Fuzzy's American Odyssey: The Cold War Roussalier WINS

by **Fuzzy316** on Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:06 am

AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY is:

A series of 13 tournaments that I have designed to go through American history. Each of the tournaments takes place at pivotal points in America's history (and possible future). Using the maps available here on CC, I have come up with different names of each tourney and will have a small story tidbit to accompany each one. The map that each tourney will be played on will be identified in the story tidbit by being colorized.

Each tourney takes place on a different map, relating to different times in American history. The overall objective of players in the entire series is to score kills. All tourney games for the first 12 Tournaments will be a standard Terminator. Every kill that you make in each game you play will count towards your overall kill total. The 13th Tourney will be a final championship tourney for the top 32 players with the most kills over the first 12 tourneys.

If you are terminated from your game, you are out of the tourney, but not the series. The tourneys will run for 3 rounds each. From 64-players to 16 and then a 4-player final.

You must sign up for each tourney.

For the individual that accumulates the most kills throughout the first 12 tournaments of this series a General Achievment Medal will be awarded.

Each tourney will be open to 64 players, with the 13th tournament only being the 32 top killers. The more tourneys that you enter as they become active, the better chance you have of winning and moving on to the Championship Tourney. If there happens to be a tie that results in more than 32 players, then those players who are tied with kills that result in the over 32 limit will play one or more games to determine the final entrants into the tourney. (These games will not count in the overall kill count for the series.)

In addition, as soon as each tourney is full, and game invites have been sent out, I will post the thread for the next tourney in the series, so be on the lookout for those that wish to keep playing this series.

To join, simply indicate by posting in the thread that you want in. I will respond in the thread that you are in when I sign you up. I reserve the right to refuse any player form entering, but you really had to upset me to do that.

For all the tourneys, other than the map, the game settings remain the same throughout:

4-player games
Terminator
Automatic
Sequential
Chained
Foggy
Escalating

There will be special rules for the Championship tourney, to be revealed when it becomes active for the top 32 players. As each tourney progresses, overall kill counts will be tabulated after each round, and tables posted. Each kill counts as 1. Whether you win the game or not if you kill a player, it will be counted. Information on the final tourney can be found here:

viewtopic.php?f=89&t=147043&p=3211229#p3211229

I have been approved a General Achievement Medal for the individual scoring the most kills in the series. Now... on to the next Tourney:

#11 The Cold War

(Fact)
Along with the Race to Space and the moon, the United States and Communist Russia soon became silent enemies after the end of World War II. For roughly 45 years from 1946 until 1991, these two superpowers struggled for supremacy over one another. It was a continuing state of political conflict, military tension and economic competition between them.

Both sides possessed nuclear armaments that were (and still are) capable of eliminating most, if not all life on the planet. Since use of these weapons would have likely guaranteed mutual assured destruction, thankfully they have not been used to this date.

Some of the global impacts that this Cold War affected included events sucnh as the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics, which the U.S along with other allies, boycotted the games. There were numerous confrontations and invasions throughout the globe, sometimes using other countries armies as a proxy, including areas such as Cuba, Afghanistan, The Dominican Republic, Czechoslovakia and many other places.
This state of heightened threats and alarm at nuclear war continued until the actions of President's Reagan and Bush, along with Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev enabled both countries to begin a process of mutual disarming and the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, eliminating all nuclear armed, ground launched ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of 300-3400 miles (500-5500 kilometers), as well as the START I arms control treaty. This also led to the German Reunification and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

(Fiction for tournament advancement)
However, things are not always as they seem. Events have passed that have caused a resurgence in the armaments of both the U.S.A and newly re-formed U.S.S.R. After U.S. military actions in the Middle East proved to be more than the Russians were willing to accept, the Soviet countries banded together once more and demanded that the U.S. remove all forces from the area. The U.S. effectively laughed in thier faces and took their own steps towards domination. As a result of the U.S. refusing to remove their forces as well as several incursions into Russian buffer zones, Russia began to bring back the Old Republic, promising many of the smaller countries many rewards by rejoining.

The Lunar War had been a stalemate between the two superpowers, and soon both nations abandoned their places on the moon to return to the global domination. This prompted multiple battles and escalations, resulting in the treaties to be nullified. Both sides began to produce massive amounts of nuclear weapons again. This time however, there would be little chance of disarming. Once again, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were in an ARMS RACE!