[Tapper]

D, on 22 May 2013 - 08:22 PM, said:

Tapper, on 22 May 2013 - 08:21 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 22 May 2013 - 08:00 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 22 May 2013 - 04:39 PM, said:

I simply want an overview, to see people's economic situation. It's hardly a strange request, and I doubt I'm the only one who would like a map update a little fresher than the current one.


However, seeing as how that doesn't seem to be materialising anytime soon. *sigh*

I guess I'll build a dreadnought in my starting system.

When in danger or in doubt,Run in circles, scream and shout.
Or build a battleship. Isn't that how WWI got started?

Nah, for that, other people have to build battleships too.

* looks at D'rek's upgrades and Twelve's comments *

Dammit. What does a galactic trench look like?
At the least I can build 3 of those at the same time....

I don't get it.

WW 1 started because of an international arms race, generals spoiling to use their toys and politicians thinking their neighbours were asking for a drubbing.
Twelve will build 2 dreads this round. You spent upgrades on yours. Morghy builds one. So, the arms race is on.

[D'rek]

Tapper, on 22 May 2013 - 08:32 PM, said:

D, on 22 May 2013 - 08:22 PM, said:

Tapper, on 22 May 2013 - 08:21 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 22 May 2013 - 08:00 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 22 May 2013 - 04:39 PM, said:

I simply want an overview, to see people's economic situation. It's hardly a strange request, and I doubt I'm the only one who would like a map update a little fresher than the current one.


However, seeing as how that doesn't seem to be materialising anytime soon. *sigh*

I guess I'll build a dreadnought in my starting system.

When in danger or in doubt,Run in circles, scream and shout.
Or build a battleship. Isn't that how WWI got started?

Nah, for that, other people have to build battleships too.

* looks at D'rek's upgrades and Twelve's comments *

Dammit. What does a galactic trench look like?
At the least I can build 3 of those at the same time....

I don't get it.

WW 1 started because of an international arms race, generals spoiling to use their toys and politicians thinking their neighbours were asking for a drubbing.
Twelve will build 2 dreads this round. You spent upgrades on yours. Morghy builds one. So, the arms race is on.

I still don't get it Maybe we need a board update

Space trenches = wormhole-less hex borders???

[twelve]

Tapper, on 22 May 2013 - 08:21 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 22 May 2013 - 08:00 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 22 May 2013 - 04:39 PM, said:

I simply want an overview, to see people's economic situation. It's hardly a strange request, and I doubt I'm the only one who would like a map update a little fresher than the current one.


However, seeing as how that doesn't seem to be materialising anytime soon. *sigh*

I guess I'll build a dreadnought in my starting system.

When in danger or in doubt,Run in circles, scream and shout.
Or build a battleship. Isn't that how WWI got started?

Nah, for that, other people have to build battleships too.

* looks at D'rek's upgrades and Twelve's comments *

Dammit. What does a galactic trench look like?
At the least I can build 3 of those at the same time....

Tapper,

I think D'rek is refering to the above comment. At least I think she is as I don't know what you were talking about either. Build three at the same time? Are you referring to your starbases or do you think your interceptors are your trenches? It's all very confusing.

[D'rek]

twelve, on 22 May 2013 - 08:45 PM, said:

Tapper, on 22 May 2013 - 08:21 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 22 May 2013 - 08:00 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 22 May 2013 - 04:39 PM, said:

I simply want an overview, to see people's economic situation. It's hardly a strange request, and I doubt I'm the only one who would like a map update a little fresher than the current one.


However, seeing as how that doesn't seem to be materialising anytime soon. *sigh*

I guess I'll build a dreadnought in my starting system.

When in danger or in doubt,Run in circles, scream and shout.
Or build a battleship. Isn't that how WWI got started?

Nah, for that, other people have to build battleships too.

* looks at D'rek's upgrades and Twelve's comments *

Dammit. What does a galactic trench look like?
At the least I can build 3 of those at the same time....

Tapper,

I think D'rek is refering to the above comment. At least I think she is as I don't know what you were talking about either. Build three at the same time? Are you referring to your starbases or do you think your interceptors are your trenches? It's all very confusing.

Tapper can build 3 things with one action. He has many wrenches.

[Gnaw]

D, on 22 May 2013 - 09:04 PM, said:

twelve, on 22 May 2013 - 08:45 PM, said:

Tapper, on 22 May 2013 - 08:21 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 22 May 2013 - 08:00 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 22 May 2013 - 04:39 PM, said:

I simply want an overview, to see people's economic situation. It's hardly a strange request, and I doubt I'm the only one who would like a map update a little fresher than the current one.


However, seeing as how that doesn't seem to be materialising anytime soon. *sigh*

I guess I'll build a dreadnought in my starting system.

When in danger or in doubt,Run in circles, scream and shout.
Or build a battleship. Isn't that how WWI got started?

Nah, for that, other people have to build battleships too.

* looks at D'rek's upgrades and Twelve's comments *

Dammit. What does a galactic trench look like?
At the least I can build 3 of those at the same time....

Tapper,

I think D'rek is refering to the above comment. At least I think she is as I don't know what you were talking about either. Build three at the same time? Are you referring to your starbases or do you think your interceptors are your trenches? It's all very confusing.

Tapper can build 3 things with one action. He has many wrenches.

I read that as 'wenches' which gives the entire conversation a whole new context.

[Tapper]

twelve, on 22 May 2013 - 08:45 PM, said:

Tapper, on 22 May 2013 - 08:21 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 22 May 2013 - 08:00 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 22 May 2013 - 04:39 PM, said:

I simply want an overview, to see people's economic situation. It's hardly a strange request, and I doubt I'm the only one who would like a map update a little fresher than the current one.


However, seeing as how that doesn't seem to be materialising anytime soon. *sigh*

I guess I'll build a dreadnought in my starting system.

When in danger or in doubt,Run in circles, scream and shout.
Or build a battleship. Isn't that how WWI got started?

Nah, for that, other people have to build battleships too.

* looks at D'rek's upgrades and Twelve's comments *

Dammit. What does a galactic trench look like?
At the least I can build 3 of those at the same time....

Tapper,

I think D'rek is refering to the above comment. At least I think she is as I don't know what you were talking about either. Build three at the same time? Are you referring to your starbases or do you think your interceptors are your trenches? It's all very confusing.

History nerd joke, meet real people. Real people, meet history nerd joke. WW 1 was trench warfare, so I kind of mixed that with mechanema's racial trait...

[Khellendros]

Tapper, I want you to know that I understood the joke. It was a good one

[Morgoth]

Had the Horde been capable of laughter in situations other than those involving bloodshed, we too would have laughed. Or at least chortled a little.

[Imperial Historian]

Gnaw, on 20 May 2013 - 11:09 PM, said:

A thought IH: can admins easily move individual posts within a thread? I would find it a bit easier to look at the page one updates if they were in order of the players starting positions. As always, mileage may vary.

We might be able to do this, but I can't figure out how, so no I'm afraid.

If you want advice about a particular move just PM me, I tend to miss the opportune moments for advice giving in thread. Since you've grabbed the money development, take advantage of your relative security this turn and explore!

@SS I'm happy to play moves for people when I'm around if you have a rough idea of what to do, same holds for anyone who goes away

and things have certainly escalated quickly!

[D'rek]

Imperial Historian, on 23 May 2013 - 11:17 AM, said:

and things have certainly escalated quickly!

In a game-time sense, anyways.

[twelve]

D, on 23 May 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 23 May 2013 - 11:17 AM, said:

and things have certainly escalated quickly!

In a game-time sense, anyways.

What? I seem to remember you and IH fighting (verbally) over a tier I hex this about this stage last game and then ended up being game long allies.

[D'rek]

twelve, on 23 May 2013 - 02:49 PM, said:

D, on 23 May 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 23 May 2013 - 11:17 AM, said:

and things have certainly escalated quickly!

In a game-time sense, anyways.

What? I seem to remember you and IH fighting (verbally) over a tier I hex this about this stage last game and then ended up being game long allies.

Yeah, but I don't think it took 2 weeks to get to that point...?

This post has been edited by D'rek: 23 May 2013 - 03:22 PM

[Gnaw]

Tapper, on 23 May 2013 - 05:57 AM, said:

History nerd joke, meet real people. Real people, meet history nerd joke. WW 1 was trench warfare, so I kind of mixed that with mechanema's racial trait...

Have you read Fromkin's "The Peace to End All Peace"? He came across a fascinating cable message but couldn't prove that anyone read it.

Quick version: it's 1914. Everybody is building dreadnought class battleships. The Turks have 2 in British shipyards that are just a few weeks from being deliverable, but the Germans and Turks are playing footsy. First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill decides to seize the two ships. News is released on a Sunday morning. The next day comes word that the Germans had signed a compact with the Turks over the weekend. Churchill assures Kirschner that the Turks cannot hold the Dardenelles and the Bosphorous without those battleships. That allows the Russians to move a few divisions to face the Germans, which forces the Germans to allocate more forces to their Eastern front, which causes the already risky invasion of the Low Countries and France to be undermanned. In the end Churchill is fired due in part to 'forcing the Turks into the German alliance by seizing their ships'.

Fromkin found a cable from the Ottoman ambassador to the UK dated the Friday before that weekend. Their spies have given the ambassador very solid information that Churchill is going to seize the ships. He also shows German cables leading up to the signing of the alliance that prove Germany wasn't all that interested in being allies with the Turks. Saturday, the Turks, apparently desperate offer to give the Germans the two battleships. The Germans, knowing their own timetable would allow them to take possession of the ships and move them to their own shipyards before the shooting starts, sign the deal with the Turks. But he couldn't find anything to even suggest that anyone in Turkey had actually read the cable.
So there is a possibility that the Turks suckered the Germans. But it's only a possibility. Maybe there's a diary in an attic somewhere but....


That's the kind of thing that makes studying history so much fun.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Just working up the map right now. I have upkeeps done, new tech placed and am processing moves up to Morgoth. Should have the new board up soon.

[D'rek]

cerveza_fiesta, on 23 May 2013 - 06:29 PM, said:

and am processing moves up to Morgoth.

[Galactic Council]

Board update 9 done- game round 2, action round 1, exiles last fully known turn.

[Galactic Council]

shit, sorry d'rek. I looked at the 1st page but for some reason didn't see your action. Will process that too.

[Galactic Council]

@Khell - research of improved hulls and starbase complete

@ Gnaw - Trade fleet Development purchased

@GP - Research of positron computer complete

@ Morgoth - construction of FIRST DREAD IN THE GAME MOTHER-EFFERS! complete

@D'rek - exploration yields Mu Herculis!
 mu herc drek.png (42.7K)
Number of downloads: 0

[Gnaw]

you didn't give me my fleet money.

[D'rek]

Gah, what is it with me and the hex draws this game... literally the worst hex there was left in the tier 2 pile (every other one had at least two non-advanced slots, including money). Not sure if I should even influence it or not...