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 LEit |
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| PricklyPea wrote on Mon, 15 May 2006 09:52 |
will there be a game write-up?
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Since you asked for it:
In 2401, I had a gate scan of the Uber Cows secondary world, so it was obvious we are both ITs that had started within 250ly of each other. We formed an alliance that lasted the whole game. When we found my neighbor to my north west (due north of the Cows) was CA (Hunter's M&Ms), both of us agreed he had to be taken down. My hab and M&Ms were near perfect matches too, so I knew we couldn't live in peace. However, I didn't want to start the war right away, I needed a few turns to research and build up first, and apparently I managed to convince Hunter we were allies, so when I did attack, he took it as a backstab, and quit after a few turns. A few turns later, Omni (running the Raptors, a CA north of the M&Ms) quit too. Raptor hab was a near match for me and M&M as well, and Raptors and M&M appeared to be fighting (but I learned later they were secret allies).
Also, about this time I arranged several tech/Orbital Adjuster trades with the Lost (Ashlyn's CA - yes, there were 3 CAs in the game). I got 3 every turn or two for tech, and ended up getting a total of 45 OAs from them, 3 were of an odd design, and I gave those to the Cows. I also was the middleman for a few other trades (so they could be gated safely), which is why it shows 53 as my max OA count. And later on, I lost 19 of them in a few battles (including 3 to a Lost mine field). But by then they'd done their work, and I had well terraformed worlds all over the place. I was colonizing a world, building a gate on it in two years, and then gating in the OAs, so I wasn't quite as fast terraforming as a CA, but close, and I could gate. Lost traded with other races as well, but I don't think anyone else got as many OAs as I did.
Because both the M&M and Raptors dropped, I was able to make fairly good progress in clearing the M&M worlds, and getting close (or into) Raptor space before Raven took them over. The war with the Raptors was slow but fairly steady progress, with lots of help from the Cows. I focused on weapons tech, and made some gains when I had Doomsday missiles when the Raptors were just starting to build Juggernaut cruisers (for gatability he only built cruisers - probably a very bad decision). Raptors focused on construction tech, and eventually had 10 years of Nubians vs BBs. That stopped my advances. With Cow support, I was able to beat a Raptor Nubian fleet, which bought me a lot of time (and a fair amount of Boranium - No missile nubians, just beamers).
During the M&M and Raptor wars, Kalario (SD) started out as an ally, trading partner really, I leased some layers from him, with the Kalario running them, and detonating the fields when I asked. I didn't know it, but he worked with both the M&Ms and Raptors, passing on information, and sometimes even setting them to friend so the mines wouldn't stop fleets. When those layers got phased out, the relationship stayed pretty neutral for a long time. During that peace, Kalario was winning a war against the wizards.
When I saw Kalario freighters and layers in Raptor space, and Raptor OAs in Kalario space, it was obvious they were allied (fairly natural, I was in first place by a lot by this point, those OAs had done their work). For that, and because the wizards were still a viable ally, but wouldn't be for much longer, I set them to enemy, and swept the leftover fields in my space. Because of our past relationship, I hadn't intended to destroy anything that turn, but my mine fields killed a few freighters and other ships (probably loaded with pop). A few turns later, I wiped out 3 and a half of his large worlds with packets. Wumpus got replaced by Bob, and the war devolved to a lot of skirmishing.
Then, in a few short turns, I met two tech MTs with 10k boranium each (20k to the MTs bought me bio13, elec13, prop17, and w25), launched 9 packets at 8 large undefended Kalario worlds (and one small world), and researched c26 and w26. The packets hit, dropping Kalario from 50k resources to 34k (Archaean have 119k) I built 100 Nubians, and the game ended.
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