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kind of.

oh brazil. disappointing

well, i have yet to see a world game without a cd, so it isn't all that surprising.

true... we need to make a world game of exclusively reliable players and long phase lengths. THAT would be fun

there was a 17 games gunboat series with every participant playing every country once about a year and a half ago, with some of the best players from the site participating. the games are
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until
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It was brutal...

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The World Gunboat tournament! I loved that. I actually still have my report on Frozen Antarctica. Let me grab that...

---FROZEN ANTARCTICA NATIONAL TOURNAMENT SCORESHEET---

*Game Results*

Game 1
Leader: Ghug
Result: Eliminated 2016 (8th place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 2
Leader: LakersFan
Result: Defeat, 2009 (11th Place)
PPSC Points: -
Townshend Points: -
Continent Points: -

Game 3
Leader: Tyran
Result: Defeat 2013, 10th Place
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 4
Leader: Masf
Result: Defeat, 2005 (15th Place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 5
Leader: Elodin
Result: Defeat, 2006 (12th Place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 6
Leader: Jmbostwick
Result: Survive (T-3rd Place)
PPSC Points: 12 (T-3rd Place)
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 10 [Antarctica, Australia] (3rd Place)

Game 7
Leader: Tasnica
Result: Defeat, 2009 (10th Place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 8
Leader: Pjmansfield99
Result: Defeat, 2005 (14th Place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 9
Leader: EvW
Result: Defeat, 2006, 13th Place
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 10
Leader: Mapu
Result: Eliminated 2006 (14th place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 11
Leader: Yonni
Result: Defeat, 2012 (7th Place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townsend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 12
Leader: Y2kjbk
Result: 6-Way Draw
PPSC Points: 12
Townshend Points: 13
Continent Points: 10 [Australia, Antarctica] (3rd Place)

Game 13
Leader: Achilles27
Result: Defeat '08 (13th Place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 14
Leader: Partysane
Result: Defeat, 2004, 15th Place
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 15
Leader: Dubmdell
Result: Defeat, 2004 (13th Place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

Game 16
Leader: Brian Hickey
Result: 6-Way Draw
PPSC Points: 7
Townshend Points: 13
Continent Points: 0

Game 17
Leader: BosephJennett
Result: Defeat, 2013 (8th Place)
PPSC Points: 0
Townshend Points: 0
Continent Points: 0

*Totals*

PPSC Points Total: 31
PPSC Points Average: 1.82

Townshend Points Total: 26
Townshend Points Average: 1.53

Continent Points Total: 20
Continent Points Average: 1.18

Resilience Rating Total: 140
Resilience Rating Average: 8.24

*Other Statistics*

Most Successful Leader (PPSC): Jmbostwich and Y2kjbk
Most Successful Leader (Townshend): Brian Hickey and Y2kjbk
Most Successful Leader (Continents): Y2kjbk
Least Successful Leader (All Measurements): Partysane
Longest Game: Game 6, Jmbostwick (Survive)
Shortest Game: Game 14, Partysane (Defeat, 2004)
# of Times Conquered Home Continent: 1
# of Times Survived Without Conquering Home Continent: 2

---FROZEN ANTARCTICA NATIONAL TOURNAMENT SCORESHEET---

Thoughts on Frozen Antarctica:

FA, interestingly enough, is not all that good at actually conquering Antarctica. Indeed, only once did it actually conquer the continent, and it got Soloed against in the process. Argentina conquered Antarctica more often than FA did.

In the hope of determining how this nation can be salvaged, I will be taking a quick look at Game 12, undeniably the most successful for FA. Notable in this game was an immediate offensive against Oz, buying time to grab South Pole. War between SA and Argentina also kept SA out of Y2K's hair.

Y2K then outmaneuvered Oz to conquer that continent as well, and spent the rest of the game fighting Argentina, and to a lesser extent India and Kenya. He formed a solid defensive line near the end of the game, encompassing Antarctica and Australia, but was unable to hold anything outside of that.

Clearly, the best hope for this nation is swift resolution with both SA and Oz, ideally through their immediate defeat. Even then, FA is still vulnerable to a number of nations, and is likely to spend much of the game on the defensive.

@kasimax: Requested thread doesn't exist.
Which begs the question: why not? Don't the IDs simply increase one in number each time?

got that error today as well, steephie. it worked yesterday.

now i know why. missed and 8 at the end when copy-pasting.

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I think F-Ant would be just enough better if the Southern Indian Ocean and Southeast Indian Ocean border split the Casey SC. This way F-Ant wouldn't be "forced" to move F Cas -> SEI every time. There would be another reasonable option of F Cas -> SIO. It's tough when 2 powers have 2 SCs on the same sea space and one of them has no alternatives for the fleet.

Same situation exists off of East Atlantic Ocean for Ghana and South Africa. I think the Northeast Atlantic should be lowered to split Guinea. This would also give a second power (Ghana) first turn access to NEA instead of just Europe having it.

And while I'm at it, Mediterranean should be split into east and west with Italy and Libya having access to both sides of the sea. Three nations each having two home supply centers on a single sea space is a bit much.

I think i am the Oz in his game ;)