It's time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I

[primitive]

Originally posted by BBegemott:
Turn 2405.1 and BBegemott surreneders to Primitive.

Primitive played a tough game and really deserved this victory. Congrats!

Thanks to BB for a great game. He's one tough customer and stayed with it till the end.

10 normal planets, High tech cost, Tesco map with approx 40 systems. The Horde played it safe and was of the traditional Rock-none breed, while BBs Vengeful Dreamers had a bit bolder choice. Early expansion was fast and furious, and when the dust settled we had about half of the map each. My half was pretty rich and had a nice layout with easy communication between North and South, while BB had a long way to travel to get his ships from the South/Central systems to the Northern frontier.

The luck in the early action went all to the Horde as I managed to get a bunch of BBs ships with some nasty minefields and, more importantly, snag a few of his breathers. A double set of population and all 3 colonytechs done pretty early (easy with 10 planet starts), was enough to build a huge tech advantage. When the real fighting started and BB took some of my population, my ships was already practically invincible (compared to his). He gave me a run for my money though, attacking in numbers and almost broke through to my soft inner systems more than once.

Good game BB, thats makes it 1-1. Good luck in keeping the Crown until we can have a rematch