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

Hey Geo how many contenders do we have now? I see the guy the programmed that auto update thing for the web page didn't allow for a #3, #4 contender etc etc. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">We have 3 contenders right now. # 3 is some guy named, uh, Kazarp or something. Whatever that means. Sounds like the call letters for a radio staion in Little Rock to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

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

My game against Lord Chane will probably be very short, because just like my previous game we started at adjacent systems. I had concentrated only building colony ships so Lord Chane's two escorts and two frigates which entered to my home system really caught me of my guards. We'll see if I recover for that sudden strike...

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

Thats why you should always make a few CSM weapon platforms very early on on your HW. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Those CSM platforms don't help much when enemy ships fire their missiles and then move out of the platforms range. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You mean that's not a discount outlet for mothballed ships? Blue Light special on a frigate in aisle 23...
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Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Tesco and I are having an interesting time. We started near each other. I sent some brief exploratory probes into his home system (brief because they were killed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ), then settled down to some serious gaming. A fleet of eight frigates entered his system and managed to blockade his homeworld, with only one death (stupid strategy errors let his colony ship ram two of my ships) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif . Next month I destroyed his four weapplats, but it cost me three more ships and two heavily damaged. HW still blockaded, reinforcements on the way.

I was pretty sure I was going to lose when I entered his home system so quickly and saw three BSYs around his HW, when I was just wrapping up my first one. I was even more freaked out when I replayed combat and saw his missile boats set to "Kamikaze" strategy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Now, I'm not sure who'll win. I'm in first place, but he's colonized three other planets in his system, and probably more elsewhere. Glassing his HW will be satisfying, but probably not a game-breaker for him.

Impatiently waiting for the next turn to show up... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif *tap tap tap tap tap on the desk*

[ April 20, 2003, 02:59: Message edited by: Krsqk ]

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

Gozguy vs Geoschmo, 2412.5

Apparently Gozguy will require me to seek out and destroy every Last remnant of his empire. This is fine with me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I clearly have the advantage at this point. However his excellent use of hit and run tactics and flanking manuvers does slow my advances considerably. I have to spend time and resources protecting my flanks, and defending the planets that I take from him. No more rolling through systems taking 3 or 4 planets at a time as I did earlier in the war. Doing that now only guarantees that Goz will return and glass the recently liberated populations, and in the process leaving my fleet well in advance of any repair and refuel facilities.

Goz has shown an ability to recolonize glassed planets quickly, so I can't simply fall back to refuel. Doing so only guarantees that I will have to fight again for the same piece of ground. My strategy is advance and hold, consolidate, and advance again. It is slow, but it gets the job done with a minimum of risk to my crews.

So it's become a methodical process of taking a planet at a time. Defending them and cleaning out pockets of resistance in system. Building up sufficent reserves to block the warp points from flanking counter attack. And then finally moving on to the next system. At this rate we may get to 200 turns before it's done. I love it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Geoschmo

[ April 21, 2003, 13:26: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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

very lucky.

THe bases were just about to drop out defencive ships... But now they cannot... That really hurt...

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

I assumed those bases would be working overtime on WPs or something special. Had I worked my strategies right (again), I probably could have taken them out Last month. Now, I have to wait another month. Well, time for some S&D missions. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif