Average number of turns

[Graeme Dice]

Going back to my savegame archives, the shortest completed game I've had was 66 turns long. This was a two player game in a mid-life medium sized quadrant. The exact numbers were lost due to a mistaken empire file replacement, but I played a rock/methane berserker with maximum defensiveness, average aggressiveness, weak physical combat, enhanced intelligence, impressive reproduction, 50% political aptitude, reduced organics, superior construction. The racial advantages I picked were hardy industrialists and temporal construction.

I went for training facilities right away, but ended up never having to build them as I managed to win enough early battles with torpedoes II to get the temporal weapons researched. I had sensors III, ECM I, and the first level of stealth armour researched by the end of the game.

My opponent was a oxygen/rock deeply religious warrior culture with impressive aggressiveness and average defensiveness. I won the first few battles between single shiops and picked up enough momentum that he wasn't able to recover. He eventually fled to the far end of the galaxy, and then surrendered rather than make me hunt him down.

All in all, it was a lot more fun than the other duel we had where it evolved into a minefield stalemate in a small galaxy.