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The loss of an ally and the start of a Grand Plan

Sun, 14 October 2007 13:56

joseph

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Shortly after this we had a disastrous turn. Autohost had frozen and Earth didn�t upload his turn.
When it unfroze the turn generated � this was the final straw for the Earth player who felt the turn should have been rolled back. The game host decided otherwise, this decision caused the Earth player to leave the game (if this was right or wrong I don�t care � this is a game story not a postmortum).

So we were needing a replacement and things looked bad.

**** This next paragraph may not have happened - I have some emails where we are worrried about Yourba and some where a different planet (a minor one we didnt care about) is mentioned *****
In the West Yourba�s orbit had been taken (fortunately the ships were elsewhere and had not been destroyed) but the attacking force had not brought bombers (or our base had killed them � we were also now using BattleBoard Manipulation but less effectively due to having less players).
****End of bit I am unsure of****

In the south west the Ipsha fleet had clashed with the IA fleet as per our plans (the fleets had been fencing for a few turns and assembling reinforcements on both sides). Sadly the Earth fleet without orders had not joined the fight. The Ipsha fleet was destroyed with some losses on the IA side but the remaining fleet looked easily capable of killing the Earth fleet (If the fleets had joined we thought they would have won). Also the weak force I still had in the area had attacked a world that had surprisingly a fully armed Jug base � the previous turn it had been a dock � no Vorlons survived.
This meant that Silver and Cass were undefendable as we would have to retreat to get reinforcements.
Also the IA had passed us in Energy and had lobbed a large W13 packet at an Earth world. The world had no defences and neither did most of the Earth worlds.

I took direct control of the Earthlings while we searched for a suitable replacement. The first thing I did was change all the build queues to the traditional fac/mine/terraform settings (Earth and I had argued long and hard about his unusual build queues � annoyingly when I had testbedded to prove my point for a number of worlds his weird queues out performed mine).

Smaller border worlds were set to mines as minerals were short across his Empire � and where any minerals existed border planets were set to make at least some defences. The Earth fleet at Silver was set to retreat. Finally I equipped all Earth civilians with tin hats as a final defence against packets Uh Oh

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I also emailed round a first draft of a Grand Plan for comment.

Joseph
"Can burn the land and boil the sea. You cant take the Stars from me"

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		Babylon 5 (version 2) By: joseph on Sun, 30 September 2007 15:37
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: joseph on Sun, 30 September 2007 15:42
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: vonKreedon on Mon, 01 October 2007 10:50
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 01 October 2007 21:18
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: joseph on Thu, 04 October 2007 10:50
		I want Silver (and the IA fight back). By: joseph on Thu, 04 October 2007 12:51
		Re: I want Silver (and the IA fight back). By: Altruist on Fri, 05 October 2007 10:16
		Ipsha: the first half. By: wizard on Sat, 06 October 2007 15:32
		Skirmishing at Yoruba By: joseph on Thu, 11 October 2007 07:45
		Re: Skirmishing at Yoruba By: AlexTheGreat on Thu, 11 October 2007 09:13
		Re: Skirmishing at Yoruba By: Soobie on Thu, 11 October 2007 10:04
		Re: Skirmishing at Yoruba By: m.a@stars on Thu, 11 October 2007 10:39
		Defending Able (Vorlon Homeworld) - The IA complain By: joseph on Sun, 14 October 2007 13:49
		The loss of an ally and the start of a Grand Plan By: joseph on Sun, 14 October 2007 13:56
		The Grand Plan and a new ally. By: joseph on Sun, 14 October 2007 14:03
		Gates – Ship design and the “Loss” of the South West. By: joseph on Sun, 14 October 2007 14:11
		Umm – we need that Gate! By: joseph on Sun, 14 October 2007 14:22
		Worries, Wormholes, Gates and End Game By: joseph on Wed, 17 October 2007 06:34
		Re: Worries, Wormholes, Gates and End Game By: m.a@stars on Wed, 17 October 2007 08:32
		Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: AlexTheGreat on Fri, 19 October 2007 23:27
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: m.a@stars on Sat, 20 October 2007 07:30
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Hyak Comments By: Orange on Tue, 24 June 2008 18:50
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Hyak Comments By: m.a@stars on Wed, 25 June 2008 06:36
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - Additional Hyak Comments By: Orange on Wed, 25 June 2008 16:09
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - Additional Hyak Comments By: m.a@stars on Thu, 26 June 2008 04:51
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - Additional Hyak Comments By: AlexTheGreat on Thu, 26 June 2008 11:10
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - Additional Hyak Comments By: m.a@stars on Thu, 26 June 2008 12:08
		Graphical tactical overview By: Altruist on Wed, 03 October 2007 17:06
		Re: Graphical tactical overview By: m.a@stars on Thu, 04 October 2007 04:28
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: Marduk on Sun, 07 October 2007 22:08
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		Attention (Re: Babylon 5 (version 2)) By: Micha on Sat, 13 October 2007 07:09
		Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: AlexTheGreat on Sat, 13 October 2007 08:12
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: m.a@stars on Sat, 13 October 2007 10:30
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: Micha on Sat, 13 October 2007 11:38
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: m.a@stars on Sat, 13 October 2007 11:48
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: Micha on Sat, 13 October 2007 11:53
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: m.a@stars on Sat, 13 October 2007 12:00
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: Micha on Sat, 13 October 2007 12:08
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) - the Llort Chronicles [LONG] By: m.a@stars on Sat, 13 October 2007 12:26
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: gwellman on Sun, 14 October 2007 21:04
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: m.a@stars on Mon, 15 October 2007 01:49
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: gwellman on Mon, 15 October 2007 03:22
		The Grand Plan By: m.a@stars on Mon, 15 October 2007 04:59
		The Grander Plan By: m.a@stars on Mon, 15 October 2007 06:16
		... and thus our fate was sealed. By: m.a@stars on Mon, 15 October 2007 06:47
		Re: Babylon 5 (version 2) By: m.a@stars on Mon, 15 October 2007 05:02

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