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

[narf poit chez BOOM]

/me lights a cigar.
/me starts coughing violently.
/me drops the cigar.
/me lights the thread on fire.
/me sprays fire-retardent everywhere.

"Oops."

[Slynky]

Well, Khyron, looks like you and me. Any suggestions for settings? I'm always up for a fuul-tech start..

[Captain Kwok]

DeKaye/Fuzzie:

It looks like we're about to engage in battle. I'd like to do a game with 0 racial points, no intel. Feel free to post any stipulations you have...

[Dex_Solo]

Well I won the game vs Phoenix-D in round 153. This game was very hard. Around round 100 he dominated the galaxy and I lost many planets (~ 30-40) and had around 30 planets rioting. But then his fleets ran out of supply and I could rebuild . While he killed one planet I rebuild 3. In round 130 my fleets killed his worlds, his fleets killed my worlds. We both run out of supply again, but I managed to kill his tankers with a modified strategy (no weapons ship only), while my ships had solar panels. He had very strong mining and construction settings, but Organic tech is so amazing, just build, build, build... Loose one sucking ship, rebuild 2 of them...This and phased poloron ships vs regular shield ships + resource converter (some rounds after round 100) saved my day. And now I had so funny organic baseships building ~ 20, but he resigned . Very interesting game at all and I have had so much luck and fun. BTW, phoenix-d my race password was "beast", so you can take a look on my empire.
Koth is going on NNEEEXXXTTT please

[Slynky]

Wow, Dex, sounds like one heck of a game! 130 turns on a standard KotH map...

[Phoenix-D]

153 turns. Turn 130 was the point we were running around blowing each other up. I figured that I couldn't stop his fleets if I waited for them, and couldn't take them on the offensive (too many) so I bypassed them and went for his core worlds.

Except for that sneakyness involving taking out my suply ships, it would have worked too.

Anyone ever read the Bolo short story involving Project Raganok? It went something like that.

Part of the reason for the length was the "underpowered" weapons platforms. There was a decent chunk of turns where we just sat there watching each other, every attack we tried getting blasted out of space by the WPs.

EDIT: 'twas a blast by the way Dex, well played.

[Glyn]

I’ve found Fuzzie to be a good opponent and I expect Fuzzie will be the first Queen of the hill!

She’s just protecting all us guys’ fragile egos by not stomping us yet.

[Alneyan]

Go back to slaying Asmala, you slacker! Note that I could easily make her Queen, Empress, or some such... all it takes is a wayward lil script, and voilà! I am so prone to making mistakes that nobody would complain.

Oh, KOTH has been updated, by the way (now that my ISP has allowed me to connect to the relevant FTP server).

[Glyn]

I'm trying to slay the king, but he not so easy to kill.

Currently Asmala has slipped into first place score wise. We've marked our territory with mines, but we still haven’t meet on the far side of the map yet. Asmala did manage to slip a ship in to poison a prime colony world on my side of the border with mines. Unfortunately, he mined the warppoint on my side too.

The game is still way to early to call.

[Slynky]

Glyn said:
I'm trying to slay the king, but he not so easy to kill.

Currently Asmala has slipped into first place score wise. We've marked our territory with mines, but we still haven’t meet on the far side of the map yet. Asmala did manage to slip a ship in to poison a prime colony world on my side of the border with mines. Unfortunately, he mined the warppoint on my side too.

The game is still way to early to call.

Hehe, he's tricksy, he is (in my best Gollum voice).