A Chance to Write History: WWIII [Ongoing]

[macbone]

I'll play, Duk, wherever you need me.

[Dukasaur]

im in

In please Duke - any side

I'll play, Duk, wherever you need me.

Excellent. Thank you all!

[Nath77440]

count me in

[Loose Canon]

ok i'll play or be a reserve Loose Canon

[Silly Knig-it]

okay I will be a reserve

[OleCowboyHippy]

You can count me in! OleCowboyHippy

[aalii]

Hi Duk
If you still need reserves, sign me up. I didn't read the whole thing but I am willing to help you out, where you need me.

aalii

[pamoa]

as you kindly asked
sign me in

[thehippo8]

At gunpoint thehippo is forced onto the battlefield as a reserve!!

[Dukasaur]

count me in

ok i'll play or be a reserve Loose Canon

okay I will be a reserve

You can count me in! OleCowboyHippy

You four, plus the three above, make the seven that I needed. I guess my spamming efforts this morning were more successful than expected, so the following will go on the reserve list and not be used immediately:

Hi Duk
If you still need reserves, sign me up. I didn't read the whole thing but I am willing to help you out, where you need me.

aalii

as you kindly asked
sign me in

At gunpoint thehippo is forced onto the battlefield as a reserve!!

Thank you all for joining!

[Dukasaur]

Randomized the order of the first seven reserves to avoid bias:

There were 7 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Silly Knig-it
Nath77440
OleCowboyHippy
Loose canon
bahrain
DaveH
macbone

Timestamp: 2013-05-06 19:06:38 UTC

After this will be inserted as needed.

[Dukasaur]

Missing Battle 7 games have been created and invitations sent out!

Once again, thank you to all our reserves for helping us out.


Since we're back underway, it's time to claim this as my own. This is my 53rd!
[spoiler=My list of tournaments thus far]My FIRST tournament: Dukasaur's Knucklehead Tournament
My SECOND tournament (and still my personal favourite): Intensities in Ten Cities!
My THIRD tournament: DK's 3-3-3
My FOURTH tournament: DK's CC Scrabble
My FIFTH tournament: A Fifth of Dukasaur
My SIXTH tournament: DK's koontz-style tourney
My SEVENTH tournament: Jules Verne Contest(new thread) (rescued from its original creator [player]DJENRE[/player])
My EIGHTH tournament: LOTTERY V (rescued from its original creator [player]DJENRE[/player])
My NINTH tournament: History of Nuclear War I
My TENTH tournament: DK's Friendship Festival
My ELEVENTH tournament: DK's koontz-style II
My TWELFTH tournament: History 101 (rescued from [player]Blinkadyblink[/player])
My THIRTEENTH tournament: My First Tourney (rescued from [player]Sword Master[/player]: it was HIS first tourney, not mine, lol)
My FOURTEENTH tournament: Guojia Anquan Bu TPA2 (my first TPA!)
My FIFTEENTH tournament: History of Nuclear War II
My SIXTEENTH tournament: Dukasaur's First Anniversary
My SEVENTEENTH tournament: DK's Christmas Quads
My EIGHTEENTH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 I - No Spoils
My NINETEENTH tournament:1v1 Conqueror of the Americas (rescued from [player]eagleblade[/player])
My TWENTIETH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 II - Flat Rate
My TWENTY-FIRST tournament: History of Nuclear War III
My TWENTY-SECOND tournament: WKRP in Cincinnati
Cancelled: DK's Easter Quads
My TWENTY-THIRD tournament: Whom or What Version 1
My TWENTY-FOURTH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 III - Nuclear
My TWENTY-FIFTH tournament: The Clan League Vase (the first not run under the Tournaments area of the site.)
My TWENTY-SIXTH tournament: Assassination by Fours [TPA2] (rescued from [player]MrGlassB[/player])
My TWENTY-SEVENTH tournament: Jim's Tourney Series #8: Fighting the Fog (rescued from [player]jimfinn[/player])
My TWENTY-EIGHTH tournament: Friendship Festival Special Edition [TPA2]
My TWENTY-NINTH tournament: Slacker Time 1
My THIRTIETH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 IV - Escalating
My THIRTY-FIRST tournament: In and Out: The Assasin - The Orient{sic} (rescued from [player]Eternal Shadow[/player])
My THIRTY-SECOND tournament: In the Trenches: 8 Thoughts (rescued from [player]Campin_Killer[/player])
My THIRTY-THIRD tournament: wm's 1st CC Tennis Open (rescued from [player]wesleymilo[/player])
My THIRTY-FOURTH tournament: History of Nuclear War IV
My THIRTY-FIFTH tournament: Salient Assassinations in History [TPA3]
My THIRTY-SIXTH tournament: History of Nuclear War V
My THIRTY-SEVENTH tournament: History of Nuclear War VI
(History of Nuclear War Series Information Centre created Nov 18, 2012)
My THIRTY-EIGHTH tournament: DK's 2nd Annual Christmas Quads with WC4J (WC4J=[player]WorldCup4James[/player])
My THIRTY-NINTH tournament: Your Favourite Way for the World to End! (My first OFFICIAL tournament!)
My FORTIETH tournament: Slacker Time 2
My FORTY-FIRST tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 01
My FORTY-SECOND tournament: DKs Best of 2011 V - Randomized
Best of 2011 Series Infocentre created Jan 14, 2013
My FORTY-THIRD tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 02
My FORTY-FOURTH tournament: MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix (rescued from [player]tokle[/player])
My FORTY-FIFTH tournament: The Forgotten Nine
My FORTY-SIXTH tournament: History of Nuclear War VII
My FORTY-SEVENTH tournament: DKs Best of 2012 I - Flat Foggy
My FORTY-EIGHTH tournament: DKs Best of 2011 VI - SoC Settings
My FORTY-NINTH tournament: "Gratuitous Transfer of Wealth"
My FIFTIETH tournament: DKs Best of 2012 II -- Sunny Nukes
My FIFTY-FIRST tournament: Dukasaur Plays Baltic 03
My FIFTY-SECOND tournament: 21st Century Clash of the Statesmen (rescued from creator [player]WorldCup4James[/player])
My FIFTY-THIRD tournament: A Chance to Write History WWIII (rescued from creator [player]WorldCup4James[/player])[/spoiler]

[MGSteve]

I willing if you need me.

[Odeuminus]

If you need me I'm in

[russde]

If still needed...I'm in


Really just angling for an invite to the orgy

[Dukasaur]

I willing if you need me.

If you need me I'm in

If still needed...I'm in


Really just angling for an invite to the orgy

Thank you to all three of you. I have enough reserves for now, but it's good to have extras!

[Nath77440]

a bit lost war7, front3, had 2 wins and one lost so far is that right. Saw my name once but can't find it anymore. All is see is TBA

[Dukasaur]

a bit lost war7, front3, had 2 wins and one lost so far is that right. Saw my name once but can't find it anymore. All is see is TBA

The link where I am keeping scores is here:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4160902#p4160902

Unfortunately this is one of the drawbacks of rescuing a tournament that someone else began: the scoreboards tend to be not in the place where the original organiser had them, because the rescuer has no power to edit the original organisers files or posts.

You are listed in Front 3 on my new scoreboard. (However, it has not been updated to reflect the new scores yet.)

[Nath77440]

Won 3 and lost 1 not to bad i hould be able to go foward?

[Dukasaur]

Results updated: Subject: A Chance to Write History: WWIII [Ongoing]
Short version: Alliance has won 3 fronts (fronts 2, 5, and 6). Confederation has won 2 fronts (fronts 1 and 4). There are two fronts (3 and 7) with a tie.

James provided for the tie to be broken by a single game between the players who had won the most for his faction in that front. In front 3 the choice is clear: the tiebreaker will be between Nath77440 and chapcrap. In front 7 Lyndir is the champion of the Confederation, but who should represent the alliance? Both Jessamine and theSaxlad have won 3 games. Just to be unequivocal, I'm going to rule that James' use of the wording "then the player with the most wins from each faction will play" is significant here, and therefore the Alliance will be represented by Jessamine, who has been here since the beginning and has racked up 20 wins for the Alliance, rather than theSaxlad who was a reserve and only has 5.

Tiebreakers begin!

The series is at 3 fronts to 2, so the Confederation champions (chapcrap, Lyndir) must win both games to win Battle 7. Alliance will win Battle 7 if their champions (Nath77440, Jessamine) win either of these games.

Detailed Format of the Battles
[spoiler=Dividing into 7 Fronts]Dividing into 7 Groups (Fronts)

Once the events for the battle have been agreed upon (i.e. players have voted), then I will send the piece of history, the details of the battle, to all 70 players.

Each player on each side is randomly assigned a number.
Using the Sequence Generator at random.org, I will generate 7 "fronts" of 8 players each.
Each front has 4 players from the Alliance, and 4 players from the Confederation.

*Note that not all 70 players are taking part here: I will go into detail later about this.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Gameplay]Gameplay

Each player will simultaneously play 4 1v1 games; one game against each opponent from the opposing faction.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Deciding the Winning Faction in the Front]Deciding the Winning Faction in the Front
The number of wins from each of the Alliance players are summed.
The number of wins from each of the Confederation players are summed.
Whichever faction (Alliance or Confederation) has the most wins will claim victory for that front.

• Should the two factions have the same number of wins, then the player with the most wins from each faction will play in 1, 1v1 game. The faction of which the winner of this game belongs to will claim victory.

[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Determining the Faction that Emerges Victorious in the Battle]Determining the Faction that Emerges Victorious in the Battle
Recall there are 7 fronts; whichever faction wins the most number of fronts (i.e. at least 4 of the 7 fronts) will win the battle.
Thus, this is like a best-of-7 battle, where the winning faction is the one that wins at least 4 "fronts."[/spoiler]

[Nath77440]

12771989 Nath77440 won lol

[Dukasaur]

12771989 Nath77440 won lol

You are definitely a knight in the Alliance army!




Alliance wins Battle 7!

[Dukasaur]

MOH-qualifying games have been created and invitations sent out.


Several people in the fronts concerned had the same number of wins and had to be sorted out according to their ART scores.

If you don't know what MOH and ART stand for, you'll have to read the first post. Otherwise, just trust me....

[Nath77440]

tanks

[Dukasaur]

WWIII: The Final Battle

We do not know who used nuclear ordnance first. Was it the Russian submarine Yury Dolgoruky? The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning? The British ballistic missile sub HMS Vigilant? The American guided missile cruiser Anzio? Was it the Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paolo or Pakistan's guided missile cruiser Alamgir?

We do not know, and I for one do not want to know. Some commander, outnumbered in a hostile sea, felt that his duty required him to use every means at his disposal to serve his country's interest, and the means at his disposal happened to include nuclear ordnance. Is it important to know his name or his nationality? Do we need someone else to hate? If it was you or I, would we have done things differently? Between orders, duty, policy, and situational necessity, one's choices are sometimes so narrowly constrained as to not be choices at all. I prefer to believe that the man who gave the order was not a villain, but simply someone at the nexus of many forces, very few of which were within his control, and seeing no real options save the one he chose.

Within two hours after that critical detonation in the South China Sea, there was war in every Sea and on every Continent. Even worthless Antarctica was not spared, as someone decided that India's Bharathi Research Station was a target of strategic interest. Conventional forces did as much fighting as nuclear forces, but it was the nuclear forces that set the stage for the world of the future. As the scientists warned us, the ashes of the cataclysm blotted out the sun, and almost led to our extinction.

As I write, here in the world's unofficial capital of New Atlantis (once known as Bonaire) the remaining 15,000 humans on earth preside over a kingdom that contains fewer than 900 living species, of which two-thirds are bacteria. Before the cataclysm, there were believed to be close to 2 million. Still, we give thanks that there are any at all, and we carry on. Biodiversity was our great insurance policy against disaster, and we have now cashed in that policy. The biodiversity is spent, and it will take millions of years to rebuild, but for now it has done its job and preserved life on earth.

The concept of karma has been well and truly disproven. None of the innocent survived. Only the guilty lived through the cataclysm, for only those involved in dispensing weapons of mass destruction lived in the superhardened bunkers designed to survive it, or on board the ballistic missile submarines that were able to sit below the surface long enough for the air above to become breathable again.

Some of those who read the ancient texts say we will carry on and meet our punishment in another world, but I find this hard to believe. If some greater power was interested in justice, he would not have permitted this to happen in the first place.

I look at the maps of the world that was, and I think of all those whose lives were played out in the places that are no more -- the placid peace of Angkor Wat, the flashing lights of Las Vegas, the rolling meadows of Bavaria, the brightly-painted streets of Trinidad. We have them all on microfiche, and we will recreate some of them, perhaps. Then again, perhaps not. Having passed through a genetic bottleneck where only the killers survived, will our future be even more destructive than our past? I hope not, but I can give no promises.

Well, enough romantic musings for today. There is a rugby game at the base I want to see. The Alliance is playing the Confederation!

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Battle 8 (Final Battle)
Confederation: China and her satellites, Indonesia, Japan, U.S.A. and most Latin American Nations.
Alliance: Europe, Russia, most nations of Africa, India, Phillipines and most of Oceania.

map= Land and Sea
Fog, No Trench, Auto, Seq, Chain
Spoils= TBD.