https://wiki.opendominion.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Round_49_Admiral_General_AladeenRound 49 Admiral General Aladeen - Revision history2026-05-12T14:56:52ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.1https://wiki.opendominion.net/index.php?title=Round_49_Admiral_General_Aladeen&diff=2570&oldid=prev172.70.162.82 at 09:48, 12 May 20262026-05-12T09:48:31Z<p></p>
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</table>172.70.162.82https://wiki.opendominion.net/index.php?title=Round_49_Admiral_General_Aladeen&diff=2564&oldid=prev172.68.229.35 at 16:01, 11 May 20262026-05-11T16:01:33Z<p></p>
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</table>172.68.229.35https://wiki.opendominion.net/index.php?title=Round_49_Admiral_General_Aladeen&diff=2563&oldid=prev162.158.216.201 at 13:48, 11 May 20262026-05-11T13:48:57Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The main contenders at the earliest stage in the round were #3, who had a strong FA Liz / Lyc duo in The Joules of the Crown (Slater) and The Noble Gases (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jamo</del>); #4, who had an annoyingly strong Kobold THREE BLIND MICE 🐭 RAN FROM THE KNIFE 🔪 ('Crazy guy' - perhaps a Crazy Elf rebrand) for a few days but who rapidly fell off; and #9, with a strong Liz / FW duo in Hussar (Weaser) and Berzerk (Bobbo). Berzerk seemed to fall off rapidly, while Hussar was to become an early nemesis for our realm. #11 also had a notable FA Liz in Fires Of S’mordor (Shining). </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The main contenders at the earliest stage in the round were #3, who had a strong FA Liz / Lyc duo in The Joules of the Crown (Slater) and The Noble Gases (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SugarJon</ins>); #4, who had an annoyingly strong Kobold THREE BLIND MICE 🐭 RAN FROM THE KNIFE 🔪 ('Crazy guy' - perhaps a Crazy Elf rebrand) for a few days but who rapidly fell off; and #9, with a strong Liz / FW duo in Hussar (Weaser) and Berzerk (Bobbo). Berzerk seemed to fall off rapidly, while Hussar was to become an early nemesis for our realm. #11 also had a notable FA Liz in Fires Of S’mordor (Shining). </div></td></tr>
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</table>172.69.194.119https://wiki.opendominion.net/index.php?title=Round_49_Admiral_General_Aladeen&diff=2558&oldid=prev162.158.216.200 at 10:34, 11 May 20262026-05-11T10:34:28Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theme was 'dictators'. Not the most inventive theme ever but certainly giffable. I went for a fictional dictator, Admiral General Aladeen (a Sacha Baron Cohen character). Cronel, despite his seething loathing for the big orange paedophile, went for Donald Trump. Sharkey, in a throwback to our round together all the way back in r32, where he behaved like a ruthless dictator all round, opted for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Xi Jinping (</del>https://wiki.opendominion.net/wiki/Babidi_R32<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</del>. The only person from our draft pack who did not participate in the theme was Vegan, who named himself after an anime girl instead. When Jota (who went for Dr Bashar al-Assad) asked why not, he would only say that his anime girl was more of a dictator than Assad. I laughed at that at the time, thinking it was a good joke. It would later become apparent from a sudden wall of text from Vegan that this wasn't really intended as a joke, but actually an expression of sympathy towards what he believed was a misunderstood dictator. Alright, cool, let's not touch that one. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Our theme was 'dictators'. Not the most inventive theme ever but certainly giffable. I went for a fictional dictator, Admiral General Aladeen (a Sacha Baron Cohen character). Cronel, despite his seething loathing for the big orange paedophile, went for Donald Trump. Sharkey, in a throwback to our round together all the way back in r32, where he behaved like a ruthless dictator all round, opted for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>https://wiki.opendominion.net/wiki/Babidi_R32<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Xi Jinping]]</ins>. The only person from our draft pack who did not participate in the theme was Vegan, who named himself after an anime girl instead. When Jota (who went for Dr Bashar al-Assad) asked why not, he would only say that his anime girl was more of a dictator than Assad. I laughed at that at the time, thinking it was a good joke. It would later become apparent from a sudden wall of text from Vegan that this wasn't really intended as a joke, but actually an expression of sympathy towards what he believed was a misunderstood dictator. Alright, cool, let's not touch that one. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There's may be a lot of snark in this roundfail, but I had a blast this round. The whole realm was fantastic fun to play with, very active, great banter and worked well together. Team Cerby drafted a risky team and I commend him for it: there are lots of draft captains that would never dare - myself included. I would absolutely not be building a glass cannon blops team if I was a team captain! I've played this exact scenario many times and while it's a lot of fun, it is so hard to win with in the current blops climate in OD. Your glass cannon is fragile, and you also piss some of the more sensitive players off in the process - who then spend all round campaigning in the discord that you're terrible because - oh no - you affected them (lookin' at you Jboy), which can be a total drag. We also had the added hurdle of the random intervention by the RC mid-round to contend with, which hurt us a lot. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There's may be a lot of snark in this roundfail, but I had a blast this round. The whole realm was fantastic fun to play with, very active, great banter and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(mostly) </ins>worked well together. Team Cerby drafted a risky team and I commend him for it: there are lots of draft captains that would never dare - myself included. I would absolutely not be building a glass cannon blops team if I was a team captain! I've played this exact scenario many times and while it's a lot of fun, it is so hard to win with in the current blops climate in OD. Your glass cannon is fragile, and you also piss some of the more sensitive players off in the process - who then spend all round campaigning in the discord that you're terrible because - oh no - you affected them (lookin' at you Jboy), which can be a total drag. We also had the added hurdle of the random intervention by the RC mid-round to contend with, which hurt us a lot. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We also got to see who was the best combat blopper, after discovering Rio had been hiding in our midst all round - meaning we can directly compare his fireball damage with Jota's, as both were running Dark Elf builds. And turns out, it's Jota! Despite Rio being the first to flight test the playstyle, Jota had beaten him at his own craft, killing 69% more peasants with fireballs. Nice.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We also got to see who was the best combat blopper, after discovering Rio had been hiding in our midst all round - meaning we can directly compare his fireball damage with Jota's, as both were running Dark Elf builds. And turns out, it's Jota! Despite Rio being the first to flight test the playstyle, Jota had beaten him at his own craft, killing 69% more peasants with fireballs. Nice.</div></td></tr>
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