Invulnerable Challenge - Warning... Spoilers!

Joachim · #1 August 11th, 2003, 08:31 AM

Spoilers....

The Sharks are no more in Terradome in 2418.8.

I must have been much more lucky than others with the storms as I lost little to them - perhaps putting organic armour on my Baseships helped after I saw the storms in Regulan.

After seeing the score differential at the begining I decided on an ecnomic expansion first, hunting party second approach.

I had a hell time early fighting off a Shark attack. I colonised Tania Borealis straight off and then lost all of the planets.

They nearly got through to the homesystem but I had luckily built a warp collapser earlier and saved myself. I then set about creating and collpasing all over my half of the galaxy to secure it. I ended up having only Sigma Three with a warp hole out, I built strong defences there and held off a lot of shark attacks until I had developed the systems behind and built up the war fleet.

I had a couple of scary moments when I killed several star killers that were roaming around my side of the galaxy - that was one hell of a shock to see that - and just lucky I had a ship at the warp hole!

Then it was a case of find em and splat em.

I went for organic weapons to increase the build speed of the baseships, not ideal weapons but they did allow quick building.

Thanks Stone Mill!!

This was good fun and a sanity saver with PBW down!

I would love to see more of these games set up. Perhaps there is space at the PBW server to keep these games available to the community so people can play them when ever they feel the need?

Joachim

Stone Mill · #2 August 15th, 2003, 08:08 PM

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Originally posted by Joachim:
Spoilers....

The Sharks are no more in Terradome in 2418.8.

I must have been much more lucky than others with the storms as I lost little to them - perhaps putting organic armour on my Baseships helped after I saw the storms in Regulan.

After seeing the score differential at the begining I decided on an ecnomic expansion first, hunting party second approach.

I had a hell time early fighting off a Shark attack. I colonised Tania Borealis straight off and then lost all of the planets. They nearly got through to the homesystem but I had luckily built a warp collapser earlier and saved myself. I then set about creating and collpasing all over my half of the galaxy to secure it. I ended up having only Sigma Three with a warp hole out, I built strong defences there and held off a lot of shark attacks until I had developed the systems behind and built up the war fleet.

I had a couple of scary moments when I killed several star killers that were roaming around my side of the galaxy - that was one hell of a shock to see that - and just lucky I had a ship at the warp hole!

Then it was a case of find em and splat em.

I went for organic weapons to increase the build speed of the baseships, not ideal weapons but they did allow quick building.

Thanks Stone Mill!!
This was good fun and a sanity saver with PBW down!

I would love to see more of these games set up. Perhaps there is space at the PBW server to keep these games available to the community so people can play them when ever they feel the need?

Joachim

Joachim, thanks and well done! Your score is quite reputable, especially in light of your early setbacks! Very nice indeed.

As far as the storms- it's hard to say, but your success is something to note. Other players have done well "armoring up."

As for continuing to develop more of these, I think it's a wonderful idea. It's not too much work, and it's actually kind of fun to try and stump the other players. The winner of this tourney will be encouraged to do so. If he does not wish to do so, I can certainly make another.

Best regards.

Cheeze · #3 September 20th, 2003, 09:26 AM

Turn 2411.9

No the game isn't over...not even close. No way I'm going to beat the Sharks in record time.

Most of the game has been relatively trouble-free. I safeguarded my home system, spread out..took out the few Sharks swimming in the open systems...captured colonies and spaced all the sharks (*evil laugh*)

I have a spy ship in Asellus Tertius that has been there for years. It's fast and runs circles that the Space Sharks can't handle. I might as well have named the ship "the Gingerbread Man".

I finally have strong enough forces to dare the invasion, but decided to counter the damaging warp points with heavily-armored sweepers. Just as I am massing my troops in Adarak, the Sharks try to use that second warp point to pop in behind my ships and make a run at my systems. If they had gotten through at a certain time, they would have caught my strong yet lonely warp-opening vessel. Fortunately, the 21 sharks appeared the same time my group of organic baseships, who cleaned them up without getting a scratch. Still, there are another 8 sharks who are daring to rush for the point, but I think they arrive the same time as my second group which needs to rendezvous with the invasion fleet before I close that point.

After that, the real fun begins when I attack Asellus Tertius. I can't wait to hit the 130+ sharks massed at the interior warp point (near AS VII), since they have seven starbases. I've seen these on my scanners, and my simulations show them to be unholy weapons in a group of 2 or 3...seven will probably take out 40 ships by themselves, and that's not including their over 120 friends!!

Stone Mill · #4 September 24th, 2003, 10:19 PM

Thanks for the update... very enjoyable... as usual!

Reminder to all that the Challenge date is Oct 1... Please send me your updates!

Hope you didn't lose too much interest... Will anyone catch Asmala? Stay tuned...

Joachim · #5 September 30th, 2003, 04:26 PM

So... now it is Oct 1 here -

I figure the just Organic armour ships were meant to ram? They never seemed to actually hit my ships. But jeez they took a lot of pummeling.

Thanks again for setting this up. I really enjoyed it.

Stone Mill · #6 September 30th, 2003, 09:46 PM

Thanks, Brother...

I had a great time looking at the game files sent to me, and listening to the player experiences.

I've had a request or two to extend the deadline for a few days while the players finish up the final assault... Sounds fine to me... I can wait another week. But I will begin to address the spoilers, questions, and comments as of tomorrow.

But I don't think anyone will catch Asmala!

As far as I'm concerned, unless someone tells me to wait because they are competitive, Asmala will be declared your winner next week.

In case I missed your update or email, I have not heard from the following players who have begun the challenge:

Ragnarok, primitive, narrew, Rextorres, Baron Grazic, spoon, cybersol, geoschmo, Atrocities, Mark the Merciful, Merry Jolkar.

If I don't hear from you, I'll consider your challenge abandoned...

Baron Grazic · #7 October 6th, 2003, 08:01 AM

Sorry StoneMill, but I just haven't had any time for solo games for a couple of months.

My Last update was:- Attempted to enter the SpaceSharks HomeSystem and was completely splattered by their defenders. Currently rebuilding our fleet, about turn 2415.0

So far, haven't had any problems with the SpaceSharks entering our systems, the clouds haven't effected us at all (fingers crossed) and our scanners detected the Star Destroyers before they could activate.

SpaceSharks are contained but without time to finish the game, we reluncantly give them the one system to live in.