Welcome Comrades to the 58th edition of the Dispatch! I was fairly garrulous in my introduction to the War Games section (below) so I will compensate by being unusually sententious up here in the main introduction. After ten months and four days on the newsletter staff, I have for the first time been trusted with the task of taking a turn as overall publisher. Of course, I repaid the trust of my comrades by devising a technical conundrum that had Leehar and Victor Sullivan up all night pulling their hair out as they tried to fix it. I think after today they'll put me back in my playpen with some nice colouring books and some soft crayons!
This issue is absolutely full of great stuff. Look for a sneak preview of Bra Wars, episode 4, which alone is worth the price of admission. I won't tell you where to look for it; you'll just have to enjoy the process of discovery! Pander88uk answers questions from the visitors' gallery, Isaiah40 has a buoyant interview with Industrial Helix, alt1978 reports on the dramatic rise to stardom of several new clans, thehippo8 provides an almost encyclopedic overview of some copyright precedents relevant to our mapmakers, and the Magister Omnia Banana himself makes a special guest appearance in War Games. Have fun exploring!
Dukasaur -
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... Hello again everyone, and welcome again to the Freestyle Section. We have another Insider for your mafia edification, and an interview with
Pander88uk for your reading pleasure.
I've also come up with some nice Halloween themed ideas, free of charge. No need to credit me if you decide to use them, I kept the really good ones to myself
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safariguy5 Freestyle Executive Halloween Ideas for CC by safariguy5 show
Ahh, Halloween, that time of the year where kids get one night to stock up on hyperactivity fuel (otherwise know as candy) and dentists start polishing their drills for the many cavities to come.Avatar Costumes Duality. comes to mind, or perhaps one of the old Flame Wars regulars. Guaranteed to bring a shiver down certain user's spines.Pagan Sacrifice Write and shoot a horror film
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 Power Mafia has ended with a perfect victory for the mafia. After getting off to a good start with an arsonist lynch Day 1, town was done in by 6 straight town deaths, either through nightkills or lynches.Gangster Mafia had an unusual ending as the Serial Killer managed to fakeclaim his way to a win. An extremely bold move by dazza2008 as he claimed the real Serial Killer name but fakeclaimed an overeager Vigilante role.Mafia Callouts viewforum.php?f=213 Advanced Roles and Strategy by safariguy5 The Arsonist What is it? Example How to Play this Role Third Party role. A modified form of a Serial Killer, the Arsonist has the potential to be very strong if he manages to get to endgame. As the number of players remaining decrease, the possibility of dousing a mafia player goes up, so the Arsonist may also use his ability to try and keep town from being endgamed. Be aware however, that busdrivers have the potential to redirect the Arsonist's dousing back to themselves, forcing them to not ignite their targets.
show: Interrogation of Pander88uk
Q. Hello Pander88uk! Hello! Q. What is so good about english people? Well the majority of this website will know one of the answers to that, else we wouldn't all be conversing in this wonderful language. But what sets us apart from other nationalities? Well, it's got to be the good old 'stiff upper lip', hasn't it? Q. Why did you decide to come back to CC after your last break? I couldn't really stay away, could I? The nearest CC rehab clinic is on the other side of the Atlantic, and unfortunately I can't get treatment on the NHS! But I have nabafed to keep my gameload down to between 5 and 20 at a time (down from 150-250), so hopefully I can cope with it this time around! Q. Beer or whiskey? Well, of course in Britain we spell it 'whisky', but as only the Scots (and possibly the Japanese - try some, it's actually very good) make anything half decent under that name, I'll allow you the spelling faux-pas. But in answer to your question... for getting drunk on, beer. For enjoying, whisk(e)y. I even travelled to Lynchburg a couple of weeks ago for Mr Jack's birthday weekend, which I believe shows my passion for the stuff (but then again could JD be better described as Bourbon? Meh, apples and oranges). Q. Anony - bogan or the goat? Why? Anony; while a Brit should never have a fondness for a Jerry, Anonymus was one of the few who actually seemed to notice I'd gone when I had my break (and then came back of course), and has always been polite and courteous! Also, a great profile pic. Q. Who do you Pander to in the UK? Few people know that 'to pander' is a term relating to prostitution. From Wikipedia (the font of all knowledge):Wikipedia wrote: Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. Examples of procuring include:
trafficking a prostitute into a country for the purpose of soliciting sex operating a prostitution business transporting a prostitute to the location of their arrangement Q. What were your favourite war games before discovering CC? I always enjoyed a bit of Risk. On the computer, I always played games like Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, Total War, Civilization etc. etc. If I had the time to, I'm sure I still would enjoy playing them all day and night! Q. What was your favourite thing about O&H before they disbanded? O&H was a great clan with great people, and we all had tons of fun in the forums (especially when it came to long essays written about which country is the best, USA or UK). Lots of xenophobia going on there... my favourite moment was definitely my 100% record in O&Hs famous win over LOW. Q. Why the heck would you join FOED? Goodness knows! Well, as the majority of my regular teammates were joining at the time, it only seemed right and sensible, and I haven't regretted it once! Oh, by the way... FOED Q. Who are your favourite Quads partners now? Got a great one off team outside of clan wars with DJ Teflon , JNash & Natascha ... we welcome any challenges on Wales - pretty decent record on there! Within my clan, the likes of nippersean , danryan , L M S & Deli I play the most games with and seem to have a good understanding with (even if they are all rude SOBs at times Q. Are you obsessed with Panda Bears? Yes, yes I am. Q. What is your favorite alcoholic beverage my dear? Probably already answered above, but a bit of whisk(e)y certainly can't go amiss. Otherwise, I do love drinking real ale and cider (the latter can often get me mashed pretty quickly). Q. When you are not on CC what three things do you enjoy doing the most? Q. You're from the UK, have you met LFAW, JoshyBoy, Eddie2 or DJ Teflon in real life. If not who would be top of the list and why? Aren't Eddie and Joshy actually Ant & Dec in real life? No, I've not met any of them. DJ would definitely be top of that list. 539 games played with him speaks volumes, and we're even so sad as to text each other when turns are up on rare occasions! Q. Is it true you drink fermented camels milk with a friend we have in common? Ah so you know Borat as well? I enjoy a good tipple of Chal with the old fella on a regular basis. Q. Why is America better than England at everything? That's a tough one. Possibly it could be due to that substance they put in the water over there that makes all your heads that slightly bit larger than ours? Q. Do you ever wake up and just feel slightly ashamed about being English? Is that like a bad hair day only worse? We call them bad teeth days over here. Q. You have an uncanny resemblance to Prime Minister David "Dave" Cameron. Dave's a good friend of mine; we often pop down together to Windsor Castle for tea with the Queen (as is customary for every English person at least twice a month). Dave's views are very Liberal for someone who calls himself a Conservative, so I don't particularly mind him. I'm in fact pretty sure that he, Blair and Clegg are actually all products from George 'Gideon' Osborne's "Cloning Under Neath Towels" machine. Q. How do you feel about being a member of the sexiest clan on CC? I've never felt harder. Q. Does that help you with the Ladieees? Do you get free tickets for concerts and shows because of it? I get free tickets to everything, not least because of the amazing clan I'm a part of. I'm actually having to hire some extra help to keep the ladies off (it eventually gets tiresome being so sexy). Q. How did you come to be on the Entertainment Team? I applied with the rest of the folk (way back when I had time on my hands to handle it) and was approached by Sam asking for a hand. Q. What did you do on the Entertainment Team? My main project was helping to run the singles tournament of the World Cup 2010 Official CC tournament. Damn, that was a tough task, required a lot of time from myself and Gilligan to sort out all the games. Over 1000 in total; maybe not in the same league at HA's current tournament, but it was a lot for me! I also helped with a couple of the chat quizzes that were really very enjoyable. Q. Why did you leave? Just too much going on with work to be able to offer the time required to be a good Entertainment volunteer. I definitely came to the realisation that all of Team CC work their asses off, and I'm very grateful for all of them spending their time to help make this site worth coming back to! Q. Thanks for your time Pander.
Hello again my friends, and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments! I am really thrilled with the way our section is developing. We now have four excellent writers on board (you could stretch it to five if you wanted to be generous to me.) In theory I am their editor, but in practice my "editing" is limited to a few (infrequent) suggestions for improvement and cleaning up an occasional missed underline. These guys never require any hard editing of the kind one is used to doing with volunteer publications. They are just so good, and so professional, and reading the stuff they produce is an absolute delight.
This issue, we launch our newest feature,
Meet the Tournament Organisers , which will complement and parallel our existing series,
Meet the Tournament Winners . This issue,
WorldCup4James has produced the former, while I have produced the latter, but this is not intended to be a fixed division of labour: we both intend to produce interviews of both kinds, and mix and match as we go to keep it fresh. I hope you really enjoy the interviews, the former with
fuzzy316 and the latter with
EBConquer .
We could hardly avoid mention of CC's new supertournament, the Conquer Cup. In this issue,
AndyDufresne makes a special guest appearance to begin our coverage. We will have more in every issue.
Our newest recruit is
DaveH , who has come on board to write a series on the nuts-and-bolts of tournament organizing. Like all our other reporters, Dave is an experienced Tournament Organiser himself. And like
sonicsteve , he is from Devonshire. Do you suppose there's a conspiracy afoot? Ha! If these guys have half the chutzpah that Sir Francis Drake brought to the table, they will have us conquered (or should I say Conquered) in no time! Dave's first column will be fairly basic, but he will soon be delving into more advanced and complicated issues of tournament organisation. If you have a question about tournaments that you think he should be covering, by all means send him a message.
Angola is on leave; he will have another
TPA Update for us in the next issue.
Sonicsteve has produced another
Join This? Or Not! column. Those keep getting bigger and better; there are just so many exciting new tournaments being launched.
Dukasaur Tournament Executive Continuing Coverage of the Conquer Cup: 1 by AndyDufresne show
Conquer Cup I (1) has been underway now for a little over a week, and it looks like games are going strong. Based purely on some informal eye-scanning of participants and their respective rank match-ups in games, it looks like we've managed some excellent random match-ups.
Meet the Tournament Organisers! by WorldCup4James show: interview with Fuzzy316
The CC Tournament world has always been one of the high-points of Conquer Club; there have been over 600,000 games and nearly 6000 exhilarating tournaments that have drawn players willing to make that leap from the casual exhibition match to the fiercely competitive realm of tournament play. Triumphing in a tournament is no easy feat; the elation of victory has been experienced by 1,712 players, only around 10% of all active CC members. In only 6 short months, Fuzzy316 has hosted 26 tournaments. At the moment, he's hosting 12 tournaments, and three are open for signups. His impressive streak of creative and well-run tournaments has earned him a feature in our new series of "Meet the Tournament Organizers." As I will mention with all featured tournament organizers, hosting tournaments is very time-consuming, particularly in writing the rules, creating games, and posting updates, not to mention the hours pacing around playing with a genuinely unique concept that maybe you thought of from talking with a friend, watching TV, or reading a book, and then connecting all the dots to make everything just right. What do you think sets your tournaments apart, and what concept do you think helps make your tournaments enjoyable? "Well Smurf me Silly" tournament that I started since Smurfs came to the Big Screen, and my 3k-3play tourney when I completed 3000 games.Creativity is definitely key! That's what keeps the wheels rolling and keeps up the excitement and entertainment level. Gods, Devils, and Everything in Between tournament run by deantursx. That one I kept crawling back in.Official 2011 CC World Cup - Singles hosted by MrGlassB. At this particular moment I am actually rooting for two of my opponents to beat out one other one, which would advance me to the final stage. I have had a lot of success on this map, which of course, until they released it I had never played.2011 World Cup of Risk tournament is the best executed. The number of players, combined with the brackets, not to mention the way you have laid it all out and made it fun to follow, not sure if I could top it.CERTAINLY agree with that last choice there Very cool! So enough about tournaments for now Keep looking for that moment of inspiration! Maybe feature some allusions to Conquer Club in your novels Do you have a word of advice for any aspiring TOs who want to make a name for themselves in the tournament world? Any goals or anything that you're aiming to accomplish here at CC? Anything interesting you'd like to share about the real life?
Meet the Tournament Winners! by Dukasaur show: interview with ebconquer
There are a number of ways someone can end up getting interviewed about their tourney win. Some people send me a message volunteering for an interview. Some are randomly chosen by me while prowling the Completed Tournaments forum. Some are recommended by their TOs. One of the most reliable methods of all is to impress me by kicking my &^% in a tournament final. In this case, we are talking about the KISS Tamriel tournament, part of greenoaks ' KISS series. This tourney was first posted on July 12th 2011, and was wrapped up within six weeks, with EBConquer beating me very convincingly (I had great luck the first two turns and really thought I had it won, but starting with turn 3 he managed to turn it around) in the final on August 23rd. So, what attracted you to this particular tournament? Lol, dazey's wall is a happenin' place. (It wasn't a big deal, but I like to be thorough in these interviews, so I decided to go look at the post you mention. I had to go back 75 pages on her wall from the time you told me about it to the link you mentioned. That means she receives an average of almost 8 wall posts per day. Anyway, back to the tournament Tell me something that about the map that you found noteworthy. Okay, you finally have your first Tournament Victory Cup. How does it feel? Anything and everything: this is your chance to make any comment you want, about tournaments, about CC in general, etc. Basically your personal soapbox for a paragraph or two... Thank you very much for your time, and good luck in all your future endeavours!
Tournament Tips: by DaveH show: getting started
OK, so you had an idea for your first tournament; you looked at other tournaments; read up on the procedure and published your tournament thread. Shortly afterwards, eager medal hunters filled all the available spaces and you are up and running with tournament privileges. Now you begin to invite the players into the games and realise just how tedious this is – and sometimes difficult to keep track – and wish you had thought this bit through a bit better.http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2141686#p2141686 http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=17807 .
Join This? Or Not! by sonicsteve show
And now for our regular look at a selection of the tournaments in sign-ups:Best. Concert. Ever!!! by sempaispellcheck . All entrants for this 1v1 tournament must pick the band they wish to enter as, and pick a home map which relates to that band in some way, e.g. you could pick Led Zepellin and the Indian Empire map since Led Zep have a song called 'Kashmir'. Sounds like fun and the organiser will take up to 96 bands, but please make sure you understand the scoring system before you sign up.Fuzzy316 becomes Buzzy316 to bring us Queen Bee . Not for the faint-hearted, this 64-player tournament consists of Terminator games on the Hive map, the first player terminated in each round drops out of the contest. amazzony is your host, so the Iv1 , Doubles , Triples and Quads versions of this event are certain to be well run.Beat The Odds! by gameplayer . This is a 1v1 event where, in essence, the organiser is attempting to level the playing field by giving extra lives to those players who manage to win games despite starting second. Each set of games is a first to 5 points, where points are gained at a rate of 1 per game if you started, and 1.5 per game if your opponent started first.Speed freaks take note; DJ Teflon is hosting a Random Speed Festival for a full week, running from 2nd to 9th November. Games will be available to join throughout that period starting at 15.00 CC time on Wednesday, as usual you may play as many games as you want to, and the player with the best win percentage will collect the trophy. You must play at least 12 games to qualify. Good Luck, folks.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.
E X C I T E M E N T !!! A new mapmaker,
nrds , recently won the Papua New Guinea contest and a new map is available for play only in
Game 10000000 by our own
samuelc812 ! Though we have just three articles for you, I think you'll enjoy them to the fullest, especially
isaiah40 's Interview with the recently re-inducted
Industrial Helix , regarding what happened to him and beyond!
Happy Halloween,
Victor SullivanFoundry Executive Interview with Industrial Helix by isaiah40 show
About 3 months ago Industrial Helix just disappeared from the face of the earth, with no one knowing what had happened to him, and right at the same time we brought on board a couple of Foundry Assistants to help in the Drafting Room. Needless to say, the foundry slowed to a molasses in January pace. It was only after a couple of weeks that Helix contacted me on Facebook and told me what had happened. And all I could say was WOW! So it is only fitting that yours truly was asked to interview him and get him to tell us all his life's' secrets. Three months ago you just disappeared from the face of the earth so to speak. Would you mind telling the community what happened to you a little? You are in rehab at the moment correct? LOL!! Right. How is your Physical Therapy going? Glad you kept your balance! LOL! Well this is good to hear! We're glad you didn't! Rest assured that it isn't because of your stroke. It is the dice! LOL! So tell us about the before stroke Helix. Your first maps, CA duties etc. Did MrBenn accept your assistance right away? TaCktiX and I monitored the new maps and tried to guide the mapmakers in the right direction to finishing their maps. Somewhere my fascination with South Africa kicked in and upon realizing how small Zululand is I decided to depict another area of British Colonial Rule, hence South Africa 1885. Then I got moved to Graphics and tried to decide whether maps were graphically solid to move on... not as fun as the Drafting Room and there, one is quick to hear complaints about nitpicking.LOL! You don't seem to be doing too bad typing now! How did you come to join CC? In your signature, you have a link to on one of your blogs. Specifically the one pointing to your sketching blog . You're a pretty good - can I say - artist. Tell us a bit more about this hobby. Moving on into the future, how do you think this stroke will have affected you in a few years, once all of the effects of it have diminished? Sounds like a good goal. People are asking if you're going to finish your Communism map pack. Is the completion of them in your future plans? What are your plans for the future, both in real life and here on CC? Sounds like you've been busy making plans! That's great!
Copyright - Woo-ooo-oooh! by thehippo8 show
Nothing seems to scare off Mods more than the fear of copyright infraction. Like all such fears, it is perhaps more a result of the great unknown than anything else. Whilst I give Lackattack and the rest of the crew credit where credit is due, after all no-one wants to buy a fight for no reason, a little information may help show that copyright isn’t really as scary as some may think.The skinny on copyright Lackattack is one smart cookie if this is his philosophy, avoid disputes, sit well away from the fence and otherwise don’t get into territory where problems can arise. In the terms of this site, the question is not so much whether this map or that map is breaching copyright but rather whether Conquer Club can avoid getting into any kind of a fight in the first place. This may seem strange for a website premised on war games, but there you have it. But as pure and good as this motivation is, fights are not things you avoid. They are things you have. You don’t know you’re going to have one until it happens and then its too late to avoid. So ... what would happen if Conquer Club entered into a fight? Say if the Mods missed something and someone decided to make a claim of copyright breach. Well, as convoluted and obscure as the legal system is, it is my view that even then Conquer Club need not fear. My reason is the recent fight between Hasbro Inc the game giant on the one side and the makers of a variant of Scrabble on the other. Scrapping over Scrabble Parchisi or bust Victor Sullivan ain’t no ‘fraidy cat because he has suggested this . Yep, that’s Parcheesi listed above as one of the games bought from the Coleco fire sale. Mind you, the version that Selchow & Righter purchased a license to in 1870 was itself a version of the game which was originally invented in India circa 500 AD. So, based on the above argument, Conquer Club has nothing to worry about. Victor Sullivan’s version is called Parchisi, which is the original name for the game, and frankly looks different to the original Selchow & Righter game if you ask me!online version and this beautiful old French one:
Censorship koontz1973 show
Right now, I can hear you all go, how the hell is censorship part of the foundry process. Well, I will answer that after a brief history lesson. But, I will ask you not to take offence by anything you see or read in this issue. It has all been done in the best possible taste. lackattack banned the use of swastikas on Conquer Club maps . This is the only image that as of now is banned on Conquer Club maps.offensive by so many people, the site took the first step into censorship. Rightly or wrongly, it has been enforced to the detriment of some map(s). Should a map set during the second world war be allowed to use this symbol or any of its variations? cairnswk use it on his Das Schloss map. Because it was made after the ban. If the site deems the symbol so offensive to not allow any new map, no matter how relevant it may be to have the symbol on, should these 6 be banned also?koontz1973 wrote: NO bloody way. Sorry Seamus but can you imagine the uproar if this map gets any further than this.
Bruceswar wrote: I am going to agree here. Not this map.
thenobodies80 wrote: Let me hide this one before it gives us some serious headaches.
Bad idea, stop now.
[Moved & Locked] Nobodies
Seamus76 throat, I know for a fact, he meant no harm and no offence to anyone.DiM , a great map maker took the side of Seamus and set up this thread to ask...Why the censorship? thenobodies80 kept it locked. It does not matter if you agree with him or not, as foundry foreman , he has the responsibility to keep the maps within a certain line. With some map makers, that is not an easy task. thenobodies80 made the comment that he has to draw a line on what is allowed. So I set a test for him and asked would any of these ideas be allowed to continue through the foundry...Assassination of JFK (DiM's idea for a map) I made a point of trying to deliberately find subjects that would be banned , hence, concentration camps and the KKK reference. Much to my surprise, I got this answer from MrBenn , the previous foundry foreman.1. Could be done tastefully Bra Wars ... Episode 4 . A Wild Hope to come soon. joriki wrote: It's probably not meant that way, but the text at the lower right about the Victoria Crosses could easily be understood as a positive reference to what was essentially a colonialist crime. I'd suggest rephrasing it to avoid that impression.
koontz1973 wrote: It is meant to be a positive reference.
Not the best answer I could of given. but I am going to give you the thread so you can go and have a read. And criticise if you feel it needs changing, but better yet, come up with an alternative that fits, if it is good, your words will go on the map for all time.The Slippery Slope. Hiroshima or the Afgan war dealing with the Taliban and Bin Ladin ? American maps , but none with this onAmerican Civil War map has one, but for the life of me, I cannot see it. Right now though, one map in the foundry has it prominently displayed. Gettysberg by Minister Xhistorical setting , like the swastika before the ban. Could this be the one and only time we see this before it gets banned (maybe). Or will you all dash over there and voice your PC credentials and force its removal? Should there be any limits on mapmakers if the community wants it? Could Seamus make his map if the majority want it? These are all questions that you need to answer. But to answer them you need to get on over to the foundry and find the maps that are being made. Guide them and help them become better. As I stated at the beginning, none of this is meant to harm or shock. just inform. So, please no hate mail .
This Issue the inimitable Alt comes up with an enticing view of the spate of upsets traversing through the clan scene, primarily in the ACC arena. The main outlier of course being the continued unbeaten charge of The Pack, who extend their unbeaten run to 7 challenges, getting close to the 8/9 and 11/12 benchmarks of Tofu and Thota respectively.
In other news the Final Foursome in the Conquerors Cup seems to be as close as ever. While Kort seem to have eked out a win against Empire, the Tsm-Thota seems to be locked in a dead heat that can only perhaps be resolved in extra time. All eyes eagerly await the outcome.
Leehar Clan Executive Upsetting Trend by Alt1978 show
In the clan world, there has been a predominant perception that there are three classes of clans…the super elite, the strong tried and true, and then the pitiable rest. Movement through the castes was to flow at the rate of molasses on a flat plane…taking ages to move from one caste to another. In the clan world over the past month, a wave of upsets has swept over the scene challenging the age old paradigm. The super elite are still elite, but some up and coming new clans as well as written off forgotten clans are taking swings at the upper middle…and landing punches closing the gap between new and “tried and true”.
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