THE MALITZ TROPHY COMPETITION

[PoorOldSpike]

It's open to everybody from any club (noobs or experienced), contact me now to sign up, you play just one game against me,and whoever beats me by the biggest score will have the gleaming silver cup sitting on their desk in Feb 2008 inscribed with their name to keep forever ..:)
I can't win it myself, I'm simply acting as a 'target' for you all take your best shots at (sniffle), and as usual I'll do a small endgame screenshot for every game showing the final front lines buckling and heaving..
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A town called Malitz
It's a semi-fictional cmbb smallish (1500 pts), short (20+ turns) QB Meeting Eng as both sides rush to seize a town and its airfield in eastern Germany.
You choose your side and buy your own forces!






The townsfolk are thankful that the war has bypassed their neat little town so far...





These well-proven params will give a good balanced mix of infantry and armour. I've kept it smallish (1500 pts and 20+ turns) in the interests of speed, especially as the competition will run over Christmas and the New Year and the last thing people will want is the heavy workload of a bigger game in the festive season..:)



Note - although the params are set for 'Armour' they still allow for plenty of infantry to be bought, as in the examples below which are typical 1500-pt forces using the above params.




There's no rush, i'll send a copy of the map to people when they sign up so they can examine it in the editor, and they can also experiment with what they can buy. (It's May 45 so there's potential for some mighty heavy metal monsters to prowl around)
Then if they decide they still want to go ahead they can either set it up themselves and send me file 001, or I can set it up..
As I said, everybody plays just one game in the competition, so the latest target date for finishing is around late January..
Any questions?

Your move..;)

[Fullhouse]

Have to hand it to you, that last photo is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long while.

[herroberst]

Yup, I"m in.

[kineas]

Lol, the last photo is just great

[Ratzki]

Count me in.

[RNL Tiger]

Me too...

[Combat Wombat]

yup sounds good ... only thing is I'm on holiday for two weeks from Dec 28th to January 12th and I doubt I'd be able to log on in that time ... :)

[herrbixx]

ill throw my hat in the ring

[mugger2006]

Hi Spike,
I'm in.:chin:

Greetings,
Mugger

[PoorOldSpike]

This post is the 'MALITZ HQ COMMAND BUNKER'
(I'll keep editing updates into it, so keep coming back to consult this post for latest news of SIGNED UP SO FAR, GAMES FINISHED SO FAR, SCREENSHOT INDEX and ARMOUR LOSSES SO FAR)


SIGNED UP SO FAR - 33

RNL Tiger
Raz Atoth
Jobu88
Ratzki
Herroberst
Combat Wombat
Herrbixx (FGM)
Mugger 2006
Proniakin
Panzer Dan
KG Airborne Bob
Bertram
Huzaar
Der Kuenstler
Bert Blitzkrieg
Seel
DasTiger
Dogface65
Stndrtnfhr
ShootMe002
Andre
Figo (FGM)
Pak Paule
Sempai
Odies
Risnervich
The Dolphin
Owl
CMant
Skilgannon
Kru
Willow
Mad Baron


WHO'S WHO?
19 have chosen to be Germans, and 14 have chosen to be Russian


"The soldier tired of wars, alarms,
Forswears the clang of hostile arms
and scorns the spear and shield.
But if the brazen trumpet sound,
he burns with conquest to be crown'd,
and dares again the field"
(Thomas Augustine Arne 1710-1778)



GAMES FINISHED SO FAR - 32/33
(Note -the percentage score readouts will be used to determine winners even if the program calls it a Draw. So for example if a game ends 51% - 49%, the guy with 51% wins the game)
PS - All games will count for the Blitz ladder (as Draw/Minor/Tac/Maj/Tot) unless players opt out before the start.
Whoever's at the top of the results table below when all games are finished will win the hallowed Trophy. At the moment Der Kuenstler has a firm grip on it, so now it's up to others to beat me by a higher margin in a feeding frenzy to tear it from his grasp before the competition ends at midnight on Jan 31st (or earlier if all games end before then)

In order of victory size-
Der Kuenstler----beat POS 79-21 (Major win, margin 58)
Pak Paule -------beat POS 76-24 (Major win, margin 52)
Figo-------------beat POS 73-27 (Major win, margin 46)
Andre-----------beat POS 70-30 (Tac win, margin 40)
Willow-----------beat POS 68-32 (Tac win, margin 36)
Bert Blitzkrieg---beat POS 63-37 (Minor win, margin 26)
Raz Atoth-------beat POS 62-38 )Minor win, margin 24)
Stndrtnfhr-------beat POS 62-38 (Minor win, margin 24)
Mugger----------beat POS 61-39 (Minor win, margin 22)
Dogface---------beat POS 60-40 (Minor win, margin 20)
RNL Tiger--------beat POS 58-42 (Minor win, margin 16)
Jobu-------------beat POS 55-45 (Draw, margin 10)
Risnervich-------beat POS 54-46 (Draw, margin 8)

Below in alphabetical order -
POS bt Airborne Bob
POS bt Bertram
POS bt CMant
POS bt Combat Wombat
POS bt DasTiger
POS bt Dolphin
POS bt Herrbixx
POS bt Herroberst
POS bt Huzaar
POS bt Kru
POS bt Mad Baron
POS bt Odies
POS bt Owl
POS bt Panzer Dan
POS bt Proniakin
POS bt Ratzki
POS bt Seel
POS bt Sempai
POS bt Skilgannon


Vanished
ShootMe

POS current performance
Played 32, Won 19, Lost 13

Current armour losses
POS = lost 141 out of 214 bought (66% loss rate)
OPPOS = lost 147 out of 206 bought (71% loss rate)








WHO BOUGHT WHAT ARMOUR

This is what was bought in the games finished so far.
(i'll keep updating it as results arrive and I can accurately examine the endgame screens without fog-of-war)

OPPONENTS German purchases (figures in brackets indicates number destroyed)
27 x Hetzer (22)
17 x Panther (13)
15 x PzIVH (12)
7 x PzIV/70 (7)
6 x mg-halftracks (5)
11 x PzIVJ (8)
3 x Kingtiger (3)
3 x Tiger (3)
10 x Stug (8)
2 x Brummbar (2)
2 x Grille (2)
2 x 75 long 8-wheeler (0)
2 x 20mm 8-wheeler (1)
1 x Puma (1)
1 x 20mm halftrack (0)

OPPONENTS Russian purchases
554 x T-34/85 (33)
23 x SU-76 (16)
13 x SU-100 (6)
6 x Stalin (4)
1 x mg-carrier (1)
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POS German purchases
76 x Pz IVH (54)
11 x Hetzer (10)

POS Russian purchases
120 x T-34/85 (75)
5 x SU-100 (2)
1 x SU-76 (0)
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SCREENSHOT POSTS


(In alphabetical order)
The number is the post number (displayed in top righthand corner of all posts) containing at least one shot.
I'll keep editing new numbers into this list-

Airborne Bob 103 189 190 200 217
Andre 179 187 196
Bert Blitzkrieg 63 65 101 156
Bertram 159 164 211 223 227
Combat Wombat 71 81 99 127 141 144 217
CMant 95 98 119
DasTiger 37 66 91 94
Der Kuenstler 31 32 102
Dogface 34 57 96 123
Figo 64 115
Herrbixx 52 186
Herroberst 109 125 177
Huzaar 28 47 188
Jobu 22 24 25 42 72 78 92
Kru 111 154 176 192
Mad Baron 205 207 212
Mugger 34 59 85 113 151
Odies 45 53 104
Owl 106 142 152 157 168 173
Pak Paule 181 182 183 184 195
Panzer Dan 112 143 155 160
Proniakin 56 75 105 118 131
Ratzki 124 191 203 221
Raz Atoth 201 210 218 225 229 230
Risnervich 79 100 174
RNL Tiger 14 36 83
Seel 26 38 80
Sempai 202
Skilgannon 70 121 122 222
Stndrtnfhr 108 110 147 161 163
The Dolphin 220 224
Willow 120 133 138 145 148