1 Charoulita (#5) 14,441 $27,359,289 DG
2 EyE m SeKsi (#43) 18,828 $23,028,102 CG
3 Call The Shot (#58) 12,442 $23,012,233 RG
4 Aardvark (#17) 17,032 $22,494,302 CG
5 To The Highest Blid (#73) 13,060 $21,147,427 CG
6 Enterprise NX01 (#20) 14,707 $20,438,216 RG
7 Cypselos (#33) 13,401 $20,183,887 RG
8 Mark XX Bolo (#65) 17,552 $18,759,632 RG
9 llamky (#16) 8302 $17,559,870 HG
10 BiBiGoN2 (#105) 13,122 $16,210,908 R

11 Where The Shadows Lie (#2) 10,220 $15,438,315 RG
12 Crimson (#19) 13,368 $14,847,295 RG
13 Bunny Paradise (#44) 13,492 $14,779,050 RG
14 HangZhou (#36) 14,948 $14,385,090 CG
15 mrFORD gave Cable herpes (#75) 16,146 $14,309,838 CG
16 BUTTLAND (#41) 16,076 $14,307,964 RG
17 BYOB (#74) 12,414 $14,283,396 IG
18 Orjuwan (#78) 12,150 $14,263,558 DG
19 Tea bag (#35) 12,233 $13,954,803 CG
20 MakeMyDay (#63) 12,057 $13,917,208 CG

21 I will grab you back (#104) 18,225 $13,061,982 RG
22 Patatepoil (#90) 15,146 $12,720,710 CG
23 JBM (#61) 11,398 $12,062,285 HG
24 Preliminary Report (#91) 14,602 $11,864,221 RG
25 Helpme (#94) 15,111 $11,129,756 DG

If only my 19m from last week counted for this week :(

LOL..

fkn Daylights..
Left my country with almost 1.5b cash and enough stock for another half B.. and plans for some more selling.. haha

you'll get there buddy !

Was a poor set for cashers.. lucky got into top 10.

Damn someone knocked me outta the top ten last second:-/ ah well still tied my best rank 11th. Also it seemed to be a bad set? 14m barely got me top 25 last set now 15m almost gets me t10. lol

heh SW,
I was playing #5...

Hash as in former AoD Hash?

I might have done better than 8th if I hadn't lost 7957 acres to land grabs, and did 40 AB's (and a Nuke) on Nuclear Launch Detected

Another top ten almost half sleeping :)

yea iccyh :)

Cool, good to see you around. Hope you're doing well.

3rd in a BALLS casher round. VERY high tech prices.

i was commeting on BUTTMAN's quote bro.

Hash my friend should be winning easy, unlike us mortals. hehe

darn getafix.. that retal HURT LIKE A BIATCH !

celphi did a boo boo .. spied the other enterprise to retal him and ended up hitting me.. and conveniently sending a message - RETAL :p

nice name, now im nothing :)

Best result yet.

Congratulations Hash. You have been knocking at the door for several sets and now you have the win.

Great work. :)

Enterprize NX01 and llamky are my other picks for a top spot at some point. Another nearly but not quite set for both of them I see.

Congrats also to Craterus on his best finish and to Eye m SeKsi on second spot.

Forgot to log in this morning. Had 3.3 bil on hand with 110 turns left.......anyway grats to all winner........;)

8 Mark XX Bolo (#65) 17,552 $18,759,632 RG

AWESOME NAME.

Getafix, you read Laumer's bolo stuff only, or have you read other author's forays like Weber?

Thanks VicRattlehead.

I had a book in my scifi collection called Nine By Laumer (1967). It was one of my favourite books and I've read it many times. It contains 9 short stories. I just looked up the name of the story, it was "Dinochrome". The sentient robot warrior in this story comes to consciousness trapped in an engineering lab, hundreds of years after the war, and in a matter of milliseconds (the whole story is written in milliseconds of time), it takes over the facility, fuses a connection with a nearby nuclear power station and gets charged up, contacts its crippled Dinochrome brigade comrades, wipes out the enemy city and takes over the planet. One of the best stories I've ever read.

Some of Laumers other stuff can be pretty corny, like the Retief stories, but Nine by Laumer is a classic if you can find a copy. Check the Goodwill Stores around Moncton NB where my ex-wife lives, lol

I have the same book, and I love the bolo stories. I also have a book containing a co-authored story with Laumer and Gordon R fluffson called "Planet Run" that is fantastic.

I have a recommendation for you then.

http://www.amazon.com/...Weber-David/dp/143913314X

This has one story out of nine that I didn't really like, and the last two are awesome additions to the boloverse.

This one too: http://www.amazon.com/...=1-1&keywords=bolo%21

I hit up used book stores fairly often, and always check for more Laumer bolo stories.

I have read some David Weber but some of it seems to be pulp fiction and I can't put him up there with my favorites. I think "Dinochrome" was the original story behind the bolo idea.

I have read almost everything by Gordon R. fluffson. I don't remember the Planet Run book but it should be good. My previous country name in Express was "Dorsai" from the epic saga of the evolution of man by fluffson.

The other greats of military scifi are Heinlein (Starship Troopers won the Hugo award over Dorsai in around 1963), and of course Joe Haldeman (The Forever War, etc).

This year's Hugo and Nebula award winning Novel was called "Ancillary Justice" by Anne Leckie. It is an amazing tale of a Military AI and is a fantasic achievement by a new author, I highly recommend it. I named my Primary country "Justice of Toren" in its honour, and that's what got me started on the military scifi country name theme :)

You make no mention of Asimov and the Foundation trilogy (as it should have remained) and I Robot.

Come on now. Heinlein and Haldeman are competant writers. Asimov, however, is something rather more significant.

Yes Furious, Asimov is significant, but not in military scifi.

Yeah, I did. Sorry about that Silent. You'll rarely see me attack outside a retal.

Getafix, I have messily devoured the majority of both Heinlein and haldeman. :) I am aware of Ancillary Justice and the Hugos - I am Facebook friends with Larry correia (whose work is entertaining as hell if a bit pulpy) - but have not yet read it.

The stories in the weber book I linked to are, IMO, a cut better as craft than most of his novels. The shorter form helps bypass a lot of nonsense.

If you love Heinlein and haldeman that much you should check out Michael z Williamson. Start with "freehold" or "the weapon" and go from there.

Furious - foundation was great. I will not acknowledge them past the third book though. The ones from the 80s never happened. My favorite Asimov novel is actually a stand alone called "the gods themselves," fantastic piece of scifi there.

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Lol...c'mon, Celphi!

Nice to see all you kiddos still playing :p

I know right? He asked me in-game if I was getting old. :'(
He's probably right though, haha.

I couldn't retal EyE m SeKsi so I stole some of his money instead. I guess he didn't like that because when I signed back on again he had done it back several times, which I guess he didn't know that broke GDI.

So I happily exploited that, and well, I wonder if that effected his chances of getting #1.

Hey Vic! Great to see you back for a visit