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

PhoenixD is about to win. He is wiping out my planets as we speak. I do not have the forces or enough shipyards to come back. (I suck at this. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ) But it is only a mere formality now. Game will be over this evening probably.

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

"Not even another player in the lower bracket. Me and PhoenixD are at turn 67 and he is winning. I didn't have the greatest starting position and his ships are more advanced then mine. Due to the fact that I am not the best player when it comes low tech start with medium start. I guess I should practice with that setting against the AI for awhile eh? But I am sure we will break the 100 turn mark."

Especially if I keep running my main attack fleet out of gas..oops. Actually when my first attack fleet hit that minefield, I thought I was through. I was going for a quick kill..and the only thing that saved my was finding a few huge breathables in the south. Bad start? You had three breathables in your home system! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

EDIT: Oh, and the fact that I had a big agressive/defensive advantage, and you went direct-fire, didn't hurt either. You scared the living heck out of my when we first met. Relgious AND temporal AND a shipyard advantage? Yike.

Phoenix-D

[ December 16, 2002, 23:25: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

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

"Especially if I keep running my main attack fleet out of gas..oops. Actually when my first attack fleet hit that minefield, I thought I was through. I was going for a quick kill..and the only thing that saved my was finding a few huge breathables in the south. Bad start? You had three breathables in your home system!"

Yeah I had three in my home system. But the systems around me basically sucked. One thing I need to learn how to do is manage my resources a little bit better. I could've hurt you bad at that point when you thought you were done for if I had not run out of minerals. When I play a turn I always make sure I'm making money at the end of the turn. But in this game you attacked so early so I was trying to get defensive ships out and research the right technologies to defend myself. Was a tough feat to do.

"EDIT: Oh, and the fact that I had a big agressive/defensive advantage, and you went direct-fire, didn't hurt either. You scared the living heck out of my when we first met. Relgious AND temporal AND a shipyard advantage? Yike."
So that is why you whooped me so bad in those battles. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif But the thing about Religious and Temporal in a game such as this, low start medium cost, is that it's tough to dedicate the time needed to research those fields. So I never even got to research the first steps in those areas. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

All in all a good game. I learned a couple new things and hopefully I can use that to my advantage.

Ok, I officially surrendered. Game went 103 turns. Good game PhoenixD! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Edit:
"Actually when my first attack fleet hit that minefield, I thought I was through. I was going for a quick kill..and the only thing that saved my was finding a few huge breathables in the south."

I knew my only chance to stay close with that fleet in there was to get mines out. Which saved me for a few turns but my ships just couldn't do nothing against yours.

[ December 17, 2002, 00:04: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

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

Good game. Hmm, eight colonies left.

Getting a spacial distorition into the enemy home system is weird. Getting two in one game to the *same sector* of that system..

I had to attack, or loose. I had a only slightly better prospects than you, and all my expansion oppurtuniy was either straight at you or waaay down south.

Phoenix-D

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

"Getting a spacial distorition into the enemy home system is weird. Getting two in one game to the *same sector* of that system.."

I know, that was extreamly odd. Worked out for you, gave you some recon while in there. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

"I had to attack, or loose. I had a only slightly better prospects than you, and all my expansion oppurtuniy was either straight at you or waaay down south."

I see, I knew you would be to the west of me and not south, so I tried to avoid going to the east for a few turns whiel I established some colonies around the system down south. But it didn't work out... I shouldn't be so conservitive next time either. I should take it to the house unstead of waiting on the house to crumble. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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

"I knew you would be to the west of me and not south"

Hmm. How?

Phoenix-D

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well I didn't really know, I just had a feeling. Usually in 2 player games you can sort of guess where the computer will place people. Sure, sometimes you're way off but 75% of the time you can guess in which general direction they are in. Unless you start in the middle of course.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well I didn't really know, I just had a feeling. Usually in 2 player games you can sort of guess where the computer will place people. Sure, sometimes you're way off but 75% of the time you can guess in which general direction they are in. Unless you start in the middle of course.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I must be in the middle then cuz I've got 1FSTCAT on both sides of me pressing me early.

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

Umm, Geo? Is there a reason the league page shows the middle of the hill as having 3 game slots (6 players) and the top as 2 (4 players)? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Phoenix-D

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

Yep, that seems strange or I am too addicted to a football type of championship. 16-8-4-2-1 or something like that...
Way too late now. Goodnight.