[cerveza_fiesta]

I AM A MASSIVE IDIOT

and this is what I get for resolving combat at 11PM every time. I forgot about shields for both of my battles and for Morgoth / drek's battle and am invoking the do-over rule for both.

Fucking so annoyed right now. I want to go to bed.

EDIT

Actual combat resolutions shown as edits to posts above

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 03 July 2013 - 02:11 AM

[Gnaw]

cerveza_fiesta, on 03 July 2013 - 02:05 AM, said:

Gnaw cruiser [6,6] = 2 hits = 2 damage

You're welcome Tatts.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Twelve v ancients in Arcturus




Missile round


Twelve dreads [1,2,4,5,2,6,6,5] = 6 hits

Ancients destroyed.

Victory points

Awaiting outcome of d'rek v Morgoth.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Non combat resolutions


Khell v B. Hydri - all pop cubes destroyed using neutron bombs.

Gnaw v Vega - [4] - pop cube not destroyed

Other miscellaneous


@Gnaw,

What are your wishes now? You have 2 options after totally bankrupting yourself. You can continue to sit there building resources at a minimal level and research for extra VPs and see how your ranking stacks up against the others, or you can remove yourself from the game entirely.

Staying means that your ships stay put (although you cannot move them). Quitting means all of your pieces come off the board and you are out.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Off to bed now. Yeesh... that took about 2x as long as it was supposed to.

[Gnaw]

What about Vega?

Edit: nvm

This post has been edited by Gnaw: 03 July 2013 - 02:47 AM

[D'rek]

cerveza_fiesta, on 03 July 2013 - 01:50 AM, said:

D'rek v Morgoth in Eta Geminorum


Round 1

D'rek cruiser [5]
D'rek dread [6,2] = 1 hit = 1 damage
Morgoth cruiser [3]
Morgoth dreads [2,4,4,3]

Morgoth dread sustains 1 damage

round 2

D'rek cruiser [1]
D'rek dread [3,4]
Morgoth cruiser [4]
Morgoth dreads [2,2,6,6] = 2 hits

D'rek dread sustains 2 damage

Round 3


D'rek cruiser [6] = 1 hit = 1 damageD'rek dread [4,3] Morgoth cruiser [3]Morgoth dreads [3,3,3,6] = 1 hit = 1 damageMorgoth and d'rek dread sustain 1 damage eachRound 4

D'rek cruiser [6] = 1 hit = 1 damage
Morgoth Dread destroyedD'rek dread [1,2]
COMBAT PAUSED, Awaiting orders

So far so good. My further orders are to continue the course and blast those flimsy exiles out of the sky.

[Gnaw]

cerveza_fiesta, on 03 July 2013 - 02:45 AM, said:

You have 2 options after totally bankrupting yourself. You can continue to sit there building resources at a minimal level and research for extra VPs and see how your ranking stacks up against the others, or you can remove yourself from the game entirely.

Staying means that your ships stay put (although you cannot move them). Quitting means all of your pieces come off the board and you are out.

No I only have one option. The first is if your discs and ships are destroyed in battle.

Going bankrupt is pieces off the board and out.

[Gnaw]

Gnaw, on 03 July 2013 - 01:14 AM, said:

Don't forget my reputation tiles when it's my turn. I may be out first but that doesn't mean I can't outpoint somebody else

1 tile for a battle
1 for an interceptor
2 for a cruiser.

And since it was all in the same battle I'm only allowed to keep 1. Bummer.

[twelve]

@ CF

After going bankrupt without eventually going into the black all his pieces are removed from the game. He is completely out of the game.

Edit

Nvm Gnaw beat me to the punch

This post has been edited by twelve: 03 July 2013 - 03:15 AM

[Imperial Historian]

Every time I think I know where this game is going... everything changes. I love this game.

[Morgoth]

my cruiser has two cannons I believe.

[Gnaw]

Morgoth, on 03 July 2013 - 05:03 AM, said:

my cruiser has two cannons I believe.

You realize that you have totally fucked up his morning don't you?

[Tattersail_]

Reading back, this round was the round I had to make a move on someone. Morgoth was wanting me to go after D'rek, IH said I should go after Gnaw or D'rek and others were saying I should attack. What made my decision easier was Gnaw building 3 cruisers in his wormhole hex, that put him down to 11 materials and to be honest I did not think he'd go for broke. I thought it was a cheeky move that would land me the artifact in his home world and 20 materials at the beginning of next round. I did not foresee armageddon. I was hoping to just move one dread in and fight possible 3 starbases and an interceptor, possibly two dreads.

To be fair I am very grateful to Gnaw for letting me off the hook there. Looking at how the battle went I would have definitely lost one dread.

[Tattersail_]

I am going to influence and populate science planet.

[Morgoth]

Gnaw, on 03 July 2013 - 07:03 AM, said:

Morgoth, on 03 July 2013 - 05:03 AM, said:

my cruiser has two cannons I believe.

You realize that you have totally fucked up his morning don't you?

/>

It's what I do best.

[Galactic Council]

@Morgoth

FFS...massive do-over rule invoked yet again. This battle is super annoying because everyone needs to roll 6s to hit no matter what.

I was resolving that battle near midnight...my apologies for messing it up so much.

Here we go:

Round 1


D'rek cruiser [5]
D'rek Dread [3,4]
Morgoth cruiser [2,4]
Morgoth dread [3,6] = 1 hit
Morgoth dread [1,6] = 1 hit

D'rek dread takes 2 damage

Round 2



D'rek cruiser [3]
D'rek Dread [2,4]
Morgoth cruiser [5,4]
Morgoth dread [1,6]= 1 hit
Morgoth dread [2,4]

D'rek dread takes 1 damage

Round 3



D'rek cruiser [6]= 1 hit
D'rek Dread [6,1]= 1 hit
Morgoth cruiser [5,5]
Morgoth dread [1,1]
Morgoth dread [4,2]

Morgoth dread takes 2 damage

Round 4



D'rek cruiser [5]
D'rek Dread [6,5]= 1 hit


MOrgoth dread destroyed


COMBAT PAUSED, awaiting orders from Morgoth

[Galactic Council]

Things that still need resolving

@Khell - where is your diplo population cube going again? I can't remember what you specified...materials I think.

-are you influencing anything this round?

@Twelve - influencing Acturus?

@Tapper - will you accept diplomacy with me during upkeep?

- whether or not you accept diplo with me, you need to return your pop cube from diplo with Gnaw to one of your tracks.

@CF


I will influence and re-colonize Rho Indi sector.


Looking back DAMN. Totally should have retreated from my battle with Gnaw. Especially after losing the interceptor right away. Hurts to lose the cruiser

[Galactic Council]

General question:

How the fuck are you supposed to win with the Rho Indi???

I know the idea is to keep them on the move and make money from battles and such, but having no dreads is really limiting, no VPs for the homeworld is silly, hardly any production in the home system is sillier still, 2 diplomacies max, 2 colony ships, expensive ships and in practice the plunder bonus is not very useful.

The shields and extra init are nice of course, but it seems an incredibly underpowered tradeoff for all the limitations, especially considering that I somehow need to beat other players' dreads without having any dreads of my own, and being crippled by the high ship costs the whole time.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I played them for the hell of it, but I cannot see me ever choosing the Rho Indi again. Even if I'd had pretty decent hex draws at the beginning, I can't see how it would have improved things that much. I can see how they're great in the early game and can gear up for early strikes against other players and ancients, but once others get established there's no possible way I can go after them unless I get extremely lucky with disco draws.

I dunno...just seems a race with benefits that are situational at best, but not really a contender unless luck is heavily on their side.

EDIT

Maybe in a lower player-count game, but in a big game like this, I regret not choosing terran or Magellan.

This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 03 July 2013 - 01:03 PM

[D'rek]

Galactic Council, on 03 July 2013 - 12:48 PM, said:

This battle is super annoying because everyone needs to roll 6s to hit no matter what.

Don't Morgy's dread hit on 5s, too, because they have 2 electron computers?

In the latest iteration of the battle it doesn't matter because they don't roll any 5s, though.