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December 4, 2005

Those HQ's are tough

It looks like I'm going to have to spend more time attacking the HQ as my test orders show it at about 50% health after my warps.

I'm giving my position away with these attacks, but I don't want to leave the HQ still standing as it will add a little more pressure to The Vimto Kid knowing he cannot rearm.

I have no idea where his troops are, so I'm sending a couple of random psyches out.

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Posted to 188260 VsThe Vimto Kid

A blessed sentry

That sentry of mine has been smiled upon today.

I ordered it to chase the sniper, expecting the sniper to get psyched by one of my two attacks, and therefore blinded. Somehow the psyches both missed, leaving a completely unblinded sniper pointing its big gun at my sentry.
The first shot hit the sniper, but didn't kill it. the second shot missed. the third shot went off at the same time as the snipers. Luckily the sentry had a tiny amount of energy left, and managed to kill the sniper with that final shot. Its regen time for him!

I'm beginning my attack on the HQ this turn. I can get a warp off right at the end of this turn, which should allow me two full warps next turn before he is able to react at all. I'm hoping that will be enough to finish it off.

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Posted to 188260 VsThe Vimto Kid

LSN Web Interface Fixer V 1.0

Ok, we are ready to go with the LSN Web Interface Fixer.

I'm pretty sure I've hidden all details that might give away the result of a finished game, and there are a few other niceties, as shown in the previous post.

To use this script you must be running a Greasemonkey compatible Web Browser, like Firefox. You must also have installed the Greasemonkey extension1, available from here . Make sure you have uninstalled any older versions you might have installed or else they may well conflict with each other.

Once done, you can open the Web Interface Fixer script here

When you have that open in your web browser, go to the Tools menu, then Install This User Script.

That's it, job done!

If anyone finds any problems with it then please let me know and I'll try to sort them out.

1 Eventually I hope this to be a FireFox extention in its own right, which eliminates the need to have Greasemonkey installed. Indeed, I do have a standalone extention already, but for some reason it is inserting my identity lines twice and I can't figure out why..... If anyone wants to try it out its available here

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New version soon!

I'm just putting the finishing touches to a new version of the LSN Web Interface Fixer.

It's a total rewrite, and so now works under the latest Greasemonkey version. (0.5.3 at time of writing)

Here are the features:-

// Features
// --------
//
// Hides the Win/Lose/Draw status of finished games to prevent spoiling
// a close final turn.
//
// Hides League Point changes of finished games on main screen
//
// Hides the sections of the game detail page that tell you the
// game result, final score and League Point changes.
//
// Allows you to view the last turn/wholegame for games in Waiting status.
//
// When issuing a direct Player Challenge, if you specify a map it will
// automatically select the radio button to play that map. Eliminates all
// those "I'm sure I picked a different map" moments.
//
// Allows you to deploy early on games while waiting for your opponent
// to deploy. Not tested fully

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Posted to General | Greasemonkey | LSN