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Re: Slow Boat to China has ended Tue, 15 November 2016 12:58 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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 The Androids was a HP SD race, startin in the sw quadrant.
So to my story. Since it's been 1.5 years since the beginning of the game I may of course remember some things incorrectly.
Early on I negotiated a nap with the Penguins to my north. I also talked to a lot of other players and after a while an alliance with my closest neighbour the Cloudy was agreed upon.
That was a complete disaster.
The Cloudy skipped a lot of turns and was very unresponsive. The Humanoids even claimed that they had some form of intersettling agreement with the cloudy, and I confronted him with it asking him to clarify. I think I never got a reply to that particular email. So I never knew 100% where I had him, he skipped turns, were unresponsive, and we never got to set up any form of tech trading etc. After I urged him to make nap with the sklogw and he did so and popdropped him on the same turn, and he didn't make amends, I allowed sklogw to wage war against him without interference as long as I got some of the spoils. So there I was, a lone player while everyone else had teamed up.
So it was only natural then I guess that the alliance of the penguins, macinti and salt wanted to expand and probably viewed me as the easiest target. Luckily my negotiated nap with the penguins had a 10 year expiration, so I had some time to perpare before the onslaught. (I guess since the nap was with the penguins they technically could have invaded with only macinti/salt forces but they played honorably and waited until the nap was ended)
sklogw/bamboo/humanoids were busy in the north and didn't want to get involved, but luckily I was able to have a tech trade agreement with sklogw (minelayers for tech) so I was able tonot lag too far behind tech wize. So then the war started and it was 3 vs 1 for a very long time. They thought perhaps it would be easy, but fighting a dedicated SD player sure took a lot of time. But they might not have been 100% committed, perhaps prioritizing tech? Anyway, it was a very long war. I was slowly losing planets. During this was, I tried to seek more direct help from the sklogw/humanoids/bamboo but they would not get involved. After all they also had the northern front. Speaking of the northern alliance, I guess tensions at this point was not good between the western alliance and the northern alliance either, as I in the middle of the war actually was contacted by the naze, who at that point apparently thought war with the western alliance would be inevitable. So he actually promised help against the penguins/salt/macinti, and we planned an ambush. That he would gate through to my planet Reagan to help kill of the invaders. But all the best laid plans and so on.. By crash-sweeping they attacked Reagan one turn before we were ready, so I fought alone. And that first battle of reagan was actually a close call, with only one group of BBs on the enemy side left. A little after that I tried retaking Reagan with newly arrived reinforcements but failed due to a warp10-capable group of enemy BBs that I didn't spot. I think the plan was that naze should try to set up another ambush but then things quickly escalated for him on the northern front vs the eastern alliance and he couldn't spare any anymore. Didn't have much more communications with the northern alliance after that. I continued the good relationship with the eastern alliance, mainly communicating with sklogw, who still wanted me alive, and fled a lot of pop and minerals south, away from the front. Finally, when most of my empire was gone, and most of the remaining planets was in space also containing eastern alliance planets, there was a brief cessation of hostilities and I could formally join the eastern alliance. Although I had lost my HW in the war, I was able to get Cloudy's old HW and start afresh from there with a few more planets, determined to use my SD skills for my new alliance. And it would not be long before the war was global.
Btw, when I was on the brink of destruction, and the eastern alliance still would not let me in, I wondered if I could join the western alliance instead of them continuing the assult. They refused. Apparently they didn't want a SD player on their team. I still think that was one of their big mistakes. Instead of absorbing an SD player they now had to fight him again later on to the bitter end. Although I had no big fleets compared to the nubian hordes roaming the galaxy, I think I played my part to the eastern alliances success, layout minefield after minefield, helping in skirmishing and basically trying to do my best to make the enemy miserable.
This global war part of the game, where the galaxy was reduced to a big east vs west-alliance was the part that has taken the most part of the game, and I will remember it fondly, both for the grand scale epic-ness, and the very good alliance communications. (We used google hangouts to communicate). I also played a vital part in the end game, by getting to the western MT traders first and then distributing scrappers before the others met the traders, so that we finally got the genesis device that I guess finally took the heart out of our enemies fighting spirit.
Cheers to all my alliance members and our hard-fought enemies too.

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