I find myself in a peculiar situation in one of my PBW games. At this stage I don't feel confident to yell foul but I would like some advice.
I oppened up my turn and almost from the start I felt something was odd. I discovered to my dismay that a neighbour had declared war on me, and there were perhaps hundreds of reports of battles. This is fair enough if he was ACTUALLY playing. For some time I have been one of the few players actually sending turns. I believe the amount of players left is in the area of 4 maybe 5, out of maybe 14-20 empires. Of course an AI in charge may have decided to do it but the tactics don't fit an AI. The enemy had built plague bombers and sent one plague bomber to each of my colonies. This is the first thing I find odd, the possible AI can actually strategically use specialised weapons. The other odd thing is that the enemy bombers now sit over my dead planets SURROUNDED by intact minefields. How did he get there?. Possible answer: he moved there before declaring war. So now the AI is being sneaky
. I checked and he didn't do his latest turn. I can see I DID do my turn and I didn't notice this before. Strangely the turn was done off line and there seems to have been 2 turns done, and it didn't do the last stuff I said to do. Possible I sent in the wrong turn, but why have 2 turns been done. The enemy also just annexed another race just as they attack me.
This by the way is a pet peeve of mine. I work to defeat other empires while large empires become ever more powerful by suddenly telling empires, they are not at war with, to surrender when their players aren't playing anymore.
I'll be blunt. I suspect the whole thing has been manipulated offline and set up to attack me. That is how it appears but I won't come out yet and cast accusations. The GM is in charge of another empire.
Somewhat peculiar PBW situation
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