Well I'm not sure, but I think his name was "Scottish Warrior".
Funny thing was everyone hated Matt, I never could figure out why as he was friendly and would give you about anything if you asked. Seemed most would rather try taking and he was extremely good at the logistics of war.
I cracked a hard drive once and didn't play for about 6 months. Back then Genie had those programs that would point out inactive players, and I signed back in as he was finishing off my empire.
I'd learned war from Avalon and others of that type and to that point nobody had ever taken anything from me. I figured it had to be simply because I wasn't on to fight.
So I built back and went after his ass, he whipped me so quick I had a hard time figuring out exactly how he did it. So I moved to Lacerta in GR, as far away from him as I could get and rebuilt again.
Allied Forces had the largest portion of GR, and anyone of any size either joined them or was over run by their swarm tactics and most of them had a real "hard on" for Matt. When I wouldn't join or allow them to build within precision bomber range, I had a few rounds with them and banned them from Lacerta completely which got Matt and I talking and eventually allied.
It was a good match for both of us, he was actually hated so much, he was isolated to the point there was a lot he didn't know about the game. Pretty soon I knew what he did about the game and I taught him what I had picked up.
After that it was us against Allied Forces. We wouldn't let them build within precision bomber range and they were constantly shoving countries right next to us.
At one point W3c even stepped in and stopped the war by locking Matt down, leaving me at war with half of GR. They might have got me then, I wasn't completely confident I could hold them off, for some reason David Walker wanted a truce and I'd already thrown them back so had no reason to continue.
I think that was the beginning of the end for me, the game simply wasn't that much fun anymore. W3C was coming up with new restrictions and stopping wars every time someone whined. Matt eventually went inactive, big name players were leaving the game right and left, and after several months I gave my GR empire to someone (I thought Claws) and left.
When you get two players used to fighting all comers alone allied up it's a hard combination to beat, or was back then, I doubt I can build an empire like that now with what this game has become.