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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EMPIRE NEWS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A Wolfpack Empire Publication =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "All the news that fits, we print." =-=-=-=-=-=-=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar, 2005 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
:-: In this edition :-: -----------------------------------------
What's New?
Links/Resources/Getting Started
Games --
Upcoming
Current
Recently ended
The Dig -
Empire News 1 Year Ago
Empire News 10 Years Ago
Clients and Player Tools
Server and Deity Info
From the Editor
Econ Hint(s) of the Month
Anno of the Month
:-: What's New? :-: ---------------------------------------------
:*: International Trade Wars is underway!
:*: Petting Zoo IV is in the works!
:*: Maciek Gajewski announced a new, qt-based, graphical Empire
client project.
:-: Links/Resources/Getting Started :-: -------------------------
Home of Wolfpack Empire: http://www.wolfpackempire.com/
FAQ : http://www.wolfpackempire.com/faq.html
Usenet : news:rec.games.empire
More : http://www.wolfpackempire.com/links.html
:-: New Games :-: -----------------------------------------------
:*: Deities, advertise your games here. Email
empnews04@wolfpackempire.com with the details.
:*: Petting Zoo IV
Doug "Bungy" Bungholio is putting together the next game in the PZ
series, tentatively titled "Whatever Suites You".
Bungy is chronicling "The Making of PZIV" on the official PZ website,
and it's definitely worth checking out. Surf to
http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/bungholio/PZ4-TheMakingOfPZ4.html
Hey Doug, I love the photo journalism
:-: Current Games :-: -------------------------------------------
:*: International Trade Wars
Start: 4-Feb-05
Updates: 60 etus every 46 hours
Host/Port: multi.usr.ch / 6665
Pat Loney's latest edition of the Twisted Minds Series, dubbed
International Trade Wars, is underway.
This game perhaps ventures the furthest from the usual Empire stock
game with its transcontinental maritime trade focus. In ITW, the
goal is instead to collect the most Victory Points by seeing your
trade ships safely to distant ports.
Many of the usual commands/units have been disabled/removed. For
example, the assault command has been disabled, transport ships
removed and ship firing ranges on ships have been shortened right
up. The result is that players cannot completely eliminate each
other. All land units have been removed except for a single
artillery unit.
Instead, players aim to build trade ships and sail them as far as
possible to a friendly (NPC) Timbuk2 harbour. There, they declare
"victory" and the ship is magically turned into points, the value
of which depends on how far the ship has sailed from its port of
origin. And just to keep things interesting, players can either
claim positive Victory Points for themselves or negative Victory
Points for other players.
The power chart is irrelevant in this game, instead, players look
to the report report, which tells them exactly how many VPs every
player has earned. As of this writing the standings are:
Tue Mar 8 12:25:33 2005
# name Victory Pts
5 Thistle 114.90
9 beep 84.00
15 Ski 73.20
11 ResPublica 48.56
4 Ragnarook 43.80
1 Industmech 30.50
6 DrunkNDisorder 28.30
14 A.F.K. 19.20
2 Dorsai! 18.60
13 Tortuga 13.20
3 Zergland 3.90
10 Parpara 1.20
16 Phantom 1.00
7 WhiteStar 0.00
8 Luciania 0.00
12 Cactus 0.00
50 Timbuk2 0.00
Mines are not on the endangered species list in this game...
Thu Mar 3 03:44 A.F.K. ship hits a mine twenty times
Thu Mar 3 03:37 A.F.K. ship hits a mine two times
Wed Mar 2 22:43 Parpara ship severely damaged in mine field
Wed Mar 2 21:31 beep ship hits a mine
Wed Mar 2 19:05 A.F.K. ship hits a mine two times
....or naval air combat...
Wed Mar 2 18:00 ResPublica divebombs a ship flying the flag of
A.F.K.
Wed Mar 2 14:38 ResPublica divebombs a ship flying the flag of
A.F.K.
Wed Mar 2 14:33 ResPublica airforce bombs A.F.K. ships four
times
Thu Mar 3 03:40 A.F.K. pilots down DrunkNDisorder planes
Wed Mar 2 14:36 ResPublica victorious in air-to-air combat
against A.F.K.
Wed Mar 2 14:36 A.F.K. victorious in air-to-air combat against
ResPublica
Wed Mar 2 14:15 Tortuga pilots down DrunkNDisorder planes
Pat has recently laid down the conditions for victory -- earn 450
VPs and win by 20 VPs. Thistle is in the lead at the moment with
66, with a 25 point lead over second place beep. Politics and
diplomacy should become very interesting, especially with the
ability for players to sabotage their competitors by subtracting
victory points. An organised consortium of players "in the middle
pack" could really make things difficult for the leaders...
:*: The Changeling Blitz
Restart Cycle: Every day at 7:00 pm US/Eastern (currently 23:00 UTC)
Updates: Enabled at 7:30 pm, 60 ETUs every 10 minutes
Host/Port: blitz.wolfpackempire.com / 6789
Website: http://www.wolfpackempire.com/default.htm
Note that world size and some options change daily. It is up to
players to figure that out each day, but typing `version' helps.
Further surprises are possible, as Changeling runs snapshots from the
latest Wolfpack server development.
:*: The Zebra Blitz
Restart Cycle: Every Sunday at 6:00 pm US/Eastern (currently 22:00
UTC)
Updates: Enabled at 6:30 pm, 48 ETUs every 60 minutes
Host/Port: blitz.wolfpackempire.com / 5678
Website: http://www.wolfpackempire.com/default.htm
:-: Recently Ended Games :-: ------------------------------------
:*: No long term games have ended recently
:-: The Dig :-: ---------------------------------------------
The Dig is compiled from Google's r.g.e. archive at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.empire/about
:*: Empire News 1 Year Ago
About 1 year ago today, naming was an interesting thread of
discussion - naming ships, planes, lands and, yep, even sectors -
and the ROLLOVER_AVAIL concept had just been introduced. Anybody
want to comment retrospectively on that option? Star Wars Empire
I was in full swing, and the biggest game of 2004 - Retro Empire -
was announced. Retro started with 22 players in late March, 2004.
Intro to the Petting Zoo, a.k.a. PZI also ended, won by Doorbell.
Doorbell posted a few bugs^H^H^H^H undocumented features, as well.
Interesting.
:*: Empire News 10 Years Ago
The WWII game got under way, with 30 subscribers. Tech was fixed
at 220 in this thematic World War II game that had good old BB4's
DD2's and SB3's. British Empire II was underway.
The game Nomad ended, won by Ajax and his ally Khazad'ur. Nomad
had 39 players starting on 25-sector islands. By the end of the
game, only 9 viable countries were left standing.
The NightOwl game also ended, won by Kanal. NightOwl empire was
a small game with a world size of 64x32 and 15 brave countries.
The game was running at 48 ETU with 1 update a day. One interesting
feature - the game times were restricted from 9pm to 9am.
:-: Clients and Player Tools :-: --------------------------------
The basic Empire client can be found at
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/clients.html and
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24031
source as well as binaries for many platforms.
The latest version of WinACE is 2.4.20. Download it from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winace/
The latest version of PTkEI is 1.18.1. See the PTkEI home page at
http://www.lfmm.org/ptkei/
The latest version of eif is 1.3.4. See the eif home page at
http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/empire/
The latest version of LAFE is 1.0. Get it from
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/empire-lafe/
or any other Debian mirror.
The latest version of pei is 3.0.1. See the pei home page at
http://empire.tau.ac.il/~romm/emp/
:-: Server and Deity Information :-: ----------------------------
The current Empire server is 4.2.19. Download it from
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/server.html or
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24031
:-: From the Editor :-: -----------------------------------------
I'm a little low on editorial comment this month. I think we all are.
Subtracting spam postings, last month was the quietist in over 15
years.
Put up your hand.
Any new players who would like a slow, Newbie game with easy rules?
Anybody not playing and bored and would like to volunteer some of
their fine talents and time on an Empire project?
Anyone playing on the Changeling or Zebra Blitz games?
Any new deities considering running a game?
Anyone ever play Tracy Johnson's HP Empireclassic? What's it like?
Does anyone miss the LOTR series? Put up your hands if you want to
play a LOTR game.
Does anyone miss the StarWars Empire series? Put up your hand if
you want to see a SW Empire game.
Who checks r.g.e. every day (like me)?
Jeff a.k.a. Dexter
:-: Hint of the Month :-: ---------------------------------------
:*: Economic Sanctions
A major war in Empire often involves any number of economic aspects
and considerations. As a player, you should always aim to protect
your economic assets, and destroy your enemy's assets. Here, I
mention a few ways to gain some advantage by attacking your enemy's
economy. Next time, I'll discuss ways of protecting your own assets.
More than anything else, bars are your enemy's most valuable asset.
Try to take them away, either by capturing them or by destroying
them. One trick is to grab them and hold them across an update,
depriving him of the income. Bars are a target worthy of a
significant effort, but don't be too hasty to destroy them, if you
think you can capture them eventually.
When your enemy's cash is short, you can cause some economic hurting
by sending him a hefty repair bill right before an update. Attacking
planes is one common way of doing this, although you can achieve a
good result by attacking sector efficiency. If your enemy has cut
his budget fine, an unexpected invoice for plane or sector repairs
can send him into the red, seriously disrupting his update production
and distribution.
On a longer time scale, air battles can become a war of attrition,
where the cost of repairs can be a method to incur a constant
drain on your enemy's cash and production capacity. Just be careful
not to drain your own cash reserves too far.
Civs are also another good target, especially with nukes. Knock
down your enemy's civ population, as well as the efficiency of the
sectors they're living in, to reduce both his tax income and also
capacity to produce stuff.
Warehouses/harbours are sometimes a juicy target, if you're
complacent enemy has allowed lots of stuff to accumulate there.
A warehouse with a thousand shells and a hundred guns, for example,
is a $4500 target. A single shot from an arty, fort or jhb will
cost your enemy far more than the cost of inflicting the damage.
Just about every tactical move has an economic aspect - improve
your play by learning to evaluate the economic implications and
capitalise on the economic opportunities.
:*: Quiz question:
:*: Last Month's Question: You're in mid invasion and in a real
bind for a few extra mil. How can mil be moved across oceans
without a ship or plane or land unit?
If you've got the cash on hand, and some mobility in the sectors
near your invasion, you can use the demob/enlist commands. Demob
some mil from where you don't need them (this costs you some cash)
and enlist some civs where you need the mil (this costs you some mob).
There are two catches, however. The civs must be loyal to you, or
you can't enlist them. I usually bring along some civs in a cargo
ship or two for this very purpose. Also, the target sector must have
an efficiency of at least 60%.
:*: This Month's Question: You're moving some cms from sector A to
sector B and the best path is not obvious. How can you work out
the best path from A to B without moving anything?
:-: Anno of the Month :-: ---------------------------------------
Deities, send nominations for Anno of the Month to
empnews04@wolfpackempire.com
:*: This month's award goes to Overlord and beep, playing in
International Trade Wars. Bungy gets an honourable mention for
posting the ITW drinks menu.
> Announcement from Overlord, (#0) dated Wed Mar 2 19:05:48 2005
A belated congratulations to beep for being the 1st player
to break the 40 VP barrier. As a reward, we pooled some
funds together and were are going to send over a couple
of 120 kg prostitutes. Sorry about that units 'anomoly'. When
I filled out the form, I didn't realize it was one of those
European forms.
Ummm, and if two portly men with Dutch accents knock at your
back door, kinda remember that I filled that portion of the
request form in incorrectly too.
> Announcement from beep, (#9) dated Thu Mar 3 06:23:55 2005
well, i must say that pietr was quite nice and gave an excellent
neck and shoulder massage, but jan was a bit of tool who tended to
get prissy if he felt he wasn't the center of attention. roverlord
should demand half his money back.
> Announcement from Overlord, (#0) dated Thu Mar 3 14:17:00 2005
Re: Refund for jan
That's okay, I tokk it as a tax write-off. (I also paid
them in Canadian dollars. so it wasn't like it was real money.)
Hmmm, maybe I'll send Jan over to Barsoom
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
= The Empire News is a publication of Wolfpack Empire, bringing =
= you the best in Empire since 1996. If you would like to add =
= content (new games, games ending, new web sites, hints, =
= Anno of the Month submissions, etc.) to the next edition of =
= the Empire News, please contact the editor at =
= empnews04@wolfpackempire.com =
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EMPIRE NEWS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A Wolfpack Empire Publication =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "All the news that fits, we print." =-=-=-=-=-=-=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar, 2005 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
:-: In this edition :-: -----------------------------------------
What's New?
Links/Resources/Getting Started
Games --
Upcoming
Current
Recently ended
The Dig -
Empire News 1 Year Ago
Empire News 10 Years Ago
Clients and Player Tools
Server and Deity Info
From the Editor
Econ Hint(s) of the Month
Anno of the Month
:-: What's New? :-: ---------------------------------------------
:*: International Trade Wars is underway!
:*: Petting Zoo IV is in the works!
:*: Maciek Gajewski announced a new, qt-based, graphical Empire
client project.
:-: Links/Resources/Getting Started :-: -------------------------
Home of Wolfpack Empire: http://www.wolfpackempire.com/
FAQ : http://www.wolfpackempire.com/faq.html
Usenet : news:rec.games.empire
More : http://www.wolfpackempire.com/links.html
:-: New Games :-: -----------------------------------------------
:*: Deities, advertise your games here. Email
empnews04@wolfpackempire.com with the details.
:*: Petting Zoo IV
Doug "Bungy" Bungholio is putting together the next game in the PZ
series, tentatively titled "Whatever Suites You".
Bungy is chronicling "The Making of PZIV" on the official PZ website,
and it's definitely worth checking out. Surf to
http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/bungholio/PZ4-TheMakingOfPZ4.html
Hey Doug, I love the photo journalism
:-: Current Games :-: -------------------------------------------
:*: International Trade Wars
Start: 4-Feb-05
Updates: 60 etus every 46 hours
Host/Port: multi.usr.ch / 6665
Pat Loney's latest edition of the Twisted Minds Series, dubbed
International Trade Wars, is underway.
This game perhaps ventures the furthest from the usual Empire stock
game with its transcontinental maritime trade focus. In ITW, the
goal is instead to collect the most Victory Points by seeing your
trade ships safely to distant ports.
Many of the usual commands/units have been disabled/removed. For
example, the assault command has been disabled, transport ships
removed and ship firing ranges on ships have been shortened right
up. The result is that players cannot completely eliminate each
other. All land units have been removed except for a single
artillery unit.
Instead, players aim to build trade ships and sail them as far as
possible to a friendly (NPC) Timbuk2 harbour. There, they declare
"victory" and the ship is magically turned into points, the value
of which depends on how far the ship has sailed from its port of
origin. And just to keep things interesting, players can either
claim positive Victory Points for themselves or negative Victory
Points for other players.
The power chart is irrelevant in this game, instead, players look
to the report report, which tells them exactly how many VPs every
player has earned. As of this writing the standings are:
Tue Mar 8 12:25:33 2005
# name Victory Pts
5 Thistle 114.90
9 beep 84.00
15 Ski 73.20
11 ResPublica 48.56
4 Ragnarook 43.80
1 Industmech 30.50
6 DrunkNDisorder 28.30
14 A.F.K. 19.20
2 Dorsai! 18.60
13 Tortuga 13.20
3 Zergland 3.90
10 Parpara 1.20
16 Phantom 1.00
7 WhiteStar 0.00
8 Luciania 0.00
12 Cactus 0.00
50 Timbuk2 0.00
Mines are not on the endangered species list in this game...
Thu Mar 3 03:44 A.F.K. ship hits a mine twenty times
Thu Mar 3 03:37 A.F.K. ship hits a mine two times
Wed Mar 2 22:43 Parpara ship severely damaged in mine field
Wed Mar 2 21:31 beep ship hits a mine
Wed Mar 2 19:05 A.F.K. ship hits a mine two times
....or naval air combat...
Wed Mar 2 18:00 ResPublica divebombs a ship flying the flag of
A.F.K.
Wed Mar 2 14:38 ResPublica divebombs a ship flying the flag of
A.F.K.
Wed Mar 2 14:33 ResPublica airforce bombs A.F.K. ships four
times
Thu Mar 3 03:40 A.F.K. pilots down DrunkNDisorder planes
Wed Mar 2 14:36 ResPublica victorious in air-to-air combat
against A.F.K.
Wed Mar 2 14:36 A.F.K. victorious in air-to-air combat against
ResPublica
Wed Mar 2 14:15 Tortuga pilots down DrunkNDisorder planes
Pat has recently laid down the conditions for victory -- earn 450
VPs and win by 20 VPs. Thistle is in the lead at the moment with
66, with a 25 point lead over second place beep. Politics and
diplomacy should become very interesting, especially with the
ability for players to sabotage their competitors by subtracting
victory points. An organised consortium of players "in the middle
pack" could really make things difficult for the leaders...
:*: The Changeling Blitz
Restart Cycle: Every day at 7:00 pm US/Eastern (currently 23:00 UTC)
Updates: Enabled at 7:30 pm, 60 ETUs every 10 minutes
Host/Port: blitz.wolfpackempire.com / 6789
Website: http://www.wolfpackempire.com/default.htm
Note that world size and some options change daily. It is up to
players to figure that out each day, but typing `version' helps.
Further surprises are possible, as Changeling runs snapshots from the
latest Wolfpack server development.
:*: The Zebra Blitz
Restart Cycle: Every Sunday at 6:00 pm US/Eastern (currently 22:00
UTC)
Updates: Enabled at 6:30 pm, 48 ETUs every 60 minutes
Host/Port: blitz.wolfpackempire.com / 5678
Website: http://www.wolfpackempire.com/default.htm
:-: Recently Ended Games :-: ------------------------------------
:*: No long term games have ended recently
:-: The Dig :-: ---------------------------------------------
The Dig is compiled from Google's r.g.e. archive at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.empire/about
:*: Empire News 1 Year Ago
About 1 year ago today, naming was an interesting thread of
discussion - naming ships, planes, lands and, yep, even sectors -
and the ROLLOVER_AVAIL concept had just been introduced. Anybody
want to comment retrospectively on that option? Star Wars Empire
I was in full swing, and the biggest game of 2004 - Retro Empire -
was announced. Retro started with 22 players in late March, 2004.
Intro to the Petting Zoo, a.k.a. PZI also ended, won by Doorbell.
Doorbell posted a few bugs^H^H^H^H undocumented features, as well.
Interesting.
:*: Empire News 10 Years Ago
The WWII game got under way, with 30 subscribers. Tech was fixed
at 220 in this thematic World War II game that had good old BB4's
DD2's and SB3's. British Empire II was underway.
The game Nomad ended, won by Ajax and his ally Khazad'ur. Nomad
had 39 players starting on 25-sector islands. By the end of the
game, only 9 viable countries were left standing.
The NightOwl game also ended, won by Kanal. NightOwl empire was
a small game with a world size of 64x32 and 15 brave countries.
The game was running at 48 ETU with 1 update a day. One interesting
feature - the game times were restricted from 9pm to 9am.
:-: Clients and Player Tools :-: --------------------------------
The basic Empire client can be found at
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/clients.html and
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24031
source as well as binaries for many platforms.
The latest version of WinACE is 2.4.20. Download it from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winace/
The latest version of PTkEI is 1.18.1. See the PTkEI home page at
http://www.lfmm.org/ptkei/
The latest version of eif is 1.3.4. See the eif home page at
http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/empire/
The latest version of LAFE is 1.0. Get it from
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/empire-lafe/
or any other Debian mirror.
The latest version of pei is 3.0.1. See the pei home page at
http://empire.tau.ac.il/~romm/emp/
:-: Server and Deity Information :-: ----------------------------
The current Empire server is 4.2.19. Download it from
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/server.html or
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24031
:-: From the Editor :-: -----------------------------------------
I'm a little low on editorial comment this month. I think we all are.
Subtracting spam postings, last month was the quietist in over 15
years.
Put up your hand.
Any new players who would like a slow, Newbie game with easy rules?
Anybody not playing and bored and would like to volunteer some of
their fine talents and time on an Empire project?
Anyone playing on the Changeling or Zebra Blitz games?
Any new deities considering running a game?
Anyone ever play Tracy Johnson's HP Empireclassic? What's it like?
Does anyone miss the LOTR series? Put up your hands if you want to
play a LOTR game.
Does anyone miss the StarWars Empire series? Put up your hand if
you want to see a SW Empire game.
Who checks r.g.e. every day (like me)?
Jeff a.k.a. Dexter
:-: Hint of the Month :-: ---------------------------------------
:*: Economic Sanctions
A major war in Empire often involves any number of economic aspects
and considerations. As a player, you should always aim to protect
your economic assets, and destroy your enemy's assets. Here, I
mention a few ways to gain some advantage by attacking your enemy's
economy. Next time, I'll discuss ways of protecting your own assets.
More than anything else, bars are your enemy's most valuable asset.
Try to take them away, either by capturing them or by destroying
them. One trick is to grab them and hold them across an update,
depriving him of the income. Bars are a target worthy of a
significant effort, but don't be too hasty to destroy them, if you
think you can capture them eventually.
When your enemy's cash is short, you can cause some economic hurting
by sending him a hefty repair bill right before an update. Attacking
planes is one common way of doing this, although you can achieve a
good result by attacking sector efficiency. If your enemy has cut
his budget fine, an unexpected invoice for plane or sector repairs
can send him into the red, seriously disrupting his update production
and distribution.
On a longer time scale, air battles can become a war of attrition,
where the cost of repairs can be a method to incur a constant
drain on your enemy's cash and production capacity. Just be careful
not to drain your own cash reserves too far.
Civs are also another good target, especially with nukes. Knock
down your enemy's civ population, as well as the efficiency of the
sectors they're living in, to reduce both his tax income and also
capacity to produce stuff.
Warehouses/harbours are sometimes a juicy target, if you're
complacent enemy has allowed lots of stuff to accumulate there.
A warehouse with a thousand shells and a hundred guns, for example,
is a $4500 target. A single shot from an arty, fort or jhb will
cost your enemy far more than the cost of inflicting the damage.
Just about every tactical move has an economic aspect - improve
your play by learning to evaluate the economic implications and
capitalise on the economic opportunities.
:*: Quiz question:
:*: Last Month's Question: You're in mid invasion and in a real
bind for a few extra mil. How can mil be moved across oceans
without a ship or plane or land unit?
If you've got the cash on hand, and some mobility in the sectors
near your invasion, you can use the demob/enlist commands. Demob
some mil from where you don't need them (this costs you some cash)
and enlist some civs where you need the mil (this costs you some mob).
There are two catches, however. The civs must be loyal to you, or
you can't enlist them. I usually bring along some civs in a cargo
ship or two for this very purpose. Also, the target sector must have
an efficiency of at least 60%.
:*: This Month's Question: You're moving some cms from sector A to
sector B and the best path is not obvious. How can you work out
the best path from A to B without moving anything?
:-: Anno of the Month :-: ---------------------------------------
Deities, send nominations for Anno of the Month to
empnews04@wolfpackempire.com
:*: This month's award goes to Overlord and beep, playing in
International Trade Wars. Bungy gets an honourable mention for
posting the ITW drinks menu.
> Announcement from Overlord, (#0) dated Wed Mar 2 19:05:48 2005
A belated congratulations to beep for being the 1st player
to break the 40 VP barrier. As a reward, we pooled some
funds together and were are going to send over a couple
of 120 kg prostitutes. Sorry about that units 'anomoly'. When
I filled out the form, I didn't realize it was one of those
European forms.
Ummm, and if two portly men with Dutch accents knock at your
back door, kinda remember that I filled that portion of the
request form in incorrectly too.
> Announcement from beep, (#9) dated Thu Mar 3 06:23:55 2005
well, i must say that pietr was quite nice and gave an excellent
neck and shoulder massage, but jan was a bit of tool who tended to
get prissy if he felt he wasn't the center of attention. roverlord
should demand half his money back.
> Announcement from Overlord, (#0) dated Thu Mar 3 14:17:00 2005
Re: Refund for jan
That's okay, I tokk it as a tax write-off. (I also paid
them in Canadian dollars. so it wasn't like it was real money.)
Hmmm, maybe I'll send Jan over to Barsoom
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
= The Empire News is a publication of Wolfpack Empire, bringing =
= you the best in Empire since 1996. If you would like to add =
= content (new games, games ending, new web sites, hints, =
= Anno of the Month submissions, etc.) to the next edition of =
= the Empire News, please contact the editor at =
= empnews04@wolfpackempire.com =
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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