Welcome Comrades to the 93rd edition of the Dispatch
With all the excitement the newsletter took a back seat for a few days, sorry about that!! It's all go and there's so much happening that I am all in a spin!! I'm not going to do a precise for this issue - I'll let the team do that for themselves! But let me be the first to welcome you all to Clan Week and the Live Chat event ... well, I imagine you are all aware of those by now
And don't forget:
Graphics Competition and
Foundry Games . Anyways, hope you all enjoy this issue. Just a quick reminder - we still need some help, pretty much in all the divisions, but there is a callout for clan assistance in particular. Contact your favourite leader or, if you don't have one, me!
In the words of Harry Callahan:
You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
Enjoy the fruit of our labouring fingers!
thehippo8 Chief 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 Freestyle readers. We've got another Scum Insider this issue and koontz fills us in on a Live Chat event.
You Stay Classy, CC.
safariguy5 Freestyle Executive The Great Community Map Project. Live Chat Event show
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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 Mystery Killer Mafia is based on an interesting premise. At the beginning, nobody knows if they are a serial killer, but everyone has to target someone every night anyways. Should be interesting to find out who can figure out who is scum before the SKer finishes off town.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 Hammerer What is It? Example How to Play this Role Mfia role. Depending on the mod, the Hammerer may have control over his ability and PM the mod to secretly move the vote. If discovered, the Hammerer can usually be negated by not putting people at L-1 before claiming. It can also help narrow down who the Hammerer is, if the wagon reaches L-1 and there is not an automatic lynch. This may be useful should the hammerer survive until the late game when the player pool is small enough to determine the likely suspects.
It's been a long stint for me as head of the Clan Team for the dispatch team, but it's finally time for me to call curtains on my efforts with the executive board of this fine Newsletter, as I move on to concentrate on the Clan Director responsibilities that have fallen upon my still slender shoulders.
The Dispatch will hopefully announce a Callout for applications to the position in the ensuing days, so I hope you will all eagerly take the opportunity to try your hand at this very rewarding task!
We also have some exciting articles in this edition, as the reliable Swifte brings us a new article on a Successful Tournament franchise that makes the jump to becoming a full-fledged Clan Event!
And then we have a quite enthralling feature article, where The Voice presents a 3-part mini-series on What keeps a Clan Together! Part 1 is displayed below, along with credits to all the clan leaders that shared information in Voice's investigation.
Qwert pitches in with the update on the latest from CL5, with Group tables reflecting the latest points tally.
Finally, we're also joining in on the fun around GCCM, as we prepare for Clan Week & Koontz presents his 1st Challenge
As publication nears, I've managed to include one final article as well, so take a look at the link as BlackKnight throws down the Gauntlet to The Pack!
Leehar Clan Executive TLO comes to the Clan World! by Swifte show
This week we had an exciting and intriguing development in the clan world - the announcement of TLO V: Clan edition! This event is brand new to the clan area, but not to CC, and brings a whole new kind of event to our little piece of CC paradise.• Instead of round-robin, a bracket format will be used. The draw for the bracket will be entirely random .15 games - 9 games will be chosen by Lindax (including maps/players/settings) and will be used for all matches in that round. Each team will also submit 3 home maps of their choosing. Home maps can only be used once per round, and twice per tournament. handicapped using the ratings from the F400. Lindax shows the calculation in detail here , but for a rough idea of the handicap, if the PACK (ranked #4) were to play MYTH (#14) PACK would need to win 2 more games than MYTH to win the match. TLO V .
What Keeps Your Clan Together? by The Voice show: Part I
The fast and loose world of clans has forced clan leaders (CLs) past and present to improvise with regard to their retention strategies. With that in mind, I presented leaders with three multiple choice questions to gauge what measures they believe must be taken to keep a clan united and therefore competitive.Camaraderie [Annihilating the enemy as one, big family] The Competition [We’re the best/goofiest/drunkest/sexiest/chattiest/classiest] Like-mindedness [It’s like we can finish each other’s…] A Niche in the Clan World [Now, You’re Speaking My Language] Communication [We need to touch base on All Your Base]
show: Credits
Many thanks to all of the following clan leaders: Bruceswar, TheMissionary, BlackKnight_6, Genoke, Gunn217, Benga, IcePack, Mint-Murray, Freakns, mcshanester, Peanutsdad, Vid_FISO, Uckuki, and QuikSilver.
TNC vs Pack Video by BlackKnight_6 show
http://vimeo.com/64310721
CL5 by Qwert show
Well the Biggest News In CL5 is the merger of Empire and AoC, which caused the withdrawal of both clans from CL5. This causes both QG2 and QG4 to continue the competition like 5 team groups, and all previous results against the above 2 clans will not count on the final standings.
The Great Community Map Project. Clan Week show
The Great Conquer community Map Project is coming to clans for one week only. Details for this event will be released in the next issue of the dispatch. Important koontz1973 ) your champions name and all information using the below form: Code: Select all Name of Clan:Important Now that the rules are out of the way .
Hello again my friends, and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments! DaveH once again brings us his Tournament Tips and a report on the current status of the TPA. Animaniacs brings us a special edition of Join This? Or Not!
Dukasaur Tournament Executive Tournament Tips by DaveH show: Creating tables from Excel
I have yet to find an easy way of creating a table in a tournament thread. For instance if you want a league table with name, played, won, lost etc. that you have in Excel, you either have to take a picture of the formatted table and upload it, or you can use Challonge or other suitable internet sites to keep track of results.Code: Select all Sub FormLines()
TPA3 Wrap by DaveH show
TPA Season 2: State of Play Click image to enlarge. TPA 2 Standings TPA Season 3 RandomTerminator Tournament open for 64 entrants organised into 8 groups playing 10 random terminator games. Greenoaks continues his "Crack" series on the BeNeLux map - http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=188153 ; also Fuzzy has another rumble but on Route 66 - http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=187421 .TPA 3 Standings http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=175675 http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=177868
Join This? Or Not! by anamainiacks show
And now for our regular look at a selection of the tournaments in sign-ups. I'm sad to say that I honestly can't think of anything else creative to say here, so yea... please bear with me! Oceania Nations Cup JohnAarson - Freemium Friendly! Finding Dory , sequel to Finding Nemo, it's only natural for a little Australian flavour to be added to the mix (P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney) . This tournament features some varied game styles en route to the finals. Representing a country or dependency within the Oceanic region, you will battle against others in an 8-player game, a mini 1v1 league, and finally a 4-player final. So here's hoping you can just keep swimming, just keep swimming, all the way to the end of the tournament.Fatal 4way andyf23 - Freemium Friendly! DISCLAIMER: I may not believe in Chinese superstition, but those who doubt the dice gods that be, on CC, shall certainly perish! A home advantage: Canada waauw - Premium Only. Random Terminator Tournament [TPA3] Darin44 - Premium Only. The Great Community Map Project here .Note : Players who participate in the tournaments as well as the Great Community Map Project forum thread will stand a chance to win a General Achievement Medal Create/Join a Tournament or Tournaments Tab and take a look at the many others waiting to be filled.Requests for Immediate Players section of the tournament forum. You can be playing very quickly after signing up as a reserve.anamainiacks with the details of your tournament.
A bumper issue this week. In fact it is so large, we have invaded freestyle and clan sections as well.
The almighty take over of Conquer Club has begun. Long live the foundry and all hail the mighty
Cartographers .
All in the name of
The Great Community Map Project. Two polls down, plenty to go. But Seamus76 & Jane Austin brings us all of that news. Just remember, new competitions go into
post two of page one of the thread. The latest one has a deadline of the 20th. So make sure your answers are in before then.
skychaser makes a surprise appearance today with a superb look at Three Kingdoms of China. A run down of what maps are where in the foundry. Labyrinth is still locked but lets hope that the last active games will finish soon so we can all play it again. But we have 3 new maps to play this week.
koontz1973 -- Foundry ExecutiveNew Maps and Quenched Maps show
3 new maps to play today. Quenched thebastard thenobodies80 ender516 Click image to enlarge. New Maps. USA 2.1 isaiah40 Gilligan Click image to enlarge. Vertex koontz1973 Click image to enlarge. Austrum koontz1973 Click image to enlarge. How to play USA 2.1 How to play Vertex? How to play Austrum?
Maps in Development. koontz1973 show
Drafting Room Where maps start life. But like all new babies, this is where they need the most attention. Homeworlds Mystical Era Alaska Lisbon Metro 2030 Tank Battle District of Columbia Map Foundry The main block of work is done here. Escape Medival England 4 Star Meats Spanish Amarda Tribal War Israel Research & Conquer Three kingdoms of China Alamo The Great War
Three Kingdoms of China - Strategy by skychaser show
A new map by Seamus76 , Three Kingdoms of China , begs the question to be asked before it can be played, Click image to enlarge. Armandolas wrote: The best way to play it is, to do the unexpected and attack the unprepared
skychaser wrote: Well. I play mainly and almost exclusively at foggy escalating games so my opinion may be a little biased but still i will put my coin here.
Seamus76 wrote: Wow, this is an amazing analysis of the map. Really cool.
skychaser wrote: Well. I thought the phare was attributed to Sun Zi since he was called to defeat the Shu Kingdom by WU. That time is believed that Sun Tzu having lesser armies would wait and reinforce. Thus he attacked and conquered the territory and using surprise after surprise he was able to defeat Shu at his time. I guess one can see it from the Sun Tzu video frou the History Channel.
#GCCM
Great Conquer Community Map Update by Seamus76 show
Mod Edit anamainiacks . A nice shiny medal for you sir, congrats. Results from Poll 1: Map based on fantasy 97 votes 55% Map based on real place 79 votes 45% Results from Poll 2: Small map - Less than 35 regions 92 votes 13% Medium map - 35-65 region count 318 votes 44% Large map - 66-99 region maps 305 votes 43% Code: Select all [img]http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/download/file.php?avatar=289440_1364706096.png[/img]Code: Select all [url=http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=188035][img]http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4606/sigmp.png[/img][/url]iamkoolerthanu (week 1)anamainiacks (week 2)Swifte Armandolas Graphics competition thenobodies80 avatar design up for grabs. No real graphics talent needed, but he did say if it's really good he might use it forever. Competition Official GCCM Tournaments Classic map Current and Future Events. Graphics Competition Weekly competition Current tournament
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And don't forget: Graphics Competition and Foundry Games. Anyways, hope you all enjoy this issue. Just a quick reminder - we still need some help, pretty much in all the divisions, but there is a callout for clan assistance in particular. Contact your favourite leader or, if you don't have one, me!
The almighty take over of Conquer Club has begun. Long live the foundry and all hail the mighty Cartographers. 
All in the name of The Great Community Map Project. Two polls down, plenty to go. But Seamus76 & Jane Austin brings us all of that news. Just remember, new competitions go into post two of page one of the thread. The latest one has a deadline of the 20th. So make sure your answers are in before then. 
