OT-Favorite SE4 Moment!!!

[capnq]

Probably the first time I convinced an AI empire to surrender to me.

But a recent PBW battle runs a close second. My fleet wiped out my opponent's, despite all expectations I'd had from the results of simulator battles.

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Cap'n Q
My first mod! Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[ZeroAdunn]

Ok, this isn't actuall an SEIV moment, but an SEIII moment:

I was in the middle of a war, my ships getting pounded and my little three system empire getting hammered. I hadn't built any new ships in a long time and my carriers were about worthless, so I design a new ship class, way better tech than my current fleet. Set all my shipyards to build it. They get constructed, I set the entire fleet to move to my nearest warp point. Nothing happens. I look at the design and realise that I was short 1 engine. I was so mad!

(on a side note, did the same thing SEIV, this time forgot to give it any engines, only built three ships fortunately.

[Phoenix-D]

That is a ready-made case of "retrofit me. PLEASE!"

Phoenix-D

[henk brouwer]

My favorite, or in this case most embarrasing se4 moment:

I was playing a game against the AI, and was not meeting much, if any resistance. I was in first place and nothing could stop me from winning. Because I wanted something of a challenge I made the AI a offer it couldn't refuse: I offered to trade all my planets and ships in exchange for one of his planets, and was planning to rebuild my empire from there.

Strangely the AI refused the trade and made a counter proposal, all my planets and ships for an unknown planet. I was suprised but accepted.

Next turn I figured out what had happened, the planet the AI had given me was exterminated by a plague, with no population and thus, no construction possibilities I had lost the game

but it was a lot of fun...

[mac5732]

Well, I must confess, my most embarrasing moment was, after already playing a number of games, I was in a hurry to conquer the universe, sent out 3 colony ships to various systems, hit colonize, and NOTHING HAPPENED.
After much soul searching and *#@#@#*&, the great wanna be conquer determined that he forgot to put colonists on the ships.....oh the shammmmmmeeee of it allll. (Blushing profusly).

PS. I was not, contrary to what TS might say, eating burgers & fries at the time,,,,,

just some ideas mac

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[Dragonlord]

My favorite moments in PBW games are when you have been building up, have a nice fleet, and then go to war with your neighbour who is roughly equally strong with an equal number of ships. I love the anticipation of the next turn coming in with the battle reports and seeing that I won by better anticipating the enemy ship designs.
My best moment was the first time this happened, was also my first PBW game, I had stockpiled some 800k in minerals, neighbour (friend)suddenly declares war, I knew hu uses PPB's, I start researching phased shields like nuts and spent 700k in two turns retrofitting all my fleets...then we battle (about 50 vs 50 ships)and: He lost all, I lost about 6 ships
3 turns later he surrendered.
I couldn't stop smiling all night :-)

[tesco samoa]

First time deploying mines.

Built the mine layer ships and deployed them.

This took about 15 turns.

Then I went to deploy the mines and could not do it. Anyways it was my first pbem game and I figured that the mines were automaticly built on the ship and then could be deployed when ever.

A very costly mistake. I lost all the mine layer ships and then was informed by the enemy that I had to build mines and transport them for deployment.

Needless to say I have never made that mistake again.

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Inter arma silent leges

[Menschenfresser]

Longest Battle

Last game I played against the AI, I triggered MEE when I unmothballed 25 ships to repay a neighbor for trashing two of my planets.

A second empire's fleet, The Colonials, out of no where appeared in one of my more important systems. Eight Dreadnoughts of a build I knew, so I sent a fleet of ten Battleships equipped with the Lastest in Psych tech.

The tactical screen opens and I swallow hard at the 10 additional ships that had been cloaked. I forgot that my battleships weren't equipped with scanners. Crap. And they happened to be fully loaded carriers...all in all about 500 fighters.

I move the ships off of the edge to gain retreating room. Colonial fighters pour out like mosquitos. Slowly, my small fleet picks them off, bLasting them back. Mixed in with the fighters arrive the back bone of their fleet, the dreadnoughts. No shots to spare, I shoot only until they have no weapons and then allow them to retreat.

Outcome: After 30 turns.
Of my ten, I lose four...of the other six, only two get out of the fight with some shields still in operation.

Only a few Colonial fighters remain...less than fifty. 6 crippled dreadnoughts remain and all of their carriers.

The next turn the reserves arrive. Needless to say, that fleet went on into history with 50% exp...highest I have ever had.

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[Puke]

caught in an AI war one time, my fleet of 50 or so dreadnaughts were on their way to cleanse evil from the galaxy, in the form of a little species-cleansing. they were one warp away from their target, in a system belonging to an allied empire. A third empire warps into the system with a war fleet, poised to attack my ally. Since the newcommer on the scene is also an ally, I order my ships to continue on course to their target, and not interfere with local politics.

except the invading AI has brought a stardestroyer, and before my fleet can warp to their target, the entire system is turned into a massive blackhole. all of the AI planets in the system are destroyed, and I loose all 50 dreadnaughts.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[Spoo]

quote:

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the invading AI has brought a stardestroyer

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The AI uses stardestroyers?!

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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.