[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
-lands on his well-worn rump-

Looks like se5a gets to face me. Turn 68, I conceed to Geo. Note: shift-clicking two fleets of different speeds does NOT mean they will move together.

Ouch, is that what happened? I think that my fleet would have probably prevailed in the battle even against both fleets, having the first shot at the warp point. But getting them one at a time allowed me to survive in good enough shape to follow up the victory by cleaning out your system beyond.

Awesome job of doing the best you could with a bad situation Phoenix. You had me scrambling for a couple dozen turns there trying to run down all your raiders. Till I finally decided to give up chasing them and just build weapons platforms. I knew I'd lose some planets in the process, but also knew I could probably spare more then you could. Giving up chasing them allowed me to concentrate my fleets and go on the offensive.

Geoschmo

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Yep, that's what happened. You probably would have won, but I was expecting that (needed to free up maintence), I was just trying to inflict losses and maybe scare you. But because of the way they went through, you got a short-range shoot first TWICE, which killed.

As with the raiders..I just finally realized that sitting back and waiting for Doomsday wasn't going to help, and that I might as well go down with an empty bank account.