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

[Stone Mill]

Thank you for the game DavidG. I would say you played a seriously good game. As I mentioned earlier, you gave me much to worry about.

It all came down to those two battles. And yes, I think I had something like a +50% advantage on the high end. I'll write you back using email to chat it up.

As far as your strategies, I was going to ask you what you were using for your ships and fleet. I saw the same result, where your ships would choose targets far away.

I'm not an expert with ships and formations; but here's my guess: I think what was killing you was "Most damaged." Instead of choosing a close target, they went out of their way to fire at a damaged target packed behind a few ships.

For the second battle, you are right; not having ships in a fleet gave you that scattered problem which just made things worse.

I would highly recommend you try the combat simulator to see the results of different strategies. Most of the time, I narrow it down from finding out what doesn't work...

But I have been on the receiving end of butt kickings before, sometimes with little rationale. I do think there is a variable factor that sometimes helps produce lopsided battles. And at times, some unknown logic compels your ships to be piloted by "Capt. Spaz" and behave way differently than you would expect their strategies.

However, the Bottom line is: my fleets and ships were better trained, and I think the was the big factor.

[Pablo]

Defeat in 1.49 game

[BBegemott]

Pablo fell a victim of the monster called "Random function". Though he had one more breatheble planet in his home system, the near-by systems were planetless.

[Thermodyne]

Nodachi and I are 60 turns in, and so far there have been two battles and a few skirmishes. My pickets have prevailed in both battles and he is more or less contained. I have yet to make a push on his home systems. All is calm now, but the storm clouds are clearly visible on the horizon.

[Nodachi]

Yup, Thermo's got me boxed in and it ain't looking good! Not over yet, I've still got a couple of ideas, if I get the chance.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Nodachi:
Yup, Thermo's got me boxed in and it ain't looking good! Not over yet, I've still got a couple of ideas, if I get the chance.

Um….Need to be quick about it. The dieing starts when you open your next turn.

[Nodachi]

You got me! Thank you for a fun game.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Nodachi:
You got me! Thank you for a fun game.

And just like that it is over! One glance at the Thermolian Hordes about to fall upon their home worlds, and the war is over.

Thanks for the game my friend. I suspect that you were not aware of how close we started. I was able to turn back both of your exploration fleets and then move to box you in. After that it was just a mater of time.

[Ragnarok]

Update on the game between Darkhorse and myself.

It is going slow. We play about 2 turns a day. We haven't be able to be on at the same time to get turns rolling so it's been slow. But we will finish up in due time.
But the current turn is 107. I'm still in first place and plan on staying there. I just took out a fleet of his at a warp point and I'm sure that hurt alot. As soon as repairs are made I will be continuing the charge into his territory.

[Quikngruvn]

Zarix is absolutely schooling me on nonconventional warfare. Between the steady diet of drones he's been sending since we met on turn 9 (it's now turn 30), the mines he's sprinkled hither and yon (though I think the threat of mines is more potent than any actual minefields ), and now the ten (!) ship bombs he sprang on me Last turn.... I think he's built a grand total of one warship this whole game, and I still can't touch him! (I also think the handwriting is on the wall....)

Quikngruvn