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As expected, the Baron has hung me out to dry. Every encounter was a devastating loss for me with minimal damage to him. Chalk one up for the Baron.

Asmala, I will be taking a break-- a bit busy lately-- but I'll be back at a later date. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Good luck to all!

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What can I say?
I won't say I'm not happy to beat Grandpa Kim, because he has taught me a lot in previous games, and I was worried at the start, but I would have preferred to take the win under fairer circumstances.
After looking at the whole map - GK's side had 8 useless systems, where I only had 1. Plus the fact that I could defend a single warp point that led from the middle circle into my entire system, where GK had 3 Warp Points to defend from the centre.

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KOTH page updated (again).

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I've surrendered to Roanon, so move him up.

This is my first KOTH game and I was outclassed from the beginning, making such newbie mistakes as building three mineral miners on a planet in a new system before remembering to build a space port, letting a heavily damaged colony ship limp around at speed 1 and suck up resources etc.

I'm a bit sick right now (fainted clean away from an antibiotic injection this morning) so I don't feel up to a new KOTH game yet. Maybe next week when I feel better. I'll let you know Asmala.

Thanks for the game Roanon and sorry for being such poor competition.

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Sparhawk vs kazarp.

me not like this.
30 system map and we are next to each other !@#$%^&$%^&^, sorry.. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
Is this a bug in the program, because I have this now for almost 50 % of my KOTH games....

Well maybe we could have a restart or may the fastest win

Sparhawk

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Yes, it's a bug.

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Phoenix-D vs Steal Dragon

This one's a Devnull game. So far I can sum it up in two words: logistics nightmare.

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Slynky -vs- Georgig 2406.2

Tough battle brewing here. Georgig has slowly been pushing me out of his area, the north. Early on, he wiped my first colony outpost so I settled in a system one jump down. More recently, he's clobbered all the planets I colonized in THAT system. In return, I'm managed to kill 2 colonies while he's removed 5 of mine.

I suffered a bad ship loss about 10-12 turns ago and since then, both of us have been building shipcount up. But for me, minerals is a problem and even the asteroids in my area suck!

Georgig owns a lot more systems than me but of those systems, there are a several "useless" ones. I'd say we were even enough in startup that neither has a lot to complain about.

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Primitive -vs- Geoschmo 2403.2

We met fairly early. Before turn ten, and this is on a Tesco map too. I think maybe we were lucky on that though and both sent early ships in the same direction.

The Primitive one has made heavy use of fighters early to considerable effect. I had some problems taking them out. Much more so then I remember ever having before. Lost more then a few escorts and frigates. The ships with no PDC just can't hit his fighters at all.

I did finally overwhelm his defenses in that system and have taken a colony and few million Primitives. Though intellectually inferior we have discovered they can be taught remedial tasks well enough to be useful. And they have the advantage of being able to live on planets with no atmosphere. We are relocating them now.

So we wait for the counter attack, or if it takes too long we move on forward. More to come.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Since I decided from my race setup on a strategy that gambled on being far apart I have no problem with a restart if the KOTH rules allow this. Using a tesco map should eliminate the close start.