PBW "newbie game"

[Dragonlord]

I just love these struggles between humans, Baal is deploying tricks an AI would never do !
My primary fleet finally wrested control of the contested system, and has moved past the wormhole in the direction of Baal's systems.
What we found was an empty system (just asteroids) with two wormholes leading into unexplored space. One wormhole had a single ship (from Baal) sitting on it, so I figured aha ! that way must lie his empire. I proceed to spend two turns moving towards, then killing that ship and warping through.
All I find in the next system is again...asteroids. So now I'm thinking that I should have gone through the other wormhole, and his ship was just a sacrificial decoy to lure me in the wrong direction to buy him time to build better defenses.

Baal, am I right?

Oh well, at least something came of it, buy moving into the wrong (?) system I finally made first contact with the fourth and Last human player in this game, Phoenix.
Phoenix is ranked 3rd or 4th, while Baal is 1st and I am 2nd. It will be interesting to see if Phoenix will choose a side in the war I'm in...or stays noncomittal in the hope we weaken ourselves enough for him to step in.

Ya gotta love this game in multiplayer.