
May 27th, 2003, 01:12 AM
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Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
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Originally posted by Slynky:
[QB]Trithian Empire (Slynky) -vs- Kif Hegemony (Mark the Merciful): 2405.5
(standard KOTH game: 1 medium starting homeworld)
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Mark was in first place from the beginning and stayed there for the first 15 or 20 turns. Got me worried a bit. Then, I popped into 1st. Stayed there till very recently when he saw 1st place again for one turn. THAT got me plenty scared since I fell to 2nd place on the turn I had 7 cruisers come out of the shipyards!
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I still maintain that the scores are a misleading indicator of player position. I don't think I'm giving anything important away by saying the reason for my sudden jump back to 1st was the re-activation of a mothballed fleet. But I'm really not convinced that mothballed ships shouldn't be scored.
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But on to the action, such as it is for the moment. Mark has played mostly a defensive game up till now (though I am on the lookout for a change).
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You got mines and fighters very quickly, and I didn't see a realistic way of breaking through such defenses quickly. So I didn't try.
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Still no signs of a major fleet of his though to have gotten into 1st place for a turn, there must be one somewhere.
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Ah-ha! It's lurking. We Kif are experts are lurking. One day when you least expect it, we'll turn up in your rear screens, laughing evilly.
Alternatively; we'll intercept your fleet in the Cewandi system and get vapourised. Oh well...
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Strangely (or perhaps NOT so), he seems to have skipped fighter ability (not sure if it's OK to say stuff like that as I don't like to give away other people's ways of playing...but I mention it because he could easily change that approach in his next game). The only weapons we have seen of each others are DUCs and PDs.
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I think it's fine to make this sort of comment. I very much doubt I'll have done anything new or innovative that needs to be kept secret.
As for fighters; well, I decided to spend those Research Points on something else instead.
[ May 27, 2003, 00:14: Message edited by: Mark the Merciful ]
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