[twelve]

Gnaw, on 25 November 2013 - 08:36 PM, said:

twelve, on 25 November 2013 - 08:33 PM, said:

Confirmed Provisional

I was hoping you were going to pass.

Why? I have to upgrade my shit sometime. It is round 5 after all and that was my first upgrade action all game. It's probably why I'm barely hanging on by a thread.

[Gnaw]

Gnaw, on 25 November 2013 - 08:36 PM, said:

twelve, on 25 November 2013 - 08:33 PM, said:

Confirmed Provisional

I was hoping you were going to pass.

@Tatts that is not to be taken as advice for you to pass!

[Tattersail_]

Ha ha. I'm not passing. Nothing I need. Fucking passed first the last few rounds and it did me no fucking good.

[twelve]

Got improved hulls out of it didn't you?

[Tattersail_]

How many rounds have I been waiting on advanced economy lol.

[twelve]

IH how did your weekend game go?

[Imperial Historian]

We had to abandon the weekend game when we realised not everyone would have the time. Played race for the galaxy and munchkin instead.

On my phone so can't see the board properly, but what did you just do gnaw? I don't understand what you just influenced or why?

[Imperial Historian]

I would probably have built my cruiser closer to drek tatts, but iota bootis works.

I'm thinking of attacking khell and smashing some of his ships, thoughts?

[twelve]

Imperial Historian, on 25 November 2013 - 11:06 PM, said:

I would probably have built my cruiser closer to drek tatts, but iota bootis works.

I'm thinking of attacking khell and smashing some of his ships, thoughts?

Sounds like a smashingly good idea. Har har har

That was soooo bad.

[twelve]

Um how exactly are you going to do that? You need two actions just to get one ship to battle one of his ships.

[Gnaw]

Imperial Historian, on 25 November 2013 - 11:01 PM, said:

On my phone so can't see the board properly, but what did you just do gnaw? I don't understand what you just influenced or why?

Imperial Historian, on 25 November 2013 - 11:06 PM, said:

I would probably have built my cruiser closer to drek tatts, but iota bootis works.

I'm thinking of attacking khell and smashing some of his ships, thoughts?

I influenced your warp portal and the open hex due south of D'rek's homeworld. And leaving the ancient hex between Iota Bootis and the GCDS open. It even gives me the option of hitting D'rek with my nearly worthless cruisers instead of my totally useless fighters.









Wherever I build my nuclear deterrent forces they'll all be within a single move of the homeworlds of D'rek and/or Khell. And yours. *shrug*

We've got this turn with open options. After that I think we'll be committing to specific courses of action.

I'm hoping Morgoth will leave 108 105 for next turn. He'd be much better off tackling Tapper before those AnitM ships get moving.


Edit: changed 108 to 105.

This post has been edited by Gnaw: 26 November 2013 - 12:17 AM

[Gnaw]

And I really think we ought to hit the GCDS with you taking it.

[Khellendros]

lol

[Gnaw]

Gnaw, on 25 November 2013 - 08:21 PM, said:

okey

Influence action

• influence delta eridani colonize sci
• move disc from mu cassiopeia to delta corvi return grey planet cube to mats
• colonize money in delta corvi
• flip colony ships face up
• -10 upkeep $0, S 1, Ma13

Heh Moved one too many discs.

-7 upkeep

[Galactic Council]

New boards posted

[D'rek]

Gnaw, my science is 0. Started the round with 18. -4 for advanced robotics and -14 for quantum grid.

[Galactic Council]

Danke

[Morgoth]

Imperial Historian, on 25 November 2013 - 11:01 PM, said:

We had to abandon the weekend game when we realised not everyone would have the time. Played race for the galaxy and munchkin instead.

On my phone so can't see the board properly, but what did you just do gnaw? I don't understand what you just influenced or why?

At the main faculty cafeteria, aboard the cruiser Pacta Sunt Servanda, of the Faculty of Law a heated discussion is taking place. It is however entirely irrelevant for the greater scheme of things as decisions are made, for the time being, by the Dean of Intergalactic Finance and his many supporters.

Or so it is assumed. Orders, after all, are orders. And yet, what are orders if not another kind of contract? Unbeknownst to the current unofficial head of the University, hundreds of master-students are pouring over three millennia of precedence.

At the smoking lounge within the heart of the Faculty of Finance, professors of the economic persuasion are enjoying the perks of being the top dogs, the big cheese, the main brain of operations. Expensive cigars of the finest dried Plant fill the room with a thick luxurious cloud of greenish grey smoke. Muffled laughter and the expensive ring of companionable crystal tumblers give the room a long sought sense of gravitas. The furniture is new and of the most expensive design. The walls turned into a single, massive art piece by the famous ethereal genius …. . …. is known for his senseless art. Built from a material hidden from all senses, sight and smell as well as touch, taste and hearing. A single painting costs more than the entire PHD program. One shudders to think what was paid for this installation.

Within a particular pervasive cloud a meeting is in progress. It’s hard to make out the speakers, but one can gather that there is some worry. Overextension. Inflation. Fluctuations. Recession. These are all words found in the dictionary.

Upgrade – add fusion source and plasma cannon over both hulls on Starbase schematic.


Missive to academic partners and honourable peers of the Flare Alliance, Homo Sapiens of the Orange Persuasion:

There are two problems tied to your proposal. First that the University, following a cohesive strategy of financed expansionism as formulated by the late genius, Umuhu Ettor, the richest squid of all Hydrani space, control no systems that do not contain an economic planet. As such we would lose more from the influence action than we would benefit from the reduced upkeep. Furthermore, our materials income is so low we will have a great enough challenge functioning as the enforcing arm of our alliance as it is. However, if we find it prudent to acquire advanced mining next round, I suspect one system of ours could do well in your hands. We wish to make no guarantees however, as there might be other technologies that our alliance will benefit from, and we need to wait making the final decision until those technologies are revealed.

As for our military plans, though they might seem obvious we wish to wait making a decision until we see the galaxy develop come the next few turns.

This post has been edited by Morgoth: 26 November 2013 - 07:16 AM

[Galactic Council]

Round 5 Action Phase

Turn 1

Spoiler

Tatts: Research positron computer -5 == 1 left (these notes are mostly for my use. They show what my board reflects.)

Gnaw the indecisive

• Research nanorobots -2 == 6 left
• $0, Sci 6, Ma 13

Twelve

• Research Tractorbeam cost 2 science. Put it on the top row -2 == 8 left
  (4$,8S,10M Upkeep -2)

IH

• Research starbases -3 == 0 left
• £3 S0 M11 Upkeep -2

Morgoth

• Research - positron computers and distortion shield(placed on top track). -11 == 2 left
• This leaves me at
• $ 2
• S 2
• M 11
• Upkeep - 7

CF Research antimatter cannons. -13 == 2 left


Tapper Research Antimatter Cannons. Flip as many colony ships (1 or 2) as required to pay for it. -9 == 0 no ships used

Khell - INFLUENCE Lambda Aurigae and Zeta Chamaeleontis. Colonise money and science planets on Lambda Aurigae.

D'rek - Provisional research advanced robotics -4 == 14 left

Turn 2

Spoiler

Tatts - Upgrade

• swap computer on cruiser for pos comp.
• upgrade dread with improved hull over drive

Gnaw research advanced robotics -5 == 1 left

Twelve- Research Tachyon Source -6 science == 2 left

IH Build dreadnought and cruiser, in the hex next to the hive world and the warp portal. -11 mats == 0 left

Morgoth Upgrade - Add Positron computer over electron computer on cruiser, and over electron computer on the starbase.

CF

My upkeep discs aren't right. My board shows AM cannons, but there is no disc on research. Thanks! fixed
RESEARCH - Advanced robotics. Convert 4 money to 2 science -$4 and -2 sci == $1 and 0 sci left

Tapper - Use Pulsar upgrade: put a 6-energy source on the fighter instead of its current 3.


Khell - MOVE Dreadnaught from Lambda Aurigae to Zeta Andromedae.

D'rek - Research Quantum Grid -14 sci == 2 left

Turn 3

Tatts Build Dread and cruiser in Iota Bootus hex 213. - 13 materials == 1 left

Gnaw Influence action

• influence delta eridani colonize sci
• move disc from mu cassiopeia to delta corvi return grey planet cube to mats
• colonize money in delta corvi
• flip colony ships face up
• -10 -7 upkeep $0, S 1, Ma13

Twelve Sent Today, 10:42 AM

• Upgrade Dreadnaught blueprint
• Place Tachyon source over default source
• Place plasma cannons over blank slot
• (4$, 2S, 10M Upkeep -5)

IH - "Let us crush those we are able now whilst we remain strong, MOVE the dreadnought from 101 to zeta chameleonis"

Morgoth - Upgrade – add fusion source and plasma cannon over both hulls on Starbase schematic.

CF - UPGRADE - Starbases. Source over single hull, AM cannon over ion cannon

• Directorate Economic Summary
• Upkeep -5
• Bank 1
• Science 0
• Materials 6
  

Tapper - upgrade fighter with Antimatter Cannon over Ion Cannon & with +2 computer over the other Ion Cannon, please

Khell - Provisional: "fart around pretending to know what I'm doing."

D'rek - Upgrade: Cover the top Ion Cannon of my Interceptor blueprint with Improved Hull. Place an Improved Hull in the empty slot of my Cruiser blueprint


Turn 4
Tatts - waiting on Khell to finish passing gas

Gnaw - waiting on Tatts while he waits on Khell.

Twelve

IH

Morgoth

CF

Tapper

Khell

D'rek


Turn 5

Spoiler

Tatts

Gnaw

Twelve

IH

Morgoth

CF

Tapper

Khell

D'rek

This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 26 November 2013 - 06:48 PM

[Tattersail_]

Khell basically has 5 materials and only 3 income. We destroy his two ships then he will be very weak. I can afford to lose systems against D'rek to make sure I win against Khell even with his 3 ships.

@Gnaw, who has initiative if we are fighting in your hex? Khell because he is there first or me because I am in your alliance? Although I will have superior initiative anyway

This post has been edited by Ganoes Paran: 26 November 2013 - 08:13 AM