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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Having 23 colonies of mineral value 100% or greater helps. Especially when 6 of those are breathable..

EDIT: not to mention running my mineral storage to the bone at times.

Oh, and you almost cut me off but not completely..one more system to the north, and I probably would have had a hard time of it.

[ December 15, 2003, 16:25: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've had a few that played out to completion over a weekend, (and not always with me the victor) but I don't think I've ever had one finish in a day either.

Geoschmo

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, Thank you for your sportmanssip allowing the second restart http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Only got Research 2 of usefull stuff fom the first batch of colonies, but as soon as I developed Ice the techs started flowing in. Didn't have the time to get much use out of them though.

As your little sypship must have told you, my starting position was quite a bit better than yours so I had the advantage from the start. I would have had to screw up to loose this game.

I'll send you an e-mail with some additional reflections.

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

K.O.T.H. Kazarp vs Gecko
Default KOTH + No Intelligence Projects
Tesco Map

Date: 2405.0
The Dundas Rednecks Clan empire has been completely destroyed. They are no more, sire.

Thanks for a good game, Kazarp. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif And, yes in fact, lots of people have told me:
“…that you can't win with… that bizarre race setup!?” I am a contrary Gecko. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I think you were countering nicely up the point I rolled over your warp point defense in Atull with ~50 ships. If I had waited one more turn to launch the attack, you would have had another 10 light cruisers defending – which might have wrecked my offensive. Wave Two only had 16 ships, many of them support ships.

I ascend the Hill again, condemning the Dundas Rednecks Clan to remain in the KOTH recycler. Grrr… Primitive moved up before I could get to Grandpakim.

-Gecko

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

From Gecko:

"Primitive moved up before I could get to Grandpakim."

Gulp! Am I the new "victim-of-choice"?


>>Odd. I couldn't get the quote button to work...<<

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's us OLD people, Grandpa. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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

Don't worry too much Geckomlis. I think at this rate you'll have an opponent shortly. Or not, because if I can't demolish se5a fairly quickly, this is going to get real messy (his research greatly outpaces mine, except he went for drones and troops)

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

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's us OLD people, Grandpa. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Comments like that will belong in the How old are you? thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif I never target any demographic! Actually, I was just looking forward to playing against someone new. That is the best way to learn. You know: travel the quadrant, meet new and strange races, and then conquer them.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hell, even I have given up on drones. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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

I must admit he surprised the heck out of me. Almost made me call off my attack until I remembered that mines stop drones. If they didn't things would have gotten very unpleasant.