| Broadcasts for Spring of 1902 in goofy |
Movement
I see my supremacy on the waves is being challenged. War is
hereby declared against Turkey, France, Germany, oh, and England and
Russia while I'm at it.
I bet this is the only time in the history of Diplomacy that
Italy has been the only power with only one fleet on the board at the
beginning of 1902.
Freddie
OPERATION AFRICA HAS COMMENCED!
The Austrian government makes the following requests:
1) That no great power unlawfully seize any province currently under
Austrian control.
2) That no great power interfere with our convoys to the African
continent.
In return, the Great Austrian Navy will be placed at the
disposal of our friendly powers.
F.F.
I forgot to declare war against Austria in my last message. Sorry.
Freddie, prepare!
Freddie
Broadcast message in goofy:
I forgot to declare war against Austria in my last message. Sorry.
Freddie, prepare!
Freddie
You want a fight, Freddie? You'll have it. Me and Freddie will beat
the $@%*!! out of you!
Freddie
The Goof Tactician: > [entire post deleted for space]
I say, ditto. Excellent analysis.
Austria: > Of course, you may end up bouncing England in the MAO.
Great idea! Italy--let's talk!
Germany: > since there seems to be some concern about the annoyance
(i.e. NON-GOOFYness) of unannounced proxies, I resolve
never to indulGe in them aGain.
Oh, now, don't do *that*. I found them goofy, I just think they would be more
goofy if we knew we could had them to do goofy things with!
Das Goofenmeister: [blather deleted]
Sorry, fool, but there are limit to how goofy one can be in the early going.
We must wait to see which regions of Goof are staked out by enemies and
determine whether to take those by force or strike out in new Goof
directions.
Russia: > Since Eng made the only moves that seemed to totally reduce
the chance of long term survival i gave him the 3 points.
Aha! There is a genius mind present besides my own!
Master: [sets game to nolist]
What an unGoofy action! Minus points!
Goofy Observer Guy: > And eternal shame on France for actually trying
to win this game.
Here! Here! There! Ireland!
MajorDumbo: > England. No builds for you either, but again accidental.
Yeah, right! Like I couldn't guess that France would take London!
--The Silly English K-nnnn-ighit!
Well, if there was any doubt previously is has been dispelled now: France
believes himself to be in a perfectly straightforward, normal, nonGoofy game
of Diplomacy.
--The Silly English K-nnnn-ighit!
> Broadcast message from England in goofy:
>
> Well, if there was any doubt previously is has been dispelled now: France
> believes himself to be in a perfectly straightforward, normal, nonGoofy game
> of Diplomacy.
>
> --The Silly English K-nnnn-ighit!
And isn't that the goofiest possible solution?
But seriously, like I said -- I can be twice as goofy now. How many of YOU
can convoy yourselves from Gascony to Marseilles? :)
Well France, u correctly extracted the meaning of my points
awarded 2 u ==================: 0+1
Dont forget that although more units give u more chance 2 b goofy,
other players MAY choose 2 devalue your future awards by the size
of your relative advantage. In a situation where 2 powers have
15 units each and 4 powers have 1 unit each .... the 2 major powers
would have 2 put in at least 10 times as much goofiness to score even
1 goofy point if the minor powers have found anything goofy 2 do.
Hah! They fall like flies. Soon, I, formerly known as Das Goofenmeister,
but now, since it is a new year, am called simply Le Gouf, will rule
the Observers. It cannot be long hence before you are all obliged to
give your goofiness points to ME! ME!
As for you, o silly knigget, who has the brain of a duck you know,
any fool can be goofy with lots of units. It takes true talent to
be goofy with a few or one, or even no units. The Russian is right.
Le Gouf
Interesting (and disappointing) feature of the judge. Truly goofy activity
would have to involve illegal orders, such as this (bounced back from the
Judge):
>E: nwy-nwy
>The army in Norway can't get to Norway.
Okay, FINE! SEE if I care! Hmph!
--The Silly English K-nnnn-ighit!
A goofy comment for Super-Goof:
Personally, I hold no grudge against coordinated goofiness. To me, goofy
press is valuable, but goofy moves are really what gets me going. Therefore
I like the idea of n-way bounces, long-distance circular convoys, etc.
(which may be possible only with help of communication) a lot. Of course
non-negotiated yet coordinated goofiness is even more goofy.
Public announcement:
The ugly ships that my enemy decided to build will be blown up by one
of my special super-sonic anti-G bombs this spring (if I find that $#@$#
remote control with the big red button again).
> England writes:
>
> Interesting (and disappointing) feature of the judge. Truly goofy activity
> would have to involve illegal orders, such as this (bounced back from the
> Judge):
>
> >E: nwy-nwy
> >The army in Norway can't get to Norway.
It took you this long to find out about this??? This is why I was so in
love with my "missed convoy" move. The Judge protects us from dumb moves in
so many ways -- it even flags bad convoys (but doesn't prevent them) with
a warning message. IMHO, it one thing to do silly moves when there is no
outward message warning about the silly move but it even goofier to do a
silly move when the Judge warns you that move won't succeed.
MajorDomo
BTW: In one of my other dippy games I just did a really goofy move. Wish
I could tell you'all about it, but I suppose I'd be censored for
"cross-gaming". Sigh.
*yawn*
Sorry, but I don't find Judge quirks to be that goofy. Guess I'm
Judge-jaded from using it for years. Sure I could have my fleet sit
around and order convoys which are impossible, or order A Vie S Nwy -
Bud, but what I'm looking for are goofy RESULTS, not goofy orders
which will just be void.
F.F.
I regret, my friends, that I must resign, since the goofiness of your
messages is crashing my company's mail system.
gOg
Here are the goofy points from your friendly GM for fall 1901 along with
some comments.
A1, E0, F0, G3, I2, R1, T0
Obviously taking 3 or 2 SC isn't very goofy (though it may turn out to be
clever in the long run :-). Also, Russia's goofy move to Fin beats the
English standard convoy to Norway (even though England would get my 8th
point for not defending Lon if I had one). Germany's unasked for proxies
hit me as being very goofy indeed. However I agree that the goofiness of
such behaviour may wear out sometime, and, of course all of you
can order moves for all units on the board, thus taking advantage to
show your own goofiness (btw. one of you really did enter orders for
several units not belonging to him/her. Unluckily s/he didn't enter
orders for that unit that was actually proxied to him/her :-).
I'm also entertained by the German press, thus 3 points all in all.
Austria gets its point for the army in Greece; Italy two for its self-
corrupted convoy (and of course its -proxied- participation in the "let's
meet in Tyrolia" event).
And now, the goofy point totals in 1901:
A E F G I R T
----------------------------------------------
SC 6 4.5 9 6 4.5 6 7.5
GP 13 21 12 26 16 18 6
----------------------------------------------
1901 19 25.5 21 32 20.5 24 13.5
Robert
Sigh. I see that the eastern powers (I,A,T) are once again getting the
shaft; all of our goofy points are below normal. Will the West win goofy
just as it wins so many other games?
MajorDomo
Tomorrow (Wednesday 26th January) is a public holiday in this part of
the world.
I will be off-line all day. If I am slow responding to press, I apologise
in advance.
My apologies...
excuse 1) I tried to NMR intentionally, but forgot to look at the game flag
excuse 2) Work has been really slow recently so I haven't been doing as much
procrastinating
excuse 3) the judge won't allow me to convoy my fleets like I want