King game: Asmala the Usurper VS Primitive the “hey, It’s my turn to be the king” guy.
Turn 38. Geo’s Balance Mod, No Warpopeners, both of us took standard Clone empires without any racials.
Slynky made a “nice”
open spiral map with 35 systems and placed us close to the ends, making it basically a double string of systems with the outer (st)ring not continuously connected. With no warpopeners allowed, there is little room for any strategic manoeuvring. When we are ready the game will probably be decided by a few large battles over one or two WP’s. Certainly different
So far, nothing much has happened (takes a bit of time to colonize 17 x 4 planets from a 1 planet start). The map is divided smack down the middle. There are 2 border WP’s. Asmala has pushed a colony into my side on the main border, while I hold the WP on the secondary “forked off” border. The usurper has been in front on points for most of the game, but it’s still early days so no need to worry (yet)