To players in PbW games I was in

[Ragnarok]

That is quite a shame that you have had to pull out of your games. But I can understand your reason and I fully respect your decision. This will make the game alot tougher then it already is. But the Rorg will fight on.

[Loser]

I was already going down. I think I was already two turns past the point where I could offer you any help.

With my best fleet chasing Nyx's latest warp point and two other partially refitted fleets running after the two new invaders, I also had all but a dozen or so worlds in riot (they'll come out, someday. I do have troops). Not to mention this empire is weak on construction (?!?!), so I was totally dependant on retro-series, for which I no longer had sufficient funds.

Still, I could have supported things a little longer by mass-scrapping facilities... but it would not have been pretty and it would not have Lasted long.

Still, I very much regret abandoning my ally. Sorry.

[Vezzra]

@Loser: I've already suspected something, but I thought more in the line of suddenly being confronted with you opening some long distance warp connections deep into my space. Your baseship armada would have been quite a surprise , what a pity that you had to drop out...

It would have been a tough fight, and I could have made some interesting in-game story of that... I wonder how you were able to maintain so many ships. 500 battleships and 50+ baseships (or even 100?) - maintenance costs must have been terrific

But don't call my ships "smallships" Almost all my warships are 800kT ships (or bigger), and don't underestimate fighters. Given enough numbers they can be very nasty Of course, against your twenty *talisman equipped* baseships I would probably have lost most of them.

Suspecting that you might come up with some unpleasant surprise, I have, however, already made some preparations : I have some transporters standing by to evacuate my homeworld just in case

[ February 03, 2004, 08:46: Message edited by: Vezzra ]

[Loser]

Well, everything I'd seen so far was pretty small, especially compared to a baseship.

And the Battleship count is more like three or four hundred, though it has been greater in the past. And all the Baseships are, I think, still on mothballs as a consequence of the retroseries process. I'm not sure anymore, but I think the latest were ready to be gifted to my 'outside contractor' for the addition of the Talisman.

The homeworld population is not so big a deal. My own strategies involve depopulating mine around mid-game anyway. It's the anger hit your people taken when the homeworld goes down that makes it such a nice target.

And, still, I don't know that I would have gotten to yours, for one reason or another, and I don't believe I would have beaten you three either. At best I could have bought more time for Rorg, who might have been able to prepare a fleet large enough to completely waylay Nyx. Hell, he still might. I have no idea what he's been up to.