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

Note that he DID have 10 planets to make those ships from. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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

You gotta understand how "alien" a start like that would be to me! (who prefers standard KOTH setup). I'd get bLasted for sure. Not to mention becoming a ball of nerves.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And it was a max tech with SY III. It's not really a big a big accomplishement (or even a minor one). I just thought it was funny compared to a normal game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

The main reason I was successfull was due to my desicion to skip all the colonizing stuff and go straight for the warships (and with a race totally maxed on shipyard rate). This happened to work well due to starting adjacent to the enemy. Could have been a whole different story if we started far apart.

[ June 04, 2003, 23:43: Message edited by: DavidG ]

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

Grrr, Sparhawk vs. Mathias Ice. I played a worthless game, we must have started very close to each other, because there I was quietly sending out my colonizers when WHAM! He takes out a couple of them, then he is on my homeworld before I have a chance to mount any defence. Blockaded with out another producing colony I am forced to concede. Heads WILL roll in the Greanie Meanie empire. Move Sparhawk up and set me up for the next match. Grrrrr.

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

Trithian Empire (Slynky) -vs- Kif Hegemony (Mark the Merciful): 2410.5

(standard KOTH game: 1 medium starting homeworld)

Well, 105 turns into the game and again, I think (since I haven't read it before in other games, especially in standard 1-planet KOTH games, some different tactics:

Seemed like I was battling against a wall with Mark. Fleet after fleet thrown against each other. Mostly battleships for the Last 20-30 turns! I thought I was building well enough to keep ahead of him but he came back with large fleets and, latest of all, phased shield IVs! Put a real halt to my PPBs.

So, stellar manipulation was put in priority and I began closing holes that I was worried about. Five of them altogether, so I built 2 "closers". Behind them, 2 "openers".

This turn began my "wormhole" tactics.

Resource production is over 600,000 (to keep me in builds and my fleet of over 150 ships in space)!

This has turned into one WILD game...and all from one medium homeworld! Mark is a damn good player!

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

Sparhawk vs.Mathias Ice. We started with just one system between us. Luckly for me I discovered Mathias ice first with an escort.
At that moment I was pumping out escort to scout ahead. He was pumping out colony ships, so when we meet the col was no match..btw a tip: use ram strategy for your colony ships..IT WORKS.
So when I was heading to his homeplanet, I totally switch from building col. to escort ships.
Wave after wave succeeded in the end to blockad his homeworld (turn 1.6).
So up one for me.
And hopefully we meet again Mathias Ice for a real game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif , because this one was just pure luck

Sparhawk

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is the most progressive match I can remember from a default start! Nothing like a match where you get to hand out lote of post-mortem medals to your fleet commanders. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sparhawk, Mathias... OOF! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

That is my worst nightmare. I've had a close start happen several times and luckily I found out quickly and compensated. I was able to hold off opponents with satellite layers and ramming until mines were available, which gave me a little relaxation.

Also I have to say this is a gutsy move by Sparhawk; I can't seem to bring myself to pull off "An early Kill." Guess I'm just too conservative.

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

True, but what fun is it to play a game, where both homeworlds are just one system away...split up the map, build up and then kill each other??

I think the fun thing of this kind of game is to explore where your enemy is and use different strategys to harm your enemy.
Finding out what he is going to do, plan attacks etc.
Then the best thing to do is: have a rematch...Mathias Ice, what do you think of that? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ?
Just forget this one and asmala can make a new game for us.

Sparhawk

"gone"

[ June 05, 2003, 15:43: Message edited by: sparhawk ]

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The way I see it you won fair and square, Sparhawk. Opening setup is luck-of-the-draw, I COULD have set my colony ships to ram (I'm making a note of that,) I COULD have switched to building defences as soon as I saw that first escort, but instead I assumed it was a fluke and waited several turns before deciding we were that close. I'm still very much learning KOTH strategies. To the victor go the spoils! I'm sure we will meet again.

[ June 05, 2003, 15:49: Message edited by: Mathias_Ice ]