Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh, I noticed alright. And I noticed someone else used the info I suggested. I started to say something (and perhaps should have) but then thought I had already gotten dangerously close to that "imaginary boundary" that "newbie lightweights" like me shouldn't cross. So, I thought the less I said about the whole subject, the better.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks for the game and I am glad that you took some lessons with you. The ships that took out your Last fleet were part of my new invasion fleet and were sitting on a planet in that system getting trained. When you started taking out my colonies in Gretok, I anticipated you coming through that warp point and sent my ships there to lie in waiting. It actually was risky on my part as the loss of those colonies in Gretok, and the other ones you took out on the other side of the galaxy, were my main source of minerals. I was -25k per turn and losing 2 ships per turn. Again, thanks for the great game.

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Geoschmo vs Gecko
Year 2406.5

I flank Geoschmo’s warp point defenses with a large fleet, clear the minefield from HIS side of the warp point, slaughter his large fleet with basically no losses on my part and THEN get promptly whacked by a bunch of low-tech fighters to the tune of 60 plus ships. Why might you ask? Well, it seems that my all-armor ships will not ram the fighters in PBW. I guess I should have known this particular idiosyncratic wrinkle to SEIV? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Yes. Fleets with lot's of missles and ramming ships and zero point defense or direct fire weapons get chewed up pretty nice by fighters. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Live and learn... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif
In any case, it was an orgy of mutual destruction. And now, for something completely different...

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Well that is interesting. I added it to my strategy article... You can't ram fighters.

The real flaw was not having point defense, I'd estimate. Nice counter, Geo.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, turn 65, there ought to be some PD weapons on board.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, turn 65, there ought to be some PD weapons on board.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I probably contributed to that by religously avoiding any missles or showing him that I had fighters until the turn just before that. And my huge advantage in ship combat attack and defense skills he probably figured that direct fire was the way to go for my ships and missles/ramming were his best option. Still he should have probably had some, but I give him points for finding a strategy and comitting to it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, turn 65, there ought to be some PD weapons on board.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I already knew he had fighters. I assumed he might have a smattering of missles. I made a choice not to install PD on any ships - why should I? I had like 30,000 points of armor to ram with. I simply did not understand the game mechanics. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif
Back to the drawing board...

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, turn 65, there ought to be some PD weapons on board.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I already knew he had fighters. I assumed he might have a smattering of missles. I made a choice not to install PD on any ships - why should I? I had like 30,000 points of armor to ram with. I simply did not understand the game mechanics. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif
Back to the drawing board...</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As a guy who hardly ever rams, I guess I didn't think of it like that.