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

The Last victory was more about luck with the starting position and atmosphere choice, than skill.

Small Tesco map, with an Western block of 15 systems and an Eastern block of 20 + system, connected by a single warphole. I started South West, Roanon North West. We both had Rock None, and my 4-5 systems had plenty breathables while his had very few (or none ?). At turn 30 and I manage to get control over the east-west link, glassing his main mineral production planet in the process.

Kudos to Roanon for a great game, where he went directly on the offensive to get the most out of a difficult situation. He glassed 4 of my planets early, but as they all was new colonies, the loss was not devastating.

Roanon:
You still have 2 hours to break Geos record for the shortest retirement http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Phoenix-D vs Steal Dragon:

Call it for the scaly one. I based my strategy on finding him quickly and keeping him off-balance. In keeping with the perversity of starting positions, he was on the other side of the map. I held on for a while, but eventually he out-researched me (helps that I made several research errors..) and popped up in overwhelming force.

It was still close; I was just getting my next-generation ships on line when he came in. A few more turns, and this would have taken a lot longer to finish. As it as, all my worlds were rioting..

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">First of all, that wasn't a record. There have been many games finished faster then our game. Secondly keep it up and I might take your challange in the other thread and show you how much of a fluke it was. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Decccan vs Geoschmo Turn 2403.0

The "newbie" isn't playing like one. Playing smart and aggresive he has got me at a disadvantage. Had to conceed a disputed system early on thanks to a little bad luck on my part. My five escorts with CSMI vs his 2 Frigates with one CSMI each. Ok, the frigates can take more damage, but not that much more considering he's got them crammed full of supply bays. Yet still he kills 4 of my five escorts and heavily damages the fifth. While only suffering minor damage to one frigate and none to the other. Still scratching my head over that one. So I have retired from the system and resigned myself to sitting on his side of the warp point and watching. I can see everything he is doing, but he can move about with impunity.

I still have plenty of systems to work with for now, but I don't like the enemy having colonies on my side of the map. Going to have to deal with that at some point. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Sounds like some excitement going on in a few games. One thing we should never underestimate is the newcomer. Even if they lost their first game, it could have been positioning. So, we should know newcomers can come with a variety of skills and playing tactics.

I still remember my game with Mark the Merciful. At that time, he was virtually an unknown and now he's playing for the King's position.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">First of all, that wasn't a record. There have been many games finished faster then our game. Secondly keep it up and I might take your challange in the other thread and show you how much of a fluke it was. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bah you guys got a long way to go to beat the shortest game record. At least if you count it in number of game turns.

Sparhawk def. Kazarp - 15 turns
Kazarp def. Phoenix-D - 14 turns

(and neither of the losing empires in these games quit early. In both cases things were pretty much hopeless several turns earlier)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Things were definetly hopeless in my game against Primitve as well. Allthough I could have made him suffer a bit, I could not stop him or even slow him down all that much.

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Sorry for the confusion guys, but I was talking about the record of 3 hours 48 minutes from:

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

Oh, ROFL! Shortest retirement is what you said. Not sure how I turned that around in my head. Oh well.

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"That's all I can stands and I can't stand's n' more!"

Asmala, put me back on the hill. I need some action!