[Khellendros]

Well.


You are basically aware of all my strategies and potential plans.


But fuck it.

[twelve]

Tattersail, on 12 March 2013 - 09:20 PM, said:

I just won my first civilization game. Civ 4 I was playing. I won a "time victory". I am going to start a game at a higher level.

I've been playing Civ Revolutions for ages on the xbox. I'm on a mission to win a military, tech, money and cultural victory for each civilization on level Diety. I'm about halfway there. My desktop it too ancient to play Civ 4 even though I own it.

[twelve]

Tattersail, on 12 March 2013 - 09:21 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 12 March 2013 - 08:22 PM, said:

Tattersail, If you want to I will be delighted to have playing instead of me.
I have no strategies in mind whatsoever. Do as you see best.

As long as everyone else agrees i'll step in. You have passed this go right?

I don't have a problem with this.

[Imperial Historian]

D'rek are you happy with your defences as they are? I can pitch in to help defend you if thats what you want.

Otherwise I'll move my dread and cruiser into mu arae.

[D'rek]

Imperial Historian, on 12 March 2013 - 10:27 PM, said:

D'rek are you happy with your defences as they are? I can pitch in to help defend you if thats what you want.

Otherwise I'll move my dread and cruiser into mu arae.

I think your best move is to move to the centre and do a last upgrade. You've already got a slight advantage against the center, and there's not much twelve can do other than build another starbase and upgrade a wee bit. Your upgrade would beat his and you'd have an even better chance of taking it. Two more actions puts you at -17. With colonizing the grey slots with money, you can afford it, but twelve will have to take off discs to afford two moves of countering you. And the dreadnaught upgrade helps the defense of Eta Geminorum. It's a risk, but I think we'll lose if we don't take it, and forcing twelve to put up a weaker defense or else lose points by going bankrupt is exactly what we need to keep him from making good on any victories he gets this round.

[D'rek]

twelve, on 12 March 2013 - 08:50 PM, said:

D, on 12 March 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 12 March 2013 - 07:15 PM, said:

Sorry everyone really busy, I should get a chance to look at the board tonight in detail as apparently I have one less move that I thought, which changes my strategy a little!

I'll take a look at that tonight and see if/what I messed up, too.

You'll see that both you and Khell have 5 action disks down but IH only has 4. After going through his actions he has only one upgrade action marked instead of two. The blueprints have been updated for his cruiser for both upgrade actions you just didn't use an influence disk to record his upkeep for the second action.

Ok, yup. Fixed it on my sheet and it will be corrected in the next update.

[twelve]

FYI, I have three influence disks I can use for actions now though I have to use one for colonizing a hex with a money planet to pay for my upkeep. So that leaves me with two disks I can use for actions without having to remove disks for bankruptcy.

D'rek did you note that I have used one of my colony ships to settle the advanced money slot in Mu Arae? I'm banking that il'll win at least one of the many battles I'm involved in that has a money planet to max out my money line.

[D'rek]

twelve, on 13 March 2013 - 04:00 AM, said:

FYI, I have three influence disks I can use for actions now though I have to use one for colonizing a hex with a money planet to pay for my upkeep. So that leaves me with two disks I can use for actions without having to remove disks for bankruptcy.

D'rek did you note that I have used one of my colony ships to settle the advanced money slot in Mu Arae? I'm banking that il'll win at least one of the many battles I'm involved in that has a money planet to max out my money line.

Yes, I did do the colonization. Right now you're at +24 / +10 / +12 / -17.

[Morgoth]

twelve, on 12 March 2013 - 08:47 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 12 March 2013 - 08:29 PM, said:

twelve, on 12 March 2013 - 08:06 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 12 March 2013 - 07:43 PM, said:

I'm sorry but I will not be available from tomorrow until end of next week. I don't want to stop the game so I would like it if someone took over for me/ you remove all my discs.

See if Morgoth will take over for you. It's only one round left to go.

Come now, that would have been unfair to the other players.

If it wasn't for the fact that D'rek wants this game done by the 25th I would have been okay with another break but this game has an expiration date. I don't see how your vast experience with only one round to go would have adversely affected the rest of us. Besides I still think IH will win the original eclipse game if you guys ever bother to finish it. So you can't be all that good.

And that is why you fail, young one. Some strategies are clearly so advanced, so massively deep and complictaed that they simply elude one such as yourself.

But don't you worry. I will take you under my wing and provide the necessary patronage needed to reach the hights enjoyed by your seniors.

[Tattersail_]

Morgoth, on 13 March 2013 - 09:58 AM, said:

twelve, on 12 March 2013 - 08:47 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 12 March 2013 - 08:29 PM, said:

twelve, on 12 March 2013 - 08:06 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 12 March 2013 - 07:43 PM, said:

I'm sorry but I will not be available from tomorrow until end of next week. I don't want to stop the game so I would like it if someone took over for me/ you remove all my discs.

See if Morgoth will take over for you. It's only one round left to go.

Come now, that would have been unfair to the other players.

If it wasn't for the fact that D'rek wants this game done by the 25th I would have been okay with another break but this game has an expiration date. I don't see how your vast experience with only one round to go would have adversely affected the rest of us. Besides I still think IH will win the original eclipse game if you guys ever bother to finish it. So you can't be all that good.

And that is why you fail, young one. Some strategies are clearly so advanced, so massively deep and complictaed that they simply elude one such as yourself.

But don't you worry. I will take you under my wing and provide the necessary patronage needed to reach the hights enjoyed by your seniors.

I smell a challenge.

[cerveza_fiesta]

I will lend support to the GC Twelve. No worries.

[twelve]

Tattersail, on 13 March 2013 - 10:02 AM, said:

Morgoth, on 13 March 2013 - 09:58 AM, said:

twelve, on 12 March 2013 - 08:47 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 12 March 2013 - 08:29 PM, said:

twelve, on 12 March 2013 - 08:06 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 12 March 2013 - 07:43 PM, said:

I'm sorry but I will not be available from tomorrow until end of next week. I don't want to stop the game so I would like it if someone took over for me/ you remove all my discs.

See if Morgoth will take over for you. It's only one round left to go.

Come now, that would have been unfair to the other players.

If it wasn't for the fact that D'rek wants this game done by the 25th I would have been okay with another break but this game has an expiration date. I don't see how your vast experience with only one round to go would have adversely affected the rest of us. Besides I still think IH will win the original eclipse game if you guys ever bother to finish it. So you can't be all that good.

And that is why you fail, young one. Some strategies are clearly so advanced, so massively deep and complictaed that they simply elude one such as yourself.

But don't you worry. I will take you under my wing and provide the necessary patronage needed to reach the hights enjoyed by your seniors.

I smell a challenge.

As do I. So Morgy you up to modding another game to see who comes out on top between the two of us?

[Imperial Historian]

D, on 13 March 2013 - 02:53 AM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 12 March 2013 - 10:27 PM, said:

D'rek are you happy with your defences as they are? I can pitch in to help defend you if thats what you want.

Otherwise I'll move my dread and cruiser into mu arae.

I think your best move is to move to the centre and do a last upgrade. You've already got a slight advantage against the center, and there's not much twelve can do other than build another starbase and upgrade a wee bit. Your upgrade would beat his and you'd have an even better chance of taking it. Two more actions puts you at -17. With colonizing the grey slots with money, you can afford it, but twelve will have to take off discs to afford two moves of countering you. And the dreadnaught upgrade helps the defense of Eta Geminorum. It's a risk, but I think we'll lose if we don't take it, and forcing twelve to put up a weaker defense or else lose points by going bankrupt is exactly what we need to keep him from making good on any victories he gets this round.

I disagree so I'll move to mu arae. Move dread and cruiser

[D'rek]

That's fine. I will Upgrade two Gluon Computers onto my Cruiser blueprints, replacing the axion computer and the right plasma cannon.

[Morgoth]

I would love to play another game, but the hours in my new job does not open for any modding I'm afraid.

It's interesting that you should mention the first game, as I was giving some thought to it only recently. My plan had been to wait for the inevtaible escalation between IH and whomever, and use portable wormholes to move in and take Tappers tier 1 and 2 systems from D'rek. I had pretty much laid out every move I had left, but I can't remember what those moves were . I think I changed them because the artifact keys were taken.

[twelve]

D, on 13 March 2013 - 02:25 PM, said:

That's fine. I will Upgrade two Gluon Computers onto my Cruiser blueprints, replacing the axion computer and the right plasma cannon.

I was hoping you would have opted to move some cruisers instead of upgrading again. That was the one move I was hoping you wouldn't have seen.

Oh well. My interceptors vs your cruisers as the attacker are a lost cause now unless I want to commit at least 3 vs your one.

Build in Mu Arae

1 Cruiser
1 Starbase
1 Interceptor

[twelve]

Morgoth, on 13 March 2013 - 02:43 PM, said:

I would love to play another game, but the hours in my new job does not open for any modding I'm afraid.

It's interesting that you should mention the first game, as I was giving some thought to it only recently. My plan had been to wait for the inevtaible escalation between IH and whomever, and use portable wormholes to move in and take Tappers tier 1 and 2 systems from D'rek. I had pretty much laid out every move I had left, but I can't remember what those moves were . I think I changed them because the artifact keys were taken.

I thought about trying to figure out how to mod but I tried to load Vassal onto a thumb drive and couldn't get it to work. Being a tech retard I wasn't all that surprised. The only computer I have to run it would be my work comptuer anyway and I didn't want to download that to the harddrive. Plus I have no idea how to do the layered map that you guys have been using. So unless we find another mod this will probably be the last game of eclipse for a good long while.

[twelve]

CF can you hold of on your move. I need to think of how we can maximixe our chances of winning in the most places as possible.

What is the action that you are thinking of taking this round?

[cerveza_fiesta]

Hmm...didn't exactly expect those moves either...and I"m not sure exactly what IH did. Was his move to Mu Arae?

Now I'm not sure what's best. I could potentially build another starbase/interceptor, but that's probably frivolous at this point.

Twelve, what do you need here? I can make a couple of moves before I'm outta dough. If you need support I might be able to lend it. Otherwise I'll probably just move my cruiser and extra interceptor to tatts old homeworld and ensure a capture of the system.

[twelve]

I'm pretty sure that IH will order another upgrade action to add back improved hulls on the Dread and Cruiser blueprint and D'rek can't do any more actions at all so she has to pass. I only have one action left and I can do either a move or upgrade action. I think it should be a move.

Would you be willing to move your cruiser from Beta Hydri to Psi Capricorni this turn? If you do I can move an interceptor from Mu Cassiopeiae to Beta Hydri? My missles from my interceptor should nuetralize D'reks Orbital missles in Beta Hydri for you and you have better inititive with your missles on your cruiser than D'rek does with her Cruiser and as things stand I will most likely lose two interceptors if I leave them in Mu Cassiopeiae anyway. This would also allow me to move my Dreadnaught in Psi Capricorni to Eta Geminorum giving me a real chance to win that fight as well.

I'm willing to take my chances as they are in Mu Arae and the only fight I fully expect to lose would be Mu Cassiopeiae. I have pretty good odds more or less everywhere else.

What do you think?