Trithian Empire (Slynky) -vs- Kif Hegemony (Mark the Merciful): 2409.0)

(standard KOTH game: 1 medium starting homeworld)

More death and destruction.

We pushed on through another ten turns tonight, which was great.

In the Southwest (in a system separated from the rest of my empire by two nebulae systems), re-inforcements already on the way arrived just as Slynky's second wave appeared. He temporarily fled the system (and even abandoned the colony he'd placed there), but returned in heavier numbers within a couple of turns. My force was mostly obsolete LCs, but were defending a planet with about 10 small WPs with large mount APB Xs and XIIs. Unfortunately, the random deployment put Slynky's fleet in a V around the planet, with my fleet off to one side and unable to screen it. So I benefitted very little from the firepower of the planet, and he won the battle with light casualties. Soon, every planet in the system had been glassed (some twice over), and a couple of Slynky's colonies were started up. Boo! Hiss!

The next few turns were taken up with preparatory maneuvers (and claims from Slynky that I'd exposed a huge gap in his defences - though I never spotted it - methinks he's been indulging in a bit of gentle disinformation every now and then).

In the Last action packed turn, I sent another fleet through the same Northeastern wormhole as before; and as before, it was totally destroyed while inflicting heavy but not fatal damage on the defenders. And my second wave of reinforcements arrived too late in the Southwest. Thirsting for revenge, they're heading for Slynky's seemingly undefended colonies.

Tune in for tomorrow's exciting episode of "over the top"; World War I in space...