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Ah well, that's it then. I have surendered to Asmala on turn 51. Can't say I am suprised, as I fully expected to get beat. I made things worse by making a couple critical errors. I took a chance and went with merchant (for the maint bonus) instead of berzerkers. Asmala made me pay dearly for that one. And I compounded the error by somehow forgetting to research sensors for a long time. I had ECM, just forgot about sensors. I remembered when I realized I couldn't hit his ships for anything. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Doh!

Ah well, put me back at the bottom Asmala. I shall return! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I kept looking at the game, Geo. When I saw it at 50 turns this morning, I thought, "Hmmmm, the game's at 50 turns, that's not bad against Asmala...I wonder if he's surprising Asmala."

Then I see your post.

Live and learn, I guess. In the beginning, it seems EVERY item in research is screaming for attention and sometimes a quick click of the mouse results in a choice we [don't] understand later.

For the both of you, I hope the map turned out being as fair as it could be. As I said, or implied, when I place starting points, I don't place them as far away as possible. I think finding a "happy" medium point that gives an appropriate amount of systems between you (based on the map size), yet room behind you, will keep each player guessing just HOW close you are to each other.

[ February 27, 2004, 17:37: Message edited by: Slynky ]

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Actually Asmala, on second thought, take me off the hill for a while. I need a break right now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

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The map was great Slynky. Thanks a lot.

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The final big battle was, well, it was a slaughter. I had ~30 ships, Geoschmo had 40-50. None of my ships got even a scratch when Geo lost all of his ships. That's not a big wonder, I had CS 2, ECM 2, fully trained ships and fleet and berzerker against Geo's untrained (?) sensorless merchant ships.

It was a surprise to me that the game ended. Before the final battle I thought over if I should go after Geo's fleet or turn back to upgrade CS 3 and ECM 3. Afterwards it's easy to say it would have been useless to go back to upgrade.

The map was great, thanks to Slynky. We both got galaxy parts of equal size (about). What I wondered when Geo surrendered to me was that he had colonized only a bit over half of his half.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Easy answer, I suck.

I never cease to be amazed at your ability to outcolonize me by orders of magnitude in every game we have played. It's as if you get to play two turns for every one I do, and have four times as many resources to play with. I know this is not the case, merely my own perception due to my pitiful lack of ability.

In this game I had even stated at one point that I felt I was doing a pretty good job in expanding. Obviously I have no concept of what it is to truly expand. Then when we made contact I had to devote some amount of my resources to try and build enough ships to deal with yours. This was a hopeless task because of the variances in combat modifiers.

My ships in the Last battle were trained, but not completely.

I truely cannot comprehend how I can be so much worse then you in every aspect of the game. But I acknowledge it as a self-evident fact.

You are the master.

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So it's me and Spoon next. I've never played against him but a player with 0 losses is a rare thing in a King match. Spoon, what settings you'd prefer?

We'd also need a GM for this game. Any takers?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, Geo's a bit free at the moment and since he used to do KOTH, I'd bow to him if he wanted to. And since it appears no one was upset with the maps and placements I did, I'd volunteer again if there was no one else popping up.

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You can do it Slynky.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Fairly standard -- no ruins, no events, Good starting planet. Looking forward to the game, from what everyone says, you're the Man to Beat!

[ February 27, 2004, 20:19: Message edited by: spoon ]