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

[Stone Mill]

Thank you S_J; that is what I was referring to. Without big bonuses, DUCs just don't do the job against fighters.

[Stone Mill]

Lots of cool updates in here... sorry for not replying sooner. Four straight days working on the new house and I am one sore S.O.B. (removing wallpaper, repair, paint, agggh).

The King groans... even his right finger aches when clicking through the next SEIV turn. Perhaps he should delay his match (due to injury) against the next Barbarian at the gate? Nah...

Thanks for the comments on the King match (esp. Slynky, Slick, Asmala), but as DavidG stated, I must go about kingly duties... you know, opressing the peasants, pilfering the tax coffers, surveying wenches, and whatnot.

Geo- that is an awesome sounding game (I esentially ran into that decision a few times with a MAD strategy, comitting my fleet to end-game strategy... I was lucky enough to get there first, and not be challenged at home.) This sounds like a race against time. Can't wait to hear how this one plays out.

1FSTCAT, my friend, we've played in a bunch of games together, and taught each other many lessons... Good luck.

Just don't try and step on the blue suede shoes, baby.

[ April 07, 2003, 23:48: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

[geoschmo]

Gozguy v Geoschmo, 2407.7

Gozguy continues to suprise me at every turn. He is either having trouble commiting to one strategy, or he is carrying out some long range, diabolical scheme that I simply am too dense to understand.

His attack fleet completed it's flanking manuver and entered my homesystem from the east Last turn. It made straight for the nearest undefended planet and glassed it. There sitting four sectors from my homeworld, he flinched? It can't be a flinch. He's too good for that. But it sure looks like a flinch.

His fleet passed by my homeworld and headed for the north warp point, back towards his own space. I think I got a glimpse of his ship crews pressing their derobed posteriors against the portholes as they flew by. Not sure if that has some cultural significance for his race or what.

Of course perhaps he just decided that he couldn't risk losing his fleet to my HW defenses. The fleet I had there was half the size of his, but perhaps he figured they would damage him enough that he would be in serious trouble even if he won the battle.

Meanwhile my attack fleet is on an inexorable course for his homeworld and their destiny, for good or bad. It appears my HW will live to see another day. However, if my fleet is dashed and fails to take his out though I will be in serious trouble anyway.

Geoschmo

[geoschmo]

Gozguy v Geoshmo, 2408.2

The Last few turns have gone very well for me. Better then I could have hoped actually.

His attack fleet continued north and attempted to take out my frontline (What used to be the frontline anyway) construction and fleet assembly point. I had a small number of ships there being retrofit, and expected to lose the planet. Truth be told losing this planbet would have probably hurt worse then if he had taken out my homeworld as it was a huge, mineral rich, correct atmosphere world. Unfortunatly for him, I had time to make some preperations. I retorfitted a couple construction yards to be PDC platforms, and I had previously built several Weapons platforms on the planet.

His fleet, though quite large, was heavy in fighters and missle ships. Thanks to the previously mentioned PDC bases, nothing came close to scratching the planet. He did manage to wipe out most of my ships there, but I ended up with 3 or 4 combat ships after the first battle. All he had were minesweepers and some empty carriers.

The second battle was a turkey shoot. There were no survivors.

On the northern front things were going just as well. I glassed his homeworld at the cost of a half a dozen of my ships killed and a handfull damaged and recolonized it for my empire. Too bad I didn't have any troops handy, but we are both oxy breathers so I don't guess it would have mattered that much. I sent my fleet, minus the 3 or 4 most heavily damaged ships, to finish off the rest of his planets in the homesystem, totally ignoring the 5 enemy ships that had shown up too late to die in the defense of their homeworld.

Of course he tried to take out the recently recolonized homeworld, but I guess he wasn't counting on me having mines in the cargo bay of the colony ship. Poof.

All in all, the Last 10 turns he has lost over 60 ships, his homeworld, and 5 or 6 other quality planets. I have lost 2 bases, maybe twenty or so ships, and one minor planet. I most certainly have the edge at this point. I offered him an honarable surender, which he refused. Guess he's going to make me hunt him down.

Oh goody.

[ April 08, 2003, 05:04: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Ragnarok]

Ragnarok vs. Rambie - Turn 72.

Not much more information to be given. My mighty raging empire is still going strong getting stronger with each passing turn. Massive fleets are being assembled at different key points of my empire. No doubt the enemy is doing just the same. I plan on pulling out a few aces along the way as I hope that they will indeed trump any suprise cards he may pull. As always, only time shall tell. I'm guessing we'll see some dog fights within the next year or so.
I can hardly wait!

[Cheeze]

United Flora vs The Wicked Thermolians, 2406.9

In the Last year, the pacific Flora have had to recover from the massive defeat at the Battle of Neckron. The distress of such damage was felt throughout the empire, and the many Gardens set about growing defenses. Much technology from long dead animal civilizations (no, not ruins people..stick with the story) was adapted to work upon the space-faring plantships of the Flora so they would have weapons. The skin of the ships was toughened, not only to resist the rigors of interstellar travel, but as proof against the firepower of the barbaric Thermolian death beams, and their Weedwacker and Weedkiller warships. The first battle taught the Flora to include better sensor technology as well, to avoid the fireworks show the Thermolians enjoyed at Neckron.

In the Hollifax system, the Flora had two colonies in system shared with the Thermolians. Not content to cease their tormenting the helpless plants, a Thermolian attack fleet swept aside the "fire blooms" and went after this Garden. Closing to their weapons range, the Thermolians were suddenly faced with a vegetable that could fight back, and the small number of Thermolian raiders were sent packing..those that weren't punctured full of holes. Further efforts at sending spores through space have convinced the greenery of several Thermolian planets to rise up against their fauna oppressors, and whole Thermolian colonies have been reduced to nothing due to bad eating habits and a failure to brush and floss. Now a Flora tendril has advanced, past a group of Thermolian warships and determined to wend its way into the Thermolian systems.

[sparhawk]

Well...I played Last game against dreiko and I found him in turn 40....
And when I saw his empire .
Sorry to say, but it was an easy win
and hopefully he learned from that.

sparhawk

[ April 08, 2003, 14:20: Message edited by: sparhawk ]

[Phoenix-D]

"Yep, you guessed it, slowest game in KOTH history. No turns have been submitted by Dreico since my Last (boring) update."

I do belive I have that 'honor', sorry.
Current turn: 2403.3 (turn 34)
Date started: December 23

Phoenix-D

[geoschmo]

Chocolatefro and Dreiko are on my list. I don't understand why they joined the league if they weren't going to play turns in a consistant manner. But whenever I have suggested a time lmiit in the past the consensus seems to always be against it.

I don't know how to fix it.

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"Yep, you guessed it, slowest game in KOTH history. No turns have been submitted by Dreico since my Last (boring) update."

I do belive I have that 'honor', sorry.
Current turn: 2403.3 (turn 34)
Date started: December 23

Phoenix-D

There's a saying that goes (something like):

"I felt sorry for myself because I had no feet. Then I saw a man with no legs."

(I guess I don't know how good I have it )