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Re: Are you tough enough to be the \"King of the Hi

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif A mere 3 turns into our game, Parabolize and I have met! My home system is right next to his home system. So far (turn 5 or so) and I've glassed one planet of his, and he's taken out one colony ship of mine. Looks like this will be an interesting game!

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Yeah well. Remember when you played me Renegade. You beat me on turn 11, back when you were at the middle of the hill fighting the mighty Duros? :-p

Brian

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Well its 2401.3 and he is mined into his home system. He may still win but I don't think the chances are good.

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Don't worry, I won't be stuck there for long http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Also, I'm not totally mined in....

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Renegade 13 said:
Alneyan, since you're looking after the KOTH page now, could you please move me up the hill? I just won my game with Ragnarok. I think I'll be playing Parabolize now.

Raising his notched sword above his head, then driving it into the muddy ground that has been mixed with an equal part of blood from both sides, Renegade picks up the broken body of Warlord Ragnarok, and with a mighty heave, throws him down the hill to the very bottom. With a huge gasp, he then sits down, nursing the cuts, bruises and scrapes inflicted upon him by the defeated Ragnarok. Leaning on his notched and dull sword, Renegade then pulls himself to his feet and begins the long climb to the next level area on the hill. As he walks, he pulls a whet stone from his pocket, and begins re-sharpening his dull sword. Slipping occaisionally on the bloody ground, he continues marching, past the broken spears and notched swords that occaisionally can be seen covered in rust and half buried in the ground, remnants of former champions who had fallen before reaching the top of the hill. Finally, reaching the Last plateau before the top of the hill, Renegade surveys the lands around him. Looking down at the bottom of the hill below, the sounds of battle reach him, of victors conquering, and the losers being left behind, to fight those who have recently met their fate and been cast down to fight their way up again. Careful not to slip and fall, he surveys the dizzying height, then backs away from the edge. Suddenly, he becomes aware of another presence on the plateau. Sitting on a rock is a man with a large spear and a slightly curved sword. Renegade turns, and yells, "Do you oppose my march up this hill? Will you dare try to stop my challenge of the current "king" of this hill? If it is so, prepare to meet your fate, and join all of those who have been cast down to the bottom by my sword! Parabolize, do what you can, we will meet this day on the field of battle!!"

2404.5: Warlord Ragnarok surrenders to the Tyrellian Imperium. I had a better start than he had, and managed to expand into many more systems than he could. I slipped into lots of his systems, and he really couldn't stop my colony ships from creating colonies in his territories. He had more advanced weaponry on his ships, but I had the advantage of ECM 2 and CS 2. In the end, he tried a strike against some of my holdings in his systems, which caught me by surprise and destroyed about a dozen of my LC's but by then it was too little too late. The next turn I launched a strike with 25 ships, and wiped out all his homeworlds within 5 or 6 turns, then met his 18 ship fleet that had destroyed my 12. I lost about 6 ships to heavy damage, but he lost all his war ships. At that point, Rags surrendered to me.

I wish you luck Ragnarok, on your next game. You were a pleasure to play against. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I know and have seen pair-of-bowl-eyes and play games with him and his Dad on a face to face basis. It was 5 min. befor I picked myself up off the floor. thanks for the visual
Goz

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Gozra said:
I know and have seen pair-of-bowl-eyes and play games with him and his Dad on a face to face basis. It was 5 min. befor I picked myself up off the floor. thanks for the visual
Goz

See there is no reason to fear me. I am weak and helpless. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Slick said:

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Ragnarok-X said:
Sorry for bothering, but whats this thread all about ? In all my time i never noticed it...

Sheez! how lazy can you get? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Slick.

OK, OK, where's the emoticon for "bustin' a gut laughing"? Almost gave my monitor a beer bath, Slick!

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Koth: Parabolize vs Renegade 13

Turn 27, I surrender to Parabolize. This was a very odd game...we started out in systems right next to each other! I made an early attack at one of his homeworlds with some missile frigates, but was defeated. I also didn't colonize very fast, hoping I could beat him fast with frigates with missiles. Unfortunately, that didn't work. Soon after that he mined me mostly into my homeworld (I only had one colony outside my home system). Once he mined me in, that was basically it. I held out hope for the next 15 turns or so, and made some minesweepers and took a warp point. However, he struck back, captured some of my minesweepers, and destroyed all my warships. Next turn he glass 2 of my 7 worlds, and after that I surrendered to him. There was no way I could overcome his massive advantage, both in time to colonize, and ship numbers.

It was a good (if weird) game Parabolize, and I only wish I could have offered a bit more of a challenge to you. Good luck at the top!

Alneyan, please move me to the bottom of the hill....and damn, its a loooooooong way down from here http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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No more random placement for me. If Rex or Asmala would have been in that spot I don't think they could have got more than 3 systems to play with. But it was fun none the less.

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I once started in a desolate system surrounded by black holes. I lost.