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

[Stone Mill]

Ahhh yes, I should know better than to expect sympathy. I don't see myself Lasting too much longer...

What is worse is that Rollo handed me a loss already a while back.

You are correct; I'm facing the cream of the crop... but the Last 3 opponents I faced were undefeated before they stepped into my quadrant. I'm still fightin' !!!

Bring it!

Trithian Empire (Slynky) -vs- Kif Hegemony (Mark the Merciful): 2410.9

(standard KOTH game: 1 medium starting homeworld)

Warp point opening technology has ushered in the era of galactic genocide. Last player with a planet left unglassed wins...

In amongst the mass glassings, there've been a few more space battles. As usual, Slynky's won most of them. But the Kif are still in there fighting, and are pleased to announce the ceremonial nuking of the Trithium home planet Last turn. If only there weren't so many of the little buggers.

To be honest, we've got to the point where I'll procrastinate for at least half an hour before opening my turn file. I know I'm going to be losing at least half a dozen planets, and am wondering how disasterous this turn's battles will turn out. Much better to think happy thoughts and pretend it's not happening...

[Gandalph]

Gandalph vs Krsqk Stardate 2402.0

Gandalph surrenders.

Well, what can I say. We met on turn 5 when his escort came into my home system only 3 spaces from my homeworld. I had decided to go the massive colonization route and had no defenses ready. I put defensive WP's into the queue, but it was too late. The first attack took out my only spaceyard and put my people into an angry state. I tried to recover, but Krsqk obviously sensed my weakness and began pouring his escorts and frigates into my system. I decided this would be a futile attempt and surrended.

Move Krsqk up a notch and throw me to the bottom... errr Sewer... errr whatever we call the Last rung these days.

[DavidG]

My appologies in advance to the non monty pyton fans but this thread always makes me think of this: (and is why I love to raze the king)

ARTHUR: I am your king!

WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.

ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.

WOMAN: Well, how did you become king then?

ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,...
[angels sing]
...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.

[singing stops]

That is why I am your king!

DENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

[Roanon]

Hello all and thanks for the welcomes

Have been too busy doing the first turns in my first KotH game, no time to check this forum earlier. Now its roughly 4 hours after starting the game and already turn 12. Nice. I'm slowly expanding and still no contact. Exciting, especially as in my paranoia every turn I expect to see a well armed fleed doing a rush towards my home system
Time now for me to go to bed before I make too many mistakes due to already being asleep... So far, I like not only the type of challenge (without that tedious diplomacy aka who-can-lie-better) but also the speed of the game. Thanks to Phoenix for submitting as fast or even faster than me!

[Phoenix-D]

Two more turns after I got back aaaand..first contact. Just a little piddling colony though. Very small map; I'm surprised it took this long.

Trithian Empire (Slynky) -vs- Kif Hegemony (Mark the Merciful): 2412.3

(standard KOTH game: 1 medium starting homeworld)

Phew! It's all over.

Slynky's Trithians surrendered after a vicious fight. Once the warp points were opening all over the place, it came down to a question of who could destroy the other guy's economy fastest. I came out ahead here because I had defenses of some kind (mines at least) around all my planets, whereas a lot of Slynky's were completely open.

At the end, we essentially had one fleet each of similar sizes, but I had managed to protect enough territory that my economy was recovering to about half the pre-cataclysm level of production, while the heart of Slynky's had been wrecked. I was producing around 180,000 blue and rising, while Slynky looked to be around the 60,000 mark.

But to get to this point I've had to accept the loss of about half my planets, and had to cannibilise most of the remaining facilities for minerals. Skin by teeth of my the - please re-arrange these words to make the appropriate phrase.

It's hard to express just how much fun, and how tense this game has been since the very beginning. It built up to an incredible climax during the ten turns from 2411 to 2412, to the point that I was finding it too tough to play two turns in a row.

Thanks to Slynky, and congratulations for playing a very good game.

Move me up, please.

Mark

[ June 07, 2003, 06:24: Message edited by: Mark the Merciful ]

[Slynky]

Trithian Empire (Slynky) -vs- Kif Hegemony (Mark the Merciful): 2412.2 (I think...all our empire clocks were destroyed... )

(standard KOTH game: 1 medium starting homeworld)

Well, I gotta say this game has to have been the bloodiest game in KOTH. Between all the warpholes opening and closing, billions of people were slaughtered! The warphole map looks like a spider web.

Kt after Kt's of ships were left as litter in space. Over half the systems were showered with debris.

Mark slaughtered my planets faster than I could return the "favor". And though I issued drugs to the population and even forced repetitive showings of the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life", they rioted.

Seriously, though, Mark played a good game! I think our planets were fairly split up. I certainly had some good ones in my area. He must have managed his empire better, though, 'cause he had ship after ship after ship. And he never even used all three colony types!

I made a few mistakes at the end that may have made a difference, but I kinda doubt it. No matter what I planned, he either planned the same thing or anticipated it. Even when I thought I had embarked on the winning strategy, "openers" and "closers", he was doing nearly the same. And 2 turns after I entered his empire, he did the same to me.

He showed up with phased shield 4's and to counter it, I built about 20 battleships with 3 heavy depleters on them...enough to blow away his shields if I hit 2 out of 3 times. But I forgot to put engines on the darn things! What's worse, refitting at a yard without resupply. They never really got to see battle.

Another mistake...I meant to refit a "planet builder" to an "opener" but chose the wrong ship for retrofit and built a 3rd "closer". That put me back lots of minerals and 2 turns to fix it. Maybe those 2 turns could have made a difference.

But he's a great player! So, I don't want to take anything away from him. Besides, maybe he made mistakes that evened it out.

He is a dedicated player and submits turns with good speed and regularity. A good member of the PBW community to have around.

SO, Mark, go whup up on Elvis (that way, I won't feel so bad about losing to you... )

Just kidding! It was one of my most exciting games in the past year!

[Slynky]

And for his playing ability, dedication to turn submittal, tongue-in-cheek attitude, and good sportsmanship, I give him a 5 for the forum.

[Slynky]

Oh, and I'm ready to try again, Asmala... .

As you might know, I prefer the standard KOTH startup @ 48-hour turnaround.

When you get a chance of course...