[Slynky]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I don't know that I have outplayed you. I can say quite honestly I don't know how I could have played a better game myself. My starting spot was decent, but not great. My economy has been clicking well and I have been producing mass numbers of ships and research. Maybe if I had waited in the south for your ships to attack I could have done some damage and I might still have a chance in this one. Or if we had been close enough that I could have attacked you before you got the talisman. But as fast as you expand that would have been quite difficult.

The no mines has been interesting. Of course it has helped me in that it made my stealth attacks possible. But it's also helped you in that it's tied up most of my forces defending the warp points instead of allowign me to press you a little harder.

I wouldn't mind a rematch onces this one is over. But no talisman and no Stellar manipulation.

The way I figure it, in the south, we both had so many ships neither of us could have pulled off a good victory letting the other have first fire. And certainly worse for you with the sats I had there. I would have stayed and used the hole opener to go around you; I never would have attacked there like I did before.

Outplayed me? Sure you did. I failed to remember the mining absence and you took advantage of it...not once but twice. You also took advantage of ship capture (I won't tell everyone how). So, though I have the Talisman, I'm afraid to confront you at warpholes (and I'm "holed up" so to speak ).

And there's the matter of your 51 ships wandering around .

I got Ice tech to go with my Rock tech and failed to look around before doing so at how sorry the minerals were on them .

You control the bigger half of the map.

And I see you have some BCs running around now, too. With 150 ships, I'm still in second place. I was in second place even after killing 30+ ships of yours in the south. That's scary .