Challenge Match

[Slynky]

Olden Ones -vs- Black Hole Alliance 2405.9



Key:

Olden Ones - top of the map
Black Hole Alliance - bottom of the map
Numbers - More than 1 homeworld in system
Letter T following name - Religious (has Talisman)
Greyed-out system - Nebulae or worthless systems
PINKish lines - New warp lines (also note with earlier map down in the thread "blown" lines)
BLUE systems - Systems having major battles

General info - Both teams took one ancient race and two religious races.

Update - Well, it's been nearly 10 turns since the Last update.

As noted by Geo, things have taken a quick turn for the Black Hole Alliance. With the advent of "hole openers and closers", deadly raids have been made into 1FSTCAT's area, then into Geoschmo's area, and leading into RexTorres' area. Truth be told, most all of this has been Asmala . Of course, as alluded to earlier in the thread, the matchup of people had its good and bad. Good for us and bad for the Olden Ones is the fact that Asmala was facing the person without the Talisman and pretty much left to expand and grow. Against Asmala, that's not good.

On the other side, Lord Chane has managed to withstand the onslaught of Intel ops against his empire...a fairly incredible feat if you ask me! At one point, half his empire was rioting and he had no resources. Not to mention "stolen" ships and invading fleets to contend with. But, he's turned the corner now.

Me? I'm just the guy with Ancient ability. I help out with research and a few ships here and there. My placement was a good location (having Talisman people left and right of me) except for expansion (my teammates are hogs.... ).

Unless the Olden Ones have some surprises for us, the game might not go another 10 turns. (of course, IF they have some good surprises for us, it STILL might not go 10 turns...just a different outcome ).

1st Place - Asmala
2nd Place - RexTorres
3rd Place - Slynky
4th Place - Lord Chane
5th Place - Geoschmo
6th Place - 1FSTCAT

(I believe these are correct positions for the Olden Ones)

[geoschmo]

Uh, the only reason Lord Chane survived is that Asmala came in and took out the empires doing the intel.

Yeah, this game is over. We are just playing turns until Rex realizes what 1FSTCAT and I have known for a while.

Turned out instead of a 3 on 3 game we had a 1 vs 3 game, and the 1 won.

Geoschmo

[Slynky]

Well, there's no denying Asmala is awesome! Left to grow, even worse problem to deal with. I know I've tooted his horn a lot (he doesn't toot it himself much, so I have to) but of all the players I've have seen in action, he's the best I've seen.

Not so much 1 vs 3 but 4 vs 3. You see, he's like 2 of us. In fact, his shipcount is twice mine as is his score. At any given moment, he's got 60 or 70 ships being built.

Yes, his attacks helped stop the intel on Lord Chane. But, though the intel overwhelmed Lord Chane earlier than we thought, we had stellar manip in the shipyards before it started. It was our plan all along to get openers as soon as we could. Spending the time to get SY 3 our SY 2's upgraded took some time, too. So while that was upgrading (along with extraction 3's), I worked on Stellar Manip. Seemed like it was taking forever. One lucky thing was that I remembered your penchant for Intel and suggested to the others that I get us into intel. It was late but could have been even worse...we had just started building intel facs when the attacks hit.

[Asmala]

BUMP

*Wanders away longing for those days when this game went turn per day pace...*

[geoschmo]

Well it's official. This game is over. The evil doers were victorious. My suckosity has reached heights heretofore only discussed in purely theoretical terms. My economic ineptitude was only suprpassed by my utter lack of military skill. It's gotten so bad that I have rubbed off on my allies, the formerly respected 1FSCAT and Rex Torres.

Congradulations to Lord Chane, Slynky and Asmala. And thanks to Gryphin for setting it up for us.

[ September 05, 2003, 18:03: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Asmala]

*Asmala thinks he have to give a gift to the Ancient Ones in order to remove the "bad doers reputation"

Here you are, a shiny walking stick to each

EDIT: typo

[ September 07, 2003, 21:23: Message edited by: Asmala ]

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Asmala:
*Asmala thinks he have to give a gift to the Ancient Ones in order to remove the "bad doers repution"

Here you are, a shiny walking stick to each

Ouch!