Welcome Comrades to the 82nd edition of the Dispatch
Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims of Hurricane Sandy. May you keep safe and look after each other. Sure humans can be vile to each other (and our hearts go out to those hot spots too) but no-one expects mother nature to upset the apple cart in such a spectacular fashion! The Dispatch's current turmoil pales into comparison but I can assure you that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel and the train has begun moving again. Watch this space and be ready for some more great things from our dedicated team!
Halloween is upon us (along with Allantide, Abaidas, Quentin, Wolfgang of Regensburg, Eastern Orthodox Liturgics, Reformation Day, Shamhain, Brythonic Calan Gaeaf, Kalan Gwav, Kalan Goañv or even Parentalia and as we move into Día de los Angelitos and Día de los Muertos or Día de los Difuntos). Are you
Trick or Treating , flying a kite, feasting, celebrating the opening of Lieben University (1587), remembering the resumption of the Maori wars in the Waikato (1863), commemorating Nevada's admision as the 36th state (1864), holding a torch for the 200,000 souls lost in the great cyclone in India (1876), marvelling at the last successful cavalry charge in history in World War One's Battle of Beersheba (1917), gasping at the stunning losses of the propane tank explosion at the Indiana State Fair (76 dead and 400 injured in 1963), or those as a result of Ghandi's death (10,000+ sikhs killed in riots in 1984), being inspired by the Soyuz TM-31's launch allowing for the continuous manning thereafter of the International Space Station (2000) or just putting your feet up!
Safariguy updates our
Mafia world with flair. No interview this issue, but we hope to get back to those from next issue onwards!! Mr reliable,
Dukasaur , updates the tournament world with both
Tournament Tips and
TPA Wrap up from
DaveH and
Join this? Or not! from
WorldCup4James . It is my turn to bring you the
Strategy section - in which I ask whether we need
Strategy Guides and I introduce a new series of articles on
Collective Wisdon and this time we look at
skychaser 's views on how to deal with
cooks . The
Foundry section is as busy as ever so much so that I thought it was a
circus . In keeping with the circus theme,
Qyu looks at
Circus Maximus while
Koontz1973 is as busy as ever - updating maps, talking about Halloween and ... drum roll ... another competition. Finally,
Icepack wraps up what is happening in the clans - and there is a lot happening! Well, for being thin on the ground, it's impressive to see that the
Dispatch keeps on trucking!
Enjoy the fruit of our labouring fingers!
thehippo8 Foundry 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... Hello again Freestylers. The twin evils of school and work could not keep me from my duty. The Masli interview fell down between the desk and the wall and no matter what we try it cannot be shifted so we have to publish without it. Never mind, I still get to talk a bit more on mafia setups for this issue.
You Stay Classy, CC.
safariguy5 Freestyle Executive The Scum Insider by safariguy5 show
The Scum Insider Newbie Help Mafia Information , Mafia and You , and Rules and Terms of Mafia .What is "Mafia"? Mafia News Alphabet Mafia is in something of a deadlock as the looming threat of cult forces the remaining town and mafia players to work together. However, this alliance of necessity is fragile and constant arguing and mutual distrust threatens to pull the team apart.Mafia Callouts Replacement Thread to see what games are in need of reserves/replacements.viewforum.php?f=213 Advanced Roles and Strategy by safariguy5 The Preset Mafia Game What is It? C9 being the most well known setup, giving the players the possible roles before game is a good way to test balance and improve deductive reasoning. It also allows newer players to play on relatively equal footing with veterans.Example F11 is a setup that is semi-random intended for 9 players.How to Use this Strategy
Time to sharpen your pencils and sit up straight. It's time to learn something. I can't remember if it was Barry, Maurice or Robin which said:
Strategy
Maybe I heard them wrong? Anyway, time for the Strategy section to return to Dispatch. In this issue I have a look at
Strategy Guides - do we really need them? I also have a look at
skychaser 's brilliant exposition on
how to deal with cooks . Although I kept butting it, I did learn something and hope you do too. Alternatively, if you know better then please speak up! Better still, get yourself on the Dispatch team and tell it like it is - we need the help!
thehippo8 Temporary Strategy Executive Official Strategy Guides by thehippo8 show
Not only is CC a place where you can find maps of all types to whet your whistle, but there is an amazing community of like-minded souls who have spent many happy hours setting up Complete A-Z List of official strategy guides . Well, they did until March 2009 (3 and a half years ago) and 47 maps have useful strategy guides. Have you read them all, do you agree with their content, do you have anything to add, do you follow them at all, do you have any comments about them? Do we need strategy guides? tell us how not to look like a complete twit! Sure, no glory without guts and all that, but who needs it? Moreover, don't we have a responsibility to share our knowledge so we are all on the same playing field? WHo wants to beat someone because they are really too stupid to be able to understand a map? Let's all share the biz and then we can rumble like gladiators. Punch for punch, toe to toe. Everone knows that the best games are the ones that swing back and forth ... like a see-saw with attitude! So, in short, yeah I reckon we do need Strategy Guides. If we are to update the guides, where do we start? Trench changed throughout Beta). need strategy maps!! Herein lies the rub. Who knows about them? Who cares about them? Who has enough knowledge to write such strategy guides? Will anyone care? The strategy guide has only one setting guide - what to do? Collective Wisdom of others who have posted in the Strategy Forum. All I can say is, more please! Reviewing the old guides actually works! It therefore stands to reason that the old strategy guides need to be reviewed periodically (maybe once every two years?). Seems to me that the period that would normally wait has elapsed on all the guides. Sure, there have been some considerable commentary and debate since each guide came live - but who wants to go through the 50 plus pages of info on each map? No, we need to take our time and go through it all properly! And repeatedly. What we need is an enthusiastic team to get in there and do this! Any takers?Conclusion and comments
Collective Wisdom Series: Fighting cooks by skychaser with commentary from thehippo8 show
Trawling through the Strategy Section, I was bowled over by the clever, selfless and downright fun talent sharing their wisdom with us all. In this series, we will look at some of these great posts and consider them in more detail.Fighting Cooks skychaser - posted early last month.skychaser wrote: I've been noticing a lot of people argue about some actions from people with lesser experience or strategic skills ... someone attacks another with no clear intent ... and then they would tell "Goddamn it Leeroy, why did you attack my Kamchacka "?
skychaser sets out a list of other options:- Foe that one, "he won't ruin my game anymore ".so he will not do this to me anymore ".
skychaser level-headedly continues:And you may think about other options but I think the harder but more fun of all is my fourth option, adjusting your strategy to play against anyone, may he have a cook hat or any other hat or badge.
skychaser is on to something here!Well the first thing I think you need to know then playing with cooks is the way to think when playing with them. In fact the very first thing is that cooks got a lot of action, you should want that action being beneficial to you. In other words You want the cook working for your very own victory.
skychaser continues:Here goes some tricks to get this result.- Don't get in the way for he's got a job to do.
Yeah, let him alone. In big maps, you may even sacrifice some stack to him and it's still better than losing all chances of winning.
skychaser continues:If, for example, you have a stack of 8 at some place and you notice him stacking - you have only two options, retreat or all in attack him. Once he exchanges 15 or more he will attack you anyway if you're a "threat ".
Also, this is true for Australia, as an example (playing on the Classic map ). If he's stacking some armies in some Austalian territory you should NEVER stack at the vicinity, he will surely attack your stack counting with luck and then trying to get the profitable continent.
do something!If he's fighting over a continent you should invest at another continent and retreat. Let him weaken the other players for you.
skychaser continues:- Don't do half a job.
If you take from him a continent, you want him causing havoc at another side of the map, maybe near you but you don't want him causing havoc at your countries.
skychaser ?Learn to retreat. in the Classic map ). What do you think he will do? Then you just guess he wants Africa. Well Africa have a little stack of other player. I have had some interesting results by retreating and letting the one guy just "take " Africa for him.
The point here is that number only matter to cooks when it's an absolute number, when you have more than twice his armies, otherwise he may attack you no matter what. If you could retreat and let him attack other people then it's the best to you.
skychaser ?Concede.
skychaser ?Be diplomatic if possible.
skychaser continues:Let's see an example: You have Australia (Classic Map ) and the cook is gathering some armies near. You can propose him Europe. Just saying "Truce me cook, I left Europe for you and you let Australia to me ". He will understand this as literal, most people will do, but in truth you want him to kill people at Europe for you and you're telling to everyone at the board that you will not stop him. You're basically double dipping here. You not only get Australia's bonuses but some people will HAVE to stop him getting Europe since you proposed you can't break the truce.
skychaser ?Position yourself at the board.
You know Colonels are not likely to make mistakes you could profit but cooks will likely do that mistakes.
skychaser , you've certainly opened my eyes to some issues here, thanks!Well this is my first "guide ". I'm open for critics so don't spare me. Also if you have some information or technique you may want to let me know. By all means, tell me.
72o responded (in the thread ):I prefer to foe cooks instead of trying to predict how their idiocy will manifest itself in this particular game and prepare for it.
Viceroy63 added: I also I agree with your cooks assessment and strategy. I personally do not Foe people for not knowing how to play, just their attitude. I also try to use their unexpected plays and just stay out of their way and try to be in a position where I can benefit from their recklessness. It comes down to knowing your opponents. That is the first step in strategy.
skychaser !!
Hello again my friends, and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments!
"What are we going to read tonight, Brain?"
"Same thing we read every night!
Join This? Or Not! by
WorldCup4James ,
TPA Wrap by
DaveH , and
Tournament Tips by
DaveH !"
"Good idea!"
Today I have had the honour of awarding GC medals to Dave and James for the fourth consecutive quarter. They have both now served (slightly more than) one full year at the Dispatch, and been very highly productive during that time. I'm very, very delighted to have these guys on my team! Dukasaur Tournament Executive Join This? Or Not! by WorldCup4James show
It's time for another round of apple bobbing from the tub of Tournaments; here are featured competitions looking for players.Halloween 2012 andyf23 's 1v1 tournament. 64 players will play on the Halloween Hallows map, and the final will be a highly-contested best-of-seven series. Alliance of Titania DJ Teflon 's mysterious planetary war series. The Alliance of Titania features Triples play on the Monsters map, and teams will engage in round-robin play before a best-of-three final. Defend Titania from invading forces, who seek to exploit the planet of its resources. 2012-13 NCAA College Basketball flexmaster33 has released a marathon sports tournament centered around college basketball. In the sixth run, there's a remarkable 182 teams featured, though players can write-in their own teams from all the various leagues. In addition, game scoring follows a unique formula based upon rounds played in the games. Players select their preferred map and settings as their home court. Not only is the 68-team March Madness featured, but the follow-up NIT tournament is also featured. And, most importantly perhaps, there's a flurry of impressive premium prizes; the final four players are guaranteed premium, with the winner taking home a year's worth of CC membership.Salient Assassinations in History Dukasaur 's latest TPA event. Players will battle in eighteen Assassin games, spanning eighteen unique maps. Play will bridge the BC and some of the earliest murders with the 20th and 21st centuries. There's room for at least 100 assassins.Requests for Immediate Players section of the tournament forum. You can be playing very quickly after signing up as a reserve.
TPA Wrap by DaveH show
TPA 1: State of Play The 1st Open Centum TPA 1 Standings TPA Season 2: State of Play TPA 2 Standings TPA Season 3 Major Gilligan - Super Smash Bros Quadruples LeagueMastermind 96 Player 1v1 Groups of 4Random Doubles on Random Map Premier peanutman - Peanut's 3X Double-Elimination Singles Tournament Lufsen's Terminator series: Alexanders Empire 6 Player Terminator series on Alexander's Empire map.Plurples My Favorite Maps 2 Dukasaur's Salient Assassinations in History Redhedge's "Just Another 1 v 1 Tournament http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=175675 http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=177868
Tournament Tips by DaveH show: Tournament Rescue and Round Robins.
As you probably have guessed, I get great satisfaction from using Excel in organising tournaments. However, I have not had any new/different tournament ideas recently so I looked at some of the tournaments that needed rescuing and picked up three that were part of the TPA series of tournaments.1 vs 14 For the remaining rounds you leave player 1 in first placeRound 2 and so on;Round 3 To translate these into sets of players, the numbers are written into the spreadsheet in two columns and the second set can be coded by referencing the appropriate position in the first set (according to the above sequence). When all positions in the second set are complete, the whole table can be copied sequentially to complete the number of rounds. Code: Select all "Round "&CELL_WITH_ROUND_NUMBER&"; "&PLAYER1_POSITION&" vs "PLAYER2_POSITION"&" [to]"GAME_NUMBER_POSITION&" PASSWORD&"[/to]"Code: Select all Round 54; Player 1 vs Player 2 View Game 123456 (Auto-Join Game)Code: Select all =IF(I73="",G73&H73&" has no game this round","Round "&B$48&"; "&G73&" vs "&H73&" [to]"&I73&" R"&B$48&"[/to]")Code: Select all Player 1 vs Player 2 [game]11702170[/game]Game 11702170 . This is used to publish the information to the players to keep them informed every round without taking up much time to do. I think it is always important to publish as much information for your players as possible, but if you can do it with a few lines of Excel code, all the better!
Welcome one and all to the Foundry portion of the Dispatch. Roll up, roll up, come one come all. We have clowns, and horses and a roaring crowd. Pay a penny, pay a pound, listen to the songs, listen to the sounds! Did you come for good, or to make me frown? Does your mother know or are you underground? Roll up, roll up and here we go again!
koontz1973 brings us updates on which maps are making their way through the Foundry. Is your favourite map there? Do you even know what your favourite map looks like? And in keeping with the current circus theme,
Qyu brings us a historical revisionist introspective on, what else, but
Circus Maximus - the map itself! The only clowns are the ones on the other side of the computer - you know who you are! Sqeek sqeek! And being the second most important holiday in the Satanic calendar,
Halloween is upon us. A chance for
my favourite map, Knights, to get a facelift by it's maker - himself who is rejiggied to become
Killerkoontz1973 - and he even writes about it! Finally, there's a chance for you to shoot the duckies, hoop the bottles, catch the balls and do whatever else is required to win this weeks
Foundry Dispatch Competition .
And the last laugh goes to
Carl Sagan who said:
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
thehippo8 -- Foundry ExecutiveQuenched & new Beta maps. show
Another fine map from cairnswk gets quenched this week. His 31st to be exact. Click image to enlarge. Classic cities Sydney cairnswk and Jakarta koontz1973 .Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge.
by koontz1973 show
After a month of nothing, we get this . It has some very interesting tit bits from our fearless leader. No, not El_Jefe thenobodies80 As first act of this transition period I'm going to announce that koontz will help us in an official capicity. He should have got his pair of blue shoes as I write this post, so let's the magic begins!...his name has turned to a wonderful blue color!
Please, let's give (again) a big welcome to
koontz1973 He has helped us in the last 6 months with the drafting room and we think he is doing an excellent job. He has showed skill and he is certainly willing to help everyone.
He will continue to follow the drafting room, but when necessary he will help us also with other departments.
Welcome aboard koontz!
thenobodies80 Map Complexity .Map Tags .
Maps in Development. koontz1973 show
Every map at every stage of development. Find your maps here and get involved. Drafting Room Where maps start life. But like all new babies, this is where they need the most attention. Vertex Paris Tribal War Israel Alamo Austrum Main Foundry The main block of work is done here. Gameplay section. krazy kingdoms Conquership WW1 Gallipoli Fields of Gettysberg Graphics section. Labyrinth Classic City: Madrid 4 Star Meats France 2.0 Spanish Amarda Paris Metro USA 2.1 Philadelphia
Circus Maximus by Qyu show
Aurigae, expergiscere equorum vestrorum !rocksolid ; and revamped one year later, in July 2007 the 14th, by WidowMakers . Unfortunately, we weren't able to find any images of the first version (if you have somes, please, PM me).rocksolid thought about a vinyl record, or a black hole, but ended up with a horse racetrack. rocksolid even expected a big outcry by naming his own project as an anathema. Clever, dude!Marvaddin , you're a liar, you played it, three times !). Some suggested to add a clockwise line in the middle or in the side of the counter-clockwise lines.I say DO IT! Its different. Make it. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, no harm done
rocksolid imagined named for each letter, a Roman Emperor's name: Domitian, Caesar. Trapped: Julian is written IVLIAN in latin uppercase, and give a mess with the previous line IMPERIUM! Too bad, let's just keep the upper-case J, nobody will notice the historical error, will they?Chariot Race to something more authentic and ancient feeling, as Andy suggested, like Hippodrome . rocksolid chose Circus Maximus , to keep the Roman feel. And also more circus games, more 'Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant', more bloody & oily gladiator skin.Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. exactly like the real Circus Maximus, according to archaeologists and historians : Click image to enlarge. Art ! Ask Chagall , Modigliani or Matisse (well, you can't, they're dead!) if their drawing is exactly like real life!Widowmaker did the right thing: ignored the grumpies and went his own way. Maybe he give them some crumbs, then reverted to the original idea. Nice job!widowmaker gave us the ultimate revamp:Click image to enlarge. Sheik Ilderim , from Ben-HurBonehead! Give me those reins! You think you can treat my horses like animals? To drive cows and goats is all you're fit for! Get off, idiot!
Circus Maximus , from their Glory of the Empire song:On my quest for a new horizon
Halloween killerkoontz1973 show
Back in October 2011, I posted what was my first draft of the Knights Gilligan Pumpkin Carving Contest and this year an added bonus of being placed onto the Halloween knights map was part of the reward for all entries.
Foundry Dispatch Competition - now open to all people. by koontz1973 Foundry Dispatch Competition koontz1973 show
ckyrias for getting the crossword answers correct. Part one. Click image to enlarge. Part two. about the map . You will find the map threads in the Maps in development article this issue.
For those in the know, this is the single most important part of the Dispatch. Sure Freestyle is entertaining, Strategy is interesting
theoretically , Foundry provides a glimpse for the future and opportunity for creative outlet, Tournaments is a warm up
but it is Clans where it all comes together.
And by jingos has a lot happened in clans since the last update! Thankfully
Icepack is on hand to bring us a thorough update of what's what and where's where. It takes a dedicated adherent to bring such a depth of understanding so cheers
Icepack thehippo8 Foundry Executive Updates by Icepack (The Fallen) show: CC3
Dako recently took over the CC3 Leadership Role, and has done a fantastic job! Currently Conquer Cup 3 is in the quarter finals, and we are down to eight clans. Here are the match ups!Quarter-finals (1) KORT vs (24) OSA - [1 :: 5] - Link (4) TOFU vs (5) PACK - [4 :: 2] - Link (2) TSM vs (10) AFOS - [13 :: 8] - Link (3) EMPIRE vs (6)AOC - [11 :: 8] - Link CC3 Prediction Challenge CC3 Prediction Challenge link
show: Newcomers Cup 3
Newcomers Cup 3 link
show: 2nd Annual 1 vs 1 Challenge
2nd Annual 1 vs 1 Challenge link
show: CL4 Event
CL4 is wrapping up its Phase 3 Division 1 series, while Divisions 2-5 have moved onto Phase 4. viewtopic.php?f=441&t=176594#p3855565 viewtopic.php?f=441&t=177626#p3878760 viewtopic.php?f=441&t=178018#p3887654 viewtopic.php?f=441&t=178019&p=3942021#p3887663 viewtopic.php?f=441&t=178021&start=0#p3887681
show: Regular Clan Wars
FALL vs LOW:
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Subscribe Here! ConquerClub Dispatch Team samuelc812 wrote: ConquerClub Dispatch Team thehippo8 - Temporary Strategy Executive (Strategy Team List Updated Sept. 04, 2012) Dukasaur - Tournament Executive (Tourney Team List Updated 29/8/2012) thehippo8 - Foundry Executive (Foundry Team List Updated 1/10/2012) thehippo - Temporary Clan Executive (Clan Team List Updated 23/06/2011) safariguy5 - Freestyle Executive (Freestyle Team List Updated 14/07/2012) 
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