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

Originally posted by Slynky:
Hey, Mark, I'm kinda curious what ship names your are using. Your "Pigs in Space" comment makes me wonder if you using such names as, "SizzlingPork, PorkBelly, or PorkMe"...

Nah, we're onto ice-cream flavours this time.

[ July 08, 2003, 23:54: Message edited by: Mark the Merciful ]

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Mark the Merciful:

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Hey, Mark, I'm kinda curious what ship names your are using. Your "Pigs in Space" comment makes me wonder if you using such names as, "SizzlingPork, PorkBelly, or PorkMe"...

Nah, we're onto ice-cream flavours this time.

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Oh, NO! I can only imagine! (well, probably not )

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Cheeze:
Geo- Playing with you? It's more like, "I can't afford to lose any fleets or ships so I must peek anywhere to find out how things look." I'm rather surprised I'm still in this game, as I figured I lacked any ability to defend myself. Do I point out I have been in first place for perhaps 7 turns the entire game? And one of those turns ain't now.

Score means very little in most games, and even less so in Koth. You may have been in second place the entire game and only behind me by a few points the whole time. In fact I think this is rather likely as it seems every time we have a major battle where I lose a few ships you jump into first for a few turns.

Latest update - turn 2411.7

Having decided that no advantage is to be had by waiting for the Flora ships to come to us, the Memnorak have sent every ship that can be spared in Last ditch effort to take out the weeds the only way possible, at the root. The fleet of 46 ships has used the cover of a nebulae system and has already reached deeper into Flora space then any Imperium ship previously. We estimate we are within four turns of the closest Fauna homewold. Meanwhile, knowing there is no chance to stop them outright, all efforts are being made to slow the advance of the enemy forward elements. Depending on the number of ships the green ones have left to defend their core systems it may be possible to strike hard and starve them of the resources neccesary to continue the war. If not, things will be going very badly for us soon.

Geoschmo

[ July 09, 2003, 03:36: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
The message is I pretty much suck at the mid to late game. If I get a good starting position I can take out a player of average ability fairly quickly, or a player of even good ability if they have a particularly bad starting position. But without a good starting position I am useless. And regardless of starting position in a game that Last much past 75 turns I almost always lose.

That's interesting because I'm the other way around. Early game is my worst time... Then as the game progresses I get better and better. So the longer the game goes the better off I'll be.

[Slynky]

(shhhhhh.... I'm taking some notes )

[geoschmo]

Geoschmo vs. Cheeze, 2412.2

Scratch one Flora Homeworld. Lost a few ships and not sure how much longer my fleet is gonna Last, but I got one of his homeworlds. The other two are in my sights. Gonna give it the old college try.

My fighting retreat in the north is progressing. The flower children came through a warp point expecting a big battle and found only a deserted system. If his ships need resupply they are gonna have to build their own this time.

In the south I pounced his small fleet that was capturing my planets. I am sure it's no big loss for him but it should give him something else to think about since I hadn't used capture ships previously and his war fleets have no shields, security stations, or SDD's on them. Wouldn't it be sad if his big fleet got all the way to my home system and all got captured coming through the Last warp point.

Geoschmo

[geoschmo]

Geoschmo vs. Cheeze, 2412.3

Scratch two Flora homeworlds. Two down, one to go. And the small capture fleet he provided me with Last turn was put to good use recapturing my planet he had just taken.

No matter the ultimate outcome here, it's been fun.

Geoschmo

[Slynky]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Geoschmo vs. Cheeze, 2412.3

Scratch two Flora homeworlds. Two down, one to go. And the small capture fleet he provided me with Last turn was put to good use recapturing my planet he had just taken.

No matter the ultimate outcome here, it's been fun.

Geoschmo

Another nail-biter, I'd say. Is there a "fat lady" singing somewhere?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Slynky:
Another nail-biter, I'd say. Is there a "fat lady" singing somewhere?

Well, it is quite tense at the moment. He appears to be throwing caution to the wind now in an effort to take out my homesystem. I have seen little or nothing in the way of defenses in his core systems and my fleets biggest problem at the moment is a lack of supply. He managed to take out my troop ship so I have not been able to capture a planet to use as a resupply base. I think I have my problem in that area remedied now and will begin again destroying his planets soon.

Meanwhile he came at my homesystem from two different directions simultaneously. I stopped the first fleet cold. The second, larger Flora fleet is on the other side of the warp point as we speak. Everything now depends on the results of this battle. If my fleet holds at the warp point I think I will win. If I don't, I will have nothing left in a position to do anything to stop him from gutting my empire.

The next turn will tell the tale.

Geoschmo

[DavidG]

Dundas Redneck Clan (Kazarp) -vs- Trithian Empire (Slynky) 2405.8

Latest update for Last 20 months or so: Nothing happening.

Military Intel suggests that the Trithian Empire are bunch of spinless cowards who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution starts. Despite their diabolical declaration of war and their 1st place status they are too cowardly to press the attack.