OT-Favorite SE4 Moment!!!

[Deathstalker]

Like the topic says, what is your favorite game moment??? This is just for fun..

Mine: Fighting a losing battle in a PBW game (8people, me playing the star wars Empire), literally HUNDREDS of baseships flying around. I'm getting hammered by the Shard Empire, a fleet of 150 plus ships has exterminated about 3 systems, then I send in my 'Star Destroyer'

The ship de-cloaks and destroys the star, BOOM! 150 plus ships, most of wich are base ships, go 'poof!'...

I ended up losing the game anyway, but man, it was probally the BEST PBW game I have played to date!!

That and of course, my other favorite moment was opening up the mailbox and finding the envelope with the game in it!

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"We are all...the sum of our scars"....(paraphrased) Matt. R. Stover-'Blade of Tyshalle'.

"Human existance is all imagination...Reality is no more than a simple agreement among its participants that this is where we shall meet, and these are the rules that we shall abide by."- Kevin McCarthy/David Silva "The Family:Special Effects"..

[Cyrien]

The look on the other guys face when I locked him into his system with Stellar manip tech at the early phases of the game and his star went super nova soon after by a random event!

Wait.... That was me! DOH. Still... I have to admit it was pretty fun. Sucks getting eliminated so early in a game like that though.

[Suicide Junkie]

The time that my $100,000 dreadnaught went to attack a phong DN, and 9 more decloaked beside it.

A grinding tactical combat ensued, with my expensive defenses slowly being stripped away. At the end, just as I looked to be gaining the upper hand, my supplies ran dry and my shield regenerators collapsed. Just before the Last of my armor vaporized, turn 30 arrived, and two battlecruisers swooped in to save the day.

[Phoenix-D]

The time I managed to catch the opposing player, who had better tech and the same number of ships, refitting his entire fleet to even better tech at the same time. Major destruction.

Or, as Cyrien said, "oops, that was me".

Phoenix-D

[Saxon]

The best moment I had was in the Space 1999 scenario. After a very tough, but satisfying fight to dominate the galaxy, I had still not visited Earth. I had never used stellar manipulation before and had spend many turns building a warp point opening ship. I was just about finished with the game when the ship was built, but thought I would try it out. Skipping across the galaxy at such an amazing speed for the first time was great, but to return Earth as the little missing moon base that now ruled the galaxy was even better.

[tesco samoa]

PBEM Game. Enemy de-cloaks with cloaking level 3 and I have not even researched sensors yet. And my empire survived.

Minus a few planets,systems etc..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Inter arma silent leges

[mac5732]

Current Hotseat game, I was able to get one of my human opponets planets to rebel and go independent. Knowing he had fleet in system, I snuck in cloaked mine layers in system, put over 40 mines over the planet, knowing he would demand and get their surrender and giving him a nice surprise, The look on his face when he lost his fleet is unable to be put into words...or when he couldn't figure out which one of us was hitting him with food contamination or getting his AI allies to turn against him....aaaaahhhhhhhhh
hotseat excellent way to play.....

just some ideas mac

[Atrocities]

My favorate moment was opening the FedX package and getting the CD out.

[zircher]

Browsing the data directory and discovering how wonderfully configurable SE4 is. [Yeah, I'm a game design geek, attend the GDC every year, etc...] :-)
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TAZ

[geoschmo]

The first time I opened my email box and had a turn processed by PBW waiting for me.

Geoschmo

P.S. My second best moment was a few minutes ago reading in this thread that my Space1999 scenario was someone's best SE4 moment.