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No armor, shields or PD? You guys are going to go through a lot of ships. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Just so I am clear, when you say no carrier ships, you mean no ships of the carrier hull-types? I assume you are allowed to build say a light-cruiser and put fighter bays on it? Or am I assuming too much?

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Yeah, we can put bays on any kind of ship except carriers. This was to avoid the 800Kt ship after researching fighters.

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Yeah, GrandpaKim just hit me pretty hard with an approximately 20 ship fleet of 800kT Light Carriers. Combination of fighters and heavy mounts overwhelmed my fleet of about 30 destroyers and light cruisers. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

I had used that strategy vs. the AI before, but I don't think I ever quite got that big of a fleet of carriers together this soon. Seems to be very effective.

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Well, it's a very interesting game!

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And, we now have the first finished game in the second round. Grandpa Kim has three 20-ish strong fleets of light carriers running around capturing all my planets, and one of them slaughtered what I think would have been my last hope, a fully trained fleet I had guarding a warp point. My colonies are beginning to riot, most of them are either Unhappy or Angry... not a very good situation. I just sent in my surrender.

Good luck to everyone else in their Round 2 games, and good luck to Grandpa Kim for your semi-final game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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This one goes to Slynky. It was over a while ago, but we played on because of the odd setting for the game. The settings really made for a different feel to the game.

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Quite scary settings knowing one had NOTHING to stop missiles with or even "pad" their hits (no armor or shields). Even then, fighters weren't to be discounted, either as one could hit them with regular beam weapons but hopping through a hole was a bit tough as beam weapons don't get to fire defensively like PDs do, so you had to withstand that first onslaught of fighters.

Thanks for a good game, prompt turn turnaround, and dialogue on playtimes and availability. Made it a pleasure!

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Round 2 is over. Round 3 games have been setup.

Game 1, Slynky vs Parasite

Game 2, Grandpakim vs Nomis

Let me know when you've decided on settings.

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Grandpakim surrenders to Nomis. He got there fustest with the mostest.

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Playing with Grandpa Kim was a pleasure. I made many mistakes during this game and learned a lot. I set some dump fleet strategies and after battles realized how dump! I had worse economy and research, but time was working for me. If only Granda Kim attacked me earlier I would surely lose any battle (with my �25% to hit). Thanks to Grandpa Kim for great game.

Well, I'm pretty new PBW player, only half year playing against human opponents. I hope I would be enough good to play against such experienced players like Slynky or Parasite.