Welcome Comrades to the 73rd edition of the Dispatch
Hello, hello! It's oh so good to be back.
thehippo8 had me shut up in the cellar for a couple weeks, but I finally found out he never locked the door. Speaking of which, we have an interview from our dear
Foundry Executive as we continue our series of interrogations of the Newsletter Executives. Next issue we have
Tournament Executive ,
Dukasaur , followed by
Clan Executive ,
Leehar !
Well, what's news these days? A number of maps have recently been quenched, including Patch Wars and Cuban Missile Crisis, and still more have finally hit Beta, including Dark Continent and Trench Warfare. Ha, how 'bout a Trench game on Trench Warfare?
In other news, former Conqueror and apparent five-thousand, twenty-fifth rapper,
mc05025 , blipped back on the radar as he briefly took the throne from well-known "bog-roller" apparent oral sex enthusiast,
Gen.LeeGettinhed earlier this week.
And perhaps the saddest news this fortnight: I am ending our "Subscriber of the Issue" award. Sadly, only a couple users actually got their medals! But I've some good news for you for next issue! The Dispatch has partnered up with webmaster and resident turtle,
lackattack , so expect an article from him next issue!
As for this issue,
Viceroy63 and myself have conjured up an exciting article and discussion (that I hope you'll participate in!) about moderation,
thehippo8 gives us a little history lesson on the 3rd of June,
Dukasaur has an exciting "Meet the Tournament Directors" interview with Tournament Commissioner,
Night Strike , along side another insightful edition of
DaveH 's Tournament Tips,
Gunn217 has the latest clan standings, and
Viceroy63 has partnered up with Academy Headmaster,
dhallmeyer , to write a new column called, "Inside the SoC".
Enjoy the fruits of our laboring fingers!
Victor Sullivan Chief Executive We are actively seeking Writers and Reporters! The
Tournament News Team is in particular need of
Tournament Reporters ! For your service as a Writer or Reporter, we'll give you a
General Contribution medal every three months of solid contribution! So what are you waiting for?! Apply now!
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. Hope your finals went/are going well, and that you all are looking forward to a good summer. We have another scum insider and an interrogation with
thehippo8 for you this issue. Also, a thought provoking article on the nature and scope of moderating. It should be interesting reading and definitely something open to community input.
As always, if you would like to write for the freestyle section or have any good article ideas, please send me a PM.
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 Mafia Callouts Replacement Thread to see what games are in need of reserves/replacements.viewforum.php?f=213 Advanced Roles and Strategy by safariguy5 Stalling the Lynch Wagon What is It? Example How to Use this Strategy Mafia strategy because generally mafia players will want to keep their fellow mafia buddies alive. However, this strategy can bring some unwanted attention the next day, especially if done too blatantly, so mafia may try to step in and defend a townie to WIFOM the situation. Alternatively, two linked town players like lovers or masons may try to save each other without being forced to claim who they are.
Community Report: What It Means To Be A Moderator by Victor Sullivan and Viceroy63 show
Ahoy, ahoy, readers! Welcome to the first edition of the Community Report ! Here, we ask a question to a group of users, see what they said, then write our own blurb about the topic. Then, we open the floor to you, dear readers! Who do you agree with? Disagree with? What do you think of the question? What should we ask next? We'll have a designated topic What does it mean to be a moderator? Victor SullivanEntertainment Moderator To me? Well, for me, it means to be helpful as much as you can. That's why I personally help in 3 different area's. It has it's downsides, but it feels good knowing that I help out the site in a good way. You gotta be level-headed, yet find a way to have fun with it.TheForgivenOneCheating/Abuse Moderator Suggestions Moderator Live Chat Moderator
means you fulfill a certain task to help out the siteNight StrikeHead Tournament Moderator
I think that a more clear definition of what it means to be a Mod needs to be very precisely written down and adhere to. We are here to serve, not just the owner/owners of the site but also the community in general and we can't do that by setting a bad example or entertaining arguments or letting the fact that we are Mods with Mod "Powers" get to our heads and puff us up in pride. And if we can't do that then we should step down.Viceroy63Entertainment Moderator
What does it mean?trinicardinalHead Live Chat Moderator
Honestly? Free premium
Kidding. I wouldn't be here if that was just it
. Being a moderator is a great balancing act, and as Dr. Seuss would say, we must step with great care and great tact. You learn quickly that you both have to know when to listen to the community on feedback and accept your failures, and learn when someone's just mad because it hadn't happened in their favor. The greatest part about moderating is making the difference, as cliche as that sounds. Believe it or not, we do have the community's best interests in mind -- though some will probably tell you otherwise
! The absolute best part is helping a new member around. Guiding them through the Strategy and Add-ons forums and so on, giving them help with all of the generic beginner questions, etc. I try to be to new members what I had when I first joined -- a helpful network of people who liked to play the game and watch others do well at it!
rdsrds2120Global Moderator Live Chat Moderator Fairness, consistency, putting personal feelings aside, good judgement, dedication, thick skinned, impartialEvil SempMulti Hunter Cheating/Abuse Moderator
You don't need to be a moderator in order to moderate.BigBallinStalinCommunity Member Former Discussions Moderator
a servant of regular users!nietzscheCommunity Member
I am not very active anymore in the forums or on this site, due to much of the moderation. I am not sure if I am the best person to engage about moderation, as I have no experience actually moderating a forum. I have seen the results of less than professional moderation, and that is why the forums here are pretty quiet and boring. jbrettlipCommunity Member
What it means to be a moderator to Phatscotty. I can only base my input on my experience, which has been mostly with discussion moderators, so that is where most of this will originate. Objectivity Definitions possible and should not be bent to suit certain cases. I won't state that with 100% certitude, as I am certain there have been many interesting exceptions and can only leave that to the imagination. Examples Rulings Ethos PhatscottyCommunity Member
What does it mean to be a moderator? Well funny you should ask that. I will provide you with three definitions of a moderator from three different websites and you can tell me what you think a moderator should be and what some of the moderators on CC actually are.
Wikipedia:
The mods are users of the forum who are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion and also keeping the forum clean. Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging, moving, and splitting of posts and threads, locking, renaming, stickying of threads, banning, suspending, unsuspending, unbanning, warning the members, or adding, editing, removing the polls of threads. Essentially, it is the duty of the moderator to manage the day-to-day affairs of a forum or board as it applies to the stream of user contributions and interactions. The relative effectiveness of this user management directly impacts the quality of a forum in general, its appeal, and its usefulness as a community of interrelated users. Urban Dictionary:
Someone who moderates a chatroom or message board. There are generally five types of moderators: Encyclopedia Dramatica:
In the world of Internet forums and messageboards, mods are the equivalent of policemen. In fact, the only difference is that they have no real authority except over their [censored] ass web sites. Ranking somewhere below administrators, they are assigned the task of ensuring the rules of the forum that they "moderate" are rigidly adhered to by the rank-and-file board membership while at the same time willfully ignoring these rules themselves. Given special powers by the board's administrators to assist them in this endeavor, it is common for these powers to be abused at a whim, and when the inevitable howls of protest follow, to use these same powers to silence dissent. In a nutshell, moderators partake in intense [censored]. TL;DR:
Replace "Wikipedia" with whatever forum they moderate and this is what moderators actually believe. TheGeneral2112Community Member I recommend that question be changed/edited to "what SHOULD it mean to be a moderator?"Gen.LeeGettinhedCommunity Member
Viceroy63 wrote: We are here to serve, not just the owner/owners of the site but also the community in general and we can't do that by setting a bad example or entertaining arguments or letting the fact that we are Mods with Mod "Powers" get to our heads and puff us up in pride. And if we can't do that then we should step down.
Viceroy63Entertainment Moderator designated Community Report topic Victor SullivanEntertainment Moderator
show: Interrogation of thehippo8
Hey hippo! erd ) is an Entity Relationship Diagram. I find them useful in everyday life. They have a beauty and essence about them that really gets you into the nitty gritty of the issues. Check out this example or erudite complexity:Q. Do you spend a lot of time lying around in shallow ponds? Q. What is your favorite map to play on? Q. CC has a player called therhino3 . Are you related, if not do you see him as a threat ? No, we are not related and no he's no threat!VIDEO therhino3 Nga-nga-na-nga-na ... VIDEO Q. Why is the dispatch always published late? Because I am not in charge! Q. If you could have any talent, what would it be and why? Diplomacy! And just because, OKAY!! Q. What do you do when a endangered animal eats endangered plants? Cheer! Q. What's another word for thesaurus? Really? Well you learn something new every day. Are they interchangeable? Not everyone knows that. I tried using thesaurus in place of what but I got some really strange looks! Q. Why is the word dictionary in the dictionary? Ah, now this I know. My grandfather was a good friend of the man who wrote the Dictionary and he asked him this very question. Apparently some people didn't find the dictionary a good enough story, despite the fact that it's author spent the time to explain it as he went along. The word dictionary was only added as an afterthought and for a bit of humour, but the result was astounding and as you all know it hit international fame after that. It's been translated into as many languages that exist and a few that don't. And all because of that one word! Q. When it rains, why don't sheep shrink? Sheep are like Jerseys, they only shrink when you put them in the dryer. Q. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? The owner thinks that the scum who made all the mess is still in there and they aren't letting them out until they clean up! Q. Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections? To ensure that the dose doesn't get neutralised by contaminants. Q. Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin? To stop the lid falling off when the bumbling pall bearers drop it! Q. Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"? Because psychics are always a step ahead of reporters! Q. Thesaurus. (See, doesn't really work!) Q. Was this you?Yes. I wish! Q. Favourite novel? Q. Favourite movie? Q. Favourite live theatre performance? Q. Favourite TV show? Sully Edit: Dr. Who (picture removed due to a "malware" notification) Q. Favourite non-fiction book? Q. VIDEO Q. I (Viceroy63) use to love her, but she was always so damn shy. Why was that? She only pretended to be shy for the camera's. In fact she was the most outrageous flirt! Q. With the economy being as bad as it is and prices are going through the roof on everything and all, do you find that people invite you out to eat less and less these days? Actually people invite me out more than ever now! Not everyone can afford to bring up children and it's a win-win situation for both of us. Q. Why are you answering questions already? Ah, well that'd be because I am stupid! Thankfully viceroy63 hit me with sufficient tranquilizers and obliterated the evidence. Q. Why do you drink so much........water? Eight dot water is a euphamism for wine, I'm assuming. How did you know anyway? Sometimes I drink to forget ... what was the question again?Q. How does it feel having to come up with a funny title about yourself? It feels kind of creepy. Q. Why did you kill Sully and where did you hide him? I was hungry. His clothes are round the back. [EDIT: an update on this at the end. ] Q. Did you really think we would not figure out that you got rid of him so you could publish the newsletter? Frankly I'm surprised that it worked so well. I don't hear anyone complaining! [EDIT: an update on this at the end. ] Q. When are you going to host a newsletter themed mafia? I'd host a newsletter themed mafia tomorrow if I knew how! I must find out how to host mafia games. I see Mafia like, well in the words of Jessica Benjatscheck and Tha-Da-Werk:VIDEO Q. Did you throw a party when you turned 101? How old is that in hippo years btw? VIDEO Q. Do you plan to throw a party when you turn 102? what would the menu be? What games would you have (besides bobbing for crocodiles that is)? VIDEO Q. When you order KFC is that chicken or crocodiles? It's corn! Q. Do crocodiles taste like chicken? Yes, I'm sure you are right. Croc's and chickens are closely related genetically, scientists have it all wrong . Q. If you were a pokemon what pokemon would you be? Q. The hippo ate what? My claim to fame was the dwarf, but more recently I have been snapped for eating Sully and I have revealed my plans to get through as many mods as possible at my 102nd! [EDIT: an update on this at the end. ] Q. Any relation? Mum! Q. greenoaks wrote: the hippo ate what ?
This should held clear it up for you: Click image to enlarge. While there is no tangible proof as yet, Because the body has not been found or heard from, it is suspected that the Hippo ate Sully as an opportunity for a career advancement. It's the truth with my hand up. Incidentally, the clothes don't fit, does anyone want them or shall I give them to the crocodiles? [EDIT: an update on this at the end. ] Q. So one day, all of the animals came together and made the following deal: Each will tell a joke, and if everyone doesn't laugh at it then they would kill the joke teller. Weren't you there? It was: An Alsatian went to a telegram office, took out a blank form and wrote: "Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof." The clerk examined the paper and politely told the dog: "There are only nine words here. You could send another Woof for the same price." "But," the dog replied, "that would make no sense at all". Q. I (Viceroy63) understand that in Real Life you have writers that work for you? for you! Those lazy sods spend 99% of the day finding ways to skive off, undermine me, sell my belongings and work on their second jobs. Mind you I only pretend to pay them so I can’t expect they’d do any more than pretend to work for me!!Q. Are you a Student? Everything I learned I learned from myself! Mind you, there’s no proof I learned anything so there’s no evidence of my teaching abilities. Let me see if my breath shows up on the mirror … Q. What advice would you give an aspiring writer? Do it. You need to put digits to the keyboard, pen to paper voice to the recorder. However you wanna do it, you just need to get on with it. We all have an innate propensity to be our own harshest critic. By shoving that stuff out there you’d be surprised what the response will be. And, negative response can have its perks – if that’s what you’re seeking (talk to army of nobunaga about that one!).this thing not this thing ). It takes strenuous effort until you think that you are going to die. And then you don’t. Q. Why, "TheHippo8"? Ah, well - “thehippo” was taken and “hippo” was taken and “thehippopotamus” just sounds stupid – so it was down to numbers and “8” is a play on “ate” which is descriptive of what I do when I swallow up my hapless opponent. Probably “thehippogot8en” is more accurate but that’s just really stupid isn’t it. Other than that, it’s my favourite chess opening and the name stuck. Q. How did you come by that avatar name? I flogged it. Q. What exactly is it that you are smoking in that Pipe? Grass that smells like tobacco - the cheap kind! It does not smell like cheap tobacco? Hmmm, really, I was told by the chap who sells it to me that it does! Q. Do you ever flog them if a dead line is approaching and they still have not finished? Firstly, you sound like you think flogging is a bad thing. You should read this: Q. If yes, have you ever flashed a teacher for a better grade? I flashed a teacher once when I was 12. It was, I assure you, purely by accident but my motivation was a better grade. We were experimenting with melting things with a Bunsen burner. I found some batteries, some sulphur from the railway, some pencil lead, a rock and to that I added some acid. The result was a spectacular rocket flume that burnt a hole in the ceiling. Somehow the teacher wasn’t impressed! I was dragged bodily into the corridor and belted – the teacher’s watch fell off and broke and everybody couldn’t stop laughing. Q. Have you ever been flashed for a better grade? No. Q. Have you ever flashed yourself for a better grade? Q. You are a lawyer, correct? How do you think your being a lawyer affects your work as Foundry Executive and how does your being a lawyer reflect in your work? Well, I first wrote about copyright stuff cause that was, like, something I knew about. But my writing now is more like someone who cares about the foundry rather than my own ego! At least I hope it is. After some time writing for the foundry, the bigger picture is emerging for me. I guess there is a small cross-over between my professional self and my executorship, but only insofar as I respect the people who assist and write for the foundry. Supporting them is a big function of my existence. I am also very fortunate to have Koontz1973 putting in a huge effort every fortnight to bring us the news of what’s going on in the foundry. As a map-maker of considerable talent, IMHO, he brings a perspective which I can only dream about. I don’t lose sight of the other writers (hello Flapcake , nolefan5311 and OliverFA ). I should also give a big thanks to Victor Sullivan who gave me a chance both as a reporter and now as an Executive. Q. What is your opinion of the Foundry? Are we simply in too deep a rut to climb out, or do you think the Foundry can be 'fixed'? How has your view of the Foundry changed over time, and how has your being Foundry Reporter/Executive changed that over the months/years you've been around? I think the foundry is brilliant. For those talented enough to use graphics packages it’s an amazing outlet. Being creative graphically is not the same as being sufficiently creative game-play wise. That can be a frustration for people but that isn’t the fault of the foundry. Also, something is only so good as the community is willing to make it. The feedback from the majority of those who post in the foundry is exceedingly insightful and helpful. There’s the odd prat who rambles about nonsense (sorry thenobodies80 , Lackattack and the many other foundry mods have made an amazing effort to dig the foundry out of the so-called rut it was in. As to being ‘fixed’, that isn’t necessary in my view. When I started as a foundry reporter I was very green, I have done nothing but marvel at it ever since! Thanks for your time! You’re welcome. Come again!
Welcome to the 73 edition of the Strategy Section of the Conquer Club Newsletter. In this edition we introduce two new columns. Not every column will be seen in every edition but all articles will appear within their respective column. And we are sure to see many editions with the following two columns.
The first one is Classic Secrets! In which we will reveal glimpses of the many keys to successfully navigating and winning the Standard, Escalating, Classic Map that is taught in the SoC. In this issue we discuss, "The Drops!" So don't miss out on "Classic Secrets: The Drops" by me Viceroy63.
And in our 2nd newly created column we have news and reports from "Inside The SoC" so be sure to read the latest from the SoC Universe in "Inside The SoC" by Viceroy63 and Dhallmeyer.
The SoC list of Winners will not be presented in this edition due to changes in qualifications for the list. This is explained more fully in the announcements, "Inside The SoC." The SoC list of Winners will resume when there is a list of qualified SoC student winners to present. Thank You.
And; Enjoy!
Viceroy63 Strategy Executive Classic Secrets: The Drops by Viceroy63 show
Classic Secrets: The Drops Is there such a thing as the “Perfect Drop?” The kind of drop that you can step back from and say, “How could I possibly lose this game, with a drop like this?” Or how's about the reverse? Can there exist the worse possible drop ever, that you just can't possibly win with? What if all of your drops are within the same continent; The same bonus zone? Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? To a large degree, the answer lies in the type of game settings involved. 'SoC Hand Book,' wrote: “Prime territories are places that have lots of connections and few bottlenecks; in an ideal game, you would have a stack in NA, Europe, Africa, and Eastern Asia. Below is our prioritized list of territories, but it is subject to your other placements. You don't want your stacks to be too close together or to hold ALL the prime territories because then you will be an easy target.
Prime territories are places that have lots of connections and few bottlenecks because they provide more options to attack from. They also make it easier to card because there are so many surrounding regions, so that we have a choice. Tucked away in a corner may provide some safety but not a whole lot of attacking and carding options.
Inside the SoC by Viceroy63 and Dhallmeyer show
Debriefing of Game 10775410 W/ ElrictheGreat (with Photos) Debriefing of Game 10775410 W/ ElrictheGreat (with Photos) New Group Starts on 6/11 Special Announcement About The SoC Winners List Academy Forum
Hello again my friends, and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments!
In this issue, as I promised in the previous issue, I present to you my interview with Night Strike. This begins our new series of
Meet the Tournament Directors , to go with our existing series of
Meet the Tournament Winners and
Meet the Tournament Organizers . Meanwhile, DaveH has produced another excellent article in his
Tournament Tips , and WorldCup4James has gone ahead and revived our oldest series,
Join This? Or Not! I should point out that James was too modest to put a plug in for his own tournament, so I will do it for him: check out his
2012 World Cup tournament, successor to his very successful 2010 World Cup and 2011 World Cup, which was voted
Best Mid-Sized Tournament of 2011 with a staggering 50% of the vote!
Dukasaur Tournament Executive Tournament Tips by DaveH show: Updating winners
In the last newsletter I showed you how to extract a list of maps that many TO's use in progressing their series of games through every single CC map. Greenoaks reminded me that some TO's also like to keep track of their winners and easily update the number of wins by different players. In this issue therefore, I'll show you the code for updating a tournament winners table.Code: Select all Sub SortWins()Code: Select all ' put 1 in the next column and find out how many are listedCode: Select all Range(Cells(3, 1), Cells(2 + itotal, 3)).SelectCode: Select all j = 1 'assume duplicates existCode: Select all Range(Cells(3, 1), Cells(3 + itotal + j, 3)).Select 'sort from the top left cell to the bottom right cellCode: Select all WendCode: Select all Range(Cells(3, 1), Cells(3 + itotal, 3)).Select 'specify the area for the sortCode: Select all Sub SortWins()select Tools/Customize scroll down to forms and select "button" and close click the button that now appears on your menu bar draw a button shape on your spreadsheet Click on your macro name to assign it to the button
Meet the Tournament Directors: Night Strike by Dukasaur show
He's been a CC player since April of 2007 and a Team CC member since March of 2008. He's active in every area of CC -- games, forums, volunteer work, clans and of course tournaments. Night Strike is quite likely one of the ten best-known names on the site. He has 60 medals in various areas, but the really impressive statistic is that 13 of them are General Contribution medals given for volunteer efforts.Thanks for taking the time to talk to me. Steelhorse was the Tournament Team Leader for several years, including when both Optimus Prime and later myself were added to the group. After OP became an admin, he asked if I would take over the tournament reigns during a Team CC restructuring because Steelhorse needed to cut back on some of his time on the site. At that time, I dropped my other responsibilities on the site (global mod, including chat mod) and focused on leading the TD group. I chose the "Tournament Commissioner" title because a commissioner is someone who oversees all the competition in his sports league, which I felt was an apt description of my position.That's a nice place to be, independent enough that you get to write your own job title. To what degree have you also written your own job description? Did you make significant changes after taking over? What are some of the challenges you face? You've gone through quite a few personnel changes in the last few months. Has it been difficult to work through re-assigning tasks and training everyone? I have noticed that things have been getting done more quickly since your team was expanded. Is the system where you want it to be now, or is there still a need for improvement? You're also the final arbiter of disputes in the tournament world. How often does an issue arise that requires your intervention? Are there some decisions where you find yourself really torn, where you really face some doubts as to what is right and wrong? You were around the tournament world long before you became Commissioner. Give me some insight into how CC tournaments evolved, please, and what were some of your early experiences. Do you think this is simply an inevitable trend that we have to get used to, or can something be done about it? Would you agree to any rule changes, such as limitations on TOs playing in their own tournaments? Also, would you support some kind of medal gradient, such as perhaps Bronze, Silver, Gold medals for tournaments of a certain complexity? Thank you very much for your time!
Join this? Or Not! by WorldCup4James show
And now for our somewhat frequent analysis of the newest, fresh-off-the-press Tournaments available for signups,School's Out For Summer 2012 Night Strike 's annual School's Out For Summer . There's around thirty spots still available so kick off your well-earned (or not so? "Chap Pleasures" Series Chapcrap 's "Pleasures" series is now in full gear, with three tourneys already ready for joining. In this series, Chapcrap designs an ideal tournament to the liking of one lucky CC player, be it a 1v1, Doubles, or Quads tourney. Check out Chap Pleasures codierose , and Chap Pleasures deantursx , Chap Pleasures M.K.C88-90 .Queen's Diamond Jubilee andyf23 . Time is running out to sign up for his British Isles 1v1 tournament: Queen's Diamond Jubilee .Vampires VS Werewolves 3: Africa jpcloet 's Vampires VS Werewolves 3 Africa . This frenzy pits three classes of creatures, Vampires, Werewolves, and Humans, in Terminator games, and each round varies based on creative rule designing such that, ultimately, only one can survive and claim victory.A Pair of Feudals Vodean's 1v1 Feudal War Tournament and woopintroysbutt 's 20th tournament Epic Feudal War 1v1 ; both offer extensive 1v1 play across multiple rounds.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.
Well I don't know about you, but I'm excited to have Sully back. Refer my interview if you want to know what the problem was!
This issue brings us another episode in
koontz1973 's
continuing story of the ever-changing foundry. Lots and lots and lots and lots!! Meanwhile I take a look at the weekend that was. What did you celebrate? Was it
Memorial Day ,
Queen's Birthday , did you commemmorate the first American to
space-walk or was there
something else for you?
Now, your mission if you will accept it, is to get into the foundry and start that idea, comment on that idea or show that you have no idea. Whatever you choose, remember the sage words of
Abraham Lincoln :
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
thehippo8 Foundry News by koontz1973 show
Not a lot going on this week but 3 maps have been quenched and 2 new maps have been deployed for play.Quenched. ISN2 for Istanbul Click image to enlarge. Ace Rimmer for Cuban Missile Crisis Click image to enlarge. DiM for Patch Wars Click image to enlarge. Beta Maps Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge.
What's Where? by koontz1973 show
Drafting Room Main Foundry Game play section Graphics section Final Forge With xml stamps. Waiting for the xml. DiM .
The 3rd of June: Map’s, Medals and Honour by thehippo8 show
The 3rd of June seems like an innocuous little day but history sure has packed a lot into it!!Memorial Day Wikipedia Article about Memorial Day notes that, like most traditions, the current date of celebration wasn’t the first and even the name has changed. Memorial Day used to be called Decoration Day and arose from the efforts of the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia. This was 1865 and as April 26 was the date Confederate General Johnston's final surrender to General Sherman (at Bennett Place, North Carolina) that was the date for the commemoration. The festivities were adopted throughout the United States by 1868 and the official date was changed to 30 May. Late May is better for flower blooming and made for a more inclusive universal celebration, or at least that was the hope. It was commemorated on a number of other dates too, check out the chart in this Wikipedia Article . Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee settled on 3 June in honour of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis – as that was his birthday. It was also known there as Confederate Memorial Day or as Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee. It was even known as Confederate Heroes Day in Texas but celebrated on 19 January after the commemoration was joined with the birth date of General Lee. It wasn’t until 1967 before Memorial Day was officially decreed as the name and it was not until 1971 before the current date was settled on (to make a 3 day weekend). Anyway, back to President Davis – he presided over the Confederate States throughout the American Civil War. His life story makes for interesting reading. He dabbled in politics, slaves and had something of a military career. Until the attempt by the South to annex from the Union, he was Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. But with South Carolina passing an ordinance of succession Davis resigned and went back to Mississippi. He was voted in as the Confederate President but was well aware of the inferiority in military terms of the South and he sought diplomatic means of resolution. But there was no resolution forthcoming and the Civil War broke out. There were a number of strategic errors leading eventuially to the disbanding of the Confederacy. President Davis was charged with treason and stripped of public life. Davis continued thereafter to “wave the flag” for the Confederate cause and to this day is seen as a symbolic representation of Confederate defiance, some even saw him as a hero. These days his racism, ardent interest in slavery and general demeanour would never see him hit the public stage, save perhaps to champion the weirdness of a loony fringe, but that was a different time.this is all very interesting but what’s it got to do with us? A fair enough question. Well, we do have An American Civil War map that has been quenched:Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. talk about another attempt to get a Gettysberg Map up and cracking. So this June celebrate American Heritage by playing on the Civil War map and get into the foundry to encourage Thesamuri to get his map done. Queen Elizabeth Click image to enlarge. cairnswk can get back to it soon!June 3 in other parts of the World 1326 – Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. Click image to enlarge. 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain. 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat. Click image to enlarge. 1965 – Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk. 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. Click image to enlarge. 2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence. Click image to enlarge.
We have our Monthly release of the latest F400 ranking with LHDD (courtesy of newcomers cup 2 final placing), and OSA (courtesy of their extreme activity) being the big climbers this week. Tofu's line-up has also pushed them up a spot, although they seemingly remain winless over top 10 opposition.
QS also gives us a wrap-up of the latest from the Conquerors Cup, with insights, opinions and reviews on the first round of clashes
Leehar Clan Executive F400 by Gunn217 show
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