Re: Your biggest battle?
 

Definitely not in the scale of some on here, but I was just ambushed by the Norak during my second offensive against their home systems (the first opened the door but cost me a full 1/4 of my fleet).

I had 56 Dreads, 17 Baseships, 4 Battlecruisers (defense ships full of PD), and 3 Cruiser Minesweepers.

He brought 90 Dreadnoughts & 50 Heavy Carriers (with 108 fighters each).

I managed to wipe out most of the fighters, but lost too many ships to cope when his dreads move to within weapons range. He followed up and destroyed another fleet of 20 Battlecruisers (my pursuit group) before I could pull out and regroup.

I've ordered a crash doubling of my fleet (plenty of excess raw materials) & just finished my first sphereworld, & plan on coming up with some redesigns before going back in. I'd let my carriers languish, waiting too long for an opportunity to use them - so now we're going to do some major investment in unit building.

I got stuck in the middle of a cluster sector & am fighting on two fronts at the moment. I plan on turning on one of my smaller rivals first, and securing that front - then bringing the entire fleet around to annihilate the Norak. They've got about 400 ships total & about 75 bases, so its going to be bloody.

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

I once had about 700 Battleships blown up by a star destroyer...

Hey Geo, ED ??? Was it that much...

I remember it turned the game on us.

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

oppps .... i thought it was biggest loss

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think it was actually more like 200, but the number seems to get bigger every time one of us retells the tale. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

During the Deathmatch 2, I saw the Tessellate blow up a Star with 500 of their own ships inside the system!

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't think that's 'standard', I think that's FQM, no?

Standard, no-Storage-Bonus, max for Huge world is 8 Billion, I'm pretty darn sure.

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

No I think I had about 100 of your ships
100 of Ed's ships

And about 200 of my own.

I remember i was minus 1.5 million minerals

So 800 sounds about right with rounding http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I have just blown away 200 ships in RTH the Last 2 turns... and did not even bat an eye. Mind you i can not keep up with the lose of a 100 ships per turn... For long...

But I can go 15 turns at this rate. Yea 1500 ships. All Bases and Battle Cruisers... Not including the replacements that are being built every turn.

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well Tesco, mine is bigger than yours http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Looks like there are going to be some records broken pretty soon. I'm coming for that nice little system so you better get your defences ready (or blow it up).

BTW,
I have some bad news for you. I can handle a loss of 100 ships per turn. Got 1500 base spaceyards + about 300 planets turning out ships so I get 100 - 150 new battleships and baseships each turn. Have about 3000 warships right now, but had to mothball about half of them to cover the cost of the the building program.

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

Damn Religous player... The others will rise up against you when they realise it is better to kill you off than be picked off one at a time...