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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, I'll get to it this evening. Yard work!

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hey, Alneyan, I knew I was doing good when my missile ships kept swatting your DUC ships down, but your minefields surprised (didn't expect anyone to use mines in a Devnull game). Maybe I still could have won, but then I forgot that Devnull PDC don't hit fighters. Still sore about that. Grrr. But you won fair and square.

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

Well, I thought about it Last night and this morning, I decided to take a good hard look at the game to see if what you were saying was really true. And it seems you may have been right in stopping the game. For one thing, I didn't know at the time that you had no platforms on any planets. That would make it easy for me to take a lot of planets from you. And with the stealth ships (6, I believe) I have moving toward systems behind the fighting, even more would fall. I have 22 almost fully trained ships in 2 trained fleets (20%) sitting in the north with 4 LCs in training so I don't think I have a worry there as your 12 carriers (and a few other ships) coming my way were not trained very much. In the far south, I had 9 ships (untrained) but you only have one carrier there. When you lost your small carrier fleet to my satellites there, it left me open to go on through the warp hole as the satellites guarded the hole very well, so there would be trouble there as well for you. And, finally, near the center of the map, I had 14 ships (fleet trained to 20% and most ships trained about half way) to match your 6 carriers. In that same system, I had another fleet training with about 9 ships doing repairs at 5 different yards (so they would be done repairing in about 2 - 3 turns).

I have 22 LC's in the yards with 9 coming out next turn. These have tachyon cannon 5 (to get rid of your carrier weapons) on them. And I was about 6 turns away from getting another colony type. Ripping your 2 carriers apart would give me ECM 3s (that's 225,000 research points), carriers/fighters, and PPB 5s.

I think your estimate was correct...the game could go on 10-20 more turns and I'd probably win in the long run. It would depend on how much damage my stealth ships would do behind lines and how much rioting it would cause and how much damage I could do where my fleets had the advantage in the south and middle.

So, I guess that's about it. Good luck in your next game. Oh, and I meant what I said about playing a team game with you any time. (as long as you remember to check your default strategy and make sure it isn't "Do Not Get Hurt"... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ).

So, Asmala, who's next on the Hill?

PS: A funny thing. I received all your tech from the surrender (ECM 3, Sensor 3, carriers, etc.) but only PPB 1. That's strange.

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

Your ships destroyed my morale in a matter of turns indeed, and I was beginning to prepare the white flag when I thought about these marvellous fighters. And luckily for me, your ships couldn't/didn't try to attack my homeworlds, which were left undefended.

And if you would like another game, I am available, although we would have to hurry a bit as you will have to leave in a month or so.

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'd like to, but I can't until at least January or so. I don't have enough free time between getting things straightened out at work in time for my holiday and playing other PBW games, mainly scout's excellent BGNW and my KOTH game against Lord Chane (I think we're up to turn 192 or something).

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

We shall see next year then if you do want to. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif (I know, I have too much time on my hands. *Smirks*)

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

Well, my record stands! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
Asmala, move Gecko up, please.

Gecko, I hadn't encountered that stategy taken to that extreme before. Good job!

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">K.O.T.H. Nodachi vs Gecko
Default KOTH + No Intel
2403.2

Gecko defeats Nodachi. First contact was 2400.8: a Gecko scout warship entered Nodachi’s home system. Nodachi evidenced some surprise… http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Thanks Nodachi for a good game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Sorry I could not break your record for you. As for strategies: I lose more than I win, but I still like thinking “outside the box”.

Gecko

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

have you got any open games I can jump into?
I dont know how good ill be at 1vs1 but it might be interesting...

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If you want to "jump" into KOTH, it's a good experience...take a look at the number of Posts on this thread. So, all you have to do is say you want to join up.

Then, if you would like some tips, take a look through this thread and you'll find some KOTH 1-1 tips.

Have fun!