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| Jethro wrote on Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39 |
I am aware that temperature of emotions has cooled down but it does not hurt to read this, does it?
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Of course not. I feel it's better to be brutally forthright in any post-game disections. Might step on a few toes, but easier to see where things went right, and where they went wrong from each side.
| Jethro wrote on Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39 |
'Gotta be aggressive'
Gotta have decent tech. I was not waiting for Godot rather for Battleship hull. Your battleships were flying around so I had to have them too. I was getting most techs from the Desquis scrappers but were unfortunate with Con. When I finally got it I waited for IS-10 and at that point I decided to wait a couple of years more to have Mega Disruptors instead of Heavy Blasters.
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Sometimes it can be faster to switch to research yourself rather than waiting for an ally to feed it to you. In this case I'd be very surprised if you couldn't hit con 13 before weapons 22. This is all part of the being aggressive thing. You don't want to do it all the time of course, but if it's a critical juncture...
| Jethro wrote on Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39 |
Tying force in the East in last years
Well, you perceive this as a nice success which augments further your greatness. It is not so simple unfortunately - the Oks had a big advantage and adding the ever-growing Armagons to their side combined my and Desquis forces could have not hoped to do much. So instead of staying home and doing nothing I set forth to avenge my colonies which you had destroyed in the East.
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Mmm, you missunderstood, I think. At that point I was nearly out of the game as far as fleet power was concerned. Simply diverting even that tiny fleet (compared to the main battles that were occuring in the northwest) was a victory in my eyes.
| Jethro wrote on Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39 |
First, I did not like to accept your 'if I wasn't going to win, neither were the Polanie' attitude. Don't you believe in peaceful, harmonious coexistence? Because of people, Stars! turned into dog-eat-dog game where preemptive wars are the only wars waged. The maxim 'If I do not kill him now he will kill me later' seems to prevail. Why oh why we are so brutal  .
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(I can't tell if you're joking or being serious, so I'm assuming the latter)
Peaceful, harmonious coexistence wasn't possible for the reasons I previously detailed (JoAT PRT, lots of planets, massive expansion, totally incompatible hab). I saw a chance to cut you off at the knees, so I took it. And you *would* kill me later due to the hab issues since we were neighbors. Even if you didn't, with my own expansion stifled there would be no way for me to win, which of course was my objective at that stage.
| Jethro wrote on Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39 |
I am still amazed that it is possible to wage an all-out war in 2425. My 'sloppiness' was of course due to newbie syndrome (my first online game).
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You can start a war at 2408 or so. It's hard to start one much sooner than that unless you have an armed probe pop a scout. If I had been running a race of my own design from the start, most likely you'd have seen your first invasions and popped colonization fleets around 2410 - certainly I'd have never let you get that one so close to my HW. Gotta be ready to escort those colonization fleets and interdict those of your enemies.
For your first online game your performance was quite good - you made a variety of mistakes, but all games are learning experiences.
| Jethro wrote on Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39 |
The Desquis commander changed about 5 times (I guess the order was: Wynand->Theuns->Wynand->Theuns->Wynand->Mike) . Fragmentary of Desquis leadership results in the lack of inclusive post. Inevitably, this also impaired the performance.
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This would explain the lack of expansion and sometimes abortive movements they made. If they'd been under proper control things would have been easier for your side. Not much to be done for that sort of situation however though.
| Jethro wrote on Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39 |
I did not start a single war, yet I had wars with all the remaining players but the Desquis! I seems I was the only innocent lamb, and I was surrounded by hungry wolves. I am kidding here, but I just did not realize how much Stars! was about war-fighting. And that I had such a warmongering neighbor all along...
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| Jethro wrote on Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39 |
Only the paranoid survive! (Intel's motto and now mine also:)).
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you... 
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