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Originally posted by Mudshark:
Puke, I thought that Master Belisarius was busy always playing poker, or perhaps blind-mans-bluff would be more appropriate? God the "Borg Open Challenge" is getting to be fun.
as much as i would like to say that i was bluffed and have now learned from my experience, thats not true. I had my arse knocked off and handed to me. he probably had level 1 in mines, 4 in armor, and 1 in planet and plague bombs, because you dont have time to research much else AND build delivery systems for them.
the ships went right past my wormhole defenses, because i could not see them and did not have mines. in a straight-up fight, my fleet could probably have cleaned his clock. but i could not sweep the mines on the other side of his warp point, and i was nowhere near having sensors to detect his ships. I bet they were even running out of supply when i gave it up, but even so, i could not have stopped a second wave.
I even tried to brute-force my way thru his minefield by smashing non-essential ships into it, but to no avail. for all i know, i was one mine away from getting a breech, but even if i had made it in, he could have built more mines in orbit of his planets before i got there.
i could not even pull my fleet back fast enough to defend the Last of my planets, and by the time i could react I did not have enough research facilities left to get mines of my own.
of course, that was one of the first human-v-human games I played, aside from a few against some local friends. I didnt even realize the value of cloaking because i never needed it against the AI.
Rollo 
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