What's the Worst that could happen? - Page 2

Renegade 13 · #1 September 21st, 2005, 05:39 PM

Hey I talked about my defeat!

Suicide Junkie · #2 September 21st, 2005, 06:06 PM

For me, I'd have to say the time under P&N, where I sent 200 battle ships plus a battlemoon to attack a huge breathable, rebel norak world.
I had biocrystal armored ships, but they had a full planet-load of massive APB platforms with talismans.

The fleet was wiped out, and the battlemoon sustained plenty of damage.

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Or, perhaps the game that my Exodus scenario is based on...
One little log message, and suddenly my whole empire is on borrowed time.
The stars go nova, and the whole hermit empire is reduced to nothing more than three tiny colonies, one unmothballed dread and a garrison of fighters.

Starhawk · #3 September 21st, 2005, 06:20 PM

How is it even possible for that many novas to happen so rapidly

bearclaw · #4 September 21st, 2005, 06:21 PM

Pre-Gold PBW game. The original Dark Nova game. I engaged a fleet of psychic ships. I out-numbered him nearly 3 to 1 and my ships mopped the floor with virtually anthing that came against them. What i didn't know was thay my enemy ships were armed with computer virus's and allegiance subverters. I attacked him so he got first attack. This was just after the final pre-Gold patch that 'corrected' ship placement during combat. My fleet started at point blank range. After the first round, nearly 1/3 of my fleet was subverted. For those who don't remember, in pre-gold there was no delay in firing weapons on a captured ship. Round 2, my remaining ships were too busy firing on my captured ships (who were firing back) and the next turn another Massive number of my fleet was subverted.

After that, it was a running retreat as I not only had to try to cope with my loses but I had just boosted my enemies numbers in a huge way.

That was my last Pre-gold game.

Kamog · #5 September 22nd, 2005, 01:50 AM

Well, I've been defeated many times but not in a single, huge dramatic battle or event. Usually I'm expanding my empire and doing well and then I get into a war with the Tessellates or some other powerful empire. Then slowly, my empire gets whittled away in numerous battles as I gradually get overpowered and I lose a planet here, a planet there, and getting into a downward spiral until finally I'm down to a couple of planets and a few ships. If I choose to continue playing, well, in several more turns I'm wiped out.

Starhawk · #6 September 22nd, 2005, 10:12 AM

I don't know if you could count this as a military defeat but during one game I had a trinary sytem, two stars were aready fully sphereworldized and fully populated with a total of about 128 BILLION folks.

I had a defense fleet (which I thought had cloak detector III but it was really a II) and 11 construction vessels building a 3rd sphereworld.
Add to that a transport fleet and colony ship with a total of 18 BILLION people and your talking about a major investment in resources and people.

Well that all went to hell in five seconds when the next turn all that was there was a blackhole.....I thought I would literally cry lol.

Hunpecked · #7 September 23rd, 2005, 05:48 PM

Kamog writes: "Well, I've been defeated many times but not in a single, huge dramatic battle or event."

Me, too. My greatest victory was annihilating an AI fleet of 20-odd CR/CL with a comparable fleet of my own. The greatest defeat (so far!) was losing a planet and 12 LC. To date my overall AI campaigns have proceeded a planet or two and/or a few ships at a time. I haven't stuck with an AI game long enough to get really decisive stuff like sun killers, warp openers, sphere worlds, and super-fleets of dreadnoughts.

Hunpecked · #8 September 21st, 2005, 08:05 PM

Suicide Junkie writes: "For me, I'd have to say the time under P&N, where I sent 200 battle ships plus a battlemoon to attack a huge breathable, rebel norak world...The fleet was wiped out..."

Bottle ships? Itty bitty ships in little bottles? Ha, that's nothing! Just recently I had an entire fleet of 10 light cruisers wiped out by an AI force that also glassed--

BATTLE ships?

Uh, never mind...

narf poit chez BOOM · #9 September 21st, 2005, 08:53 PM

Bottle ships: The scourge of the spaceways! At least, if you're in a thimble!

Starhawk · #10 September 21st, 2005, 09:28 PM

Some very interesting and also OUCH worthy defeats there, any others come on you've all been playing for years surely you've had a FEW major defeats that are noteworthy and memorable

My second worst defeat was this time I was stupid enough to send a 180 dreadnought fleet through a warp point WITHOUT minesweepers well I ran into enough mines to kill about 50 dreads and disable so many of the others that when the bad guy came in with his 200 full health ships he turned my DNs into wreckage.