[Mathias_Ice]

KOTH Mathias Ice vs Geckomlis:

We cranked out 70 turns today! Is this a record? After a little squabling here and there around two choke points the fronts are busting open. Gecko first glassed my colony that had been sitting on "his" side of the line (allowing me to watch in dread as he built a fleet,) then tore through my mine field at one choke point and glassed my lone colony on "my" side of that line. At about turn 65 I sent my first fleet through the other choke point. Two major battles insued simultaneously. My invasion fleet of about 10 LC gunboats and 10 mine sweepers met a fleet of about 10 of his ships over one of his colonies. The result was a glassed planet and no more enemy fleet while I suffered barely a scratch. On the other end of the galaxy, Gecko sent his invasion fleet warping through into another system of mine only to meet an opposing force on the other side. Despite being outnumbered at what seemed about 20 to 10, I got first shot and the battle resulted in what seemed like a serious upset, the dust of his 20 or so ships littering the warp point while I only lost a few of my ships. I have since warped a severly crippled ship through that warp point and have observed he still has many ships in that system. Meanwhile my invasion fleet glassed the two remaing planets in the system they have been tromping in. What a day. It's either close to being over or it will be a long and bloody fight.

Mathias Ice