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

So, we have game settings!

A year? Not actually, because you were gone a year and Alneyan and Master Belisarius were on the throne a bit. Well, for part of my time, I yawned. And remember, it's not like I had the likes of Rex, you, Alneyan, and Stone challenging me. And Geo's game lasted a 100 turns! And let's not discount Parabolize, my personal nemisis.

Anyway, hoping I can last 50 turns!

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

GosGUY and Thermodyne have agreed on game settings.

OK std game. (no mods)

Small map
No events
No Intel
No stellar manip.
1 good planet
2000 racial points
Low start tech

Everything else is default.

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

Well, according to KOTH page your last defeat was Feb 8,2005 against Joachim... That's over a year for me so your bluff failed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ahhh, my bad. I was thinking of how long I've been on the throne...and that's only been since August of last year.

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In the latest KOTH update, the fiery Asmala knocked out his courageous opponent, thereby putting him again on the second spot of the all-time KOTH rankings with 17 wins. The second spot was formerly held by Geoschmo, who had got his 17th win a few days ago, and snuck right under Asmala's nose.

As Asmala raced past Geoschmo, he smirked and said "So there", and sticked his tongue out at his unfortunate opponent. Geoschmo was found doing odd stuff soon afterwards, including some command-line editing and things of the like. When questioned, he replied he was busy with "PBW admin stuff"; our chief investigator reports seeing the words "Wanna delete the account of this (l)user?" before being sent to the nearest hospital by a bunch of heavy-handed Spanish Inquisition men at arms.

This was KOTH daily, brought to you by the Borg. "When you think life is hopeless, do yourself a savour, and surrender your existence to us. You will save yourself a lot of pain, and us some hard work. You too can make the universe a happier, better place!"

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Hmm. Looks like I still hold the record for "longest RL time" game, though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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

This has to be near the shortest! 18 turns, back to the bottom I go!

Rathar

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Games tend to go quickly when you start so close together. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

A good game nonetheless. You fought well. There wasn't much in the way of strategy, just build as many ships as I could as fast as I could and keep throwing them at you.

I was suprised that you didn't try to collect your ships for a large assault at the end there. You seemed to throw them at my fleet one and two at a time. Was there a concious decision there or just desperation?

That fleet was running on fumes at the end there. I didn't have enough fuel to run, and barely enough to take out the one homeworld that I managed to kill. It's possible that if you had held up your attacks for one turn to get a decent size fleet together you might have driven me out of your system. Of course I had already damaged you at that point and you hadn't gotten to any of my colonies so it probably wouldn't have mattered in the end. But you could have dragged it out for a while longer.

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Yeah..

I had figured out the fumes part and knew if I could take a second to group up my ships would have killed yours as well, they were better armed I think but it's rather difficult to take a turn to regroup when the enemy is sitting at your homeworld dropping rocks on it, heh heh.

I also wanted to try to waste your supplies with individual attacks.

I tried to give ships wierd move orders so they would come at you in waves but thats hard to work out.

Well, this game was my first with a balance map and showed me to definitely insist on manual placement!

Good fun!
Rathar

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Mwbard surrendered to Glyn.

Thanks for the game Mwbard. I had colonized about half the systems and Mwbard had about a quarter of the system the other quarter were nebula & asteroids. It didn’t help that in the early game, my missile ships took out three of his colonies and isolated a forth, giving me control of a system next to his home system.