| Re: Fledging Admirals II: Sitting Ducks EoG Comments |
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| PaulCr |
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Registered: February 2007
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This thread is in serious danger of degenerating into a flame war, as such I will try and avoid responding to the ducks provocations. We obviously have a major difference in the values we hold.
This is the first game I had played in about 7 year, as such I made a number of mistakes in the race design I had and made a few other mistakes during the game.
The game started with me in the very SW corner, in 2401 when the gate scanning kicked in I found that the location of the Lil Halpas HW and 2nd world would prevent me expanding without going through his territory. As such it was obvious to us both that we would either have to enter a full alliance immediately or we would be at war from the very start. Luckily the hab settings for us both complemented each other very well and by 2404 we had already agreed to a full alliance, there was a 5yr notice period allowing either side to break but given our hab compatibility and intercolonisation it was pretty much guarenteed to last the entire game. Given my committment to loyalty the only reason I would have broken the alliance is if I thought the lil halpas were betraying it or if they ignored the agreements with other races, I would have stuck to it even if he had turned out weak rathe than strong and that is a position I have found myself in in another game. The lil halpas were completely loyal though and despite claims by the ducks that he was breaking the agreement we had with him, whenever I asked him for details, ie the locations of ships that were breaking the agreements he failed to respond. Despite him knowing about our 5 year notice period and that I would be willing to break the alliance with the lil halpas if others could prove he was delibrately breaking the agreements we had with them.
Pretty quickly I started exchanging messages with the ducks and if I hadn't already been allied I almost certainly would have allied at that stage. I did offer him the opportunity to join our alliance which he rejected, if he had accepted I would have kept to it until we were the last 3 remaining and then propose the 3 of us fight it out to be the eventual winner.
I had some contact with the Andorians fairly early when he tried to convince me to attack the lil halpas, we eventually clashed over a planet and eventually came to a cease fire.
The remaining races apart from the Tsunami were well away from my territory and I had pretty much no contact with them. Apart from Haliburton all of them were practically dead or had dropped by the time it would have been worth contacting them anyway.
There was some communication between me and Jack sparrow shortly before he dropped but he was so far from us and in the area we had agreed with the ducks not to enter there was nothing we could do to help, I did offer to give him an armed ship deep in my territory and bring in some tech ships for him to attack but by then it was already too late for it to have helped. I did give him some advice on how to defend against the ducks and looking at the public scores the ducks advance on him did seem to slow down after that point.
By this point it was obvious that we we were up against the remaining races of the Ducks, Haliburton, Andorian, Tsunami and Andrla although they were at the complete opposite end of the map and I had no contact with him through the entire game.
The notice period for our agreement with the ducks was given and after that ended the lil halpas concentrated his attacks against the ducks, he did seem to lose a couple of planets to packet attacks in the early stage of the war but then he appears to having been rolloing through the ducks territoryalmost without loss.
The andorians and ducks did bring a large fleet through the wormhole, and other than 2 yellow planets of mine with about 50k pop and no defenses the entire fleet was wiped out with almost no loss on our side. The 2 yellows the ducks did take were wiped out almost immediately. That fleet was stronger than the fleet he has just brought through so why he thinks that would have faired any better is beyond me. We were outproducing their entire alliance, we were winning practically every battle and we were in the process of changing tactics to take out the Andorians rather than concentrating on the Ducks since if he got to C16 for the dreadnaught he would have been able to out init or Beamer and Arm BBs. I expect their alliance to be at C14 and probably racing to try and get to C16 before we had done enough damage to make it inconsequential.
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