| Re: Slow Boat to China has ended |
Mon, 14 November 2016 05:02   |
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 XAPBob |
 | Lt. Commander |
Messages: 957
Registered: August 2012 | |
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The GD was a stroke of luck (well, actually a very extensive piece of hard work).
None of the MT have been giving it out - but by trading MT parts, and with multiple players at max tech we were able to get a number of 'extra' parts - The Genesis Device and Jump Gate were happy outcomes of this technique. I've certainly never had so many MT parts before!
However, I think that the recent losses, although relatively small in whole navy terms, combined with the minerals we are starting to convert into more ships (we have a reasonable remote mining fleet now, even with all being OBRM) and vast armies (The bamboo have about 5000 Superfreighters overflowing with Pop - the orgy has just got completely out of control!) do make the outcome inevitable I think.
IIRC:
The SklogW and Bamboo allied fairly early on, with the original Humanoids being brought in very early. After the Vikies were killed we offered for the Otters to join us to halt the SN expansion, which was a serious threat at the time.
The Androids called on us when there was some Salt action Southwards, but then that border stabilised for most of the game.
Once we had a reasonably stable border ther we could concentrate on the north west, The puppies were disenfranchised due to a lack of communications, and reopened conversations with us. We were obviously happy to be able to acquire more OA ships, particularly since we then had TT25...
The Puppies escape took a little managing - but some southern planets, and a well placed WH allowed, for the northern backstab (history written by the victors? I can't quite remember the sequence) to be ridden out. We could then concentrate on recapturing his HW area.
I have learnt a fair few things this game, and enjoyed playing factoryless (a 100k economy for a -F race is fun). My research strategy went mostly well early on, and I could have wiped the SklogW out in the early game fairly easily - I am glad I decided not to...
Thanks all, it's been fun
Main question. What did the Western alliance do for most of the mid Game?
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