp 6 str 5 Jackal exp 1 str 5 Builds: spiders - BlackOut 08 Pikemen - Black Gold 42 Zagreus is slaughtered... 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 1 0 HN *0* 0 No DEF: 1 3 2 0 0 N *0* 0 Yes Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Devil 7 7 0.59833 <-- Lives! Demon 7 7 0.31275 <-- Dies.. Griffin 6 6 0.06197 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 5 0.40167 <-- Dies... Demon 7 7 0.23677 <-- Dies... Unicorn 6 6 0.04077 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining The Jackal kills the spider navy... WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Water/shore Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 0 0 0 *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Bat, Giant 1 2 0.81273 <-- Lives! *Hero 5 6 0.69281 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Spider 4 4 0.18727 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday April 26, 1998 at 10:37 PM EDT by hchu@netrd.iii.org.tw to all players; To my WHITE ALLY: I was shocked that BLUE enemies jumped upon your mighty hero. It seems this is indeed a great blow to us! Right now, I know your first priority is to retrieve the treasure left after the slaughtering. But also may I point out the BLUE is in some economic trouble that we should watch very carefully on the griffin and ghost of BLUE near central cities. I am afraid those two units will make a desperate run into our heart area where the defense is weak. I will dispatch my dragon unit to station in the central city I have and send my hero units to wait and catch those enemies. Meanwhile, if you can, please make necessary defense to prevent them penetrate into your back line. Let us watch out for each other more closely. The game is only 1/3 now, we still have a great chance to defeat the southerners. If we can prevent BLUE from penetrating thru central cities, we have a chance to strave the BLUE out. King Chu in mourning _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 8 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday April 27, 1998 at 09:25 PM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Sigh! Stats at the beginning: 11 cities, 3112 golden beers (+428/-183). Bacchus's experience: 6, A.'s: 0. Zagreus? Well, you know, gods are no more what they were... They flee to Olympus at the first battle, leaving the mortals wondering whether they are really dead, or just vexated... Sigh... I even got offered a new hero... Well, it is part of Dionysos's legend that his first incarnation, Zagreus, has to die sadly and horribly... I renamed the closest city as Zagreopolis, in memory... Let's hope it will have a better fate! While still in the mourning, the friends of the Wine at least got a new ally, the NW Devil found by Bacchus, who still fights to recover from his early delay... After getting a blessing, Aphrodite starts a quest for a booty (rather than beauty, which she has by herself, as you certainly noticed) of 916 gb... This after many reverts [I think I was offered nearly all blue cities to pillage and/or burn, as well as to slaughter quite a few armies of "the treacherous Blue", before getting my first allowed-but-not-really-interesting offer...]. Other blessings occurred. My Elemental took neutral city 65 as a Consolation (pillaged: + 350 gb). Built in Consolation(65): Bats, L.Inf., Hv.Inf.: - 160 - 160 - 300 = -620 gb. Stats at the end: 12 cities, 2842 gb (+527/-255).B.'s exp. at 9, Aphrodite's at 1. Diplomacy: - To my dear Formosian Ally: thank you for your message of mourning, I needed it... - Concerning Blue's shortage of money, he won't need to pillage any city to solve it, unfortunately. - To Blue: so, what's my next mistake? - To the 4th leader, who is rumored to reign in some other corner of this world: where are you, and where are you going? Let me enjoy YOUR mistakes now. Huh... this doesn't apply to you, o dearest ally! Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday May 01, 1998 at 10:02 AM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Sorry guys for delaying so long. I couldn't do any move until I heard that my wife safely arrived Indiana. Thanks Paul for your compliment. In fact, on game A02, I was lucky because two of the players left early and became static defense and one left is about 9-years old, not very experienced in this game. Now back to the bloody one :) Game report on B01, turn 08, side 02 Beginning gold: 1496 gps. *Hero GrDra'n was promoted to a Cavalier with STR=6 and MOVE=24. *Hero RedSpr'w was blessed and given a quest to pillage and sack 903 gps. STR=6. *A small army attacked Red border city Bakshaan(55) with following report: 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 0 0 *0* 0 No DEF: 1 3 2 0 1 NC *5* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Infantry, Hv 4 5 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Hv 4 5 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Cavalry, Lt 2 2 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 10 1.00000 <-- Lives! Demon 7 12 1.00000 <-- Lives! Minotaur 6 11 1.00000 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 13 1.00000 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 13 1.00000 <-- Lives! Spider 4 11 1.00000 <-- Lives! Spider 4 11 1.00000 <-- Lives! Spider 4 11 0.99999 <-- Lives! Spider 4 11 0.99991 <-- Lives! Spider 4 11 0.99892 <-- Lives! Spider 4 11 0.98873 <-- Lives! Spider 4 11 0.90573 <-- Lives! Catapult 4 9 0.47357 <-- Dies... Defender wins with 12 unit(s) remaining *Final hero experience: GrDra'n: 15 WhTiger: 9 RedSpr'w: 1 Final city: 12, gold: 1496, income: 452, expense: 261 ************* DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ************* To WHITE ALLY: I think the penetration of the BLUE ghost and griffin was stopped. Let's see what happened to their moves and consider the possibilities to exchange pillaging so that we can both get an archon to cancel out their hero advantaga in number!! To Red: Ouch! I guess I got lucky over there. At least it will decrease the threat from your attack. Wait for your next move...... (and don't get lucky). To Blue: Almost let you get into out back. How about stay put and let my hero has a taste of griffin meat? 8-) _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday May 05, 1998 at 09:51 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 08, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Gold at start of turn: 2066 gp. Lord Elric is now a Cavalier. Lord Yyrkoon searched Ruin SE Worm and finds a unit of Worms. Dyvim Slorm visits South Temple and receives both blessings and a quest to pillage 900 gp. ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Ruin/temple Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 0 0 0 *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 2 *2* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 5 6 0.69656 <-- Lives! Unicorn 6 7 0.42051 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Spider 4 8 0.30344 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining. *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html Final Cities: 10 Gold: 2006 gp Income: 364 gp Expenses: 301 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 16 Change from last turn: +0 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 13 Change from last turn: +3 Dyvim Slorm Experience: 1 Change from last turn: +1 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=08 Side z=4 _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday May 07, 1998 at 01:57 AM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; I'm not at all happy with myself. So intent on pushing forward, and assuming that my ally was taking care of any problems on his side, I missed the fact that the yellow ghost might head my way. Whenever I play with an ally, I play as if there are two seperate games. I find that it takes so much time just planning what *I* want to do, I don't have time to double check on my allies progress, or lack of. It seems while red has been retreating and fortifying his cities, he has not dealt with the threat of the ghost directly. Now it is time for me to pay the price for my lack of vision.... Wolfgand is now a Cavalier (str 6) Wolfgang sends word to raze the cities, Black Gorge and BlackBalled. He then searches a ruin and unleashes a Giant Worm. The blessed griffin in the centre takes the city 66 and pillages it for 350 gp and razes IT to the ground! The ghost in the centre sinks the white spider navy near the west temple. Meanwhile the Jackal searches the western ruin and finds 1243gp Start gold 736 + pillage 350 + ruin 1243 = end gold 2329 inc 364 exp 306 wolfgand exp 18 str 6 taurus exp 6 str5 Jackal exp 4 str 5 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday May 07, 1998 at 10:31 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; On Thu, 7 May 1998, The Warlords II Remailer wrote: > I'm not at all happy with myself. So intent on pushing forward, and > assuming that my ally was taking care of any problems on his side, I missed > the fact that the yellow ghost might head my way. Whenever I play with an > ally, I play as if there are two seperate games. I find that it takes so > much time just planning what *I* want to do, I don't have time to double > check on my allies progress, or lack of. It seems while red has been > retreating and fortifying his cities, he has not dealt with the threat of > the ghost directly. Now it is time for me to pay the price for my lack of > vision.... Uhmm.. I'm sorry if you feel I haven't lived up to your expectations, but that Ghost has been carefully moved between my flying forces which I am more than aware of. However I have not willingly let the Ghost zip through my territory knowing I would be safe and you would get burned.. /Eskil +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Eskil Swahn | | Eskil.Swahn@LDC.lu.se tfn +46 46 222 4986 | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 9 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Saturday May 09, 1998 at 01:14 PM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hips to all! Stats at the beginning: 12 cities, 3121 golden beers (+527/-352). Bacchus's experience: 9, A.'s: 1. Still struggling to recover from Zagreus's disparition... Bacchus frees the NW Worm. Leaving the west temple in which they were surrounded, 5 blessed armies (1 elephant + 4 spiders), joined by an unblessed archer, launched a suicide run against blue armies: 1) the first enemy stack in sight (including a griffin... nyam, nyam...) is overrun: WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Open/bridge/swamp Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 0 0 0 1 *1* 1 No DEF: 0 0 0 1 0 *1* 1 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elephant 7 7 0.53898 <-- Lives! Spider 5 5 0.28099 <-- Dies.. Spider 5 5 0.14103 <-- Dies.. Spider 5 5 0.04951 <-- Dies.. Spider 5 5 0.00925 <-- Dies.. Archer 4 4 0.00030 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Elephant 6 6 0.46102 <-- Dies... Archer 4 4 0.26134 <-- Dies... Griffin 6 6 0.16299 <-- Dies... Spider 4 4 0.04536 <-- Dies... Spider 4 4 0.01677 <-- Dies... Pikeman 4 6 0.00499 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining 2) the elephant got crazy during the battle and continued alone, smashing a lone spider on the bridge south of the temple... (7 to 4-1: obvious result). 3) ... and, with its last movement point, sacrificed itself to kill one more Pikeman (rather than be easily eaten by the incoming Worm :( ): WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Open/bridge/swamp 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: 0 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elephant 7 7 0.07649 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Minotaur 6 5 0.92351 <-- Lives! Spider 4 3 0.83531 <-- Lives! Spider 4 3 0.75043 <-- Lives! Pikeman 4 5 0.63189 <-- Lives! Pikeman 4 5 0.32679 <-- Dies... Defender wins with 4 unit(s) remaining Production of bats and L.Inf. built in 51 "Dead Smurfs" (-320 gb) Stats at the end: 12 cities, 2801 gb (+527/-299). B.'s exp. at 12, Aphrodite's at 1. Diplomacy: - To my dear Formosian Ally: thanks and congratulations for your Ghost's move! You're helping our cause (and particularly me) a lot! Can you use his quickness to continue to bother Blue, or do you have other plans? (Sorry, not much inspiration for a funny turn report...). Peace and love to all! Well, kind of... Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday May 12, 1998 at 11:33 AM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game B01, turn 08, side 02 Beginning gold: 1694 gps. Nothing much to report other than some troops blessing and movements. Final cities: 12, Gold: 1694, Income: 452, Expense: 333 ********** DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ************** To WHITE: Thanks for your compliment! Since the BLUE country is very beautiful, I intend to have a grand tour. At least to make sure that they stuff the cities with some troops so that your pressure will be lighter. To RED: Nothing much. I guess our stalemate will continue over the border. The city (55) is basically undefeatable now... To BLUE: Very decisive move to raze two cities. I guess nothing much escape your eyes. But heh, if you raze every city that within my grasp (or WHITE's), you will run out off your cities very soon. I thought you are going to sac those two cities and try to capture my ghost instead...... _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday May 14, 1998 at 11:38 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 09, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Gold at start of turn: 2129 gp. ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html Final Cities: 10 Gold: 2129 gp Income: 364 gp Expenses: 390 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 16 Change from last turn: +0 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 13 Change from last turn: +0 Dyvim Slorm Experience: 1 Change from last turn: +0 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=09 Side z=4 /Eskil +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Eskil Swahn | | Eskil.Swahn@LDC.lu.se tfn +46 46 222 4986 | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Saturday May 16, 1998 at 01:15 AM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Just troop movements, decided a good offence is the best defence.... Built spiders in Black Gold 42 Start gld 2460 - builds 700 = end gold 1760 inc 364 exp 294 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Sunday May 17, 1998 at 01:08 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Sorry Max, was in a big hurry... cities 10 Wolfgang str 6 exp 18 Taurus str 5 exp 6 Jackal str 5 exp 4 Diplomacy; To my Red ally, I'll leave my devil and some reinforcements near the south temple to help back up your hero. I had to send Wolfgang to the western temple in order to break through there(hopefully!), which will benefit both of us in the coming turns. I would just LOVE to get even with yellow.... _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 10 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday May 18, 1998 at 07:48 PM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hips to all! Stats at the beginning: 12 cities, 3029 golden beers (+527/-374). Bacchus's experience: 12, Aphro.'s: 1. Battle against Blue for the control of the sky, on the shore, east of the west temple: a Ghost helped with a double-blessed griffin (which got his second blessing on the way to the battle...) and two non-blessed griffins (coming from city 51) eliminate some flying pests from the center of the nap, huh... map, I mean... WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Water/shore 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 1 0 0 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Ghost 6 7 0.69081 <-- Lives! Griffin 8 9 0.50663 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 7 0.18773 <-- Dies.. Griffin 6 7 0.04198 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Ghost 7 8 0.30919 <-- Dies... Griffin 7 8 0.11260 <-- Dies... Griffin 6 7 0.01281 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining An elephant and a spider were also blessed. Aphrodite still waits for her lover to come... Bacchus *finally* arrives on the scene of the war... just in time to meet Wolfgang for a few drinks at the temple, perhaps? Hehe... Stats at the end: still 12 cities, 3029 gb (+527/-340). B.'s exp. at 12, Aphrodite's at 1. Diplomacy: - To my Formosan flying ally: I hope you liked this one, and that you'll be able to somehow defeat the red defenses... - To Blue: sorry, you'll have to find another way to "get even" with my friend... - To Red: hello, how are you, down there? Not much else... Peace and love to all! Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday May 20, 1998 at 11:11 AM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Turn report for game B01, turn 10, side 02 Beginning gold: 1813 *Hero Whi'Tiger found 1242 gps gold in a ruin. Final Hero experience: Gra'Dran: 16 Whi'Tiger: 12 RedSpr'w: 1 Final cities: 12, gold: 3055, income: 452, expense: 414 ************* DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ************* To WHITE: *clap* *clap* *clap* That was a brilliant move!! You took out the most dangerous troops that will penetrate our defense line easily!!! So, I decided to take more aggressive move against BLUE and RED! I think BLUE has to pay more attention to my wandering ghost, otherwise he will have to burn down his capital !! To RED: Are you ready for a fight!? It seems most of our troops are massed around the border...... Hope you won't find any mistake that I made....... To BLUE: Naughty, naughty! You didn't keep an elephant in your capital!? Well, I know it is kind of risky, but hope you have a very hasty and erroneous turn..... _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday May 22, 1998 at 10:14 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 10, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Gold at start of turn: 2103 gp. ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html Final Cities: 10 Gold: 2103 gp Income: 364 gp Expenses: 471 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 16 Change from last turn: +0 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 13 Change from last turn: +0 Dyvim Slorm Experience: 1 Change from last turn: +0 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=10 Side z=4 _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday May 27, 1998 at 01:14 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Sorry for the delay guys, I've been busy, and this turn turned out to be a bit of a decision for me. Faced with an ally that has a static defence as a strategy, I was tempted to throw in the towel and just sacrifice my cities (as I'm on a downward slide anyways) and send all my forces north to raze a few of your cities. I had a hell of an offensive going, actually beating WHITE to the western temple and western ruin and getting my Heros north much faster than my white opponent. Not too shabby considering I played last. The only problem was I was counting on Red too much (make that *WAY* too much) to prevent yellow from just strolling past him and flanking me. It was my mistake and believe me, I'm pissed at myself for not checking up on red more. Even now red has his most powerful allies stacked with his one Hero that *can't* fly while he has most of his griffins and pegasus stacked with the flying Heros. Sure could have used a few of them griffins last turn! (And don't ask ME what he is doing with all those spiders he is moving from city to city around his capital!?!) Anyways, I decided to salvage what little I can. If only I did'nt have to retreat Wolfgang and accompaning armies, I might have had a REAL offensive going....(sure, I know, sour grapes, but maybe I can still make this game interesting...) start gold 1864 end gold 1864 Razed Black Wing (ouch!) inc 340 exp 346 no change in Hero exp. cities 9 (going down steadily) _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 11 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday May 28, 1998 at 08:18 PM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hips to all! Stats at the beginning: 12 cities, 3216 golden beers (+527/-400). Bacchus's experience: 12, A.'s: 1. Aphrodite avenges Zagreus's death! In a battle which might turn over the fate of the war, and which turned out to be quite expensive (I sacrificed a doomed city and quite a few troops for it...), Taurus succumbs to the charms of the goddess of love... (double battle against Blue, south of city 11) - A first group is sacrificed rid of these two pesky dwarves: 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 0 0 *0* 1 No DEF: 1 0 1 1 0 H *3* 1 Yes Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elephant 6 5 0.00044 <-- Dies.. Unicorn 6 5 0.00005 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 3 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 3 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 3 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 3 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 7 0.99956 <-- Lives! Devil 7 9 0.99829 <-- Lives! Elemental 6 8 0.99043 <-- Lives! Elephant 6 8 0.96250 <-- Lives! Archer 4 6 0.87490 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 8 0.74741 <-- Lives! Dwarf 4 8 0.44463 <-- Dies... Dwarf 4 8 0.12095 <-- Dies... Defender wins with 6 unit(s) remaining - Such a high price to kill two dwarves is justified by the result of the decisive battle: 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 3 1 1 H *2* 1 Yes DEF: 1 0 1 1 0 H *2* 1 Yes Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 6 7 0.67472 <-- Lives! Devil 7 8 0.51328 <-- Lives! Elephant 6 7 0.28970 <-- Dies.. Archer 4 5 0.13191 <-- Dies.. Unicorn 6 7 0.06728 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 5 0.01031 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 5 0.00189 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 5 0.00014 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 6 0.32528 <-- Dies... Devil 7 8 0.20806 <-- Dies... Elemental 6 7 0.07155 <-- Dies... Elephant 6 7 0.01899 <-- Dies... Archer 4 5 0.00229 <-- Dies... Griffin 6 7 0.00054 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 2 unit(s) remaining As a result of this battle, Aphrodite takes Flight Item B; she can now look at the Blue land, open and promised to conquest... As a last sacrifice to the memory of the great(??) Zagreus, his city, the ill-famedly named Zagreopolis(11), is burnt to the ground... Never will a Blue army profane its walls! Aphrodite also offers herself a little "dessert" by dispatching a lone Blue griffin, a bit to the south east of the main battle (note that I had to change the fight order for this battle, to save my catapult, which was brought next to the first battle by my second Unicorn, brought to the hill by the surviving Devil, and then flied to the battle against the griffin with Aphrodite and the Devil... [Hope you follow me... :)]) WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Water/shore Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 3 1 0 CH *5* 0 Yes DEF: 0 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 6 11 0.99790 <-- Lives! Catapult 4 9 0.97743 <-- Lives! Devil 7 12 0.87380 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Griffin 6 6 0.00210 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 3 unit(s) remaining Of course, I came back to my normal fight order after this battle... Bacchus gets blessed, as well as some allies and troops. Stats at the end: 11 cities, 3216 gb (+503/-289). B.'s exp. at 13, Aphrodite's at 3. Diplomacy: - To my Formosan flying ally: May your turn continue this glorious day of victory for our sacred alliance! I hope you can take out some pieces of the Red Turtle... - To Blue: Nice try with the bat. I nearly missed it... - To Red: Your turn will come... Enjoy my mistakes! [And still peace and love to all!] Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday June 01, 1998 at 12:35 PM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Report for game B01, turn 11, side 02 Beginning gold: 3093 gps *Hero RedSpr'w took ex-RED city Karlaak (34), looted 105 gps, and pillaged pegasi for 1000 gps! 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 2 0 *5* 0 Yes DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 6 11 0.99753 <-- Lives! Worm, Giant 8 13 0.98862 <-- Lives! Griffin 7 14 0.92997 <-- Lives! Griffin 7 14 0.61136 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Unicorn 6 7 0.00247 <-- Dies... Spider 4 7 0.00049 <-- Dies... Spider 4 7 0.00004 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 4 unit(s) remaining *Due to the completion of the QUEST, hero RedSpr'w received a dragon as reward. *Dragon troops took out the sneaky BLUE troops near razed central city 66 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 0 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Dragon 8 9 0.55210 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 7 0.12841 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Wolfrider 5 5 0.44790 <-- Dies... Wolfrider 5 5 0.27622 <-- Dies... Dwarf 5 7 0.12627 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining *Lone blessed ghost took out a BLUE pikeman unit near BLUE city "Black Gold 42". Warbot report is not shown for obvious result (7 vs. 4). *The same ghost enjoyed a BLUE combo of pikeman and bat near the BLUE city "Black Gold 42". WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Open/bridge/swamp 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 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Ghost 6 7 0.53116 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Pikeman 4 6 0.46884 <-- Dies... Bat, Giant 1 1 0.02237 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining *Built Lt. Calvary in Karlaak (34) for 200 gps. Final Hero experience: GraDra'n:16 Whi'Tiger: 12 RedSpr'w: 13 Final cities: 13, gold: 3998, income: 476, expense: 471 ************ DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ***************** TO WHITE: My dear ally, that was a decisive move! A city for the head of a BLUE hero!! WOW! It looks like Lady Victory is on OUR side!! And more important, you have BLUE fly item as your trophy!! Nicely done! And may our alliance continously victorious and prosperous!!!!! To RED: I must said when I saw you pull off the pegasi in Karlaak, I was very excited. I knew I would complete a quest by Karlaak. So, I am going to keep Karlaak as the bonus city for Hero RedSpr'w. Thanks!! To BLUE: I was madly happy when you toasted the griffin city! I was counting on that. Since my hero can't be two places in one turn, this is the best result I could ever dream of. Of course, if you didn't toast the city and retreat to protect it, I could also take the city with your devil in it...... Now you will never know what if you didn't toast it...... _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday June 03, 1998 at 01:06 PM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 11, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Gold at start of turn: 1787 gp. ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html Final Cities: 9 Gold: 1787 gp Income: 340 gp Expenses: 531 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 16 Change from last turn: +0 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 13 Change from last turn: +0 Dyvim Slorm Experience: 1 Change from last turn: +0 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=11 Side z=4 My so called Ally will probably notice that I haven't done any radical offensive attacks this turn either.. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday June 04, 1998 at 08:23 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; To BLUE: I was madly happy when you toasted the griffin city! I was counting on that. Since my hero can't be two places in one turn, this is the best result I could ever dream of. Of course, if you didn't toast the city and retreat to protect it, I could also take the city with your devil in it...... Now you will never know what if you didn't toast it...... Dear Chu, Believe me, if I could have counted on haveing some support from red, I would have made you fight me for the city, but knowing that red would simply retreat, I figured maybe I could send you his way for a change. Besides, I can't win this game fighting you AND white alone anyways, so I'm just putting in the minimum time from now on. I can't wait to play in the head to head games....I've been burned with my diplomacy in every game I've played so far, so at least when i lose in the head to head games, it will be because of my own mistakes, and not because i was counting on my so called allies. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday June 05, 1998 at 12:53 AM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Still having fun, running around, getting killed...as a reward to yellow, who has won this game for white AND himself, I leave my capital for you to sack and raze, hats off to King Chu! start gold 1957 - builds 1350 = end gold 607 Build dwarfs Blackout 08 Build spiders BlackHole 45 Build Lt Calv. Black and Blue inc 340 exp 301 Note to Red.. >My so called Ally will probably notice that I haven't done any radical >offensive attacks this turn either.. RADICAL offensive attacks??!!? I'd like to see you do ANY offensive moves! Note to White... Nice move last turn, i was'nt sure if you would attack or retreat. (Obviously you made the better choice, considering your skillful use of army movement) I have'nt had time to check your moves, but I trust you did'nt make any errors. _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday June 05, 1998 at 04:20 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; Bah.. just a short note to let everybody know that if any blue troops will come my way they will be killed like any other troops. This alliance was pretty obviously a mistake and I'm sick of getting blamed in every mail just because you made a mistake and left no garrison in your home cities.. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday June 08, 1998 at 01:56 AM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Hi guys, I don't know what happened but i just resent the gamefile, I'll check my email tomorrow to see if you get it. I got some message from the remailer that the gamefile was deleted because it confused it with a message or something. Anyways, sorry about the delay, on another note, it's OK with me if we end our alliance since we'll probably never meet on the battlefield anyways...now we're both too busy retreating! I don't mean to sound like a poor sport Paul, and I'm not blaming you for all my mistakes that I've made. Whether it was me leaving my ghost/three griffin stack one square too close to whites forces(a few turns back) or not anticipating the yellow ghost that slipped by your defences, they were still MY mistakes, not yours. It may be true that you could have done much more to counter certain moves against yellow, but it is still the nature of the game to watch out for your allys moves and mistakes, and I take full blame for my downfall. (It's just that I had such a damn good offensive going....man I hate that yellow ghost!) Anyways, no hard feelings I hope...now let's kill each other! Steve _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Tuesday June 09, 1998 at 12:49 AM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Diplomatic message: Dear WHITE: I will raze two BLUE cities in my next move. However, I do think BLUE is planning a major penetration near center cities area. I trust that you would have already come out with several ways of counter measures. I just want to offer my humble opinion that you take take out the only BLUE navy near center city by your near by spider navy and a bat! You would only lose the bat though. That navy could easily carry the BLUE hero stack to the door way of city RED WINE 61. After I raze the two BLUE cities, BLUE will lose all productivity of elephants and archers. Still, BLUE has two of each units already in the line of battle, one with the hero stack and one near the hero in the WEST boundary. I imagine that my ghost will be destroyed in next BLUE move (by paying the price of a griffin :-) ). So, I think it is time for my ghost to bow out. Wish you God speed and strength!! King Chu of Formosa -- 約伯記第1章第20-21節： 約伯便起來，撕裂外袍，剃了頭，伏在地上下拜，說： “我赤身出於母胎，也必赤身歸回。賞賜的是耶和華， 收取的也是耶和華。耶和華的名是應當稱頌的。” _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday June 12, 1998 at 10:51 AM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; >The following query is from Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se and is being sent to all >the players of the Warlords II game "B01". > > >I know I'm not Mr Perfect in this area, but we sure are burning timeout en >masse right now.. =) > >/Eskil I have an idea!! It *could* be because white is actually moving his armies *around* instead of just leaving them all in his cities!!!! But then again...I might be wrong. (What, ME make a mistake???!?!) Steve _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday June 12, 1998 at 09:43 PM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hips to all! First of all, sorry for the delay, and thanks for worrying so much for me... It sounded so sincere, particularly Wolfgang... :-) Stats at the beginning: 11 cities, 3430 golden beers (+503/-354). Bacchus's experience: 13, A.'s: 3. Aphrodite, with the help of her boat, gets back to the ruins of Zagreopolis, where she crushes a small blue army, with the help of a griffin coming from the north: WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Razed city Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 3 1 0 HC *5* 0 Yes DEF: 0 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 6 11 0.99503 <-- Lives! Devil 7 12 0.96980 <-- Lives! Catapult 4 9 0.82198 <-- Lives! Griffin 6 13 0.58847 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Spider 4 6 0.00497 <-- Dies... Wolfrider 4 4 0.00087 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 5 0.00026 <-- Dies... Infantry, Hv 4 5 0.00002 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 4 unit(s) remaining Bacchus continues wandering around, strictly avoiding any battle - among my heroes, you must start knowing who is "the man" and who acts "like a woman"! [sorry for these old stereotypes - just a joke...] A lone, blessed griffin takes from an also quite lone spider the Blue city of Black Velvet(44)... and pillages and burn it, after renaming it in a more suitable way. (Looting: + 33 gb; pillaging + 350 gb). (What am I going to do with all that money??? Just a shame that the blue boats didn't allow me to keep the city...) 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 0 0 *0* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 1 *1* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Griffin 7 9 0.65245 <-- Lives! Defense Units: --------------- Spider 4 7 0.34755 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 1 unit(s) remaining Blessings occur. Stats at the end: 11 cities, 3813 gb (+503/-354). B.'s exp. at 13, Aphrodite's at 4. Diplomacy: - To my Formosan flying ally: thanks for your advice, and I hoep you'll forgive me, as I dared not to follow it! First, because I would like to Blue go for my city, RedWine 61 - there is someone wanting to meet Wolfgang in this area, as you might notice. Second, because these spider and bat might be useful elsewhere... it might even save your most venerated Ghost! Will Blue hate this Ghost enough to divert one or two griffins, when his cities are threatened? I would like to see that... Of course, I don't know how suicidal Blue will be from now on... I think I cover most of the area where his Wolfgang can go, except if he flees... But be careful: he might try to sneak up (or rather down) and try to have a piece of you or of his ally/former ally/ally again/but perhaps not ally next turn... :-) (At least, our peace mission will probably succeed: these two will never be able to start the war they wanted to have against each other...). Otherwise, have a good pillaging and razing, and don't make any jealous among those Southerners, take a city or two from Red... - To Blue: Not to sure about what you meant in your last message, but I tried to do as you wanted... I have only six armies in my cities (and four in a razed one, but that doesn't count). The 47 others are "moving around"... it's not to BAT, is it? [must be one of my "stupid-jokes-day" Never mind...] Enjoy my mistakes! Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 12 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday June 15, 1998 at 12:01 PM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Game report for B01, turn 12, side 02 Beginning gold: 4001 *Ghost took Black Bell 04, the undefended capital of BLUE and looted 33 gps with sacking elephant(750 gps) and scout(175 gps). And after rename the city into Ghost's Vic 04, he razed it. *Ghost took Black Spine 43, another undefended BLUE city and looted 33 gps with sacking archer (500 gps). After rename the city into Ghost's Tomb 43, he burnt it to the ground. *Hero Gra'Dran took a quest of looting 992 gps. *Hero Wi'Tiger got blessed with some other troops. *Built spider and lt. infantry in city Karlaak 34. Final hero experience: Gra'Dran: 16 Whi'Tiger: 13 Red'Sprw: 13 CIties: 13, Gold: 4632, income: 476, expense: 556. ************ DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ************* TO WHITE: Wow, it is nice to have you back!! Apparently, your moves is much clever than my suggestions! Do be awared that BLUE is almost broke, for every piece you kill, BLUE will have much trouble to replace it, especially his elephant and archer. My ghost is kind of expandable anyway, maybe BLUE is mad enough to sacrifice one of his precious griffin to get it. Don't know, let's wait and see! To RED: Hmm, I must say that I am beginning to worry about the huge force you stack near the temple, especially when it is augmented with a horde of griffins...... Do send me a note when you are ready to get out of the castle for a stroll :-) I will see that our heros meet and exchange some war stories :-) TO BLUE: Alas, my ghost is at your mercy. Do with your heart's desire! It is nice for your compliment and I must say we really got lucky when my ghost slip thru. I will wish not to meet you again until the final battle :-). _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday June 17, 1998 at 11:42 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 12, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Gold at start of turn: 1596 gp. ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html R'lin Kren(33) razed. Final Cities: 8 Gold: 1596 gp Income: 292 gp Expenses: 573 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 16 Change from last turn: +0 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 13 Change from last turn: +0 Dyvim Slorm Experience: 1 Change from last turn: +0 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=12 Side z=4 /Eskil +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Eskil Swahn | | Eskil.Swahn@LDC.lu.se tfn +46 46 222 4986 | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday June 17, 1998 at 10:01 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Does anyone else smell smoke??? Razed black doom, otherwise a pretty boring turn start gold 338 end gold 338 inc 168 exp 367 (oh oh, i hope someone starts to kill some of my armies!!) no change to hero experience. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday June 18, 1998 at 11:54 AM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; 5 cities Max S _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday June 19, 1998 at 12:51 AM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Dear WHITE: Just an interesting observation: if you take Black&Blue(58), then BLUE will run out of their cash on turn 14!! The vectored armies will never show up due to finace problem...... Of course, I will have to refrain from killing too many BLUE armies. BTW, you do notice the sneaky BLUE hero on your west border who only have a bat with him? King Chu -- 約伯記第1章第20-21節： 約伯便起來，撕裂外袍，剃了頭，伏在地上下拜，說： “我赤身出於母胎，也必赤身歸回。賞賜的是耶和華， 收取的也是耶和華。耶和華的名是應當稱頌的。” _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Friday June 19, 1998 at 09:07 PM EDT by Paul Andre Heilporn to all players; Hips to all! Stats at the beginning: 11 cities, 3962 golden beers (+503/-434). Bacchus's experience: 13, A.'s: 4. Aphrodite's Devil kills a poor bat abandoned by its master. (Does anyone want a report for THAT?) The said master [Blue hero The Jackal for our readers] shouldn't show his @$$, euh... "lower back" to the sovereign of the hell (where his place is now reserved), particularly from so close... These tridents are so sharp... Aphrodite spends some time with her troops, transporting them through heaven... Bacchus spends some time wandering around, wondering what Aphrodite was really doing... Blue city of Black&Blue (58) taken: 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: 0 0 2 0 C *2* 0 No DEF: 0 0 2 0 2 *2* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Minotaur 7 9 0.78493 <-- Lives! Catapult 5 7 0.63578 <-- Lives! Spider 5 9 0.51103 <-- Lives! Spider 5 9 0.31029 <-- Dies.. Spider 5 9 0.13589 <-- Dies.. Spider 5 9 0.03265 <-- Dies.. Infantry, Hv 4 7 0.00130 <-- Dies.. Bat, Giant 2 4 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Minotaur 6 8 0.21507 <-- Dies... Spider 4 8 0.11241 <-- Dies... Spider 4 8 0.04614 <-- Dies... Spider 4 8 0.01340 <-- Dies... Spider 4 8 0.00228 <-- Dies... Spider 4 8 0.00015 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 3 unit(s) remaining (I knew this bat would some day be useful...) City looted [+33 gb], pillaged [+ 100 gb], renamed. Another blue bat is dispatched by a blessed griffin. And no, I won't give a WarBOT report for that! I had to spend all this money I had accumulated: Built production of Griffins in Consolation(65): - 1700 gb (the only way for me to "get in touch" with Red in a decent time... Should probably have done it one or two turns ago...). Built production of my beloved Spiders in The Alliance(58): - 700 gb. Blessing occurred. Stats at the end: 12 cities (finally!), 1695 gb (+527/-399). B.'s exp. at 13, Aphrodite's at 4. Diplomacy: - To my Formosan flying ally: Be aware that your city WarCenter 62, like my Red Wine 61, could be attacked by Wolfgang next turn... Take all measures you think needed. Blue must be desperate by now, and he might risk a last suicid-strike - if ever he dares (not the most probable), let's let him pay it with one of his two last allies, at least! Another possibility is that he could try to sneak up into your territory (a last run for glory...): with your agreement (but I need it!), I'm ready to pursue him... I hope this won't distract you from giving a solid assault on Red-Turtle fortresses. No time to check how you can do it, but I really hope you can do it (or at least start weakening them...)! You'll get my help as soon as the so-called "hero" Wolfgang is "dispatched"... - To Blue: Desperately trying to sneak up? I understand... but I don't think I'll let you do it. - To Red: Coming... soon! (I hope...) Enjoy my mistakes! Dionysos. _______________________________________________________________________________ __________ __________/ \__________ <__________ Turn 13 __________> \__________/ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Monday June 22, 1998 at 12:50 PM EDT by Hsiao-Chiu Chu to all players; Report for game B01, turn 13, side 02. Beginning gold: 4552 gps. *Elephant troops attack Menii(31) with following results. 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* 1 No DEF: 1 2 2 0 1 *5* 1 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Elephant 6 7 0.00004 <-- Dies.. Minotaur 6 7 0.00001 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 7 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 7 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 7 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 7 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 7 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Dwarf 4 5 0.00000 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 9 0.99996 <-- Lives! Pegasus 6 10 0.99986 <-- Lives! Ghost 5 9 0.99952 <-- Lives! Elephant 6 10 0.99868 <-- Lives! Spider 4 10 0.99587 <-- Lives! Spider 4 10 0.98802 <-- Lives! Spider 4 10 0.96796 <-- Lives! Spider 4 10 0.92207 <-- Lives! Spider 4 10 0.83012 <-- Lives! Spider 4 10 0.67380 <-- Lives! Spider 4 10 0.45817 <-- Dies... Spider 4 10 0.23257 <-- Dies... Spider 4 10 0.07208 <-- Dies... Spider 4 10 0.00865 <-- Dies... Defender wins with 10 unit(s) remaining *Hero Gre'Dran led the second wave of attack and took Menii (31). Looted 99 gps and pillaged spider for 350 gps. 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: 2 1 2 0 HNC *5* 0 No DEF: 1 2 2 0 1 *0* 1 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- *Hero 7 11 0.99129 <-- Lives! Devil 8 12 0.97099 <-- Lives! Demon 8 12 0.89984 <-- Lives! Minotaur 6 10 0.71994 <-- Lives! Catapult 5 9 0.51232 <-- Lives! Spider 5 11 0.32395 <-- Dies.. Spider 5 11 0.09807 <-- Dies.. Spider 4 10 0.00715 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- *Hero 5 5 0.00871 <-- Dies... Pegasus 6 6 0.00506 <-- Dies... Ghost 5 5 0.00222 <-- Dies... Elephant 6 6 0.00111 <-- Dies... Spider 4 6 0.00038 <-- Dies... Spider 4 6 0.00011 <-- Dies... Spider 4 6 0.00002 <-- Dies... Spider 4 6 0.00000 <-- Dies... Spider 4 6 0.00000 <-- Dies... Spider 4 6 0.00000 <-- Dies... Attacker wins with 5 unit(s) remaining *Built spider, lt. Infantry and giant bat at newly acquired Menii (31). *Built griffins at SpiderWeb (27). *Multiple blessings on non-hero troops. Final hero experience: Gre'Dran: 18 Whi'Tiger: 13 RedSpr'w: 13 Final cities: 14, gold: 2281, income: 500, expense: 544 *************** DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE ********************* To WHITE: Gosh, is this game in the high gear or what? Between my turn 12 and 13, 4 cities were razed, 2 were taken by force and 1 hero died. If we keep up with this pace, this game won't past turn 17 !! Still, I think BLUE hero is cooking up something. Maybe even invade RED from the mountain he rests now? Anyway, happy hunting! If you deem necessary, do cross the border but I think if BLUE still has his senses, retreat is the best decision...... BTW, happy vacation!! Your side is certainly moving fast! I first thought I would be the one that send armies into BLUE to help you out. Gee, how things changed! It seems RED will hang out longer than BLUE does.. To RED: Since your hero never wants to come out, so my hero paid him a visit. Thanks for the command item and the flying item. To BLUE: Thanks for sparing my lone ghost. You won't open up anymore city, will you? If that is the case, that ghost is heading home! (But, you never know......) _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Thursday June 25, 1998 at 11:53 AM EDT by Eskil.Swahn@ldc.lu.se to all players; *********************** Official Turn Report Template ************************ REPORT FOR TOURNAMENT ROUND B, GAME 01, TURN 13, SIDE 3. ============================================================================== ### Rules: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home/tournament/Rules.html *** Turn Start and Hero Actions: (Repeat lines as needed for extra events.) Gold at start of turn: 1198 gp. ### Account for all units, builds, and gold of your opponents to catch cheats! *** New City Builds and End-of-Turn Declarations: (Repeat for each new build) ### Gold Info: http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/info/gold.html Myrrhn(36) razed. Hwaamgarl(32) razed. Lt Inf purchased in City Bakshaan(55) for 160 gp. Final Cities: 5 Gold: 1038 gp Income: 184 gp Expenses: 552 gp. ### Be sure to save game and reload so gold information is updated correctly. Lord Elric Experience: 16 Change from last turn: +0 Lord Yyrkoon Experience: 13 Change from last turn: +0 Dyvim Slorm Experience: 1 Change from last turn: +0 ### Check your hero's safety, check your city production, and you're done! *** File Transfer: Round R=B Game xx=01. Next Player's Turn yy=13 Side z=4 _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday July 01, 1998 at 01:33 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; Hi guys, Sorry for the delay, I've been super busy. I'll play my next(and last?!?) turn tonight. Steve _______________________________________________________________________________ The following message was sent on Wednesday July 01, 1998 at 11:13 PM EDT by svankoug@direct.ca (Steve VanKoughnett) to all players; The jackal dies killing a griffin... Two cities razed, black gold 42, Black Hole 45 Wolfgang preparing to go down in a blaze of glory (hopefully) ... start gold 117 end gold 117 inc 60 exp 306 cities 2 wolfgang - no change WarBOT v1.0a Armyset: Tournament b1-4 WL version: Mac Classic Intense Combat: Off Terrain: Water/shore Hero Bonuses Non- For- TOTAL Minus Fly Natural Item Hero tify City Cancel BONUS Enemy Item -------------------------------------------------------------- ATT: 1 0 0 0 *1* 0 No DEF: 0 0 0 0 0 *0* 0 No Entered Final Attack Units: Strength Strength Survival % --------------- -------- -------- ---------- Bat, Giant 1 2 0.61977 <-- Lives! *Hero 5 6 0.50000 <-- Dies.. Defense Units: --------------- Griffin 6 6 0.38023 <-- Dies... Attacker