[D'rek]

Reaction -> Move Cruiser from Capella to Beta Hydrii

[D'rek]

twelve, can you please confirm you still want to pass now?

(by my count you have one influence disc still on your influence track)

This post has been edited by D'rek: 19 April 2013 - 12:54 AM

[twelve]

D, on 19 April 2013 - 12:53 AM, said:

twelve, can you please confirm you still want to pass now?

(by my count you have one influence disc still on your influence track)

Still pass. I need to save that disc to influence the shell world hex. Sorry CF completely forgot about beta hydra. I still think we will be okay.

[cerveza_fiesta]

I didn't forget, but we needed to make all the moves we did.

Though I'm unsure why D'rek is chasing that hex at the expense of her whole economy...I guess just to make sure khell wins instead of us? Seems petty at this point.

[Tattersail_]

Can I do something to try and hurt their alliance??? Let me check.

*** checks notes ***

***scribbles furiously ***

Nope.

Its a shame.

[cerveza_fiesta]

I'm not being butthurt about it or anything...just wondering if all of drek's economy-draining reactions have a point other than to hurt the alliance.

[D'rek]

cerveza_fiesta, on 19 April 2013 - 01:05 PM, said:

I'm not being butthurt about it or anything...just wondering if all of drek's economy-draining reactions have a point other than to hurt the alliance.

Well, I was going to lose Capella with or without my cruiser there. If I can swap it for Beta Hydrii, which is worth 5 points for me instead of Capella's 3, it's a definite boon for me! I don't think I'm going to win in Vega or Mu Arae, so I don't think I'll have any trouble having enough influence discs to settle Beta Hydrii if I win it as well as afford my upkeep. Even then, I can remove a disc from a 2-point hex in order to keep Beta Hydrii's 5.

[D'rek]

Anyways, with twelve's confirmation everyone has now passed. The last action phase is over! I will resolve combat phase ( and probably upkeep, cleanup and point counts as well) tonight! Just in time for a weekend victory party for the winners.

[Tattersail_]

So are we going to party hard D'rek? You, IH and I

[D'rek]

Ganoes Paran, on 19 April 2013 - 01:16 PM, said:

So are we going to party hard D'rek? You, IH and I

I did a quick point tally after a few moves into this round. At that point, I believed anything was possible but that Khell or CF/Twelve were the most likely. Now, I am really not sure... but twelve has ships or discs in so many high-point hexes... I think it is all going to come down to the post-combat and upkeep phase. We'll see just how much disc juggling everyone can do. I'm not even looking at the points until the final tally, though - I want the anticipation!

[cerveza_fiesta]

why is B hydrii worth 5 for you? You get points for orbitals as a racial? I forget.

[D'rek]

cerveza_fiesta, on 19 April 2013 - 01:26 PM, said:

why is B hydrii worth 5 for you? You get points for orbitals as a racial? I forget.

3 basic VP, 1 for the orbital, and 1 for the artifact

[cerveza_fiesta]

aaaah...i see. Good move then.

Are you guys able to pull into the lead or 2nd with that move? I can't be arsed to look it up in the thread, but you weren't too awfully far behind at the end of last round, right?

[D'rek]

cerveza_fiesta, on 19 April 2013 - 01:44 PM, said:

aaaah...i see. Good move then.

Are you guys able to pull into the lead or 2nd with that move? I can't be arsed to look it up in the thread, but you weren't too awfully far behind at the end of last round, right?

I really don't know! We'll see tonight!

[Khellendros]

D'rek sure knows how to build up the suspense


She's made me feel anticipation, excitement, and hope. Cruel cruel D'rek, will she be so cold as to snatch that away from me?


Come ooooon massive spontaneous engine failure in twelve's armada!

[twelve]

D, on 19 April 2013 - 02:19 PM, said:

cerveza_fiesta, on 19 April 2013 - 01:44 PM, said:

aaaah...i see. Good move then.

Are you guys able to pull into the lead or 2nd with that move? I can't be arsed to look it up in the thread, but you weren't too awfully far behind at the end of last round, right?

I really don't know! We'll see tonight!

Yeah we will. I was so caught up in my strategy of hold steady while removing VP from Khell that I basically ignored most of what D'rek, IH and Tats could do other than get in my way that I probably let them hurt us more than they could if we went a different path.

I still think we did the smart move by me fighting Khell. I was hoping to take a few more hexes off of him with my neutron bombs but the opportunity to take the shellworld off of him was too tempting to pass up. I loved that he left it completely undefended. Though in his defense without the wormhole generator it would have been nigh on impossible to get enough ships unpinned to even reach it.

I think overall us losing Tat's homeworld and Zeta Herculis will be more than offset with us taking Gamma Velorum and Cappela. And if I lose Mu Arae I hope to take Khell's homeworld in Beta Lyrae to offset those loses. I honestly thought that D'rek and IH were too far behind in points to be able to catch back up with me and CF. I hope I was right.

Let the grid be severed and forever fragmented throughout the cosmos.

[twelve]

Khellendros, on 19 April 2013 - 02:41 PM, said:

D'rek sure knows how to build up the suspense


She's made me feel anticipation, excitement, and hope. Cruel cruel D'rek, will she be so cold as to snatch that away from me?


Come ooooon massive spontaneous engine failure in twelve's armada!

Booooo. Booooooo!!!! BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This post has been edited by twelve: 19 April 2013 - 02:55 PM

[Khellendros]

twelve, on 19 April 2013 - 02:54 PM, said:

Let the grid be severed and forever fragmented throughout the cosmos.

Remember me...as a peacemaker!

[Imperial Historian]

Yeah points are very close, twelve has the edge in combat, but it could still go either way. If I edge the GC it could be a very tight finish. I'm still regretting destroying twelves starbase in mu arae, if I'd not destroyed it odds would be a lot closer in the GC, but I fell into the destroy ships at any costs trap. Ah well.

Looking forward to seeing the combat results!

[Imperial Historian]

Oh and combat strategies! Just to speed things up I'll let D'rek decide my combat targetting, but you others should put in some provisionals for where you want to target your guns otherwise this resolution could take a while!