From Empire.Net!cheatum.frontiernet.net!news.sprintlink.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!bt!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!cs.city.ac.uk!exeter!sb314 Sat Nov 11 11:53:19 1995 Path: Empire.Net!cheatum.frontiernet.net!news.sprintlink.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!bt!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!cs.city.ac.uk!exeter!sb314 From: Ed Down Newsgroups: rec.games.empire Subject: British Empire III Ends Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 12:56:26 +0000 Organization: School of Informatics, City University, London Lines: 83 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: exeter.city.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: sb314@exeter In a courageous all-out attack strategy, Thule has won control of the British Empire III region. Early today the last remaining countries bowed their heads to the Thulian executioners and accepted defeat in the face of overwhelming superiority. Each leader found himself plunged into a high-stress situation at the start, with half the population enlisted men, and an arsenal of badly maintained high tech weaponry dotted around the country. Land-based food and oil resources were low, and only shells and guns had been left by the former leaders. Two land borders with other nations and a inland mountain region controlled by the rebel alliance gave lots of opportunity for enemy attacks, but also for advances. The region was set to sink into a blood-filled morass right from the start. But only Thule used the enlisted half of his starting population and his large starting cash to build offensive cavalry units. Other countries took the pacifistic option of demobilisation and boosting production in the early stages, and relied on diplomacy to defend their borders from the three other countries on their island. After quickly dispatching his three co-islanders with cavalry charges, other nations hoped for a breather whilst the Thulian navy was built and his home production developed. But again Thule took the offensive and immediately gained a beachhead on the still sparsely-populated coasts of two neighbouring islands. From here on in it was uphill for Thule and downhill for all the other nations. Caught up in restrictive island alliances and petty border disputes, no nation could either defend against the Thulian menace or match the production of his unchallenged home island. Having taken out about half of the starting nations capitals the overwhelming victory shown below was gained. Rip Slyly - Hot-footing it to British Empire IV - = [ Empire Power Report ] = - as of Thu Nov 9 13:43:25 1995 sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pl sh un money Thule 439 94% 217K 15K 9.8K 332 1.9K 65K 16K 3.8K 168 122 237 80K 27932.22 Xenophobi 143 99% 91K 3.1K 1.2K 116 1.5K 17K 3.7K 4.1K 7 14 47 6.8K 4000.33 Jungle 68 91% 50K 2.5K 838 155 571 11K 764 2.4K 13 19 20 14K 3512.87 Schytia 74 96% 45K 1.8K 248 82 615 7.6K 1.2K 921 11 10 26 1.1K 2424.88 Gosh 70 95% 44K 2.2K 235 55 773 12K 5.0K 1.3K 2 6 26 1.3K 1908.59 El_Rancho 48 92% 31K 505 97 23 161 1.6K 31 499 0 7 1 32K 1329.24 Lummerlan 116 91% 46K 4.1K 427 84 1.1K 18K 1.4K 925 0 14 16 10K 1266.56 Rebels 81 99% 50K 5.4K 6.3K 0 6.2K 999 0 0 64 0 3 -14K 1171.81 Asylum 24 96% 11K 1.3K 60 3 339 2.4K 1.1K 338 0 7 8 -5.9K 354.68 Gothorn 23 87% 7.4K 1.2K 117 47 169 814 7 494 0 18 10 -29K 351.56 TheSprawl 9 79% 3.4K 275 0 0 46 100 1.3K 123 0 6 0 -24K 2 Schytia 126.05 11.00 17.75 0.00 -44,-18 3 Lummerland 61.70 9.91 9.03 17.44 -23,-27 6 El_Rancho 115.81 22.27 17.00 23.09 -32,16 8 TheSprawl 114.14 29.57 5.96 0.38 46,4 11 Gothorn 124.83 17.06 6.13 0.27 47,-3 12 Xenophobia 106.44 18.95 21.72 63.25 6,-12 14 Jungle 144.79 34.19 27.58 12.04 -18,10 23 Gosh 90.73 15.96 16.13 21.90 -49,-11 24 Asylum 51.35 9.76 9.94 0.00 -26,26 27 Thule 182.14 46.81 58.96 35.30 50,28 29 Rebels 51.35 9.36 0.00 0.00 47,29