Nuclear Kid's Awards and Explanations
Before I get into any of the actual awards, here's some behind the scenes stuff of the AK/UKA/Washingtonian Empire that most of you don't know
The Canadian War: I realized immediately when Immaculate created the TUA that if I went the route of INES II, I'd get gang stomped. So I needed a diversion, at the very least to show that I wasn't the biggest bully on the playground. I mentioned to bestcfrcplayer that the alliance would be split up with indecision if Canada were to attack Quebec, especially if I lobbied in his favor. Unfortunately for him, I didn’t. As we all know, the Canadians were destroyed. The reason I relocated/killed all of them was because I needed area for death camps, and later, research facilities, and Canada became key later in WW III
The Game Changer: After Canada was conquered, I began preparing for war with the Texans. I had guaranteed Californian and Quebecois neutrality, and the Mexicans were ready to strike with me. Immaculate and his CUWA was the only thing standing in my way. As many of you may remember, China was fighting Japan, and the war was turning against them. Immaculate was trying to send an Anti Liars force that would save China from the communists, and he was a bit upset about my change of heart. IN an effort to prevent me from tearing the alliance apart, (and to give me a non answer) he suggested that I create a
Trans-Atlantic Kingdom. I don’t think he realized his words at the time, but he gave me something to think about. Why limit myself to the North American continent? Feeler diplomacy went out to the two least stable nations, Brazil and South Africa, and I got an affirmative response after I promised them separate parliaments, and key government posts. When I put out the word of this, it was the end of the TUA, and Immac shortly departed. Ironically, his CUWA and his suggestion gave me the idea for the proto-world state, but we weren’t there quite yet. Regardless, this was the key moment when my Empire began, and it’s all thanks to Immaculate
The War: What happened with the War? Even when I was in the TUA, I had a plan with TLK, though not exactly what he thought. The idea would be a mutual invasion of Europe, and he had gotten the troops from all the LIARS to attack Europe. However, I was going to use the opportunity to restart Immaculate’s plan to squash LIARS, but this time with Washington, not Havana, leading the charge, making a place where monarchy could grow in peace. Then, maybe a night or two before orders were due, I had a nes chat conversation with Kozmos that made everything very simplified. I off handedly suggested we should unify, and he agreed. The war started, and I was the clear protector of Europe, though I was extremely upset about the Americans.
My Biggest Regret: Not capitalizing enough on the South African Breakthrough in the beginning of the war, and not trying to get the Ummah to help me against the LIARS
Now for awards
If it feels like I’m openly/subversively mocking you, it’s because I am
In seriousness, I gave more awards to people I interacted with because I knew them more.
My Boyz/The System (Excluding Terrance): I gotta hand it to these guys, without them, the System falls apart. Kozmos’s tech, Circuit’s military maneuverings all helped make sure that Hyperion “won” in the end. Even though everyones patting themselves on the back for their supposed cooperation, let me point out that we were running one nation, so if communication broke down, we couldn’t just scrap it, we had to figure something out. I admire these guys a lot for looking at the situation and were able to abandon sovereignity to fight with me, and even though initially I wasn’t 100% their ally, I quickly became 110%, and we fought like brothers in arms and no thoughts of jumping ship came from any of us.. You guys are the best.
Now these awards include Terrence, and Anonymoose, who I consider an honorary member of the System ^_^
Kozmos: You get my
Brother Award, nothing against you Circuit, but Kozmos and I were coordinating running the nation from the beginning, which, given all of the stuff we had to work with was a pain, but you and I worked through it to create the ultimate hegemony throughout the world, even though it gave us headaches sometimes XD. You also get the
Unseen Enemy for the LIARS because I don’t think any of you realize how that War would have gone without Kozmos and his tech schemes.
Circuit: Don’t despair
Best Friend, for without you, this would not be possible. You get the
Special Forces Award for in my opinion, the best units for behind the scenes (sorry AIDS
) especially when you were making sure the Empire got cleansed of her enemies.
Best Stories is a given for your incredibly written stuff. And for your efforts on the last turn, you get
The Mariano Riverra Award. His first time sending orders for the entire Empire, reconquers Europe, wipes out the people on the North American conteinent, and generally sets us up to win the war. Great props to you sir, well done
Terrence: Way to tow the line bud! I You get the
Republican Award for your unwavering support, and I am quite proud of how well you did, even though you seemed to collapse, you took down the Siamese with you. That’s what I call dedication kids.
Best Ally I didn’t Annex goes to you for that
Anonymoose: You were, unfortunately, a game changer in your own way. Before you came in, the CWOH was accepting my demands, but then you showed up and had to be really neutral. I would have given you a True Neutral Award if not for your initial support to the Texans (letting them in your air space and such), but I will give you the
Fight not worth Picking for your general apathy to my genocidal wars of conquest. You get
The Paradise Award for it being the best place in the world to be during World War III. You also get the
Will you be my ally now? Award as I had big plans for the CWOH if they were to ever join the System. Ah what might have been. You do get the
Excellent Deterrent Award not for your plague (We didn’t know about that), but both me and the PADTA did nothing to you in fear of you upsetting the balance against us in the theater. You also get
Honarary System Member as you were the only neutral state I was really going to allow to survive the war. Finally, you get
Unintentional Ally for helping keep the LIARS at bay in the Americas.
PADTA: I am so disappointed in you guys. I thought we could team up to wipe out Communism, but you guys forming out of “The AK’s are such dicks, let’s make our own club”, I should have seen it coming. Even though everyone’s like oooh LIARS, you guys were a far greater threat, as you could have destroyed all those labs had you guys taken the initiative on the front. Instead, for some odd reason, you guys played defense, which ultimately led to your defeat. In the end, the biggest things I can say are you let the guys in Africa and Asia live about 6 turns longer since I was holding like 75+ Divisions and an IMF, plus most of my fleet, but far more importantly, you guys changed the nature of the conflict. Initially this was a crusade against Communism, but you guys turned it into a question of Nations or Global Unity. In an ironic twist, you guys were assimilated very easily into the world state and Communism remains alive (though not necessarily well) in the East. Though in another twist of irony, my goal from turn one was to conquer and unite the Western Hemisphere, and though I abandoned that goal when I unified with Brazil, by your declaration of war, I was able to achieve it. Funny how things work.
Germanicus: Let’s see, right away I’ll give you
Fight to the Last Award. More than anyone else, you were pretty doomed, but you held out longer than Germany and for that, credit will be given where credit is due. You played incredibly in character and acted exactly as a Texan Republic would, which gains you
The Nation I was destined to destroy, as you pitted rough American democracy against globalizing monarchy. Monarchy won, but you gave a fight to remember. And even though your people would be dying in death camps soon, I’ll salute you for a fight well done. You also get a
WTH Award, as I was fully prepared to offer you some spoils of war, but then you found some nanite bomb that I was going to use against you, so you said no to my peace offer. Your loss, and your peoples, but it made the game interesting. You get the
Obi-Wan to my Darth Vader Award, as in INES II, we were in the exact same position (East Coast vs. Texas and the rest of America) This time I brought friends and I won, giving me a warm fuzzy feeling inside
. Finally you get the
Lifesaver Award because you, more than any ingeniousness by TLK, LoE, or Agent, kept me from winning the war in its entity for the sheer amount of troops you forced me to keep in the Americas.
NWAG: Well you get
Most In-Character for the French Civil War and the CUWA’s surrender. You get
Big Shoes to Fill for stepping in for Immaculate, but unfortunately, you were never able to rebuild Havana to its position of influence as he did. You do get a
FUBAR for the collapse of the French state, and the end of the CUWA, both of which would have had prominent places in the System had you not gone the course you had gone. You get the
Well that was easy Award for your surrender as I was completely bluffing on that final turn and I didn’t have the resources to beat you, and you get
The Best Player on our Team as the CUWA’s and France’s resources came quite in handy.
Merciary: You get the
Major Thorn in My Side Award. Your attacks in South America were quite frustrating, and the unfortunate thing was that your front was the one of the lowest priorities until the WASPS came. Even then, I couldn’t really do anything military wise against you, and instead I went with bribing your officers, and when I got the WASPS, I cried with happiness. To be honest, you were frustrating simply because there was no possibility to negotiate with you and in the end, the Inca had to carry the burden against you until the final turn. But anything aside from a large military commitment, I used against you for you could have really effed up my day if you had conquered Brazil.
The LIARS: A strong enemy no doubt. You guys were an oddity. You were able to put aside your differences to fight me and my boyz, but seriously, I don’t get how you guys are getting best coalition players. Seriously, the only thing you did for a coalition was “Holy crap he can dissinigrate cities, everyone turn your attention to him”, and the everyone saying true to the alliance (though if I had focused more on Agent, I think I could have gotten it). But even the second one wasn’t true. You miscalculated with your allies in the Balt Confederacy being cool with your genocide ways even though they were more a socialist democracy, and in Russia, assuming they’d be cool after you destroyed their nation and let them be carved up. We barely needed the mind control with the Russians since you maltreated them so badly, and if AIDS wasn’t there, we wouldn’t need it too much in the Balts. But the players at least stayed put. I liked fighting you guys though, it was a true who will win, the world state’s technology, or the forces of the reactionaries that were so opposed to us that they’d fight without the sun.
Out of curiosity, would you accept peace now?
TheLizardKing: Right away, I have to give you this; The
Our Love Could Never Be Award. Even though we both loved genocide, and we could have found common cause, the ideologies were to different, something my monarchists couldn’t have. In an ideal world, Catherine and the Kelen would hold hands in a grassy field and put flowers in one another’s hair, but the fact was that the Kelen didn’t have hair and you couldn’t trust me on your side of the Atlantic.
Best Espionage Outside the System is yours, for AIDS had presence in Quebec, Mexico, and the Baltic, You get
Most Evil, as I never genocided people who were in my own nation, unlike you
You’re without a doubt the
Frenemy as I wanted nothing more than peace with you to focus on my life or death enemies (PADTA and Iran), you get
Face of the Resistance as it seemed the Kelen was the rallying point for anyone who did not want to be able to be ruled by the Empire, and last but not least, you get
The Big Bad Award, as even though you weren’t the person I was the most worried about in terms of cold hard statistics, I didn’t quite have you figured out, and the other nations seemed to flock to you for guidance, allowing you to mastermind the free world. And heck, by the end of it, you were the unquestioned number 2 in the world.
Agent 89: Well you sir, were an interesting person. To put it in perspective, you were a 12 year old, I was 14, and TLK was 10. TLK would talk and I would get angry and yell at him, but I needed to focus on you for the big picture. Even though you mostly fought Circuit and Rome, I routinely worried that you would break through in areas where I didn’t want you to break through, The
I should have bothered goes to you since you caused a lot of discontent in the enemies ranks and perhaps we may have aligned ourselves against TLK.
The Religion Award is yours for being the only person asides from Ninja who bothered, and you definitely gave me a scary impression of a powerful, religious, Iran.
The Dragon Award is yours since even though TLK was seemingly the leader, you were the most powerful of them until the end game. Also, after reading the orders for the last turn you gave, I’ll give you the
Nice Try Award for trying to get you to end the war with Hyperion. The stupid thing was, I was willing to end the war at any time with me occupying Europe, but you guys weren’t satisfied with that so you tried to convince the ruler of our nation to end the war in your favor? Novel idea I guess, but doomed to fail since we were the embodiment of said computer, and it probably led you guys to losing Europe, and in turn you would have lost England the next turn. But it threw me through a loop I’ll give you that
Eltain: First, you get the
Most Frustrating Award, as I felt you to be a natural ally to the System against Communism, but you threw your lot in with the LIARS
The Cull Gunships were a good idea, and they hurt us, so you get
Most Indirect Blow. Give yourself credit man, the Volunteers, Poi Son, all that stuff was ingenious, and it took Terrance quite an effort to coup you so that you became a non factor
Lord of Elves: Well for starters,
Biggest Comeback. I won’t give you biggest rise or success story for I feel that goes to the AK, but seriously going from nearly conquered by China to dominate the Far East, I’ll give you that. You also get the
Where Were You Award. It feels you could have done so much more than conquer Russian towns if you hadn’t been looking over your shoulder for something that wasn’t coming…yet at least. Last but not least, I’ll give you the
Enemy on the Horizon award because even though you were an even lower concern for my troops than Patagonia, I still planned strategies to dismember you if I got through the Ummah.
ZeletDude/Julius: I had no interaction with you asides from conquering/attempting to conquer your nation. I saw you both (as nations, not as players) as a funny irony of how nations were fighting the world state to preserve individual nationhood ended up giving up their own soverignity to fight the Empire, though this may have been out of time restraints (I know with ZD it was)
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Ninja Dude:
Most insane Alternative History. I don’t know why you chose to be some Christian nation and not an easy Saudi King, but it was crazy and I loved it. And though I never acted out on it, I did think about making a crusade type thing to help you, but I was occupied elsewhere unfortunately.
Immaculate: Nuff said, biggest beast out there, and if he had stayed in, the war would have been much shorter one way or another. I was genuinely fearful when I saw him do those quick Texan orders, you, my friend, are a beast
Favorite Character: Nico Romano (Not rating Catherine
)
Shout out!: TLK’s video, pretty sick not gonna lie
Most WTH Moment of all: People losing the sun, not dying, and keep fighting. Wow. Dedication I guess
If I think of anything else, I’ll add it
Soooo anyone want to negotiate that peace?
