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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is a fun game... it's been a long while since I had to combat someone using Asmala's tactics... his style is completely different from my previous challenges up the hill. He definitely anticipated me nicely, was ready to throw me some curveballs, which I am working on countering. Hope I'm not too rusty.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I don't claim to be an expert...for SURE. But, of the games I've played, I'd say he's the best I've run into.

But you said it above...it's a fun game with give and take. That makes it worth it. NOW, having said that, I don't know about the others who frequent this thread, but I am interested in "following" the game for the top of the hill. So, any news that doesn't give away game plans would be welcomed by me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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

Rollo, as I said in some other thread - take your time. I can wait as long as it takes. All the game I am Nr.2 and the victory sounds unfair.

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

I'm still wanting to hear if Asmala (who I have my money on) got those "kidnapped" population out of the system. Last I heard, Stone was hinting at their impending death.

Hey, after all, guys, this game is for the hill.

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

The Thermolian forces of liberation have on this day sliced through the Last of the evil Nodachian fleet units. In two standard space/time units, we will liberate the Last home world of the evil Nodachians. So we take this opportunity to ask that the Nodachian people revolt against their leaders. Throw off the chains of the evil empire and know the joy of being Thermolian. Spare yourselves the pain and suffering of another hopeless battle.

Unless you have a very big surprise in one of the three systems that I can’t see, this one is about over http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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

Update with the game between Rambie and myself. We finally met at turn 19. I have a horrible starting half of the map. Hardly any planets and hardly any systems that arn't nebulas and so forth. But I've managed to hold 1st place through the whole game. I'm sure that'll change though.

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

The emperor Nodachi surveys the damage and wonders why the gods abandoned him.

The Nodachian empire is no more. Thermo, you got me again! Fun game, though. I probably should have surrendered several turns ago but I wanted to see how my scraped together warp point defense would do, not well enough obviously!

Thermo, thanks for a fun game! Who's next in line to smack me around? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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

Well , maybe its me.
I was destroyed by Kazarp, so back to the bottom for me.

Sparhawk

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">But I was able to destroy it before you had time to analyze it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It looks like so. I finally dropped to the second place. However I mothballed some ships so don't celebrate yet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Completely different... hmm... is that positive or negative thing http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I think we'll got some bigger battles soon. Stone Mill has gathered a nice fleet and it'll be only a matter of time when he attack. I reveal that I have gathered a nice fleet myself too so interesting times are coming...

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

Some news about my game against Stone Mill.

Everything is going brilliantly though I guess Stone wouldn't say so http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

At the turn 2404.0 there was the big battle which I expected. I can't imagine how Stone was able to brought that fleet to my system and I have to admit that I was very lucky. The Stone's fleet emerged from the nebula system and attacked one of my planets. Luckily my large attack fleet was just passing the planet and the two big fleets ran across.

The result of the combat was overwhelming. The ships count was even, we both had 24 ships. And the losses was the following: Stone lost all of his ships and I lost one planet, furthermore two of my ships damaged.

The reason is simple: my ships were more advanced and more experienced. For example PBB 5 vs DUC 5, ECM 2 vs ECM 1, Combat Sensors 2 vs none. And I had trained my ships.

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks for the Game Nod’s, sorry that we can’t both be winners. Perhaps we will end up as allies in a larger game some time.