AE Grandmaster

[Miller]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I was gonna nominate Paul Miller....

[:'(]

I must admit I am similar to Sandra Bullock, except in looks, figure and bank balance.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

On second thought, please don't allow me to hijack what can be a useful thread. I apologize and hope the rest of you guys can refrain from the temptation to participate in the hijacking.

Hijack is such a harsh word. Besides, I think we are nearing consensus. The true AE Grandmasters should be required to enter their moves with a 120lb jockey on their back....and they should feel the whip if they take too long too.

That should een things out a bit

[Alfred]

Continuing my trip down memory lane ....
 
Although the thread dates from 2011 I thought it would provide useful information for new players seeking PBEM partners.  Plus it is time the list of AE Grandmasters were updated to include those who only took up the game post 2011.  So time to nominate the most recent worthy recipients of the accolade.
 
Alfred

[Andy Mac]

its so hard PZB is still the best I ever played his use of SCTF's left me dizzy

I wish with hindsight I had stuck with Nemo it would have been so much fun but I just couldn't cope with the mod or the style.

Last 5 years I have either been absent or only working on AI's not had much time for PBEM so not taken any games out of 44 in a while so I just don't know

[mind_messing]

PzB's tactical successes were amazing, but there's more to playing Japan than generating impressive combat reports. In some sense I compare PzB with Pyrrhus of Epirus - with the supply and fuel expenditure being unacceptably and unsustainably large.

Lokasenna (rightly) gets my first nomination. He is, as far as I know, the only player who's strategy to destroy the KB was to lose a pair of fleet carriers to encourage the IJN to fall into a trap. On top of that there's the diligent and yeomanlike play as both IJ and Allies

Lowpe gets a nomination for a degree of masochism that the IJ High Command can only aspire to.

Obvert also, as I don't believe there's any other player that has as much late-game experience as he does (at least not in AAR'd games).

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: mind_messing

Lokasenna (rightly) gets my first nomination. He is, as far as I know, the only player who's strategy to destroy the KB was to lose a pair of fleet carriers to encourage the IJN to fall into a trap. On top of that there's the diligent and yeomanlike play as both IJ and Allies

...I did? I haven't run a turn in so long, I've forgotten what I was even doing, let alone what's happened

[Sardaukar]

While being nominated in this thread and proud of it, there is one difference:

Almost all of my advice is towards newbies, so more of "sempai" (senior student in dojo and often instructing newcomers). So not really sensei (master) who would instruct advanced and senior students.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

While being nominated in this thread and proud of it, there is one difference:

Almost all of my advice is towards newbies, so more of "sempai" (senior student in dojo and often instructing newcomers). So not really sensei (master) who would instruct advanced and senior students.

What does it take to be a senior student? An AARP card? Being forgetful? No longer have a suit that fits?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

While being nominated in this thread and proud of it, there is one difference:

Almost all of my advice is towards newbies, so more of "sempai" (senior student in dojo and often instructing newcomers). So not really sensei (master) who would instruct advanced and senior students.

What does it take to be a senior student? An AARP card? Being forgetful? No longer have a suit that fits?

I resemble that description!

[AW1Steve]

I'd like to see a category of "Young Turks" as masters. People who were relatively new when this thread premiered , but now approach , and might actually be considered (despite their youth). For that category I nominate Chickenboy. AKA LYB$&&^%$$^&U&*U!!!!!!!!!!![:D] As you might discern , I've played against him many times . And each time been humiliated! [:(]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I'd like to see a category of "Young Turks" as masters. People who were relatively new when this thread premiered , but now approach , and might actually be considered (despite their youth). For that category I nominate Chickenboy. AKA LYB$&&^%$$^&U&*U!!!!!!!!!!![:D] As you might discern , I've played against him many times . And each time been humiliated! [:(]

Just because you played with pants that are too large with no belt nor suspenders . . .

But at least you are still alive . . . [&o]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I'd like to see a category of "Young Turks" as masters. People who were relatively new when this thread premiered , but now approach , and might actually be considered (despite their youth). For that category I nominate Chickenboy. AKA LYB$&&^%$$^&U&*U!!!!!!!!!!![:D] As you might discern , I've played against him many times . And each time been humiliated! [:(]

Just because you played with pants that are too large with no belt nor suspenders . . .

But at least you are still alive . . . [&o]

I had belt and braces! He used them to slingshot me! [:D] The guy's a freaking Terminator![X(] But he he always says "liquidate" so I think I'll call him "The liquidator!" [:D] Come to think of it , that sounds like he keeps going out of business[X(]. [&:][:D]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I'd like to see a category of "Young Turks" as masters. People who were relatively new when this thread premiered , but now approach , and might actually be considered (despite their youth). For that category I nominate Chickenboy. AKA LYB$&&^%$$^&U&*U!!!!!!!!!!![:D] As you might discern , I've played against him many times . And each time been humiliated! [:(]

Just because you played with pants that are too large with no belt nor suspenders . . .

But at least you are still alive . . . [&o]

I had belt and braces! He used them to slingshot me! [:D] The guy's a freaking Terminator![X(] But he he always says "liquidate" so I think I'll call him "The liquidator!" [:D] Come to think of it , that sounds like he keeps going out of business[X(]. [&:][:D]

I thought that he preferred the 75mm German pak. But slingshot ammo, I can get a lot of that around here.

[Sardaukar]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

While being nominated in this thread and proud of it, there is one difference:

Almost all of my advice is towards newbies, so more of "sempai" (senior student in dojo and often instructing newcomers). So not really sensei (master) who would instruct advanced and senior students.

What does it take to be a senior student? An AARP card? Being forgetful? No longer have a suit that fits?

My suit fits...just donno where i did put it...

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
AKA LYB$&&^%$$^&U&*U!!!!!!!!!!![:D]

You say the sweetest things. [;)]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
AKA LYB$&&^%$$^&U&*U!!!!!!!!!!![:D]

You say the sweetest things. [;)]

You just wait till our next re-match! I'll show you! How little I've learned.....[8|]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
AKA LYB$&&^%$$^&U&*U!!!!!!!!!!![:D]

You say the sweetest things. [;)]

You just wait till our next re-match! I'll show you! How little I've learned.....[8|]

You 2 remind me of a certain Star Trek episode...

[BBfanboy]

Spock looks dismayed. Is his mother coming to visit?

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Spock looks dismayed. Is his mother coming to visit?

He did not mind his mother visiting, it was his father's visits that disturbed him.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy




You say the sweetest things. [;)]

You just wait till our next re-match! I'll show you! How little I've learned.....[8|]

You 2 remind me of a certain Star Trek episode...

THAT Star Trek series was before my time, old timer. [:'(]

What's the gist of the episode, or do I have to look it up on Memory Alpha?