Gozguy v Geoshmo, 2408.2
The Last few turns have gone very well for me. Better then I could have hoped actually.
His attack fleet continued north and attempted to take out my frontline (What used to be the frontline anyway) construction and fleet assembly point. I had a small number of ships there being retrofit, and expected to lose the planet. Truth be told losing this planbet would have probably hurt worse then if he had taken out my homeworld as it was a huge, mineral rich, correct atmosphere world. Unfortunatly for him, I had time to make some preperations. I retorfitted a couple construction yards to be PDC platforms, and I had previously built several Weapons platforms on the planet.
His fleet, though quite large, was heavy in fighters and missle ships. Thanks to the previously mentioned PDC bases, nothing came close to scratching the planet. He did manage to wipe out most of my ships there, but I ended up with 3 or 4 combat ships after the first battle. All he had were minesweepers and some empty carriers.
The second battle was a turkey shoot. There were no survivors.
On the northern front things were going just as well. I glassed his homeworld at the cost of a half a dozen of my ships killed and a handfull damaged and recolonized it for my empire. Too bad I didn't have any troops handy, but we are both oxy breathers so I don't guess it would have mattered that much. I sent my fleet, minus the 3 or 4 most heavily damaged ships, to finish off the rest of his planets in the homesystem, totally ignoring the 5 enemy ships that had shown up too late to die in the defense of their homeworld.
Of course he tried to take out the recently recolonized homeworld, but I guess he wasn't counting on me having mines in the cargo bay of the colony ship. Poof.
All in all, the Last 10 turns he has lost over 60 ships, his homeworld, and 5 or 6 other quality planets. I have lost 2 bases, maybe twenty or so ships, and one minor planet. I most certainly have the edge at this point. I offered him an honarable surender, which he refused. Guess he's going to make me hunt him down.
Oh goody.
[ April 08, 2003, 05:04: Message edited by: geoschmo ]