Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"? - Page 100

Slynky · #**991** May 22nd, 2003, 02:12 PM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok:
Slynky, you never said if you liked the format I changed to. You did get on me afterall.

Oh, I noticed alright. And I noticed someone else used the info I suggested. I started to say something (and perhaps should have) but then thought I had already gotten dangerously close to that "imaginary boundary" that "newbie lightweights" like me shouldn't cross. So, I thought the less I said about the whole subject, the better.

Gandalph · #**992** May 22nd, 2003, 06:02 PM

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Originally posted by sparhawk:
Sparhawk empire is no more.
Congratulation gandalph, that Last battle did it..nothing left besides some planets. I was planning to go a destroy some planets with that fleet, but you destroyed it in time.
I think this was my best game..well for the learning then.

Thanks

asmala, can you give me a new opponent and put gandalph one up.

sparhawk

Thanks for the game and I am glad that you took some lessons with you. The ships that took out your Last fleet were part of my new invasion fleet and were sitting on a planet in that system getting trained. When you started taking out my colonies in Gretok, I anticipated you coming through that warp point and sent my ships there to lie in waiting. It actually was risky on my part as the loss of those colonies in Gretok, and the other ones you took out on the other side of the galaxy, were my main source of minerals. I was -25k per turn and losing 2 ships per turn. Again, thanks for the great game.

Geckomlis · #**993** May 22nd, 2003, 08:16 PM

Geoschmo vs Gecko
Year 2406.5

I flank Geoschmo’s warp point defenses with a large fleet, clear the minefield from HIS side of the warp point, slaughter his large fleet with basically no losses on my part and THEN get promptly whacked by a bunch of low-tech fighters to the tune of 60 plus ships. Why might you ask? Well, it seems that my all-armor ships will not ram the fighters in PBW. I guess I should have known this particular idiosyncratic wrinkle to SEIV?

geoschmo · #**994** May 22nd, 2003, 08:29 PM

Yes. Fleets with lot's of missles and ramming ships and zero point defense or direct fire weapons get chewed up pretty nice by fighters.

Geoschmo

Geckomlis · #**995** May 22nd, 2003, 08:34 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yes. Fleets with lot's of missles and ramming ships and zero point defense or direct fire weapons get chewed up pretty nice by fighters.

Geoschmo

Live and learn...

In any case, it was an orgy of mutual destruction. And now, for something completely different...

Stone Mill · #**996** May 22nd, 2003, 08:34 PM

Well that is interesting. I added it to my strategy article... You can't ram fighters.

The real flaw was not having point defense, I'd estimate. Nice counter, Geo.

Slynky · #**997** May 22nd, 2003, 08:38 PM

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Well that is interesting. I added it to my strategy article... You can't ram fighters.

The real flaw was not having point defense, I'd estimate. Nice counter, Geo.

Yeah, turn 65, there ought to be some PD weapons on board.

geoschmo · #**998** May 22nd, 2003, 08:42 PM

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Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Well that is interesting. I added it to my strategy article... You can't ram fighters.

The real flaw was not having point defense, I'd estimate. Nice counter, Geo.

Yeah, turn 65, there ought to be some PD weapons on board.

Well, I probably contributed to that by religously avoiding any missles or showing him that I had fighters until the turn just before that. And my huge advantage in ship combat attack and defense skills he probably figured that direct fire was the way to go for my ships and missles/ramming were his best option. Still he should have probably had some, but I give him points for finding a strategy and comitting to it.

Geoschmo

Geckomlis · #**999** May 22nd, 2003, 09:06 PM

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Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Well that is interesting. I added it to my strategy article... You can't ram fighters.

The real flaw was not having point defense, I'd estimate. Nice counter, Geo.

Yeah, turn 65, there ought to be some PD weapons on board.

I already knew he had fighters. I assumed he might have a smattering of missles. I made a choice not to install PD on any ships - why should I? I had like 30,000 points of armor to ram with. I simply did not understand the game mechanics.

Back to the drawing board...

Slynky · #**1000** May 22nd, 2003, 09:59 PM

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Originally posted by geckomlis:

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Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Well that is interesting. I added it to my strategy article... You can't ram fighters.

The real flaw was not having point defense, I'd estimate. Nice counter, Geo.

Yeah, turn 65, there ought to be some PD weapons on board.
I already knew he had fighters. I assumed he might have a smattering of missles. I made a choice not to install PD on any ships - why should I? I had like 30,000 points of armor to ram with. I simply did not understand the game mechanics.
Back to the drawing board...

As a guy who hardly ever rams, I guess I didn't think of it like that.