Invulnerable Challenge - Warning... Spoilers!

[Stone Mill]

BIG SPOILER!!!

Originally posted by Asmala:
I have played a quite aggressive strategy. I started to build a warp point opener instantly in the biggest 8000M planet (because the high build rate). After I got that ready I started to attack against Sharks with my ships. I didn't had lots of them but my baseships were superior against Shark's ships (all of them didn't even have a talisman!). The shield accelerator, shard cannon and talisman is a lethal combination.

The game date is now 2411.9 and I just send my first small (scout) fleet of 40 ships to the Sharks Last system. As I expected it got annihilated completely at the first wave.

The biggest problem are storms. That first scout fleet has a storm destroyer accompanying and it got no damage when it entered to the storms. From this I deduced that a fleet with a storm destroyer won't suffer the damage from storms. Wrong. I lost my big fleet completely (about 150 baseships).

I've now tested storms and the obvious result is that at every day there is about 50% chages to get the whole damage or get nothing. And it should be noticed that it's per day so a fleet will be undamaged or totally destroyed.

Those seven storms in Terradome are deadly, if I have a bad luck they'll inflict 1400 damage to my ships! Perhaps some organic armor would be good!

Asmala, please write "Spoiler" as the lead in to your Last post, so active players may choose to avoid it... Thanks!

Yes it is true that storm damage varies because of the % to get all or nothing. Some players make it through ok while others get obliterated!

So first... ya got to ask yourself... "Do I feel lucky..."

Albeit your losses, you are still doing great. You have them cornered... Methinks your second wave should get it right...

[ July 25, 2003, 19:56: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

[Erax]

(BIG SPOILERS)

Back when I said I lost three colonies to the Sharks, it was to their planet destroyer. I never saw that ship, I parked a sensor ship over my Last colony in the Arcturus system, but they never attacked it.

I am now at the door to their Last system, but they have a LOT of storms there ! I sent around 20 ships into one large stack of storms and lost them all. I'm capturing planets in the system while trying to decide what to do.

I've had few resource shortages, probably because I don't use any 'fast construction' tricks. I was short on Organics for some turns in the early game, but that was it.

The Sharks also threw a 23-ship fleet at me Last turn. Not enough to worry me but they might be able to glass one of the captured planets (I have fleets over some of them, over others only 4-5 ships for defense). Let's see what they do this turn.

[Ragnarok]

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Well, I know I'm not going to win the tourney. It's turn 2422 something rather and I just lost my fleet of 500+ ships to some stupid storms. So now comes another 10 years to rebuild my fleet and try again. You are truely evil Stone Mill, truely evil!

[Slick]

I haven't read this thread till today, but I am happy to say that this is one hellofa funny and interesting read!

Slick.

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
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Well, I know I'm not going to win the tourney. It's turn 2422 something rather and I just lost my fleet of 500+ ships to some stupid storms. So now comes another 10 years to rebuild my fleet and try again. You are truely evil Stone Mill, truely evil!

OOOOOF! 500? Good Gracious. Now I'm starting to feel bad. Sorry Buddy.

I still can't get over it... 500! Them is some bad dice you rolled...

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by Slick:
I haven't read this thread till today, but I am happy to say that this is one hellofa funny and interesting read!

Slick.

I agree! I think the wrap-ups will be quality reading for all!!! Minus the explicitives.
Dig it!

[Erax]

(BIG SPOILERS)

OK, Last post the Sharks were coming at me with a 23-ship fleet. The next turn they turned tail and went right back to their home system ! I had them bottled up by 2419.4, but I had some bad luck getting storm killers into the storms on this side of the warp point. There were a LOT of storms there, and I don't want to lose anything on this side before I invade. Right now it's 2422.3 and I still have 85 storms on top of the warp point. At this rate, it will be another 6 turns at least before I get rid of the damaging ones, then I'll go through with a 500-600 ship fleet. I've already sent a suicide ship through, so I have some idea of what awaits me on the other side.

Getting rid of the storms is terribly boring, but I hope to finish them all today.

Edit : It is now 2423.2 and my fleet has breached the Shark defenses. Here's the full details : the turn before I went through, I had 820 ships total, while they had 200 ships and 33 bases. I sent 515 ships through and I believe I took no storm damage (lucky me !). The battle Lasted three rounds, at the end of which my fleet had 432 ships (9 of which were damaged) and they had nothing left at their end of the warp point.

I intend to capture at least some of their planets, so I think it will be between 6 and 10 turns to final victory.

[ July 29, 2003, 02:50: Message edited by: Erax ]

[Stone Mill]

Hey fellas... any further news? ... sounded like some of you were at the gate....

[Baron Grazic]

Sorry, I have lost interest for a little while, rebuilding your entire Fleet of ships is pretty boring. I will start up again next week, if only because I don't want those bloody sharks to win.

[Erax]

I am past the gate already, but a mightier enemy looms large; Real Life, and its herald My Wife. I'll try to finish by tomorrow.