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I was bored so I thought I'd do a little something to find out the average number of turns I have done with my 5 games so far. Too bad I lost 4 of those 5. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Here is what I did...
Zarix def. Rags 104 turns. 13 days. Rag def. Darkhorse 107 turns. 25 days. Cheeze def. Rags 99 turns. 11 days. Phoenix-D def. Rags 103 turns. 3 days. Thermodyne def. Rags 122 turns. 15 days? Total = 535 turns. 67 days. Average = 7.9 turns per day Geo, if you want, I can do this with each of the people on the Hill. This could give the person who will play whoever in the next game sort of an idea on how many turns they expect a day if schedules work together. What do you think? |
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I did our current Kings just for the fun of it too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Here are the results.
Stone Mill SM def. Asmala 79 turns. 26 days. SM def. Preacherman 42 turns. 16 days. SM def. Kazarp 39 turns. 4 days. SM def. Geo 42 turns. 4 days. SM def. Termodyne 58 turns. 13 days. Rollo def. SM 37 turns. 11 days. 1FSTCAT def. SM 76 turns. 28 days. SM def. Pablo 55 turns. 8 days. Total = 428 turns. 106 days. Average = 4.03 turns per day. |
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K.O.T.H. Gecko vs Grazic Update.
Fleet Commander EEE4255EEE considers the situation, especially now that the new orders have arrived. Things are looking hopeless for the EEEvil EEEmpire. We are falling back on all sides, our small number of Ice colonies are all domed, the few undomed planets are all on Slow build, Intelligence projects are usurping our ships, all money to replace lost ships has been spent, technological deficit, and now Insanity from our leaders. Fleet Commander EEE4255EEE looks at the orders he has just received to 'Warp' once more. He knows that the SpaceSharks have Mined the other side, with their Large, Technological Advanced Fleet located directly on the other side. But an order is an order and no more delay is permitted. Fleet Commander EEE4255EEE informs all ships of the new orders, he closes shuts down his external displays and engages. Missiles launch, Point-defence whine in reply, Canons fire, Fighters deploy, Explosions are all around, and still Fleet Commander EEE4255EEE waits for the big one. Slowly the noises die down. Fleet Commander EEE4255EEE opens the external displays and sees two SpaceSharks vessels directly in front, but instead of firing they open comm channels. It's Marines EEE7731EEE and EEE7387EEE in command of the vessels. He check the displays, the only other SpaceSharks vessels are fleeing, only 1 EEEvil ship is missing. How did this happen? He missed the whole show, and what have the marines being saying, the ships contain...empty Gas Colony modules... Perhaps things are starting to look hopeful. |
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K.O.T.H. Gecko vs Grazic Update: Gecko’s POV.
The Shark Elementals Expeditionary Fleet, after scorching and then salting the earth of every EEEvil EEEmpire planet in the Resshrak system, holds a guard position on the exit warp point used by the routed and retreating EEEvil forces. The offensive halts, supposedly to facilitate a massive resupply operation. In truth, the fleet is obsolete and can not engage and prevail at the knife-fighting ranges associated with a warp point defense. What the fleet can do is focus and hold the attention of the enemy’s mobile forces – an obsolete fleet in being is still a fleet in being. The enemy can not safely ignore the 40 long-range ships poised on his border. On other fronts, the Northern Star Fleet and the Southern Cross Fleet complete the cleansing of the Sutran system and depart for the scheduled sterilization of the Zanthris system. Colonizers follow closely behind to quickly construct forward fleet bases. Shark Elementals commandos bomb EEEvil ships with impunity and, between missions, philosophically ponder the EEEvil doctrine that emphasizes the production of new vessels at the expense of the repair, refit, and security of already operational ships. Suddenly, in what can only be described as a complete breakdown in the command and control elements of the EEEvil EEEmpire, an EEEvil surrender is tendered simultaneously with an EEEvil offensive into the Resshrak system. The Shark Elementals Expeditionary Fleet is (anticlimactically) annihilated. The EEEvil EEEmpire quickly reneges on its offer to surrender and shouts defiance at the Shark Elementals Army. Leader Gecko smiles. Without the need to maintain Expeditionary Fleet, massive numbers of resources are now free to be redirected. The Mothball Fleet, slowly accumulated over many years, is reactivated and then refitted with bleeding-edge technology at the huge orbital works above Ikrod V. Shipyards on 30+ worlds are ordered to complete the final outfitting of ships on hold. Entire worlds devoted solely to the storage of resources are emptied, but there are many, many more such worlds in reserve. Leader Gecko Boards his Predator-Class flagship “Hammerhead”, and orders the smaller, leaner, and very much meaner new Expeditionary Fleet to engage their cloaking devices. This fleet will bypass the current forward edge of battle and any roving ships to target and destroy strategic resource production facilities. As other fleets come Online, operations will conform to an entropy-based warfare model. |
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Slynky, math equation:
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Darnit, though, by official decree- anyone publicizing the King's past losses shall be tarred and feathered! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Now, to get to the scribes at the official library to rewrite... ahem (cough, cough) correct the official records... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif On a serious note, you can really expect 2-3 turns a day from me minimum. As many others have pointed out, it does not really take too much time to cycle through them in the beginning and the end of the day. Time zones are sometimes the biggest hurdle to getting together to zoom through extra turns... I'm usually up for this on the weekends, if I'm not tied down doing home stuff. <*whip crack!*> Yes, Dear... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif |
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5 turns.... It was 4 turns....
Which on average is when I meet people. I have beers cooling by the beach for us. |
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Geo -vs- Slynky: ("pick-up" KOTH game for fun)
At turn 64, I'd like to offer geo the opportunity to resign the game. It's a gentleman's offer. It may sound a bit pompus and I don't mean it to (read ahead before you decide). His ships fight well and he does well against my ships even though he has inferior tech in almost every degree. If he had tech equal to mine, I'd be dead fast! The only problem is, it seems, that my empire design and starting location seems to have given me an insurmountable lead. It's hard to overcome someone who can throw "numbers" at you (though not being able to design and fight well). At turn 64, I have nearly 200,000 minerals and 300,000 rads. I put 120,000 into tech a turn and will be getting another colony type in 2 turns. That's from 66 colonies in 18 systems. 51 ships, most of which are battle cruisers or cruisers. (and 12 more in SY's). So, unless I am wrong, it seems pointless to continue and I would rather end it with a "handshake". I would have him on my team in any contest...though I suspect he would choose many others before he chose me. So, geo, what say you to calling an end to this game (which I REALLY enjoyed)? PS: Remember, my empire design is a secret... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif [ April 13, 2003, 11:16: Message edited by: Slynky ] |
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2402.0 - Nodachi surrendered to Asmala. What did I learn from this game? Don't step out in front of a speeding truck!! Still had fun though, got slaughtered, but had fun. Stone, watch out, he coming back up! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif |
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DavidG gets to move on up. I surrendered to him on stardate 2407.7. He had me outresearched by far, killing me quickly with a combo of large trained fleets and intel. I will start my climb again from the bottom.
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Quick update:
Asmala is stomping me into the dirt! I've never had so many "what the.." or "holy sh*#" moments than in this game. This gentleman is amazing! Looks like my streak will continue! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif |
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Sparhawk vs Lord Chane
me is also history http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif , Got both a nice start and establish a hold on two warpholes. Both were building up, I gambled one and he on the other one. But he got beter values for attack and defence (armor etc) and because of that my bigger ships were slaughtered http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Not ones, but numbers of times... So in the end he was moving trough my systems with a small fleet and I couln't stop him anymore...even a big fleet that was moving trough his systems was slaughter by a inferior fleet, many good ship/people were killed in this attempt. But the end was near by..and the spar allaince was no more. congratulation lord chane. Sparhawk please goeschmo give me another player, any one in for an easy game/player to play against http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif |
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Guys, sorry but I have been really sick all weekend. Just able to do the absolute minimum and check for emergencies and whatnot. Hopefully by this evening I will be able to get caught up on the games that have ended.
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Well looks like I'm now in the long queue to fight the King. Since it may be a while till my next game, anyone feel like an exhibition game?
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King Title Defense II Update: 1SFTCAT and I are next door neighbors. This should be fun. I was the first one through the warp point and stumbled onto his ungracious fleet of planet destroyers. Now, that's not neighborly at all. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif |
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Slynky -vs- Dreico:
Turn 36. Met Dreico. (yawn...) |
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Koth page is updated, I think. Let me know if your game is finished and I missed it. I am still a little medicated.
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Slynky -vs- Dreico:
(yeah, yeah, I know...boring) Turn 38 and we have now met each other at 3 different locations around the "spiral hole". Now, where will the concentrated probes be? (well, if nothing else, the thread has moved to the top again... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ) |
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Hey Geo how many contenders do we have now? I see the guy the programmed that auto update thing for the web page didn't allow for a #3, #4 contender etc etc. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif
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My game against Lord Chane will probably be very short, because just like my previous game we started at adjacent systems. I had concentrated only building colony ships so Lord Chane's two escorts and two frigates which entered to my home system really caught me of my guards. We'll see if I recover for that sudden strike...
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Tesco and I are having an interesting time. We started near each other. I sent some brief exploratory probes into his home system (brief because they were killed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ), then settled down to some serious gaming. A fleet of eight frigates entered his system and managed to blockade his homeworld, with only one death (stupid strategy errors let his colony ship ram two of my ships) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif . Next month I destroyed his four weapplats, but it cost me three more ships and two heavily damaged. HW still blockaded, reinforcements on the way.
I was pretty sure I was going to lose when I entered his home system so quickly and saw three BSYs around his HW, when I was just wrapping up my first one. I was even more freaked out when I replayed combat and saw his missile boats set to "Kamikaze" strategy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Now, I'm not sure who'll win. I'm in first place, but he's colonized three other planets in his system, and probably more elsewhere. Glassing his HW will be satisfying, but probably not a game-breaker for him. Impatiently waiting for the next turn to show up... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif *tap tap tap tap tap on the desk* [ April 20, 2003, 02:59: Message edited by: Krsqk ] |
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Gozguy vs Geoschmo, 2412.5
Apparently Gozguy will require me to seek out and destroy every Last remnant of his empire. This is fine with me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I clearly have the advantage at this point. However his excellent use of hit and run tactics and flanking manuvers does slow my advances considerably. I have to spend time and resources protecting my flanks, and defending the planets that I take from him. No more rolling through systems taking 3 or 4 planets at a time as I did earlier in the war. Doing that now only guarantees that Goz will return and glass the recently liberated populations, and in the process leaving my fleet well in advance of any repair and refuel facilities. Goz has shown an ability to recolonize glassed planets quickly, so I can't simply fall back to refuel. Doing so only guarantees that I will have to fight again for the same piece of ground. My strategy is advance and hold, consolidate, and advance again. It is slow, but it gets the job done with a minimum of risk to my crews. So it's become a methodical process of taking a planet at a time. Defending them and cleaning out pockets of resistance in system. Building up sufficent reserves to block the warp points from flanking counter attack. And then finally moving on to the next system. At this rate we may get to 200 turns before it's done. I love it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Geoschmo [ April 21, 2003, 13:26: Message edited by: geoschmo ] |
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THe bases were just about to drop out defencive ships... But now they cannot... That really hurt... |
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I assumed those bases would be working overtime on WPs or something special. Had I worked my strategies right (again), I probably could have taken them out Last month. Now, I have to wait another month. Well, time for some S&D missions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
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Lord Chane surrendered to me in turn 2403.1 so Geo please bump me up. According to the KOTH page my next opponent is Cheeze http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif
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King Match Turn 24
We have met at both ends of the universe, soon to be a second front. Still tension back at the warp point that links both our homeworlds. 1FSTCAT is using Gas Giant, and appears to have the advantage with number of systems and breathable planets. I just have a bunch of rocks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I was able to drop a foothold in one of his frontier systems, but he is colonizing like crazy; and I did not arrive so early as to really interrupt things. The way I see it, this one probably won't Last too long. One of us is going to make a move in force. If it breaks through, it probably will be hard to stop. If it is defeated, the empire will be swallowing hard. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif |
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Gozguy Vs Geoschmo 2413.2
Another Chin system assimilated. Flanks are fortified and relativly secure now. I am going to try and pick up the pace a bit. Might try to move forward on the flanks and in the center at once. Simultaneous pressure from multiple directions should accelerate the crumbling of the Chin Empire. The end is in sight. Might make the record for most turns for a Koth game though. Geoschmo |
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I have to face the highly-feared, wild and unpredictable Asmala?? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
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