Awards for NES2 VI IT I:
Player Awards:
Winner: Insane_Panda - pretty obvious, he, well, won - as in, defeated France's traditional enemies and allies alike and succesfully faced down an alliance of three great powers arrayed against him, leading France, or now the HRE, into a position of hegemony unchallengeable for the next two decades. Then again, the higher they rise...
Best Player (the hardest to pick, as usual): Symphony D. - very good orders, good stories, one of the most comitted players.
Most Persistant Player: Stormbringer - held on to Russia from the beginning to the end, despite the eventual defeats. Other defeated players quit in the end.
Least Persistant Player: North King - though many players often switched countries in the game, NK switched them, with only one exception which he didn't properly play, for no in-game reasons at all.
Most Innovative Player: stalin006 - but I can't fully reveal why. Predictable Dunkelheitianism aside, he did employ - or attempt to employ - a variety of unconventional solutions. He had strong competition, though.
Best Unsung Leader: Dachspmg - from nonexistance, the Byzantine Empire managed to arise to encompass most of the Balkans (all, according to some definitions) and the Aegean, in spite of various setbacks along the way. A competitor to this title was Wubba360, but he left Abyssinia, which consequently lost.
Most Agressive Player: Insane_Panda - no need for an explanation, he started two globe-spanning great power wars and half a dozen lesser ones.
Least Agressive Player: Kentharu - went out of his way to avoid war and lost three nations as a consequence.
Best Orders: Stormbringer - clear, simple and precise - the golden middle between Kentharu and Symphony D., so to speak. Easiest to work with of the great power order sets (and lesser ones also not counting the ones not really doing anything).
Best New Player: Wubba360 - he played quite superbly, both as the Zulus and as the Abyssinians, though his optimism and bad luck doomed both of these nations
Best Storywriter: in the end, Insane_Panda, but SB's, Wubba's and Symphony's were good as well.
Luckiest Player: Insane_Panda - his enemies made mistake after mistake, in the first half of the NES anyway. Which is particularily unacceptable when dealing with him...
Most Cunning Player: stalin006 - again, with much competition. This should be self-explanatory without me revealing any of his more secret plots.
Evilest Player: silver2039 - had we counted it by intentions, it would've been a tie between silver2039 and stalin006, or even the victory of the latter; but by deed, silver's bloody reprisals against pretty much everybody and intimidation tactics in conquered territories win.
Most Inquisitive Player (i.e. asked the most questions): Dachspmg - although it was a close race against such giants of question-asking as Insane_Panda, Stormbringer, stalin006, Symphony D. and plentiful others...
Most Rebellious Player: SwissEmpire - only barely ahead of Thlayli. Both just kept trying with their rebellions all over the world, but Thlayli played a great power for a while.
Least Lucky Player: Lord_Iggy.
Nation Awards:
Greatest Power: Holy Roman Empire - pretty unquestionable right now, this is the predominant great power.
Greatest North American Power: Estados Unidos Americanos (EUA, or rather it should be EEUUAA if I recall correctly) - the HRE, firstly, still is Euro-centric, secondly, is a bit battered in the region by those rebellions.
Greatest South American Power: EUA again - the local powers are too weak at the moment.
Greatest European Power: Holy Roman Empire - everybody else in the continent is either too battered, either only beginning to ascend; the HRE dominates Western Europe, and has much influence in the rest of the continent as well.
Greatest African Power: Sennar - despite the great damage suffered, it has modernized succesfully and crushed its archenemies.
Greatest Asian Power: tie between Japanese Empire in the Far East and Dar al-Islam in the Middle East; both, in their own way, are pretty strong in pretty much all regards, though both have challengers that are far from defeated.
Biggest Rise: EUA - from nonexistance to great power status. Byzantine Empire went by a similar path, but isn't quite as strong; Japan also made a big rise, though not a one as big as this.
Most Influential Nation: Holy Roman Empire, though mostly because it destroyed most other influential nations, such as GGR and Portugal. EUA isn't too far off, though.
Most Surprising: Krakow Union/GGR (it kept changing, both in diplomatic orientation and in the state's very essence - what's with that shift from a multination East European empire to a nationalistic German one).
Evilest Empire: Dar al-Islam, though it was quite good by silver's standards.
Longest Name: Holy Roman Empire of the French Nation or United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (historically - the Union of Russia-Lithuania-Romania as well).
Most Screwed-up Nation: Brandenburger Republic - a spectacular fall, which still continues.
Strongest Army: Holy Roman Imperial Army.
Strongest Navy: Holy Roman Imperial Fleet.
Strongest Air Force: The top secret Brandenburger fleet of reconaissance balloons.
Largest Nation: hard to say - either the HRE, the EUA, Russia or Dar al-Islam.
Smallest Nation: Kingdom of Romania.
Strongest Economy: Holy Roman Empire, though its being shaken presently.
Most Technologically Advanced: GGR until its fall, now the HRE.
Most Patriotic: the Japanese Empire.
Most Original Nation: Red Stick Federation.
Favorite Moment: Year 1745, when peace ended for good with at three new wars at once.ose
