[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
Thanks for the great game Rags, and sorry to break your record. I think I still hold the record for the shortest game however - 8 turns - 1.49 Koth game.

I have got to admit that luck played highly in this game. I thought I had a bad start, with only 1 Tiny Done colony in my Home System, 2 small domed worlds in the system to the West & a small, medium & large domed worlds to the North. Looking at Rags starting possition, I had a great start.

{Tesco - Do you want to check that map, starting with your Home World in an asteroid belt, doesn't seem fair}

The reason I won? I went straight for Ship Capture, ignoring Mines, and luckily got the middle before Ragnarok could mine it. Big gamble but it paid off this time...

I noticed Ragnarok had out researched me extensively, when I saw Cruisers, ECMs, Combat Sensors, Armor against my LCs with DUCs only. But I had gambled by researching Ice Colonisation.

The third big gamble I took was joining my 2 fleets into the 80 plus ships. This left both my front systems defenseless. The fleet was highly trained but most ships were supporting DUC 3-5s. Everytime we fought I seemed to have first attack, allowing my boarders to capture his ships.

Great game Warlord Ragnarok, sorry that everytime we rolled the dice, I got the sixes.

Nice game fellas... I often find that these matches are very replayable (they don't get boring) because of the gambles and guesses.

Do I go on the attack and leave a system defenseless?

Do I forego critical tech areas (mines) to get an edge in another field?

Nice accounts.