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[Sidewinder16]

FBG -Brant sounds familiar, but he's not in my invite list. Can you forward an invite to him from the FBG Tourney to trade user names?

Done.

 

[Dragons]

We're about ready to invite the masses into the new Asia tournament. http://warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=726

This Guy, Randall and Smoked Pears are all on their own team. Which is fine if you want to pick up two randoms or if you have some outside friends you want to form a team with. But, I thought I'd give you the opportunity to join each other before we open it up to everyone.

I only have FBG's in my friends list, so when we open it up, I'll need to rely on the rest of you to forwards invites.

 

[guest 1553]

I think it's time to blacklist Tonkafun. The guy's a f'in moron, and takes forever to take his turns when he's losing.

 

[Dragons]

I think it's time to blacklist Tonkafun. The guy's a f'in moron, and takes forever to take his turns when he's losing.

I was just thinking the same thing.

 

[ScottyFargo]

I think it's time to blacklist Tonkafun. The guy's a f'in moron, and takes forever to take his turns when he's losing.

I was just thinking the same thing.

Is he on the boards here or just a Warlight random add?

 

[Dragons]

I think it's time to blacklist Tonkafun. The guy's a f'in moron, and takes forever to take his turns when he's losing.

I was just thinking the same thing.

Is he on the boards here or just a Warlight random add?

He's a random as far as I know. There was some confusion a few pages ago about whether he was FBG, but I don't think so. Not sure how he got on Humuna's invite list for the Unc games.

 

[TexanFan02]

I think it's time to blacklist Tonkafun. The guy's a f'in moron, and takes forever to take his turns when he's losing.

I was just thinking the same thing.

Is he on the boards here or just a Warlight random add?

He's a random as far as I know. There was some confusion a few pages ago about whether he was FBG, but I don't think so. Not sure how he got on Humuna's invite list for the Unc games.

Well, in fairness, I've been in some other games where he wasn't that bad. And his partner was the only one booted, which shouldn't happen in FBG games.Oh, and how the hell is Panocha Libre still around?

 

[Dragons]

I think it's time to blacklist Tonkafun. The guy's a f'in moron, and takes forever to take his turns when he's losing.

I was just thinking the same thing.

Is he on the boards here or just a Warlight random add?

He's a random as far as I know. There was some confusion a few pages ago about whether he was FBG, but I don't think so. Not sure how he got on Humuna's invite list for the Unc games.

Well, in fairness, I've been in some other games where he wasn't that bad. And his partner was the only one booted, which shouldn't happen in FBG games.

Oh, and how the hell is Panocha Libre still around?

I don't think he's a bad player, which may have been part of why Humuna invited him to the Unc games, like I said, I'm not sure...But, his whining in Unc VIII (or Vii or IX or whatever, I can't keep track, obviously - hi fatguy) and the bull#### he's pulling in this game, make me think he should be blacklisted.

 

[guest 1553]

I think it's time to blacklist Tonkafun. The guy's a f'in moron, and takes forever to take his turns when he's losing.

I was just thinking the same thing.

Is he on the boards here or just a Warlight random add?

He's a random as far as I know. There was some confusion a few pages ago about whether he was FBG, but I don't think so. Not sure how he got on Humuna's invite list for the Unc games.

Well, in fairness, I've been in some other games where he wasn't that bad. And his partner was the only one booted, which shouldn't happen in FBG games.Oh, and how the hell is Panocha Libre still around?

I guess noone in Knoxville speaks Spanish. As for Tonka- he's a ########, but he is a good player.

 

[This_Guy]

I agree with the feelings about Tonka. He is a good player but not a good person to play with. He whines, doesn't accept surrenders and just generally does some pretty uncool stuff. I would prefer not to be in games with him.

 

[This_Guy]

We're about ready to invite the masses into the new Asia tournament. http://warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=726

This Guy, Randall and Smoked Pears are all on their own team. Which is fine if you want to pick up two randoms or if you have some outside friends you want to form a team with. But, I thought I'd give you the opportunity to join each other before we open it up to everyone.

I only have FBG's in my friends list, so when we open it up, I'll need to rely on the rest of you to forwards invites.

Thanks for the heads up Dragons. I didn't see it in time but would have prefered an all FBG team. Oh well.

 

[TexanFan02]

We're about ready to invite the masses into the new Asia tournament. http://warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=726

This Guy, Randall and Smoked Pears are all on their own team. Which is fine if you want to pick up two randoms or if you have some outside friends you want to form a team with. But, I thought I'd give you the opportunity to join each other before we open it up to everyone.

I only have FBG's in my friends list, so when we open it up, I'll need to rely on the rest of you to forwards invites.

Thanks for the heads up Dragons. I didn't see it in time but would have prefered an all FBG team. Oh well.

Eh, maybe it's time to end my feud with Bfred. I do avoid tourneys with him sometimes because I don't want the drama. But, I am on a team with Fred and Sidewinder where we're in the Championship round, and we're able to get along. I think because we both like Sidewinder and don't want to screw him over.

 

[The Future Champs]

We're about ready to invite the masses into the new Asia tournament. http://warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=726

This Guy, Randall and Smoked Pears are all on their own team. Which is fine if you want to pick up two randoms or if you have some outside friends you want to form a team with. But, I thought I'd give you the opportunity to join each other before we open it up to everyone.

I only have FBG's in my friends list, so when we open it up, I'll need to rely on the rest of you to forwards invites.

Thanks for the heads up Dragons. I didn't see it in time but would have prefered an all FBG team. Oh well.

Eh, maybe it's time to end my feud with Bfred. I do avoid tourneys with him sometimes because I don't want the drama. But, I am on a team with Fred and Sidewinder where we're in the Championship round, and we're able to get along. I think because we both like Sidewinder and don't want to screw him over.

Why end that which has been comedy gold for the rest of us? What else are the internets for?

 

[ScottyFargo]

To have lost a partner and be outnumbered the way he has been, Tonka's play impressed me in Unc VII. The whining and not accepting of surrenders is lame, though. But I whine about stuff elsewhere (See Shiancoe overturned TD, NFC Championship game last year) so I know it helps a little.

 

[Sidewinder16]

We're about ready to invite the masses into the new Asia tournament. http://warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=726

This Guy, Randall and Smoked Pears are all on their own team. Which is fine if you want to pick up two randoms or if you have some outside friends you want to form a team with. But, I thought I'd give you the opportunity to join each other before we open it up to everyone.

I only have FBG's in my friends list, so when we open it up, I'll need to rely on the rest of you to forwards invites.

Thanks for the heads up Dragons. I didn't see it in time but would have prefered an all FBG team. Oh well.

Eh, maybe it's time to end my feud with Bfred. I do avoid tourneys with him sometimes because I don't want the drama. But, I am on a team with Fred and Sidewinder where we're in the Championship round, and we're able to get along. I think because we both like Sidewinder and don't want to screw him over.

I appreciate that. And I gotta say, I often forget of the history between you two in those games because of how civil you guys are in there.

 

[Skylord]

Challenge 1 is hugely dependent on where you start out and how many opponents are nearby.I've beat it twice in about 10 tries, but only when I started in Africa with no on else on the continent. China/Europe is too hard to defend. Africa has 4 choke points you can defend. I always get screwed up in Australia/Asia Pacific because an army can attack you from Hawaii and I never notice them since they're on the other side of the screen. Still trying to win starting in the Americas.It's pretty easy to take the whole African continent and it gives good army bonuses when you do. Both times that I won followed the same script.Take all of Africa, buildup a small defense vs Brazil and Antarctica, did not expand there.Expanded into Spain and Israel/Saudi Arabia. I only tried to expand when I could defend the border countries after I took them. Spain and the M.E. are good because you can start expanding and only have to defend two countries at a time on each front.Keep an eye on the ai army buildup and defend accordingly. Brazil had 10 armies, so I put 15-20 in Nigeria. They will buildup quick and overrun you the next turn in a blink. Let them attack you, defense has a 60% bonus according to the rules.Brazil and Nigeria had an arms race buildup to 112 armies to 152. In the meantime I was taking Europe/Middle East and pushing eastward towards Asia. Brazil finally attacked me and it was over for them. After losing their 112, I expanded into SA and it was over. South America to North America, Europe over Greenland, Middle East finishing up Asia down into Australia and up from Antarctica.Expand like mad in one or two fronts, defend the rest. Be patient and let them attack you and then finish it.Challenge 2 looks fun but the whole dual earth thing is kinda trippy.

This was great advice.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Unc IX

 

[bostonfred]

A fellow FBG, wdh76, just booted me from a game, on turn 69, that had been going on for months, when we were down to the final two, when we had started with about two dozen players, and we were almost perfectly matched on income at about 130 each on quad earth, when he hadn't made a move in three days, and he didn't even comment about it in chat. No idea how you do that in a game like that.

 

[Tiny Dancer]

That'll teach you.

 

[Tiny Dancer]

Also, congrats on the big win wdh76!!

 

[ScottyFargo]

Screens, caps, an email address and a blowtorch and we can fix this right off.

 

[bostonfred]

Also, congrats on the big win wdh76!!

TINY DANCER IS FAGUYINALITTLECOAT

 

[wdh76]

BF - Why would you make a move when you where the only person in the que and then not make your next move for more than 3 days??? I let this happen 4 times and then decided that if you did not feel like moving at least once in 3 days (without needing to say that you knew you were up because you were the last to move each round!), that the game did not matter to you. For some reason (a fault of mine I guess) the idea of you just blowing off your move for days time after time just got to me.

 

[bostonfred]

I definitely went over a day before. I might even have hit three days before today. The problem is that it takes a really long time to make these moves in a game with four earths, 130 income, and about forty different bonuses being contested, and I can't leave the game open on my computer all day when I'm at work. I had the same problem with the Asia map when I was first playing it. It takes me forever to make a move when I have a huge income and a ton of countries. There are so many options and I keep going back and forth on them.

Oh well. It was a good game. It would have been fun to see how it played out. I don't think we'll ever get a game like that again, and I can't understand why anyone would play a game for months and then end it like that, but I should have moved faster, too. Just seems a shame to have wasted an interesting game.

 

[Dragons]

Was anything said in chat? In this case, I'd warn the other person that I'm going to boot at the boot timer if they continue to exceed it.

 

[wdh76]

My bad BF...I had it in my head that you were not moving until I moved and for some reason that was driving me crazy. If I had it to do over again I would have asked you in chat what was the issue. I really debated about ending it, and in the end I let my frustration get the best of me.

 

[wdh76]

Was anything said in chat? In this case, I'd warn the other person that I'm going to boot at the boot timer if they continue to exceed it.

No, and in hindsight that is what I should have done.

 

[Dragons]

Was anything said in chat? In this case, I'd warn the other person that I'm going to boot at the boot timer if they continue to exceed it.

No, and in hindsight that is what I should have done.

To be fair, if I were BF, I'd also say something in chat about my inability to make moves in a quick manner.You're relatively new to FBG games, you may not have known that we've all sort of come to a standing agreement that booting should only be used when absolutely necessary (i.e. it's clear someone is not returning to the game - or if a tournament is being held up on one person or team). I think almost all of us have been frustrated with BF's delays in games here and there, but when you hear his explanation it makes sense.

 

[Dragons]

This actually reminds me, I'm still a contender in this tournament http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=577. I have a game with Pinkbladder who I understand likes to **** around with the boot timer. He already waited a couple days to be the second to join our game and has still not made his opening move (how much thought and analysis is necessary for the first move?). I should probably warn him now, so I can boot at 3 days on the nose.

ETA - the entire tournament is waiting on our game, which I think is the fault of my previous opponent (The Mighty Sandwich), who I had to boot after warning. He was winning too, so too bad for him.

 

[bostonfred]

Was anything said in chat? In this case, I'd warn the other person that I'm going to boot at the boot timer if they continue to exceed it.

No, and in hindsight that is what I should have done.

To be fair, if I were BF, I'd also say something in chat about my inability to make moves in a quick manner.You're relatively new to FBG games, you may not have known that we've all sort of come to a standing agreement that booting should only be used when absolutely necessary (i.e. it's clear someone is not returning to the game - or if a tournament is being held up on one person or team). I think almost all of us have been frustrated with BF's delays in games here and there, but when you hear his explanation it makes sense.

That's true. I had started to make moves earlier and was going to post something about how long it was taking me, then I noticed he hadn't moved yet and thought the same thing was going on. FWIW if everyone else is moving quickly in the game I'm far more likely to sit down and try to blow through my move. I'm usually very quick at moving in small games. The big US map, Asia after lots of moves, and quad earth are a little trickier, and it seems like almost everyone takes longer on those games. FWIW, I looked at the history and in the past four turns he had started with my 210 income to my 170, but I'd had more armies in position on the board. When it ended we were both in the mid 130s, and I had to defend my bonuses, break other bonuses of his, and also defend the places where I'd already broken his bonuses, and we had fronts everywhere. It was one of the more interesting setups, but it was mindboggling how many combinations there were, and each of us was placing armies in 20+ different places and making over 20 moves per turn. That's not really something I can do between meetings. It takes a little more time.

 

[bostonfred]

This actually reminds me, I'm still a contender in this tournament http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=577. I have a game with Pinkbladder who I understand likes to **** around with the boot timer. He already waited a couple days to be the second to join our game and has still not made his opening move (how much thought and analysis is necessary for the first move?). I should probably warn him now, so I can boot at 3 days on the nose.

ETA - the entire tournament is waiting on our game, which I think is the fault of my previous opponent (The Mighty Sandwich), who I had to boot after warning. He was winning too, so too bad for him.

Pink booted my opponent in a team tourney in a game where he and his teammate had already surrendered. When my opponent didn't show up over the weekend he unsurrendered, then made his move. (If he'd booted before unsurrendering, he would have lost, since everyone else had accepted the surrenders). Worst sportsmanship I've seen on the board. Totally fine to boot him without warning in any future game.

 

[Dragons]

This actually reminds me, I'm still a contender in this tournament http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=577. I have a game with Pinkbladder who I understand likes to **** around with the boot timer. He already waited a couple days to be the second to join our game and has still not made his opening move (how much thought and analysis is necessary for the first move?). I should probably warn him now, so I can boot at 3 days on the nose.

ETA - the entire tournament is waiting on our game, which I think is the fault of my previous opponent (The Mighty Sandwich), who I had to boot after warning. He was winning too, so too bad for him.

Pink booted my opponent in a team tourney in a game where he and his teammate had already surrendered. When my opponent didn't show up over the weekend he unsurrendered, then made his move. (If he'd booted before unsurrendering, he would have lost, since everyone else had accepted the surrenders). Worst sportsmanship I've seen on the board. Totally fine to boot him without warning in any future game.

Too bad I already warned him, although I wasn't exactly nice about it, so that counts for something. I think I read your thread in the warlight forums about this and filed it away. I already knew I despised this guy, but I didn't specifically remember if it was anything other than his arrogance and the rumors I heard about his seemingly intentional delays.

 

[Addai's Adidas]

I've played over 1000 games now.

 

[ScottyFargo]

I've played over 1000 games now.

That is a lot of games. I stick mostly to the FBG forwarded tournies because I don't have the time to sit down and play whole games at a time. Are you jumping into random games often? Any new maps that are interesting?

 

[Dragons]

This actually reminds me, I'm still a contender in this tournament http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=577. I have a game with Pinkbladder who I understand likes to **** around with the boot timer. He already waited a couple days to be the second to join our game and has still not made his opening move (how much thought and analysis is necessary for the first move?). I should probably warn him now, so I can boot at 3 days on the nose.

ETA - the entire tournament is waiting on our game, which I think is the fault of my previous opponent (The Mighty Sandwich), who I had to boot after warning. He was winning too, so too bad for him.

Pink booted my opponent in a team tourney in a game where he and his teammate had already surrendered. When my opponent didn't show up over the weekend he unsurrendered, then made his move. (If he'd booted before unsurrendering, he would have lost, since everyone else had accepted the surrenders). Worst sportsmanship I've seen on the board. Totally fine to boot him without warning in any future game.

Too bad I already warned him, although I wasn't exactly nice about it, so that counts for something. I think I read your thread in the warlight forums about this and filed it away. I already knew I despised this guy, but I didn't specifically remember if it was anything other than his arrogance and the rumors I heard about his seemingly intentional delays.

Pinkbladder surrenders on turn 5: http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?GameID=1115569

 

[Tick]

This actually reminds me, I'm still a contender in this tournament http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=577. I have a game with Pinkbladder who I understand likes to **** around with the boot timer. He already waited a couple days to be the second to join our game and has still not made his opening move (how much thought and analysis is necessary for the first move?). I should probably warn him now, so I can boot at 3 days on the nose.

ETA - the entire tournament is waiting on our game, which I think is the fault of my previous opponent (The Mighty Sandwich), who I had to boot after warning. He was winning too, so too bad for him.

Pink booted my opponent in a team tourney in a game where he and his teammate had already surrendered. When my opponent didn't show up over the weekend he unsurrendered, then made his move. (If he'd booted before unsurrendering, he would have lost, since everyone else had accepted the surrenders). Worst sportsmanship I've seen on the board. Totally fine to boot him without warning in any future game.

Too bad I already warned him, although I wasn't exactly nice about it, so that counts for something. I think I read your thread in the warlight forums about this and filed it away. I already knew I despised this guy, but I didn't specifically remember if it was anything other than his arrogance and the rumors I heard about his seemingly intentional delays.

Pinkbladder surrenders on turn 5: http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?GameID=1115569

Check his cumulative luck in that game - that's rough.

 

[Dragons]

This actually reminds me, I'm still a contender in this tournament http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?TournamentID=577. I have a game with Pinkbladder who I understand likes to **** around with the boot timer. He already waited a couple days to be the second to join our game and has still not made his opening move (how much thought and analysis is necessary for the first move?). I should probably warn him now, so I can boot at 3 days on the nose.

ETA - the entire tournament is waiting on our game, which I think is the fault of my previous opponent (The Mighty Sandwich), who I had to boot after warning. He was winning too, so too bad for him.

Pink booted my opponent in a team tourney in a game where he and his teammate had already surrendered. When my opponent didn't show up over the weekend he unsurrendered, then made his move. (If he'd booted before unsurrendering, he would have lost, since everyone else had accepted the surrenders). Worst sportsmanship I've seen on the board. Totally fine to boot him without warning in any future game.

Too bad I already warned him, although I wasn't exactly nice about it, so that counts for something. I think I read your thread in the warlight forums about this and filed it away. I already knew I despised this guy, but I didn't specifically remember if it was anything other than his arrogance and the rumors I heard about his seemingly intentional delays.

Pinkbladder surrenders on turn 5: http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?GameID=1115569

Check his cumulative luck in that game - that's rough.

Yeah, it hit him bad in turn 4 and 5, I won a 5v4 and then in turn 5 he failed on a 4v2 to escape and maintain a presence next to my bonuses. He didn't have great starting spots either.

 

[Sidewinder16]

Pinkbladder surrenders on turn 5: http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?GameID=1115569

Check his cumulative luck in that game - that's rough.

Yeah, it hit him bad in turn 4 and 5, I won a 5v4 and then in turn 5 he failed on a 4v2 to escape and maintain a presence next to my bonuses. He didn't have great starting spots either.

I noticed he said that, too, in the chat. Maybe I've missed a new school of thought/strategy, but I was under the impression that India and Central America weren't all that bad. You can complete them both in 2 turns. Meanwhile, you only had E China that you could complete in 2 turns, and it takes some more luck to get that in 2 turns than India or CA requires. Overall, I think his starting spots were better than yours. If anything, I think his starting spots should have given him an advantage when compared to your starting spots.

 

[Dragons]

Pinkbladder surrenders on turn 5: http://www.warlight.net/App.aspx?GameID=1115569

Check his cumulative luck in that game - that's rough.

Yeah, it hit him bad in turn 4 and 5, I won a 5v4 and then in turn 5 he failed on a 4v2 to escape and maintain a presence next to my bonuses. He didn't have great starting spots either.

I noticed he said that, too, in the chat. Maybe I've missed a new school of thought/strategy, but I was under the impression that India and Central America weren't all that bad. You can complete them both in 2 turns. Meanwhile, you only had E China that you could complete in 2 turns, and it takes some more luck to get that in 2 turns than India or CA requires. Overall, I think his starting spots were better than yours. If anything, I think his starting spots should have given him an advantage when compared to your starting spots.

You're probably right. In both cases where I failed an attack and he knew exactly where I was, he went all out for the block instead of finishing his own bonuses. His India bonus didn't turn out to be all that great because he was pinched between two of my starting spots. And he had trouble in Central America because I was in W U.S. But he had the opportunity to finish those bonuses and utilize the income for a turn or two before I could have broken them.

 

[Dragons]

So I lost in the next round. Oh well.

Anywho, the team tourney is drawing to a close. Any ideas for the next FBG tourney?

 

[Tick]

Definitely not any campus maps... I'm playing on two and they really couldn't suck more.

 

[The Future Champs]

new york map for the next tourney? it's got some bugs, but it's something new. I'm thinking something with surveillance and recon cards, airlifts, abandons, no spy or reinforcements, and maybe something besides the standard fog- very foggy perhaps?

oh, team game as well, of course

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

SteelerBill - you need to accept the surrender in 3v3 Asia.

 

[TexanFan02]

Grats on the Tourney win, Gaspumper.

 

[Dragons]

Which tourney?

 

[TexanFan02]

Which tourney?

I don't remember. One I didn't win because Gaspumper knocked me out. 2 player teams, remember that.

 

[Aerial Assault]

new york map for the next tourney? it's got some bugs, but it's something new. I'm thinking something with surveillance and recon cards, airlifts, abandons, no spy or reinforcements, and maybe something besides the standard fog- very foggy perhaps?oh, team game as well, of course

I'd just as soon stay away from the very foggy setting, but I love the suggestion of the NY map - - in chat on the tourney page I suggested a new(ish) map like Canada, Warsaw, etc. The New York map (I'm assuming that we're talking about the New York State map with lots of bonuses at the county level and territories made up of towns) would be fantastic.

 

[Polish Hammer]

I'm game. Not very good, but game nonetheless.

 

[Sidewinder16]

Anywho, the team tourney is drawing to a close. Any ideas for the next FBG tourney?

Looks like there is a new, big Africa map.

 

[grateful zed]

hey guys, long time fbger and risker here.

ive seen this thread for years now and have always been interested in joining in.

any advice or tips to get me started?

my buddies and i are playing classic tonight during the game. i just discovered the bar i frequent has a copy of the original remake.

ahh, to play with wooden pieces again.