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Ragnarok's "Baron Chasers! Federation" vs. Baron Grazic's "EEEvil EEEmpire"

2407.1 - After the success of the EEEvil's first battle against the "Baron Chasers", the EEEvil's Northern Fleet attcked the Colony of Ishantrissti IX. This planet being a Huge, Breathable colony of the "Baron Chashers", we were prepared for Weapon Platforms, fighters and mines. The Northern Fleet was so surprised to find only 38 mines, they almost forgot to destroy the colony... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
{1 Point to Rags, for winning that mind game round}

The EEEvil EEEmpire once again takes their rightful first place, they claims over 50% of the galaxy and have 2 well trained fleets of over 100 Battleships in each...

{No looking Rags, you promised}
PS. Well perhaps you should halve the number of ships.
PPS. When I say Battleships, I really mean - Light Cruisers.
PPPS. Well mostly Light Cruisers. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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

Welcome aboard Taera.
Get ready for some fast action...

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

Ragnarok's "Baron Chasers! Federation" vs. Baron Grazic's "EEEvil EEEmpire"

2407.9 - Baron came into one of my systems 3 turns ago with a large fleet. (80 plus ships IIRC)
I was at a planet training my fleet of 55 ships or so, so I sent them after him and 2 turns later battle takes place only to increase his fleet size to 92 ships. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Did I mention I hate boarding parties?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif I have nothing large enough to stop Baron now. It looks to be the first time I will not go past 100 turns in the whole tourney, unless I force Baron to chase me all over the place to take out all my planets but that'd just be cheesey. So as soon as my Last fleet is dead it is surrender time I do believe.

One thing that hurt me is my home system. It had nothing but my home planet in it. It is complete empty except for the 17 asteriod fields in it. So it took along time for me to get my empire developing. It took 2 turns just to get out of my home system (6 spaces from warp point) and then hardly any GOOD planets around. Also being cut off so soon hurt, the way this map was set up made it to where there were 2 choke points cutting me off from rest of map; and they were way too close to my home system for comfort. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Oh well, it was a fun game and I learned alot from my mistakes that I made. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Kudos to Baron for the game and I wish him the best up the hill.

Asmala, be ready to move Grazic up soon as this game should be over soon. If not tonight then tomorrow night for sure. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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

Ragnarok's "Baron Chasers! Federation" vs. Baron Grazic's "EEEvil EEEmpire"

2408.1 - Not much to report this soon after my Last one. But I have officially surrendered to Baron. It was alot of fun and I enjoyed getting beat soundly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif My streak of games for consecutive games played with at least 100 turns has finally come to an end. And it's all Barons fault! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif
Once again, I thank you Baron for a well played game.

Asmala, match me up with someone else when you have the time. Thanks... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Thanks for the great game Rags, and sorry to break your record. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I think I still hold the record for the shortest game however - 8 turns - 1.49 Koth game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

I have got to admit that luck played highly in this game. I thought I had a bad start, with only 1 Tiny Done colony in my Home System, 2 small domed worlds in the system to the West & a small, medium & large domed worlds to the North. Looking at Rags starting possition, I had a great start.

{Tesco - Do you want to check that map, starting with your Home World in an asteroid belt, doesn't seem fair}

The reason I won? I went straight for Ship Capture, ignoring Mines, and luckily got the middle before Ragnarok could mine it. Big gamble but it paid off this time...

I noticed Ragnarok had out researched me extensively, when I saw Cruisers, ECMs, Combat Sensors, Armor against my LCs with DUCs only. But I had gambled by researching Ice Colonisation.

The third big gamble I took was joining my 2 fleets into the 80 plus ships. This left both my front systems defenseless. The fleet was highly trained but most ships were supporting DUC 3-5s. Everytime we fought I seemed to have first attack, allowing my boarders to capture his ships.

Great game Warlord Ragnarok, sorry that everytime we rolled the dice, I got the sixes. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Dundas Redneck Clan (Kazarp) -vs- Trithian Empire (Slynky) 2402.3

First contact. We each have an escort looking at each other from opposite wormholes.

Not much else to report. We've swapped 1st and 2nd place through much of the first turns (as colony ships came and went) but I've been in 2nd now for several turns.

I thought my home system sucked a bit but then I read about Rags' start and won't complain as much as I was going to ( http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ). Two warp lines out of my home systems each leading to "nothing" systems. Then a 3rd and a 4th system elsewhere with nothing (ugh!). But I've managed to find some places and at least my home system had a few available planets.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nice game fellas... I often find that these matches are very replayable (they don't get boring) because of the gambles and guesses.

Do I go on the attack and leave a system defenseless?

Do I forego critical tech areas (mines) to get an edge in another field?

Nice accounts. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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OK KOTHers, there are some really interesting games brewing at the Top of The Hill:

Asmala -vs- RexTorres
Primitive -vs- Mark the Merciful

As we all know (well, IF you read the threads... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ), Asmala, or the young upstart as he was dubbed as he made his way swiftly up the hill, battled Stone and lost in an incredible game. Now, he's on his way back. And RexTorres, whose reputation has been known for years as an expert player. This should be a great match-up!

Then, but not to dimminish, there is the rusty spear of the Primitive one -vs- the uppity English attitude of the mercililess one! Mark is undefeated in KOTH and Primitive is brutal. I have played (and lost to) both.

I don't know about everyone else, but I demand updates! ( http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

Oh, and not to turn it into any kind of national pride or anything...only one of those four live in the US. Says a LOT for the wonderful international community we have here!

[ July 03, 2003, 17:49: Message edited by: Slynky ]

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Hmmm...

Reading the Baron Grazic vs Ragnarok game I wonder if there would be any interest in a "mirror image universe".

Rags starting in a asteroid belt is a definite disadvantage unless his opponent found himself in the same situation.

Taking nothing away from the well deserved victory of Baron Grazic, a very good player could find himself losing to a novice player in a game in which the novice player has the advantage of the setup.

Taking the reverse, the novice can find himself slaughtered within a very short time if the very experience player has the advantage of the setup.

Games like chess and checkers have a mirror image set-up and except for the advantage given to the player who has the first move, winning the game is very dependant upon knowledge and experience.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you are suggesting a galaxy with exact systems and planets on each "side", it has its merits. The downside, IMHO, is making a bunch of maps. Also, though people get bad breaks, it "taxes" each player as he sees what he has at his disposal and reacts/plans accordingly. Though some barriers can't be overcome no matter how good you are, for the most part, I don't think a superior player will lose to an average player even though he may start out with a slight disadvantage.

Looking over a new map each game and not knowing what the other person has at his disposal adds to the game...not subracts...IMHO.