Your biggest battle?
 

Hi,

Today I was in the largest battle I can recall ever fighting. I'd be curious to read about any others.

In a TDM solitaire game, turn 845, I was guarding a warp point when the United Floral sent in a huge force. Here's the breakdown:

Me: 200 dreadnoughts
80 baseships
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Opp: 2 battleships
254 dreadnoughts
144 heavy carriers (around 40 to 50 heavy fighters on each)

In strategic combat I killed every enemy ship and lost 29 dreadnoughts and 20 baseships. A couple of dozen more were damaged to various degree.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Having the first shot, you had a great advantage! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

I never had the patience to play games until the turn 845... then, my biggest battles were with near to 100 DN for each side.

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The largest I've ever had is about 45 ships of different classes from destroyers to dreadnaughts against 35 AI dreadnaughts.
In lost about eight large ships and wiped the AI out.It concentrated onthe heavy ships giving my little destroyers and cruisers free reign.

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My biggest battle are looming against Slynky in the Phun game.

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My biggest battles all were against the AI in TDM

me 95 AI 154, me defending wormhole (Cu Cuppa)

me 14 BS & StarBases, 25 ships, AI 125 3 straight turns, I lost the wormhole after the 3rd attack (Toran)

several other battles with at least 100 ships on the AI side and mine between 80-100 ships.

Defending wormhold definitly gives defender an edge, maybe should make this a random so the defender doesn't always get the lst shot???

future; looking foreward to pounding the Gryphin with a 200 ship fleet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

just some ideas mac

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Me:
10-15 Battlecruiser support ships (minesweeper/repair/etc)
~20 Large Transport Troopships.
200 Dreadnought warships.
1 TroopCarrier Battlemoon.

Enemy:
1 Huge Planet
20 Billion pop (Wierd but true with standard planetsizes)
Religious Talisman Tech
GOBS of Huge weapons platforms.

Result:
All Warships Lost
All Troop Transports lost.
Heavy damage to Battlemoon's organic armor.
70,000 (est) troops lost in space.
30,000 (est) troops landed on planet.
~20 turns later the planet was captured.

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My biggest battle was with me and the TDM AIs. Each side had 150+ ships and I whooped all over the AI as I had changed ship designs to better defend/attack their design.

But that battle will seem small when it comes time to fight in my Return to Hell game. (Full tech start, 10 planets, 5K points with a full cluster to develope in before you had to meet anyone) Now warp points are all over the place and some fighting has begun between other players. I myself haven't yet. But when the battle happens between me and whoever doesn't like me will be probably 300+ (dreads and baseships) ships on both sides. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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To give everyone a bit of perspective on that game: I had two fleets of 70+ (mixed BCs and baseships) blown away by star destroyers..and I barely even flinched.

EDIT: that and the savegame file is over two megs in size. I wonder if we'll break SE4 soon..

[ June 23, 2003, 05:38: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

Re: Your biggest battle?
 

I think the biggest I've seen is about 600 ships and drones involved, plus fighters and satellites.

Outside the simulator, that is. I know that you can practically fill the entire combat map with fighters and not get an error - at least, you could in one of the late Gold betas.

PvK

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I myself joined this game as a replacement too and I am already afraid what battles will take place with the fleet I already have...

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Definitely not in the scale of some on here, but I was just ambushed by the Norak during my second offensive against their home systems (the first opened the door but cost me a full 1/4 of my fleet).

I had 56 Dreads, 17 Baseships, 4 Battlecruisers (defense ships full of PD), and 3 Cruiser Minesweepers.

He brought 90 Dreadnoughts & 50 Heavy Carriers (with 108 fighters each).

I managed to wipe out most of the fighters, but lost too many ships to cope when his dreads move to within weapons range. He followed up and destroyed another fleet of 20 Battlecruisers (my pursuit group) before I could pull out and regroup.

I've ordered a crash doubling of my fleet (plenty of excess raw materials) & just finished my first sphereworld, & plan on coming up with some redesigns before going back in. I'd let my carriers languish, waiting too long for an opportunity to use them - so now we're going to do some major investment in unit building.

I got stuck in the middle of a cluster sector & am fighting on two fronts at the moment. I plan on turning on one of my smaller rivals first, and securing that front - then bringing the entire fleet around to annihilate the Norak. They've got about 400 ships total & about 75 bases, so its going to be bloody.

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I once had about 700 Battleships blown up by a star destroyer...

Hey Geo, ED ??? Was it that much...

I remember it turned the game on us.

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oppps .... i thought it was biggest loss

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think it was actually more like 200, but the number seems to get bigger every time one of us retells the tale. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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During the Deathmatch 2, I saw the Tessellate blow up a Star with 500 of their own ships inside the system!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't think that's 'standard', I think that's FQM, no?

Standard, no-Storage-Bonus, max for Huge world is 8 Billion, I'm pretty darn sure.

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No I think I had about 100 of your ships
100 of Ed's ships

And about 200 of my own.

I remember i was minus 1.5 million minerals

So 800 sounds about right with rounding http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I have just blown away 200 ships in RTH the Last 2 turns... and did not even bat an eye. Mind you i can not keep up with the lose of a 100 ships per turn... For long...

But I can go 15 turns at this rate. Yea 1500 ships. All Bases and Battle Cruisers... Not including the replacements that are being built every turn.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well Tesco, mine is bigger than yours http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Looks like there are going to be some records broken pretty soon. I'm coming for that nice little system so you better get your defences ready (or blow it up).

BTW,
I have some bad news for you. I can handle a loss of 100 ships per turn. Got 1500 base spaceyards + about 300 planets turning out ships so I get 100 - 150 new battleships and baseships each turn. Have about 3000 warships right now, but had to mothball about half of them to cover the cost of the the building program.

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Damn Religous player... The others will rise up against you when they realise it is better to kill you off than be picked off one at a time...