Welcome Comrades to the 45th edition of the Dispatch
Did you guys had fun with the
April's Fool edition ? Well, we at the Newsletter Team hope so!, but
HighlanderAttack still looking at the points and he PM'ed me asking where the f*** they are!
Keep looking for them amigoā¦ (that was a joke
, yes not a funny one
)
We've got a some good stuff for this edition of
"War Games" including the first article of our new volunteer
sonicsteve , a
"Beginners guide to hosting a CC tournament." The Clan section focuses on the Newcomers Cup, Conqueror's Cup 2, and the 1on1 challenge, while the Cartography section also have a new writer volunteer:
OliverFA , and he will be discussing the map "Feudal War".
We hope you can find all this information helpful and interesting for you.
jricart Newsletter Executive If you would like to apply to join the news team, please visit the thread below for more details!
Click here for Recruitment Details... Nagerous is busy with real-life for now, so the Mess Hall is a bit barren. With not even a cook around, we have had to survive on coffee and donuts. The Canadians are holding out as they are used to the diet, but everyone else is too lethargic to publish. However, our awesome team have made sure to bring you a high-quality section nonetheless. With SIX GAMES recruiting, now is the time to check out the Scum Insider for the latest mafia news and an in-depth look at a deductive fallacy known as the WIFOM argument. Also returning in this issue is the Random Game Analysis. For the first time ever it's not a 2-player game. FInally The Saxlad introduces a place which may be completely new to you - the international forums. Don't forget to check out the ever-popular Interrogation Room as the CC community grills TOFU's jakewilliams.
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Pretender to the Throne Random Game Analysis by Doomyoshi show
Game 6215192 Aragonlar played a notably different strategy, one that isn't as common on CC as it is in casual RISK. He distributed his troops widely, and made a good claim on a large continent bonus - one of the largest on CC. Perhaps because nobody expects someone to stake a claim on Antigonus by turn 3 (turn 2 of gameplay), nobody bothered defending against it.Craig82 from reacting to it. He not only broke the bonus, but also cut out his own little slice of the map in Armenia. Even with major troop losses though, it wasn't long before Aragonlar took Antigonus back. While this battle was raging in Macedonia Captain Sid was negotiating troop movements and treatys. He successfully predicted by now that Aragonlar would be the player to watch and that all alliances would be against him. The single border alliance and the against someone alliance are the two most interesting types as they are very rarely ever enough. The powerful player can merely tone himself down until the alliance is over and then pick up the scraps as the former friends tear each other apart. This was not exactly the case here, but close enough.Aragonlar had a luxury that nobody in the actual battle would have had. He simply pulled back, right into Ptolemy's territory. Now the central territories were available for battle but the West was the fallback point. It was also the fallback point for RUBENIUSSS who had been stockpiling an army in the Caspian Sea. The merfolk were preparing for battle.Aragonlar .
Scum Insider by Victor Sullivan and Safariguy5 show: The Scum Insider
Newbie Help Mafia Information , Mafia and You , and Rules and Terms of Mafia .What is "Mafia"? Mafia News Mafia Callouts Advanced Roles and Strategy by safariguy5 The WIFOM Argument What is it? Example How to Spot this Strategy WIFOM .
International Forums by The Saxlad show
Hallo, Bienvenue, Ciao! You guessed itās the international forums, there for our bi, tri or even Multi friends. No, not that type of Multi silly, the Multi-Lingual Type. All in all there are 10 Forums ranging from Italian Language, to Dutch language, to Spanish and even Danish!!! Admittedly some have been more used and Influential than others, but they still arenāt being used as much as they should, and it would be great for more people to use it, so get on there ļjricart .Jricart wrote: "Club de Conquista" is the Spanish speaking community in Conquer Club International Forums. We are in first place on international forums with number of topics and 3rd in number of post.
jricart wrote: In regard of my recent tournament. It call "JRT's Ultimo Hispano en Pie 3" (Last Hispano Standing) Based on a terminator multiplayer tournament. So far is the biggest spanish speaking tournament I ever done, with 48 players (All latinos).
The tournament will last at least 2 months, and Iām giving away 24 months of premiums as a prize for 6 players. Also, there is a GA medal in play for the most kills at the end of the tourney.
For more info, go here:
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Hi again amigos and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments.
On this release of War Games, we have
Dukasaur 's
Meet the Tournament Winners article featuring an interview with
sparkyball .
Sonicsteve is providing his first ever article for the newsletter:
Beginners guide to hosting a CC tournament ,
Angola the "
TPA Update ", and
Soldierboy is giving us an update about new tournaments in his "
Join This? or Not! " release.
Thank you for taking the time to read this, and we hope you like our section.
jricart Tournament Executive Meet the Tournament Winners! by Dukasaur show: Interview with sparkyball
On February 15th, sparkyball won his very first Tournament Cup in the King Edmund the Just tourney, which was first posted on November 28th, 2010. This was one of many tournaments run by tokle . Tokle has 30 tournaments to his credit, most of them with a historical theme, such the Alternate History of Iberia, the Prince of Wales series, and other series based on the dynastic successions in Scotland and France. King Edmund the Just was part of the Kings of England series. Greetings, sparkyball, and thank you for agreeing to talk with me about your tournament win. What attracted you to this particular tournament? This was your very first tournament win. Was that an exciting moment, winning your first? And did you do anything special to celebrate? Do you find that playing a tournament that's all on one map makes you an expert on that map by the time it's over? What about interaction with other players? Did you make any new friends or new enemies in this tournament? So are you joining other tournaments now with more confidence? How's that going? So what are your major priorities on CC now? Are you focusing in any specific area? Thank you very much for taking the time to talk with me. Good luck in all your future endeavours!
TPA Update by Angola show: TPA Update
The TPA (Tournament Players Association ) continues to be the sonicsteve show. Scoreboard and now has 31.4 points, while HighlanderAttack is in second with 26.73 and MudPuppy is third with 26.67.Powers of Three , won by sonicsteve .ContinentConquer: N A Trips , won by sonicsteve , Chariot of Fire and elfish_lad .Create/Join a Tournament area to sign up for future TPA events, which will be ending in the next two months.
Join this? or Not! by soldierboy show: JOIN THIS OR NOT
Welcome to this issue of JOIN THIS? OR NOT!Trainee Triples VIII , is organized by DJ Teflon . Each team must have 7 Medals in Triples between them (examples: 1 Gold (3), 1 Silver (2), 1 Bronze (1); 3 Silver (6); 2 Gold (6), 1 No Medal). He is looking for 8 triples teams. All players must have fewer than 2,000 points at sign up and at least two players must have a bronze medal or no medal at all. If you are freemium he is letting you join as long as you have 2 free spots open. So if you have 1 bronze medal or no medal at all in triples you'd better hurry up and join before it fills up!mcshanester29 . MC"s The Terminator's Revenge # 2 will be for all the terminator game fans. He has a wide variety of maps for this tournament. To start off the first round he has picked American Civil War, Brazil, Alexander's Empire, and Italy. The semi finals will be played on Europe 1914, England, and Great Lakes. The final round will played on Midgard, Mexico,Feudal Epic, and Thyseneal. If there is a tie then the tie breaker will be played on Doodle Earth. The settings for this tournament will be terminator, automatic, freestyle, escalating, chained, and sunny. You'd better jump on it before it fills up!40kguy . DEDICATED TO KIRON will be played on the Waterloo map. The settings will be 8 player, standard, automatic, freestyle, flat rate, unlimited, and sunny. He is allowing freemiums to play in this tournament as well. If you like Waterloo and you are premium or freemium you might want to join this before it fills up!Create/Join a Tournaments or click Tournaments Tab at the top and look at the other tournament that are waiting to be filled. soldierboy signing out!
Beginners guide to hosting a CC tournament by sonicsteve show
Part I ā Layout and Launch Track Meet by Woodruff later once you fully understand the work involved in a big tourney. I see lots of people trying 100-player events with multiple complex features for their first event and all too often these are the events which get abandoned.The Wacky Races and fit it to a theme or simply one that does exactly what it says on the tin like āMy Random Trips Nuclear Escalating Knockoutā.Structure knockout bracket or round robin , each of which can have many variations (to be the subject of a later article). The key factor is setting a structure which is easily understandable to you and your potential players without the need for a degree in statistics and 3 pages of accompanying notes. Settings Post your Tournament Create/Join a tournament and if you want to, reserve the next couple of posts so you have somewhere near the top of the thread to show the list of players who have signed up. You may also want to post a scoreboard or a list of results. If you do, reserve a post for that, too.Official Conquer Club Tournament Handbook or if you are stuck you can post questions Q&A section ā youāll find that tourney organisers are a friendly bunch and always willing to help
Hey, hey, hey, Foundry friends! This edition of Cartographic Surveillance is a little more bare than normal, due to the release of the April Fools issue, but I am happy to bring you our new Reporter,
OliverFA 's first article! Oliver will be discussing the classics other than Classic - this fortnight, "Feudal War". And join me as I "Celebrate the Foundry!" Enjoy, folks! And as always, feel free to PM me any questions, comments, or applications.
Victor SullivanFoundry Executive Classic Review - Feudal War by Oliver F.A. show
Nowadays, the Foundry is plenty of life. We enjoy a continuous stream of creativity and talent. Thanks to the effort of dedicated mapmakers, new additions are quenched regularly. And many more maps are in the works.Classics . They deserve our attention despite the time that has passed since they were created. Or maybe because of that.Feudal War We are in a little corner of the Medieval World divided between six realms. Until now, each Lord has been happy enough ruling over his own kingdom. But their wish of power has grown bigger, and none of them will stop until all the castles are unified under one single rule.
Celebrate the Foundry! by Victor Sullivan show
Ahoy there, folks! I think the community can always benefit from some uplifting words, so I say, "Celebrate the Foundry!" For all you mapmakers, think of when you got your first map into Beta, and your first quenching... Foundry commenters, think of that one time you made a really spot-on map analysis... For the rest of you, think of yourself being one of those people - you can be apart of the joy! Let's put the spotlight on those that make the Foundry a place to really celebrate:natty_dread - Truly a Jack of All Trades Foundry-man - 3 maps quenched, 2 in Beta, 1 in the Gameplay Workshop and still has time to give that in-depth analysis all mapmakers crave. Surely a Finnish fellow finely fitted for Foundry functions.Riskismy - Had a bit of an angst-y start, but has taken to Foundry affairs as Cookie Monster does to Chips Ahoy! I bet he will be a well-known voice in due time.ender516 - A tech geek mod at heart, but his prowess in XML is outstanding to say the least! Let not his words fall on closed ears (or asleep monitors), you'll probably have a problem later. DJ Teflon - Though King of Speed (tournaments, that is), this football juggler has insight beyond his 93 medals, handing out advice like candy on Halloween. May your thread be graced with his wisdom and immaculate spelling.theBastard - Has grammar that would make an English teacher frown, but has amazing knowledge that would make any mapmaker giggle with glee! You can count on this bastard to help you accurately depict your historical map's event.OliverFA , carlpgoodrich , -=Tanarri=- , FarangDemon - These commenters all have the acquired taste of complex maps, and are always ready to give the complicated and confusing an in-depth look-see. Where would we be without this quintessential quartet?AndyDufresne - He may be the busiest pet ever, but our curious monkey friend and former Foreman can always spare some time for a comment or two. His short, concise wisdom goes far past his many map ideas and days of service to the CC community - heed the monkey's wisdom, or you will surely experience regret.MrBenn , thenobodies80 , MarshalNey , TaCktiX , iancanton , Industrial Helix , isaiah40 , RedBaron0 - Let's give a round of applause for this extraordinary crew! The Boys in Blue are dedicated to providing you with the best comments to help you make the best map possible. If no one else, these are the ones to listen to.thank you
Our news this week focuses on the Newcomers Cup, Conqueror's Cup 2, and the 1on1 challenge.
Check out
bruceswar 's clan icons. Get some more good tips from
Blackknight_6 on having fun in your clan. And read Hardballs to find out the Ten Commandments all you clan members must live by.
Big congratulations to Knights of the Round Table who have sealed victory over The Horsemen Of The Apocalypse to make them champions of the first Conqueror's Cup. That's an epic achievement. Opinion is divided as to whether it makes them top clan - but there is broad agreement that they've got to be considered for that spot and that no clan will be able to claim top spot without beating them.
And good luck to the four clans starting their games in the league's playoff semifinals.
Check out all the action in the
Active Challenges forum.
laughingcavalier Clan Executive The Newcomers Cup by jigger1986 (GR) show
The first round of Benga 's Newcomers Cup is in full effect, and the battles are heating up as all 12 teams try to make it to the semi-finals. Before the event started all the clans were ranked by the various leaders, much like Chuuuuck 's Power Rankings to create the matches.Each of the 6 wars in round 1 are 43 games each separated into two batches. The first batch consisting of 21 games made by the higher ranking clan and the second batch consisting of 22 games made by the lower ranked clan. Some of the wars in the first round have already been decided, and other are close to being finished.VS Grim Reapers-24* - 1st Grenadiers Guards-15 VS Risk Attackers-20 - Spelunkers of Hell-22* VS Always Kicking A$$-11 - Pig Renters-19 VS The Pack-25* - Welsh Dragons-11 VS Wild Geese-22 - The New Crusade-9 VS One Step Ahead-21 - Order 66-9 Newcomers Cup here for all the updates.
The Conqueror's Cup by Leehar (Nemesis) show
Here's an Update on the First Round as most games are well underway as the second batches start to be exchanged. We even have our first winner as The Legion progress to the next round after overcoming Grim Reapers.Devil's Brigade vs. Bullet Proof Bandits Imperial Dragoons vs. The Fantastic Four-skins De Veroveraars der Lage Landen vs. Agents of Chaos Legends of War vs. One Step Ahead Grim Reapers vs. The Legion Newcomers Cup after already winning their first encounter in that tournament. Legion themselves can breathe a sigh of relief and now concentrate on their own match against Foed where they are still well behind.Mythology vs. A Fistful of Sixes The New Crusade vs. The Spanking Monkeys Dynasty vs. Generation One Fraternal Order of Exceptional Drinkers vs. Legends of the Zone Risk Attackers vs. Immortal Assassins Empire vs. Death by Comity Han Solo and Chewbacca . After all, the renegade mercenaries of DBC are doing their utmost against Empire's Galactic ArmyThe Last Warriors vs. Nemesis Deathwink . And with their madmom pinning down the Nemesis teens, the match is evenly poised at 8-7 to Nem.Bretheren of the Fat Mermaid vs. Memento Mori billy07 for this challenge as well.
1on1 Challenge - AoD vrs DB by laughingcavalier (TSM) show
1v1 Clan Challenge . friendly1 and ElectrickShock - the match was tied at 20-20, indeed the score in games was 102 each... AoD's home game, Feudal Epic, Game 8550273 , was the decider - it went to round 43 with spoils cashes getting up to 120... Was it fun or nerve-wracking we asked the combatants? friendly1 (AoD) wrote: The 5 game match with
ElectrickShock was intense, and that game is one of the most enjoyable I've ever played!! With adjacent fortifications on feudal epic it was a back and forth battle where we kept releasing stacks when we would attempt to take over more of the map. With the clan match tied at 20 to 20, and ES and I both having won 2 games each in our deciding match, both clans were watching every single turn to see what the fate of our overall match would be, and this just added to enjoyment. I don't usually get too excited about any single game, but this one was definitely an exception.
ElectrickShock (DB) wrote:
Ninjachampion ). The Dispatch asked friendly1 how AoD are enjoying the challenge. friendly1 (AoD) wrote: AoD loves to go to battle!
Jpcloet and
Gold Knight do an awesome job of lining up challenges and wars so we are usually in a competition of one kind or another, and occasionally multiple challenges. And big bananas to JP for all his time and effort on building the clan area of CC over the past couple of years!!!
For myself, I am primarily a singles player (usually 6 to 8 player games) but a clan challenge with 1 vs 1 games makes this my favorite clan challenge AoD has ever been involved with. And as this challenge does not allow freestyle or manual settings in games, I believe it balances the play. Of course 1 vs 1 games are always notorious for bad placements or dice on the first couple of turns which decides the game, but having a 5 game match helps to stabilize this. Some players choose maps where the player to go first will win the game a large majority of the time. I would rather play on maps where the winner is not necessarily determined by who starts first. Barterer2002 has done an excellent job on putting this together, and I very much hope that clan challenges in the future may consider adding 1 vs 1 components in some small capacity.
Victory for the Crusaders by jigger1986 (GR) show
In August of 2010 TheSaxlad created the The Fourth Crusade, now called The New Crusade (TNC). When he started the clan he did something that most others clans do not, he allowed all players, regardless of rank, to join. Although some may have seen this as foolish, Sax, and his future Crusaders knew that discrimination based on rank would only hurt the clan. Since then the recruitment standards have been raised, but according to Claudard they still live by the motto that was instilled in them from inception: "Death Before Dishonor."Crusaders Training Academy here.
Clan Icons by bruceswar (KORT) show
To give you guys something to look at, we wordy types turned to bruceswar to come up with a new set of clan icons to enliven our coverage. They are so darn pretty we thought we should let you see them all right here right now. Boy, there are a lot of clans. Can you name them all? (Clue: they are mostly in roughly alphabetical order). Special thanks to cachejob for the TOFU icon. If you don't see your clan here, get in touch with the Dispatch and we'll put that right.
Spice Up Your Clan: All about squads by Blackknight_6 (T4C) show
In the last dispatch I talked about spicing up your clan with internal one-to-one tournaments. It seems that the Fourth Crusade is not the only clan to do this, as Chewie1 from Death by Comity (DBC) related to me.Chewie1 wrote: It all started after
dukehazzard and I had some inter clan banter, he is a relatively new member so to put him in his place i challanged him to a 1v1 best of 11 challange (which of course i won).. the result from this was
Nikita42 came up with the idea of an inter clan 1v1 round robin tourney.
Each player chooses 4 home maps with settings of his/her choice then 3 random maps are used with settings voted in the original sign up thread. The winner of the tourney is who has most wins after the round robin has finished.
Not every clan member is taking part but the core of DBC is. Its fun and banter is a plenty. And bragging rites will be awseome.
tokle , our war coordinator, has been using the established squads now for clan war games. And then our leader for recruitment theCrown (do all clans have many leaders? I know we do, and it works really well) had the idea of tracking the squadsā progress through the wars and giving each squad a rank according to number of wins ā a bit like the Conquer Club ranking system.http://kingcrusader.posterous.com/squad-wars-2011-winterspring-edition http://challonge.com/squadwars http://www.posterous.com http://www.wordpress.com http://www.blogger.com
HARDBALLS with Master Fenrir (FOED) show
If history has taught us nothing else, it's that when a group of 20-30 people get together, small societies are formed. History also teaches us that in these small societies, you do not want to be the fat kid holding the conch. Bad things happen to that guy. The 10 Commandments of Clan Life 1. Thou shalt always predict that your clan will be victorious during the pre-war banter. will predict that your clan will be victorious. To predict that your clan will lose is considered heresy and you can expect to be excommunicated if not tortured and put to death in barbarous fashion. While it's true that only about 50% of the predictions are correct as one clan always loses, you can always claim that you should have won, but lost due to bad drops and rolls.2. Unless your clan is ranked #1, thou shalt always believe that your clan is under-ranked. know you. Your ability to drop 3 troops on a 3 and attack another 3 is unsurpassed. Wait...what? You mean to tell me that after two straight losses in clan wars, your clan wasn't ranked #1 or at least in the top 5?! The nerve!3. Thou shalt play on complex maps to prove that you are l33t. 4. Thou shalt learn to love Map Rank. Map Rank Script is the clan equivalent to a criminal background check. When new members apply to join you clan, Map Rank is to be used to determine whether or not they are worthy of try-out games. Map Rank's other use is to determine an opposing clan's weaknesses. Refer back to Commandment 3 here. Check their stats on complex maps. If they have poor win/loss records, you know that they are not as l33t as you, and you should use those maps for your home games.5. Thou shalt not miss a turn. 6. Thou shalt try really, really hard. They know. You can catch small parts of their whispered conversation. "...hear about Ted?" "...can't believe it....lost to them?!" "...used to respect him." "Never again...can send his own TPS reports." You must not lose. If you do lose, a tantÅ through your abdomen from left to right is the only way to regain honor.7. Thou shalt "accidentally" post in public chat. 8. Thou shalt look for forfeits. must be cheating. Once you realize this, it's up to you to piece together as much circumstantial evidence as you can to make a claim of cheating and ask for forfeited games as punishment. There are a few ways to do this. Double-check if any player in the other clan has violated a maximum-game rule. If not, check and see if they've had any sitters. Can you find a way to make it look like account-sitting abuse? If not, try the fog rule. Check the first turn of each fog game and see if they moved in less than 12 hours. You can only expect a few games to be forfeited here, but those few can help. Some prophets have foreseen that by the year 2100, clan games will no longer be played . Maps and rosters will be listed and the games will be simulated with arguments.9. Thou shalt maintain appropriate levels of drama. THOTA and TSM , finished just about a year ago. However, without clicking on that link, do you remember the actual score? Some research just conducted in Live Chat suggests that you do not. What you remember most is the delicious drama. When in control of a clan war thread, you must be conscious of this and see to it that your thread has enough juice to keep the attention of the clan community. This holds especially true for lower-ranked and newer clans. Whether your clan is good or not, dramatic threads will keep you in the forefront of the community's mind, which could help you come time for some sort of ranking. "The Borg*? We have a clan named The Borg? Ohhhh...their leader is the guy who had an affair with that other guy's wife and had her type that he was a better lover in the game chat. That was pretty cool. I'll rank them 12th." *We do not have a clan named The Borg. 10. Thou shalt have at least one female clanmate.
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