[Ragnarok]

"Especially if I keep running my main attack fleet out of gas..oops. Actually when my first attack fleet hit that minefield, I thought I was through. I was going for a quick kill..and the only thing that saved my was finding a few huge breathables in the south. Bad start? You had three breathables in your home system!"

Yeah I had three in my home system. But the systems around me basically sucked. One thing I need to learn how to do is manage my resources a little bit better. I could've hurt you bad at that point when you thought you were done for if I had not run out of minerals. When I play a turn I always make sure I'm making money at the end of the turn. But in this game you attacked so early so I was trying to get defensive ships out and research the right technologies to defend myself. Was a tough feat to do.

"EDIT: Oh, and the fact that I had a big agressive/defensive advantage, and you went direct-fire, didn't hurt either. You scared the living heck out of my when we first met. Relgious AND temporal AND a shipyard advantage? Yike."
So that is why you whooped me so bad in those battles. But the thing about Religious and Temporal in a game such as this, low start medium cost, is that it's tough to dedicate the time needed to research those fields. So I never even got to research the first steps in those areas.

All in all a good game. I learned a couple new things and hopefully I can use that to my advantage.

Ok, I officially surrendered. Game went 103 turns. Good game PhoenixD!

Edit:
"Actually when my first attack fleet hit that minefield, I thought I was through. I was going for a quick kill..and the only thing that saved my was finding a few huge breathables in the south."

I knew my only chance to stay close with that fleet in there was to get mines out. Which saved me for a few turns but my ships just couldn't do nothing against yours.

[ December 17, 2002, 00:04: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]