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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Roger that. You had quite a long game, there have been only two games over 140 turns in KOTH history.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wow, Only 2?
I honestlty thought Gandalph was toying with me (in the nice sense) for much of the game. Everyturn I would open the game and pray that I had not lost a warp defence group.
The other reason it went so long is in my inexperience - I didn't take advantage of openings that I can see in hindsight.

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Joachim - The flaws I saw in your game plan, and you could have beat me much sooner, were primarily related to your ship strategies. There were several times, when on an offensive, that your ships merely hovered over my planet and I was able to get reinforcements there before you did damage. I recall one fleet battle we had where I was out manned 2 to 1 yet came away from the battle relatively unscathed because of the difference in strategies. It does require more management, but is an intregal part of the game and can decide the winner or loser of a battle. There is no set "ultimate" strategy, it is a dynamic that changes with any given situation, and you must be able to change it as well. The strategy you use on warp point defense will be different then the strategy you use in open space combat, or planetary assault.
You played quite well, despite your newbie status to KOTH, and I, again, Congratulate you on your victory.

PS - I had the number of colonies only because I spent the research necessary to get all 3 colony techs. I had to do this because you had the greater share of the galaxy and it was my only hope of sustaining capable warships. It did cost me dearly in both resources and research. I also thought I would snooker you with my intelligence, but you had that blocked nicely.

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Joachim: I sent you a email with some ideas for the koth game did you git it? Do you want this game to be in Slynky's rating system?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">On home system, Uni mail is the one you would have sent to. I will check 2moro. Happy for it to be rated.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yep, that is one of the areas I know I know nothing about. I was really fortunate to have changed the fleet strategy just before your big fleet came into my system in the north from the Black hole warp point - That was a pivotal battle and the strategy seemed to work.

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Turn 2404.7 Geoschmo versus Alneyan. The Astaralis Imperium (that's them) against the Arcadia League (that's us! *Cheers*)

Contact was made as early as 2401.2 in a remote system, which was to become the theater of the most ludicrous battle the Galaxy had ever watched. Indeed, a powerful fleet of nine warships came from the Arcadia League against the three ships protecting the only planet of the Imperium in this system.

And, against all odds, the Imperium ships won the day without a single scratch. They were rumored to have bribed the Arcadian ship supposed to protect the invading fleet from seekers, but other darker rumors say the Arcadian gave wrong directives to their ships. (Actually, I did a "slight" mistake with Strategical Combat and the design of my ships, as I forgot to give my PDC ship a regular weapon. Thus, it fled the battle leaving my fleet exposed to seekers and hit and run attacks. Lesson number one, put a PDC on every single ship and put a weapon on every PDC ship)

Afterwards, nothing happened on this front, as the League was too ashamed for thinking of going back to the offensive. There were nothing but skirmishes involving scouts of both sides for two years, until the cold war became slighty hotter with the beginning of a new front on the Western side of the galaxy. And as I am speaking, a fleet from the Arcadia League is threatening a system of the Imperium, hoping history will not repeat itself. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif We shall see who will be the victor of this war in a few months I guess.

Geo, am I the only one who has the distinctive feeling this game is rather peculiar? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif (Incidentally, cheers to you for your impressive rate to play your turns, almost 50 turns in no more than two or three days. The game might be quite long, except if one of us has a secret weapon handy that is. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

[ September 22, 2003, 18:58: Message edited by: Alneyan ]

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

Geoschmo Vs Alneyan turn 2450.0

Unfortunatly for the Acadia league things have gone no better on the western front. Their attack fleet was wasted against our border colonies minefield. Either they forgot we had mines, or the fact that his minelayer had been able to visit the planet a couple months prior with no mishaps lulled them into thinking that colony had no mines. Of course my mines went up the in between visits, to the suprise of the six ships crews that lost their lives there.

Peculiar? How so? In the number of turns? If that's what you men it's unusual, but not unheard of. I have seen faster, but they are rare.

[ September 22, 2003, 19:58: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Memo to Self: Alneyan is only going to put one PDC per ship. Build lots of fighters and missle ships if I meet him in KOTH game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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K.O.T.H. Grazic vs Primitive - Turn 51
The EEEvil EEEmpire has surrendered to the Primative Hordes.

We still have plenty of ships heading for the front line, but none of them trained and none in the numbers I need to counter the 3 Horde fleets.

Primative used fighters in heavy numbers, but our PDC ships (mounted with 10 PDC each) countered them easily, unfortunetly this left us well under pair when dealing with his ships, while our boarder ships just couldn't get in range. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Formation Question - Can you create your own formations, or use the Strategy mod formations, because my formations didn't work? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Move Primative up and look out below...........

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Thanks for a great game Baron, You had me worried there.

Good to see the old Fighter bluff still works; show a few of them early and watch your opponent waste valuable ship space on PDC http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Those ships I attacked with was everything I got (reserves are for wossies). Had my second wave of colonization (Ice) going, so my shipyards had built nothing but colonizers for a while.

Good game Baron, see you in the Pairs game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif