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Re: And the Results are: Sun, 06 June 2004 17:36 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Evaron is currently offline Evaron

 
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The Legion WAS doing pretty good until near the end, he'd made only moderate gains after his initial attack at best but they were gains.

The problem was that the Woblor had been attacked a few times and they basically no longer could contribute much. About all they could really do after our first few skirmishes was screw up our battle boards so we didn't start next to each other. Which was on reason we transferred ships a lot of the time to one player after that resulted in a couple losses for us.

Also, the Legion took an extrememly aggressive tactic that he couldn't hold up on and made too many people angry at once. His hyper growth was going to run out sooner or later, as was his croby sharmor advantage. I didn't think there was anyway to beat him in a resource war at the croby frigate stage so I basically teched most of the game. I only built moderate numbers of ships until near the end where I started battleship construction.

After we got the Speck economy going and I had jihad missles his offensive was pretty much stalled with what he had. He tried to rely on juggernaut cruisers to back up his bayonnets but he built them too late because the Specks had Metamorphs already, which are an overall superior ship. I think even Rogues might be slightly better in the medium ship classes cost for cost. And I was rushing to battleships as fast as I could go at this point. Cruisers with no more than 200 shielding against fully armed juggernaut battleships are little more than fodder. This was the point his croby shields no longer did enough, which was what had made it impossible to attack back. As I said the armor component was not limited by RS and the shielding was enhanced, so his docks were much stronger than what we could put out early game, even knowing what we had to counter.

Then I mass packeted him with all the minerals I didn't need to take out most of his planets inside my borders and planned to begin wiping him out from there. I had something like 10 battleships with juggernauts plus about 15 or so Q tip MM beamers with heavy blasters. He still had croby docks so he was dead meat at that point. And once his outlying colonies were gone then I assumed we could just push on his interior. As soon as I had robber barons I was going to use that to harrass him and force him to divide his forces.

Anyway, I guess your plan ended up getting pretty much screwed up by the Pionner in the end? That wasn't any of our doing, he sent me little more than threats about things. Though I knew he'd attack someone and I'd made a border with him so I thought he might go for someone else first sooner or later. I did believe you about not wanting anyone to be strong incidently. That was why I never told anyone about how extensive the southern alliance was. If you'd known you probably would have joined the Legion earlier because you had to know his output wasn't equal to ours combined and would fail when we got the PRT advantage.

The Dark Angels

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