🚀 go-pugleaf

About 6 years ago I was working on a Vax750 in VMSand found the game
of Empire.  After trying it for some time, I told a friend who is a
wargame fanatic about it.  He sat playing for a couple of hours, and
had the enemy on the run when I decided I was bored of working.  I
wrote a little script which waited for a few minutes and then sent a
message to his terminal, waited, sent etc.  Then I went and watched
his game as he was playing.  The game went something like this:

Game:   Enemy aircraft carrier at (37,14) struck an iceberg and sank.
Kevin:  Holy Shit! he's got aircraft carries already?  And I have to
	watch out for icebergs?  Cool.
<play on>
<assorted innocent messages>
Game:	Near miss on your city at (12,55) by neutron bomb.  Production
	down to one half.
Kevin:	Neutron bomb?  Where was that in the rules?
Me:	I think it gets a little more stuff because the computer is
	not as smart as you are.
Kevin:	hmmm.
Me:	I wonder how it knew your city was there.
Game:	High flying scout planes, of course.
Kevin:	Holy cow! that's just what I was thinking too.  I'd love to
	meet the guy who wrote this game!