KOTH Title Defense: Stone Mill vs. RexTorres (turn 55)
Indeed this has turned into a fun game, with lots of sparring on 3 fronts:
Northern: At first, this was wealky contested. But he pulled back his central fleet and re-emerged in the north to harass me. He broke my warp defense of 5 ships with a fleet of 15 or so. But I did some damage and I have some available ships to slow his progress. As they stand, that fleet should not go far, as they don't have minesweepers.
Central: I outstacked him in the center, and he pulled his fleet (to the north) back while abandoning his planets. I pushed forward with a strike to his central systems with a fleet of 26 or so. Many of these ships have obselete technology, and I do not expect them to do too well, but I want to give him something to worry about.
Southern: He is obviously concentrating forces in this setup system that neither one of us can claim. His initial attack with superior numbers failed over my planet's due to weapon's platforms, which sniped his ships nicely as my ships tied them up. He eventually killed the planet, and I won the battle (but my ships refused to kill his minesweepers), so most got away to fight again
) He followed up again with superior numbers and finished that fleet, just as reinforcements arrived. My reinforcements bested his heavily damaged ships, but I was unable to save my minesweepers
. Now once again I have a handfull of defenders facing a pile of ships at his staging point. I have the slight edge in tech... but it's not yet broad enough to ensure me victory against those numbers.
To be continued...