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

[Alneyan]

See how efficient my propaganda is? Slynky, who beat me in our only KOTH game, is now singing my praises. A few months ago, I did not make it to his poll of the best players, and now I am in his top 10, or even top 5. I merely need to increase a bit my reputation, and he will make me the best player out there. Of course, I hope everybody will conveniently forget I have a knack for losing fleet vs fleet battles, and seldom take such gambles anymore.

Kidding aside, Geo is quite right in saying he has a weak economy. Economies are always too weak, even if you are beating a world-record of expansion. And there is no such thing as having too many resources and/or research; you have 700,000 research points by turn 75? You should have had one million! Ah, you have one million? Better try to reach one million and a half then.

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[Captain Kwok]

I'll be getting a few turns in later today Brian.

I screwed up against that fleet of yours - I was playing the turn too fast and missed the log message about the minefield being swept in Jokala or I would have been able to intercept the fleet at that other warp point and killed it before the drones got out. Fortunately, I noticed you were employing lots of missiles and drones so my next generation of ships are loading with PDC.

[geoschmo]

Captain Kwok said:
I screwed up against that fleet of yours - I was playing the turn too fast and missed the log message about the minefield being swept in Jokala or I would have been able to intercept the fleet at that other warp point and killed it before the drones got out.

Maybe not. I thought you don't get a message if they completely sweep the fleet and don't take damage in the process?

Geoschmo

[Alneyan]

There is a message if they sweep the minefield without taking damage (or if they partially sweep it), since the 1.91 patch I think. If memory serves, there was no message with 1.84 and below.

[Captain Kwok]

I got another message a couple turns later when another field was swept.

[Renegade 13]

Alneyan, since you're looking after the KOTH page now, could you please move me up the hill? I just won my game with Ragnarok. I think I'll be playing Parabolize now.

Raising his notched sword above his head, then driving it into the muddy ground that has been mixed with an equal part of blood from both sides, Renegade picks up the broken body of Warlord Ragnarok, and with a mighty heave, throws him down the hill to the very bottom. With a huge gasp, he then sits down, nursing the cuts, bruises and scrapes inflicted upon him by the defeated Ragnarok. Leaning on his notched and dull sword, Renegade then pulls himself to his feet and begins the long climb to the next level area on the hill. As he walks, he pulls a whet stone from his pocket, and begins re-sharpening his dull sword. Slipping occaisionally on the bloody ground, he continues marching, past the broken spears and notched swords that occaisionally can be seen covered in rust and half buried in the ground, remnants of former champions who had fallen before reaching the top of the hill. Finally, reaching the Last plateau before the top of the hill, Renegade surveys the lands around him. Looking down at the bottom of the hill below, the sounds of battle reach him, of victors conquering, and the losers being left behind, to fight those who have recently met their fate and been cast down to fight their way up again. Careful not to slip and fall, he surveys the dizzying height, then backs away from the edge. Suddenly, he becomes aware of another presence on the plateau. Sitting on a rock is a man with a large spear and a slightly curved sword. Renegade turns, and yells, "Do you oppose my march up this hill? Will you dare try to stop my challenge of the current "king" of this hill? If it is so, prepare to meet your fate, and join all of those who have been cast down to the bottom by my sword! Parabolize, do what you can, we will meet this day on the field of battle!!"

2404.5: Warlord Ragnarok surrenders to the Tyrellian Imperium. I had a better start than he had, and managed to expand into many more systems than he could. I slipped into lots of his systems, and he really couldn't stop my colony ships from creating colonies in his territories. He had more advanced weaponry on his ships, but I had the advantage of ECM 2 and CS 2. In the end, he tried a strike against some of my holdings in his systems, which caught me by surprise and destroyed about a dozen of my LC's but by then it was too little too late. The next turn I launched a strike with 25 ships, and wiped out all his homeworlds within 5 or 6 turns, then met his 18 ship fleet that had destroyed my 12. I lost about 6 ships to heavy damage, but he lost all his war ships. At that point, Rags surrendered to me.

I wish you luck Ragnarok, on your next game. You were a pleasure to play against.

[Alneyan]

Like a virgin, updated for the very first time... Erh, the KOTH page has been updated.

[Ragnarok-X]

Sorry for bothering, but whats this thread all about ? In all my time i never noticed it...

[Alneyan]

This thread is an ever-going 1vs1 tournament. Players are matched on a "first come, first served" basis, where the winner proceeds to the next level, and the loser goes back to the lowest level.

More details are available at the KOTH site, linked in my signature. If you join now, I think you will have an opponent ready for you (the other Ragnarok), unless he is planning to leave the Hill.

[Slick]

Ragnarok-X said:
Sorry for bothering, but whats this thread all about ? In all my time i never noticed it...

Sheez! how lazy can you get?


Slick.