Welcome Comrades to the 36th edition of the Dispatch
Hey everyone, it's been a while again. Three weeks have passed and once again we have a
marvelous issue for you all. The Freestyle Section offers you an interview of General Mojo along with the latest antics of the Cook. The Clan Section offers the latest scoop on the various clan wars and challenges (am I using the right lingo here? Please have mercy on me clan folks...) Tournament Section has a nifty review on ongoing tournaments and an unexpected letter from a famous TO... which leaves my very own Foundry Section, and boy is it ever stuffed full of cartography and foundry-related news...
TL;DR - issue released, contains stuff about stuff, read it it's good.
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Click here for Recruitment Details... Good Afternoon! A shorter issue of the freestyle section this edition but it is still as exciting as ever. This edition, we have
TheSaxLad offering his thoughts on the Mentoring Pilot Program,
Deathcomesrippin on the Cheating and Abuse forum and how it operates and an interrogation of
General Mojo . We are also blessed with a cartoon strip involving our favourite cook!
nagerous Click image to enlarge. A Cheating and Abuse Report by deathcomesrippin show
Ahh, the Cheating & Abuse Forum. The place where dreams are made. The place where, as a single person, you can rise up, and overthrow the system, show The Man who is in charge, change the way an entire country thinks……
The Mentoring Pilot Program by TheSaxLad show
Mentoring Pilot Program – Is there life in the old dog yet?PLAYER57832 , one of the first mentees of the thread, explains: I enlisted initially because I found myself playing with a lot of new folks, explaining various game rules, etiquette, etc. I have never considered myself an expert in strategy.
PLAYER57832 wrote: The cook's forum is OK as far as it goes, but it is just way too limited. By teaching only the classic, new people don't get exposed to the wide range of maps. I can say that if I were limited to classic when I first came (when classic looked like the Risk map), I would never have stayed as long as I have.
KoE_Sirius wrote: It’s a good idea. I must have helped over 30 players with the advise on AoR2.When the map first appeared on cc. It was a walk over for the few that understood it. I think I may have closed the gap for those who read the thread and made the game more of a challenge.
AndyDufresne our resident Mod and Community Manager found that people were still posting and using the thread without the original poster. Unfortunately, no one was able to comment.
show: Interrogation of General Mojo
Hey there General Mojoahoy! I am pretty freaking mojo. I don't think I can say 100, though, because my name isn't Conqueror Mojo. I'd probably have to say 89. I have a bunch, so its hard to focus on one in particular. However, one game comes to mind during the height of DRS where we rolled some scrub clan in a quads game in about 2 rounds. That was fun. More recently, this past year's clan league games were memorable as well...the drama with beersurfer was pretty classic. And I can't leave out any game that I have ever played with Kitchen Sink ...he's a good shit. I joined with a bunch of longtime friends who also enjoyed playing risk. The website kinda grew on us and we've never left. And now that I've risen in the ranks I don't think I could ever leave...I can't even count the number of chicks I have landed simply because of my rank. Well, in my opinion, there's only ever been one society worth being in....so its not really my favorite, but just the only one I consider worthy of recognition. Of course. Its the reason why I've never been a Field Marshall...General is where its at. Just ask Fruitcake . Wow, another tough one. While I do enjoy the horn high yo, the whirl bet, and the fire bet, I'd have to give the nod to the Buffalo. If you spend the better part of your night firing off $25 Buffalos on every come out roll and still can't take home chicks at the end of the night, there's not much that can be done for you. I don't remember. I actually didn't frequent flame wars all that much back in the day, but it was a necessary and valuable asset to this website. The closing of flame wars probably marked the start date of CC's decline. Mostly because once flame wars shut down Siedshow99 started to lose intereset. Its been a good fit. We never had any intention of disbanding DRS, but we were in big trouble once we lost Kitchen Sink . He was our heart and soul. BpB has the perfect demeanor and approach to be a good fit for us. And now that mcapizzi is a bandit, theres no debate that we're the sexiest clan around. I'm not really sure the answer to that, you'd have to ask owenshooter . My guess is that trap and sied owned owen so hard in flame wars back in the day that he still holds a grudge. And I don't blame him, frankly...he got dominated pretty badly. No, they are good about always locking the door. Its an honor, really. We go about our business and are quite competitive without getting mixed up in all the ego stroking that goes on around here. Plus, I get to check out happy2seeyou 's milk jugs every day...how can you argue with that?? Absolutely not. That would be disrespectful to Kitchen Sink . Probably. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I am always down for a good old-fashioned bounty. I believe that we are all equally sexy. One of the perks of being a BpB. Yes. happy2seeyou I don't really have one, but I am pretty sure jbrettlip 's favorite is Obama. Bowers v. Hardwick. I am still upset that it got overturned. happy2seeyou 's jugs.I am pretty sure rainbow is not a color, but the answer is no...rainbows are lame. I prefer double rainbows. If you are a bandit, you are sexy, period. I don't think it matters what else you do. Besides, it takes a real man to pull off the color pink. Well, as I said above, BpB was a good fit for us because we don't take things too seriously. It was a perfect fit in that department. Plus, we are damn sexy. No. Most likely. I'm General Mojo, I promise. That is confidential, but there are a number of good ones. I highly suggest applying for membership to come check them out. Anything written by Fruitcake . Neither. I prefer trapyoung .
The tournament section is here to give you all the information you need. The News from the Front will slim down for this issue, and will only update you on the open and completed tournaments. Amazzony continues to scourge through the Open tournaments on her quest, what ever it is. Finally, barterer2002, non-staff, submited article worth reading.
Sir. Ricco
Tournament Executive
News from the Front by The Tournament Team show
Now Enlisting: Musical Chairs Doubles: Fantasy Tour hosted by keiths31 Battle Results: 1v1 Teams: Railed hosted by Serbia Scoreboard [Top 5]
Join This? Or Not! by amazzony show
"Join This? Or Not!" is a completely unprofessional, biased and subjective view on tournaments that can be found in Create/Join a Tournament forums. I will try to bring to you the top tournaments that you should not miss and though my initial thought was to hammer down mindless tournaments then I have not found anything worthy of my despise (read: a victory cheer for a well created tournament) will go to my chat buddies jakewilliams and lord voldemort who are inviting you to play real time games in Chatters 1v1 tournament . Careful though - once you enter that devil's den, you are doomed!Standard Invitational Tourney by macbone and oldrisky44 .Sir. Ricco 's multi organiser TO; Capture the Flag . This is NOT yet-another-1v1-tournament, this is brought to you by the magnificent Tournament Organizers user-group lead by yours truly The Track Meet by Woodruff will make the crowd go Huzzah! (read: a victory cheer for a really well created tournament) . Pyrhhus for his haiku Warrior Poets . Like really, if I, the illiteral cretin, managed to create a haiku then you shouldn't have no problems with it.(read: a victory cheer for a created tournament) and they belong to NFL tourneys. There's 2010-11 NFL Football by GeneralJestix and 2010 Football Season by CDLTexan . I've seen a lot of sports leagues fail but I do wish these organizers a lot of strength to get these to a Hooray ending!dowian2 's 2010-11 NCAA Hockey . This is something that will be ran smoothly and won't get abandoned!
The View From a TO by barterer2002 show
You may or may not know who I am. I run tournaments. Over the past year or so there have been any number of discussions on tournaments and how things are. For the most part I think this has been a good thing and I think that there have been some positives that have come out of these discussions. There are times of course, where discussions have gotten off track, where passions have become heated and where we've all needed to take a step back and look. For the most part though I appreciate the changes that have come forth.
Hello again everyone. It seems to be map season now. Since last issue, we have had a flood of new maps - a whopping 5 maps have been given the beta stamp. Only one of them is at the time of writing this actually playable, but the rest should follow soon. We also have lots of new maps emerging in the Foundry - go take a look!
Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone who is interested in new maps to subscribe to the
Map Surveyors usergroup. In MS, you will receive notification about maps that are in development, and will have a chance to actively participate in the development. Map Surveyors also holds monthly lotteries with Premium Prizes, along with other interesting contests. There's no reason not to join!
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Latest News show
Smashing Good Cricket Goes Beta Cairnswk 's last (?) map, Cricket: Silly Mid-On , is finally available for live play. The preferred sport of crazed Englishmen, cricket is translated in wonderfully chaotic fashion into a large, open-deployment map. As for the rules... who knows? Who cares! The only rule is survival as the wickets are planted and the batsmen take the field.Four More Maps In Beta German & Italian Unification Maps QuenchedIndustrial Helix 's dual-map pack has finally been quenched after an extended period in Beta. Hopefully the first in many historical maps- the Russian Revolution is already brewing!- the wars of unification for two early 20th-century military powers are depicted in simple and satisfying style. Congratulations, Industrial Helix!Das Schloss Quenchedcairnswk states in his thread, this is the only map to be quenched twice. An extensive overhaul was done by the mapmaker during which significant changes were made in Beta. The final product is a testament to the dedication of the Foundry's mapmakers to fun, quality maps. Dubbed by AAFitz as the most fair 1 versus 1 map on CC, Das Schloss is a victory objective-based conquest-style map based upon a fictional commando raid on a Nazi stronghold located deep within a castle. The play is intricate and the bonuses evenly placed, producing a map that should delight deep strategy players. Congratulations, cairnwick!
Maps Review Maps Briefly show
Maps briefly New maps - Design brief submitted: Age of Steam: Transsib natty_dread More of this in Map Showroom. Moved to Gameplay.California The Bison King Another map by The Bison King has been launched. This one features California and has been Moved to Gameplay.Thailand grifftron & FarangDemon An ambitious project to represent the country of Thailand in CC. Moved to Gameplay.Supernaculum Arghead A new mapmaker making his first effort at a CC map, featuring an apocalyptic scenario on a tropical island.Colours map? FixitDave A map of colours, still looking for a theme. Another new mapmaker making good effort.400 Highways Nuclear Marathon A roadmap from Canada. Currently only a hand-drawn sketch of the map exists.Map Movement: Secesh Heresy MarshalNey Moved to Gameplay.Antarctica isaiah40 & natty_dread Moved to Gameplay.Pachisi! Victor Sullivan Moved to Gameplay.Peru Rih0 Moved to Graphics.Conquer 500 dolomite13 Moved to Graphics.First Nations of South America Tisha Moved to Final Forge.Cyprus thenobodies80, Gilligan Moved to Final Forge.Mexico MrBenn & Fumandomuerto Moved to Final Forge.Age of Steam: Orient Express natty_dread Moved to Final Forge.
Map Showroom show
Map Showroom Age of Steam: Transsiberian Rail Author(s): natty_dread Map style: StandardMap size: LargeForum: GameplayDevelopment status: From yours truly, the next part in the Age of Steam series features the Transsiberian Railroad - one of the longest railroads of all times, running from Moscow to Vladivostok, in 1914 when the railway was finished.Baseball Author(s): Evil DIMwit Map style: ConquestMap size: LargeForum: GameplayDevelopment status: America's favourite pastime is after numerous stalled attempts finally getting represented on CC. Evil DIMwit is taking a conquest approach on the baseball field, creating another whimsical map on the footsteps of Woodboro and Doodle Earth. Angevin Empire Author(s): tokle Map style: StandardMap size: LargeForum: GameplayDevelopment status: A first time mapmaker is making a good effort here with a map of the Angevin Empire in the 12th century. The Angevin Empire at it's peak controlled half of France, along with England and Ireland, which are all represented within the map.Peru Author(s): Rih0 Map style: StandardMap size: SmallForum: GraphicsDevelopment status: Rih0 has made good progress with his Peru map, advancing all the way to the Graphics forum. This map features the nation of Peru, and has standard gameplay with a few twists.
Map Spotlight show
Map Spotlight: Cyprus
Inside the Foundry Under the hood: Starting Positions show
Under the Hood: Starting Positions Map Info Database to find other maps with the same mechanic. Who knows you may find a new favorite.starting positions ". Starting positions allow a map creator to select one or more territories where they can guarantee players will start the game. This allows the them to do creative things like dividing territories amongst the players so that no one player starts with an unfair advantage. It also allows the creator to limit the number of territories where players start on a map allowing them to create “Conquest” style maps.Treasures of Galápagos cairnswk The Galapagos Islands are starved of water in many places. This, along with diving luggers, and natural fauna treasures that the Isles are famous for, from the concept for a map where everyone starts in the water diving. The objective is to gather as many treasures as possible to assist in conquering the map and other players. The allure of the underwater scenery with jelly-like amoeba and island map territory cells make this map one of Cairnswk's most brilliant designs. Castle Lands pikkio A simple map with four quadrants, four bridges and a castle. Each quadrant has a catapult that can bombard the tower with the same colored flag (and vice-versa) and the castle. Except for bombardments the map has a standard game play. A map preferably suitable for Team Games. New World Coleman Based roughly on the European colonization of the Americas players are invited to write their own version of history. Poker Club In Poker you don't play your hand - you play the person opposite you. This game is all about the hand - gain cards to improve your hand - or to decrease their hand. Each combination of winning hands is available for capture and yields different bonuses - Your best hand pays your bonus. Feudal War gimil You are of one of Feudal’s six great empires. Fight to unite the land under your rule. Eastern Hemisphere oaktown Oaktown brings us the Eastern Hemisphere at the beginning of the 20th century - an era of global colonialism and nation building. Centuries-old empires were on the verge of collapse as the Ottoman, Russian, Persian, and Chinese Empires fell. Russia was heading for revolution, centuries-old colonies gained independence, there was an international scramble to control African resources, and Europe was on the brink of war. The map of the Eastern Hemisphere was about to be completely redrawn.
The clan directors brought high drama to their forums this week. Yes, it was time to launch season 3 of the league. Our coverage includes the thoughts of chief league architect
jpcloet and an interview with first time contestants, Devil's Brigade.
The first set of three is nearly over in the Cup semi-finals: THOTA and KORT are building small leads. A dazzling array of challenges are underway - we bring you news of Grim Reapers, TIME and FOED.
Best of all we show you the work of Platoon Report Art Director the multi-talented
Dai-atan whose nifty gifs bring some much-needed colour to our pages.
Season 3: A League of their Own by laughingcavalier (TSM) show
The senior clan competition enters its third season with 24 of the top clans signed up to do battle across four divisions. The Schedule The Draw The Sign-Ups The Format jpcloet and masli considered a World Cup- style format, but in the end opted for four divisions, all on the same level. Contestants will get to play against clans at all levels, clans they may not have played before or might not otherwise get the chance to play, whether they are top-ranked clans or newbies.First contestants: Devil's Brigade shaneback gives us an idea of what we’ve all got to look forward to. shaneback speaks to The Dispatch Three hours from announcement to signing up - had your clan discussed it before or did you just know you wanted in? We had been discussing joining for season 3 earlier in the year and everyone in the clan was looking forward to it. What are you looking forward to in the league? The league is going to provide the opportunity to fight it out with several clans and players that we would normally not play against. Hopefully we are able to learn some new tactics and strengthen our teamwork. The only clan in our division that we have challenged is the Angels of Death, so we are going to be playing a lot of new faces. We ended up in the same division as Empire, which should make for an interested match-up as several of our members were originally in Empire. When you get to the end of the season what do you want the clans you have played to be saying about you? Hopefully with quality play we will gain the respect of our competitors, and we move up a few spots in the clan rankings. What's the lowdown on Devil's Brigade? The Devil's Brigade celebrated our first birthday a couple weeks ago, and in our first year we have a record of 3-1 in clan challenges. With several recent additions our numbers have swelled to 25 members. We are in the beginning stages of developing a map based on the real world Devils Brigade. From the Horse's Mouth jpcloet for his view on what we've got to look forward to. jpcloet wrote: Season 3 of the Clan League should see some of the best competitive team play on the site. Of the 24 clans involved, a number of them look to make their mark and achieve one of the 8 spots in the expanded playoffs, while others look to make a statement, and others simply are still trying to make a name for themselves. Season 2 showed that anything can happen and Season 3 will likely contain some surprises.
Clan League: Season 3 - Standings & Results
Cup Semis: THOTA-LOW; TOFU-KORT by Dai_atan (Legion) show
Vs Vs THOTA Vs LoW Reptile wrote: after the first rounds of each game i am involved in between drop and first round dice, i am expecting to see a huge lead for thota after the first round, it will be their competition that has to catch up this time unfortunatelly. i hope this one evens up at some point, i dont care if it is the third round as long as it happens. it just might take 2nd and 3rd after our start here, though it seems pretty impossible.
It would be nice to start with a good lead, since our last few challenges we were down like 7 games at one time in each one of them previous challenges.
TOFU Vs KoRT I would say that approximately 2/3 of the battle will be in Batches 2 and 3!
This challenge might be over soon considering what happened in round 1 and the unforgiving drops / first team starts of round 2.
I think it's going to take a heroic comeback in round 3 for us to have any chance.
This Reporter wrote:
State of Play show
LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN! by Dai_atan Vs LAPPING IT UP by laughingcavalier Agents of Chaos and Nemesis . Clan co-leader danryan spoke to the Dispatch: danryan wrote: AOC is kicking our ass right now, the final score will be closer as there are a lot of unfinished games that will be wins for us, but I don't see us getting anywhere near a tie. My prediction is 35-25 for AOC or thereabouts - they are a fantastic clan with 4 really top class players in Eyestone, Myrelock, Namor, and ccatman, and everyone else there can play well too. If nothing else, they've exposed some weaknesses in our team play that we need to address. Since we'll be playing in their division in the League there should be some interesting rematches.
Clan Wars: The Pirate Cocktail by BoganGod (BotFM) show
From the Bogan News Desk, sitting back viewing my collection of classic mullet pics, and started thinking (mental note, more rum called for, cuts down on thinking nicely, only leaves room in the ole brain box for booty, wenches and more rum). Allow Nuclear spoils – not a traditional type of card game, and there are a lot of mixed feelings out there in CC land about how “authentic nuclear is”, whether it requires “skill” etc. I for one wouldn’t want it in a clan war, having horrible thoughts of nuclear on a random map, and pulling something like doodle earth. I do feel that nuclear requires a more than average amount of communication on team games, taking out your partners stack is not that productive…..Inclusion of Beta maps – I like this option a lot, would reward a clan with active players that like trying something new. Could be included as a limited option to not ruffle to many feathers on old cc chooks. Maybe limit beta maps to 10-20% of a clans home maps. Could work, and could be a lot of fun.Freestyle – Freestyle is a dirty word for a lot of serious players. It could work in clan wars, though I don’t see many clans expressing any eagerness in trying it. With first turn advantage and players in different time zones. I can see it becoming a game of chicken, who will join last etc. I don’t know how it could fairly be introduced into clan wars, but then I’m no freestyle master, don’t even have my freestyle gold. Is an option that some of the younger clans have been expressing a desire to try.One vs One – This has been used in clan wars frequently in the past with a best of 5 series on 1vs1 counting as 1 game. In 1vs1 there is a very strong 1st turn advantage, stronger on some maps than others. Gives clans an opportunity to give their experienced standard players that aren’t that good at team games a hit out. Unsure on my feelings on 1vs1 games in clan wars, am happy to include them. Definitely don’t actively push for them.All random challenge – This I think could be a very good idea, would test the depths of a clan's knowledge of the site. I think more clans would consider it if the suggestion to exclude some games from random goes ahead. That way clans would not end up with hive, doodle, or a few other either lengthy or very luck dependent maps. Might take some convincing but I could see the Pirates playing an all random challenge at some time in future.Odd number challenge – This is an excellent idea, make the challenge 61 games for example with the 61st game being classic trips possibly. Prevents the need for a tie break, I think everyone feels kind of cheated in a close war when it comes down to a 1 game or best of three tie break.Free agents – Something I don’t think anyone has suggested as yet, and not sure whether it would work. Could be quite cool to have a few free agents within clans. That is players that are in a clan, are not clan leaders, and are prepared to jump ship on a temporary basis to help another clan out in a clan challenge. Imagine if you will dear readers a clan war between TOFU and THOTA, where TOFU has a few of the best players from KORT on their team, and THOTA has a few of the best Legion players. Could be a brilliant war, would be great to get a lot of the best players on site in a big war against each other. Probably just a Bogan Deities’ wet dream, but dream with me readers, it could be a lot of fun.
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