Your First Win

by **shieldgenerator7** on Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:58 pm

How many games did you play before you finally won one?
The first game I joined I lost because of some deadbeaters,
but the first game I finished I won, surprisingly. Game 7787310

Soon after the game I first joined finished, the only other guy that didn't deadbeat beat me dead.

But it was a good game though

by **L M S** on Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:00 pm

It took me 7 games to win my first one. That is still one my favorite maps.

Game 135219

by **IcePack** on Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:03 pm

I lost my first two games, switched to freestyle and won my 3rd & 4th games.
Went back to seq - lost #5. my 6th game was my first sequential victory.

Hard times

but by #6 I still had 50% win lol

IcePack

by **Ryall55** on Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:08 pm

2nd game - 844844

Its funny looking through the early games and seeing how practically no-one is still here

by **L M S** on Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:14 pm

My very first game (7918 games ago) was Game 123269.

Yikes.
I sure could have made it easier on myself....I wonder if e84 would do a rematch, lol.

by **codeblue1018** on Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:20 pm

I won for the first time in my third game on World 2.1

by **Mageplunka69** on Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:15 pm

I won my 1st game on game 15....Game 1777015 tough opponents too....

Blitzaholic scored -42 points in this game
dividedbyzero scored -42 points in this game
american_ninja scored -42 points in this game

Must have had dice problems way back then too lol

2008-02-17
20744 games ago

by **owenshooter** on Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:55 pm

another amazing thread by my favorite forum goer... :roll:

i believe when i began i won 26 in a row which led to a massive multi investigation against me... i was fully cleared...-the black jesus

by **Funkyterrance** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:43 am

I don't remember my first win, alas. I do remember my first big singles game win was 8 thoughts and it lasted at least 50 rounds. What a great game

.

Personally, I find shield's contributions to the forums a refreshing change from the general cynicism that tends to creep into every corner. There's my two cents.

Funky

by **JBlombier** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:46 am

My first win was on USApocalypse, 4 player, esc. After that game I've hated USApoc and escalating for about 1,5 year.
Nostalgia is taking over now, though. I actually like escalating and play USApoc more often.

by **White Moose** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:56 am

My first win was in my second game.

Game 917357

Two deadbeated, came down to a 1v1 and I prevailed.. I was a incredible noob back then.

by **jefjef** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:06 am

My first win was against that hot Alex chick.

Game 7 or 8. My random has been piss ever since.

by **thegreekdog** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:16 am

Game 3039436

Apparently I took copious "notes to self." Weird.

by **Funkyterrance** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:35 am

Lol Greek, I used to do that too!

by **shieldgenerator7** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:14 pm

why would you need to do notes to self? And why don't personal notes show up after the game is archived?

by **thegreekdog** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:22 pm

shieldgenerator7 wrote:why would you need to do notes to self? And why don't personal notes show up after the game is archived?

Here are mine:

2008-08-15 15:34:56 - thegreekdog [self]: put all new armies on libya, take egypt from libya, take algeria from algiers, tunisia, tripoli,
2008-08-25 07:18:00 - thegreekdog [self]: take algeria and fortify!
2008-08-25 14:57:48 - thegreekdog [self]: hand in cards, destroy rudolph

Clearly sound advice although I wonder why I included an exclamation point under the second comment. Was I not fortifying? Perhaps I was getting excited on my first potential win.

by **InsomniaRed** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:53 pm

France map, it was my 11th game.

by **natty dread** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:25 pm

An escalating luxembourg, 8 players. I had lost a lot of games before that because I was lazy and didn't bother learning how to play. Then I started paying more attention to the game... so I won 270 points from that first win.

...omg it was freestyle

My first win was freestyle... Excuse me, I need to go to the shower and scrub myself with steel wool.

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:32 pm

Holy shit, I lost 14 games straight when i joined this site it seems.

I'm not sure wether to be upset with my past self for clearly being an idiot or proud for not quitting after 14 consecutive defeats. :-k

Oh, and my first win was a ... doubles ... freestyle ... *shudders*

by **natty dread** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:47 pm

Oh, I didn't count team games. My first team win was a triples Draknor.... sequential. It's a small comfort...

by **Funkyterrance** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:09 pm

I'm not going to post any of my notes to self, there were LOTS of exclamation points, too embarrassing :mrgreen:

. And to those of you that won your first games freestyle, you should probably flagellate yourselves for good measure

. I suck at freestyle, maybe I'm just a little envious

.

by **shieldgenerator7** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:15 pm

the first quadruples game I won was the one in which I met Honky_D and two other players who played on my team. We faced Blitz and his buddies and we beat them. praise the Lord. Since then I've played a lot of dubs with Honky_D but we didn't win much after that because I'm not all that good at team games as Funkyterrance found out (really I thought we were going to win that one).
freestyle=fave

by **sherkaner** on Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:20 pm

It actually makes sense for someone that comes to this site to start with freestyle games (it's faster, and that counts when you're a freemium). So I did that too.
I think I started with 2 games, and increased that to 4 quite quickly. I lost my first game, but won the other 3 of my first batch (and 2 of those were freestyle). And judging from the logs, I guess Game 407809 was the first one I won.

by **Metricsystemlove** on Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:07 pm

My first wins were 4409464 and 4412133.....I was on vacation in Cuba and it cost me like, 30$ Canadian to keep from missing my turns. You had to buy these internet time cards to use a computer at the resort I was staying at.

My first loss was 203313.....I guess I had joined the site nearer to its inception than when I had actually started playing for real. It was a doubles match and my partner deadbeated out of the game, and I missed a turn as well before being eliminated.
Also, my first loss was to my current clanmate, UCAbears.

Heh.