What\'s the Worst that could happen?
 

Hi folks its that time of year again when I just decided to randomly throw out a thread to see what's the absolute worst defeat you've ever suffered/inflicted during the course of your conquering the universe!

My worst "defeat" was back during an older game where I had massed 500 ships including 10 troop ships in a system in preperations for a push into enemy space. Well what I didn't think about then was that it's not a good idea to have a big navy rally point in a system that doesn't have:

1. A sphereworld
2. At least some spy sats

Because the very turn I divided up my ships into strike groups (this system led to three enemy systems btw) and was getting ready to go through the warp points on the next turn......my sun exploded!

Needless to say this hurt my expansion and nearly caused the collapse of my empire, now whether this was a Nova bomb or just a natural disaster I don't know but it sure was a pain.

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WOW, I can't top that one! And I thought that having a warp point opened in a back sector was bad. I'll take that easily...

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Worst defeat I've ever inflicted? That would have to be the 7 warp openers and 30 star destroyers deployed simultaneously in PBW game Shattered Hopes.

For something not involving stellar manipulation, there was one battle in the RTV Dertran game where I was attacking through a warp point with 200+ ships against another 200+ ship armada. I completely obliterated the enemy force and lost only 12 ships. Yay for an enemy that kept using missile ships for far too long http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. Sadly, the ONLY minesweeper in my fleet was thoroughly crippled and took two turns to get to the head of the repair queue.

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Worst defeat I ever inflicted on someone was an AI that sent 300 battleships and dreadnoughts through a warp point that had a sphereworld with 100 heavy weapons platforms and 20 planetary shield generators on it.

I also had 6 orbiting starbases loaded with weapons and shields plust a defense fleet of 50 base ships.

The poor enemy lost all 300 ships while inflicting only "minor" damage on me in return (minor being I lost my entire defense fleet and one of six starbases but 300 ships in return is hardly a bad exchange)

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Star Destroyers..... That says it all....

Spread a group of about 10 star destroyers - cloaked through 2 oppenent empires after achieving Mega Evil status... Star Destroyers were in back woods out of the way systems where all production and population centers were... not many ships through and denotated them on the same turn. Whole fleets of enemy ships disappeared shortly after that and I was never again threatened in the game.

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It was something like turn 25 or so and I got a message that m sun was unstable and the very next turn..... BOOOM.

My ally begged me to send a huge fleet into X system to meet up with his so that we could jointly attack an enemy. Upon entering the system, my ally blew up the star and then invaded opened a warp point to my home system and invaded my homeworld forcing my surrender. It was a crushing defeat.

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The biggest *** whooping I ever dished out went to a PBW player who sent his fleet into my home system. I had taken over the empire and had only played about six turns when this huge armada of ships appeared through the worm hole. I do believe if he had had the movement, he would have invaded my homeworld on that turn. I was lucky, I had another population world in the next system along with a crap load of orbital ship yards. I was one turn away from producing about 20 dreanoughts.

Knowning that his fleet, something in the area of 400 ships, including troop transports, was not stopped, it would take the entire system, and the next and my Dreadnought would not be able to stop it.

I was growing very depressed when I noticed one little ship sitting by the sun in my home system. I thought it was there to protect the sun from attack but no, it was a sun killer ideally named, Peacemaker.

In most universes what I did next would be considered genocide, I even wrote a short story about what I did and posted it here.

I blew up my own home systems sun just to kill my enemies fleet. I also sent him a message stating that all of my system had star killers in them and much to my suprise I had a few in systems he controlled. I detonated them and told him in the message that I would destroy all of his star systems if he did not surrender.

As unlikely as it might seem, having lost his fleet and being *****ed back to sixth place or something, he gave up with an angry withdraw from the game a turn or two later.

So I like to think that I won.

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Ouch. That seems a little underhanded to me. I could never do that to someone, even if it is just a game! I like to play fair when it comes to allies!

My biggest whipping was in the Shattered Hopes game Douglas talked about http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif I was on the receiving end of a significant number of those star destroyers. I was in either 1st or 2nd place, but after that one turn, I had one system left where douglas's star destroyer had taken the wrong path. However, as you can imagine, that system didn't last long either...

Was fun while it lasted, and I must admit, it was a fun game, even how it ended for me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I learned early on Shields 10.

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The largest defeat I ever dished out was against an A.I. In one game, the a.i. seriously had me outnumberd (were talking a three to one ship ratio here). I had myself botled up, defending my warp points with fortress worlds. What's a fortress world? It's a sphereworld with nearly 40+ null space gun weapon platforms, 200,000 points of shielding, and a two hundred ship defense fleet.

Anyways, the Kaelons (the a.i. I was up against) sent something like a five hundred ship fleet through. The battle took me nearly and hour and a half to finish, but I ended up winning.