[Emperor's Child]

Those last few turns were some of the most thrilling I've had in a game, and unfortunatly luck seemed to go my way. In our initial engagements I lucked out by putting my forces where they stumbled into your fleets as they were assembling for defense, defeating them in smaller portions before they could assemble and swarm my smaller fleet.

Same type of lucky break when I made a run at your home planets, My attack fleet managed to cripple ships in your defensive fleets sent to stop them while not getting slowed themselves, got away from 2 major engagements and parked on top of your other homeworld, albeit broken, battered, bleeding, and running on fumes.

This was a case where I took a gamble and it paid off.. In our early skirmishes I lost a key supply ship that was bringing critical supplies, so I had to decide whether or not to continue the attack to your home system with low supplies or go to the defensive on the warp point. Ultimatly I thought that if I had gone defesive I'd give you the initiatave so decided to continue on regardless.

If I'd lost that battle in your home system you had the advantage in construction facilities and could have easliy out-produced me to regain lost territory.