[Joachim]

THanks for the good game Gandalph, I though I had no chance for the first 30 turns, and it was only in the Last 10 that I started to think I had it.

I had an horrendous map start, my home system had two exits, to the south there was then five out of six wasted systems! To the North I ran into you after four warps - so I basically thought I was trapped and stuffed early on. I think that stealing your breathers and madly researching the other colony types was the only thing that kept me in the game during the middle phase.

I was surprised that you had not colonised every planet in your space? You also had me very worried when your first PPB ships hit my normal shield ships - if you had pushed really hard at that point I may have been in serious trouble.
Thanks again for the game!