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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Look in your Designs (F3) menu and click on "Stats/Strategy". It doesn't show you your entire empire stats, but you can view successes on a ship basis. Works for units too - check out how many kt your mines have "sunk".

Slick.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Look in your Designs (F3) menu and click on "Stats/Strategy". It doesn't show you your entire empire stats, but you can view successes on a ship basis. Works for units too - check out how many kt your mines have "sunk".

Slick.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks Slick, knew that one. I really liked the spreadsheet in Empire Deluxe though - especailly the totals, overall and by unit type.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ahh, the mind of the Primitive. Were your race further up the evolutionary ladder you would know that your place is at the bottom of the hill. But no matter. When we are finished with you your race will be even more primitive than it is now. Sticks and stones will seem like advanced tools. Prepare yourself, Primitive, for we are the true masters.

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

Gecko, you are going to make me play a game of ED today and I don't have the time! Please stop. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Slick.

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Sparhawk's Empire (Sparhawk) -vs- Kif Hegemony (Mark the Merciful): 2403.7

(standard KOTH game: 1 medium starting homeworld)

First contact was around turn 21, when one of Sparhawk's armed scouts turned up from a direction I wasn't at all expecting (it turns out there's a warp-line across the middle of the spiral galaxy). As a result, he managed to glass a high value breathable planet before running into a hastily deployed minefield.

In the next few turns, we met all along the front. Sparhawk had clearly sent off armed scouts in all directions, while I was pushing forward agressively with Colony ships. In one direction my lead colony ship was able to ram his scout out of the way and continue the mission. In another his scout managed to kill off three colony ships before I finally got the bugger.

It's a complex map. There are no real bottlenecks, and never less than four warp-points connecting our two halves of the galaxy. There are also cross-connections and dead systems (nebulae etc) to further complicate the issue.

At first Sparhawk's wave of armed ships slowed down my aggressive colonisation efforts. However, minefields mostly prevented him advancing into my space, and some hastily-built ramming frigates have enabled me to get rid of his scouts and push forward again. There are now two systems which are jointly colonised, and possibly another to follow.

It's a very fluid situation.

Mark

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What happens when you do this? does he get 4 mothballed ships or do they become un-mothballed when he gets them?

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, it's a nice breath of fresh air. I know that most anyone who has the "balls" to join in KOTH has to be of a competitive nature...</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Be careful, Slynk-meister... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now, THAT'S funny, Stone! Funny because you chose to say Slynk-meister. Slynky is the name I use when I play NTN Trivia (found in sports bars) all over North America) and Lord Chane, a friend I work with, started calling me Slynk-meister when we played. Of course, I rarely beat him there either!

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KOTH Mathias Ice vs Geckomlis:

We cranked out 70 turns today! Is this a record? After a little squabling here and there around two choke points the fronts are busting open. Gecko first glassed my colony that had been sitting on "his" side of the line (allowing me to watch in dread as he built a fleet,) then tore through my mine field at one choke point and glassed my lone colony on "my" side of that line. At about turn 65 I sent my first fleet through the other choke point. Two major battles insued simultaneously. My invasion fleet of about 10 LC gunboats and 10 mine sweepers met a fleet of about 10 of his ships over one of his colonies. The result was a glassed planet and no more enemy fleet while I suffered barely a scratch. On the other end of the galaxy, Gecko sent his invasion fleet warping through into another system of mine only to meet an opposing force on the other side. Despite being outnumbered at what seemed about 20 to 10, I got first shot and the battle resulted in what seemed like a serious upset, the dust of his 20 or so ships littering the warp point while I only lost a few of my ships. I have since warped a severly crippled ship through that warp point and have observed he still has many ships in that system. Meanwhile my invasion fleet glassed the two remaing planets in the system they have been tromping in. What a day. It's either close to being over or it will be a long and bloody fight.

Mathias Ice

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, if it's not, I'd like to see the score that did win the title http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif .

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Geoschmo vs Cheeze 2401.8

You must be mistaken Minister. I am by no means as expert in the scientific fields as you are, but intelligent plants? How can this be possible? How could plants have evolved the ability to use tools and construct space ships?

Your Emminence, they appear to grow their ships. From what we have been able to determine from the debris of the ship we destroyed it appears the hull is a species of plant life itself. Not the same species as the Floral ones, it appears to be non-sentient itself. But the intelligent plants appear to be able to manipulate other organisms telepathically. At least that is our best guess. We will need more time to research it. Perhaps if we can collect some live specimens next time Emminence?

That may prove difficult minister. The Defense minister tells me the ship we encountered was an unarmed colony ship. But rather then avoid conflict as our colony ship captains are instructed the UF ship attacked and rammed our vessel. Obviously they have little regard for individual life. If their unarmed colony ships behave in such a manner we can only assume that any armed ships they send our way will be quite determined in battle. Their will be time for botany experiments later. Right now we will need to accelerate our weapons research programs.

Yes your Emminence.