lol, wow indeed.... ;)

now i see why anlari was asking earlier about the ability to "color" crete and sardinia!

Impressive.

I suppose there had to be some "help" from the others involved, no?

Maniac: So this is real?

No, I think it's legit. He just made sure to not win until he had forced a disband of every enemy unit. Then the game was his to do with as he pleased.

And in PPSC, too.

It is legit, he encircled and forced the disbandment of every enemy army after capturing their home sc meaning they couldn't build. Then he played around for a bit (did the St Petes convoy a few times) before winning the game in an epic fashion.

and with only 1 home SC for a good while. I loved the fancy convoys =)

lolwtf

:)

partially I got lucky with germany invading austria instead of defending his homeland, which left them both without home SCs so that anything disbanded would stay that way.

also I kept saying I was on a crusade to kill austria (who was actually quite annoying) and convinced france to be my mercenary and take SCs from me so that I could do it without hitting 18. I think he only found out he wouldn't be able to keep a good proportion of them in the end game when I convoyed him off to tunis and disbanded his army. or maybe he knew but it was more fun to be convoyed around as merc and die later than die immediately.

I think there is a bug prevent convoys from Syria to SPT btw, unless I kept entering the orders wrong over and over..

-preventing

It's also very fun to be the sole player, turn ends as soon as you finalize :P

I think you should've surrounded Switzerland with like three layers of armies around it. Maybe you couldve been the first to take it.

I tried that for crete and sardinia, it didnt work

I think there should be an option to play to 34. I did on one site which had a bug (needed 18 units not sc) comeback from being down 21-6 to win the game.

Wow, this deserves mega-congrats!! I am floored ...

@JECE - yep, it was for real

lawl

If you make a game setting that plays until 34 SC's, then England could just set up the Portugal/MAO/NAO stalemate line and leave Turkey hanging at 30.

"If you make a game setting that plays until 34 SC's, then England could just set up the Portugal/MAO/NAO stalemate line and leave Turkey hanging at 30."

QFT.

@anlari, I've seen that convoy done before.

QFT?

@anlari - I could have sworn you've been in games with me where we've done it!
@Fac - That used to be an issue here

QTF = Quoted For the Truth I believe.

"QTF = Quoted For the Truth I believe."

QFT

QED

QDD

QTF = Quoted-For-the-Truth-I-believe

Why has it suddenly switched from QFT to QTF?

I always thought it could be cool to be able to change/set the victory conditions. would that be hard to code? Maybe have a setting for like, 18, 23, and 34?

Incredibly easy - if you want to try one I'm sure one of us can set you up an olidip variant with a different limit.
That said, 34 leaves the risk of holding the 6SC stalemate line.

Yeah, was thinking of bringing it up on Olidip. I think the 34 limit would be best suited for 1-on-1 games.

@Ghost, because I mistyped. I'm horribly embarrassed.

@ figles QED indeed.

very impressive though i wasnt the biggest fan of the pink, though it is quite calming

nice...
good tactic if you go for the points in supply-per-center :)
was that the reason or was it just cool??

No steephie, you don't get any extra points for winning with more than 18 SCs.

Earlier in the development of this site, you *did* get a greater points reward for winning with 19 or more SCs, and some canny players (I remember DangerDave in particular) would deliberately delay victory when in a commanding position, in order to win with 20 or even more SCs.

Jamie, normally that is correct, but in this case because every other player was eliminated, I believe he did in fact get 100% of the points. The game page indicates that he got the full 97 .

I imagine that he did it because he thought it would be cool. The circumstances would have to be just right though, with several countries out of their home centers. Not something you can just choose to do on a whim. Also, it had been brought up on the forum just a few weeks before and the only examples had been where it appeared multi-accounting was a factor.

Bravo.

alderian gets what i mean: if you're the only survivor you can't share the pot with anyone...

Haha, well done.

There seems to be a bug in how the orders are presented
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=34739&viewArchive=Orders
Several years of English moves are clumped together. I suppose this happened since the system got confused by the lack of moves from other players.

I doubt anlari is in need of the extra points :P

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=34739&viewArchive=Orders#index1

there is what appears to be a bug in the order archive for this game.

The list of english orders once other players had no units left is not broken down by year (i was wondering about those failed convoys from syria to stp...)

ha, yebellz saw it first...

@ Alderian - ah, in this case that's true. I stand corrected.

"I doubt anlari is in need of the extra points :P"

well, if he plays high stack games...

I thought it was fake until I watched the turn by turn. Incredibly impressive. Incredibly embarrassing to the other players, too ;)

yebellz and orathaic: Ha ha ha. No, it would be much better to say that anlari submited orders for 296 units in Fall 1926.

anlari: Was NAO-Cly in Spring 1926 a mistake? And how did you get France to do your convoys?

Well done, Anlari. The convoy of a single enemy unit to the isles is a great tactic to get it out of your hair. I recently (in August) played in an ftf game where I was Italy. My ally, Austria, managed to get a unit past Germany's defenses into MUN, from where he went to KIE and then to DEN. Germany, who owned the 3 English centers convoyed the Austrian army DEN-EDI, and the deal was we would do a 3 way after eliminating France, where Austria would get the 3 English centers as Germany took the 3 French and I took 2 Iberian centers. You would never get this sort of sophisticated alliance in a gunboat.