[Roanon]

K.O.T.H. Roanon vs RexTorres (Default settings)
Game is over, I surrendered.
Set me up at to bottom again, I'll try again to run uphill!

We met very early, around turn 5 or 6 as far as I remember. I wasn't prepared and he was too near already, so my homeworld was blockaded on the very next turn before I could react. Even though I was able to break blockade next turn and even advance for a short time, RexTorres kept sending warship after warship and he managed to push me back, reinvade and glass several of my planets - only a few turns before I finally finished researching mines - too late for me. Even though I was cornered I tried to keep up colonization in the vain hope that if he has more than double the warships than my whole fleet he didn't have that much colonizers. Unfortunately, I was wrong, plus of the 5 systems behind my home system that I had hoped to be able to colonize I encountered 1 nebula, 1 passing gas giant and 1 black hole sucking in one of my precious early colony ships. I doubt that I could have won, but maybe with less bad luck I may have Lasted longer.
I surrendered turn 34, when I had to notice that, in addition to frigates and all this fancy ship and combat stuff, RexTorres had researched mines too a few turns ago and was already busy laying them. Unable to leave the few systems that I was confined to, I had to give up.

I'm hoping for the next game and a few breathable planets larger than tiny...