Well our game has turned into a nailbiting game of cat and mouse.
I actually managed to establish a postion on a warp point in DavidG's home system, and hold it for several turns. A minelayer was scurrying feverishly to build up mines on the point. I knew he would counter with sweepers to take back the point...
One turn, I forgot to build mines on the source planet, so my minelayer had to sit and wait. I'll be darned if he did not sweep the point with exactly enough sweeping components. Curses!
And I moved the ship I had defending the point to "gun" for his homeworld (I had to test my luck... But he was smart enough to lay mines). Should have kept it there.
A costly turn of events on my part, and a good gamble on his.
He now owns the point, and I lost a serious advantage... back to the guessing game.
He also did a nice job keeping me out of a system: again I gambled that he would not get a warship there to kill the colony so quickly... OOF!
