Aug 17th 2018, 2:22:49
even a history of CWG exists, I think this was Banks
I stopped over a friends house one night in summer of '97 to meet some of his relatives from Southern Cal. Chatting and having a beer, we were talking about computer games and the fact that we played Doom quite a bit. The subject of board games came up (Risk, Stratego) and the question was asked if a game similar to it existed. At that time, Bill's brother in-law mentioned the game E2025 on the net. We went onto other topics and ended the night.
Two weeks later, my friend Bill joins the game and tells me all about it. I look up the URL, read up on the game and decided to try it. I joined a random game and started building my country, with no clue as to what I was doing. LOL! I remember my 1st landgrab. I was nervous as hell and not sure what to expect. It took me 30 minutes to hit the attack button. The next day, I was retaliated on about 7 times. I spent the rest of the reset hitting the explore button. The next reset came; I joined again and hooked up with some dude running a country called Slow Southern Crawl. We talked through in-game messaging and he taught me how to play the game. What to build, how to grab, the whole bit. That reset, in a game of 700 people, I managed to finish at rank 8.