[bearclaw]

Pre-Gold PBW game. The original Dark Nova game. I engaged a fleet of psychic ships. I out-numbered him nearly 3 to 1 and my ships mopped the floor with virtually anthing that came against them. What i didn't know was thay my enemy ships were armed with computer virus's and allegiance subverters. I attacked him so he got first attack. This was just after the final pre-Gold patch that 'corrected' ship placement during combat. My fleet started at point blank range. After the first round, nearly 1/3 of my fleet was subverted. For those who don't remember, in pre-gold there was no delay in firing weapons on a captured ship. Round 2, my remaining ships were too busy firing on my captured ships (who were firing back) and the next turn another Massive number of my fleet was subverted.

After that, it was a running retreat as I not only had to try to cope with my loses but I had just boosted my enemies numbers in a huge way.

That was my last Pre-gold game.