Conquer Club

2012-08-21 04:04:46 - Dukasaur: aalii was the first one actually eliminated here
2012-08-21 04:05:04 - Dukasaur: However, Rousallier has been guested and cannot continue in the tourney
2012-08-21 04:05:23 - Dukasaur: Therefore, Rousallier counts as the elimination for this round

After having come to the edge of open war in the Berlin Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the superpowers both retreated from such brinksmanship and reverted to proxy wars. Communist or communist-sympathetic revolutions either continued or began across much of Africa and Asia. To a large degree, many of the revolutionaries were not, strictly speaking, communist in their outlook, but they turned to the Soviet Union for aid because the regimes they were fighting were either European colonial empires or post-colonial governments with strong ties to the West.
Phase 7
14 players in 2 groups will play 7-player games on the Eastern Hemisphere map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

Dukasaur wrote:

2012-08-21 04:04:46 - Dukasaur: aalii was the first one actually eliminated here
2012-08-21 04:05:04 - Dukasaur: However, Rousallier has been guested and cannot continue in the tourney
2012-08-21 04:05:23 - Dukasaur: Therefore, Rousallier counts as the elimination for this round

Musteriuz is the one eliminated in the other game.

Both were FOGgy votes, so the vote now stands at 7-6 for FOG, the closest it has been. Time for you SUNny people to make your move...

Dukasaur wrote:phase 8]In Indochina, a proxy war spun out of control, as successive American governments attempted to save an anti-communist regime in South Vietnam from its communist counterpart in North Vietnam. Starting with a small handful of observers and trainers, the American mission in South Vietnam gradually became a full-scale military deployment. It is a popular myth that the Americans "lost" the Vietnam war. In fact, in every single engagement the Americans succeeded in beating the NVA back. The American withdrawal took place because the War had become a political liability at home. At the time of the withdrawal, not a single town in the South was under Viet Cong or NVA control.

Nonetheless, American support was withdrawn from the South, while Russian and Chinese support for the North continued unabated. Only 22 months after the American withdrawal was the North confident enough to resume the war. Fully rested and re-equipped with brand-new Soviet military hardware, including 700 new tanks, the NVA was able to finally defeat the South.
Phase 8
12 players in 2 groups will play 6-player games on the Indochina map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

Dukasaur wrote:Phase 9]During the era of proxy wars, the U.S. had somewhat de-emphasized its nuclear arsenal while the Soviets had built more nukes at an increasing rate. By 1978, for the first time, the Russian stockpile of 25393 nuclear warheads exceeded the American stockpile of 24826. Soviet military expenditures by this point constituted 25% of their GNP. Although that level of expenditure was slowly bankrupting the Soviet economy, this was not clearly visible to the outside world. With new (largely anti-American) revolutions overthrowing the governments of Nicaragua and Iran, it seemed to many that the West was losing the Cold War.

In 1979 the Soviets sent troops into Afghanistan to prop up their puppet regime there, and Jimmy Carter withdrew from the SALT II talks in protest. He immediately set in motion a large buildup of U.S. forces, including both a conventional buildup and the new MX nuclear missile. This buildup was continued by Ronald Reagan, who also began the Strategic Defense Initiative, revived the B-1 bomber program, and deployed Pershing II missiles in Germany. The years from 1979 to 1983 saw the largest peacetime military buildup in U.S. history, and coupled with the continuing buildup by the Soviets it constituted a new arms race.
Phase 9
10 players in 2 groups will play 5-player games on the Arms Race map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

Dukasaur wrote:Someone has asked for interim scores, so here we go.

Plenty of games still in progress, but the Final Cataclysm results achieved so far:
[player]PaRKoN[/player] and [player]Junior Bee[/player] are perfectly tied. Each has 5 kills and 1 win.
Windy81 has 3 kills and Vaicius has one.
Nobody else has racked up any score yet.