[Gnaw]

IH. At the risk of reducing the nuclear deterrent do you think I should fly a ceptor over to join your cruiser in Twelve's homeworld for pinning purposes? If he was to actually build a ship, your hive is wide open.

[Tattersail_]

Ih Gnaw, shall I think about ...

good cross post by you guys.

[Gnaw]

Imperial Historian, on 27 November 2013 - 05:02 PM, said:

Gnaw do you want me to send a cruiser to my old homeworld to help you take it in case khell builds a cruiser/starbase? Otherwise I'm probably going to attack twelve. Or pass, not decided yet.

I can't really answer that until I see what those three are going to do this turn. If Morgy is going to pass then Tapper is free to do whatever he wishes and I can't do anything to harass him.

[Gnaw]

Ganoes Paran, on 27 November 2013 - 05:05 PM, said:

Ih Gnaw, shall I think about ...

good cross post by you guys.

We've bought flexibility. But I've ran out of rope I think. I have to move some ships this next time around.

[D'rek]

Gnaw, on 27 November 2013 - 04:59 PM, said:

Ganoes Paran, on 27 November 2013 - 04:54 PM, said:

Keep them guessing Gnaw.

D'rek is speaking of my elimination. Which means they don't have a clue what I'm doing. That makes me happy.

Yeah yeah, you're trying to be a terrorist who just runs around with interceptors and cloaking device grabbing random hexes (and probably going after khell's HW this round).

Not a problem.

[Imperial Historian]

Gnaw, on 27 November 2013 - 05:04 PM, said:

IH. At the risk of reducing the nuclear deterrent do you think I should fly a ceptor over to join your cruiser in Twelve's homeworld for pinning purposes? If he was to actually build a ship, your hive is wide open.

No, if twelve builds a ship and moves he has to bankrupt 2 hexes, his odds of actually taking the hive hex without neutron bombs are low enough that I'm happy to let him try.

[Tattersail_]

Gnaw I know you have to move and it's going to be wonderful!

[twelve]

Imperial Historian, on 27 November 2013 - 05:15 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 27 November 2013 - 05:04 PM, said:

IH. At the risk of reducing the nuclear deterrent do you think I should fly a ceptor over to join your cruiser in Twelve's homeworld for pinning purposes? If he was to actually build a ship, your hive is wide open.

No, if twelve builds a ship and moves he has to bankrupt 2 hexes, his odds of actually taking the hive hex without neutron bombs are low enough that I'm happy to let him try.

Didn't even cross my mind. I keep forgetting I have the cloaking device. I still have being pinned by a 1:1 ratio firmly ingrained in my brain.

[Gnaw]

D, on 27 November 2013 - 05:11 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 27 November 2013 - 04:59 PM, said:

Ganoes Paran, on 27 November 2013 - 04:54 PM, said:

Keep them guessing Gnaw.

D'rek is speaking of my elimination. Which means they don't have a clue what I'm doing. That makes me happy.

Yeah yeah, you're trying to be a terrorist who just runs around with interceptors and cloaking device grabbing random hexes (and probably going after khell's HW this round).

Not a problem.

Terrorism is a political weapon not military. I'm not going to pretend that I had a strategy all along. But I do have a strategic goal.

[Morgoth]

Right. Sorry twelve.

Pass

[twelve]

Eh. As long as a combination of two of CF, Tapper or D'rek buys up the two plasma cannons before Tatts or IH get them it won't be a total loss.

[Gnaw]

twelve, on 27 November 2013 - 06:21 PM, said:

Eh. As long as a combination of two of CF, Tapper or D'rek buys up the two plasma cannons before Tatts or IH get them it won't be a total loss.

Well, assuming that CF passes also it looks like you and I will be last to get the tech.

[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 - MOVE Dreadnaught to Sigma Sagitarii.

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 - Upgrade Ion cannon over single hull on dread. Pos computer over computer

Gnaw - Build 3 interceptors. -9 mats == 4 left

• 2 in the warp portal (281) and 1 in 209.
• -10 upkeep. $0, Sc 1, M 4

Twelve - Influence

• Move the disk from 318 to 304 return 1 science 1 material 1 money
• Move disk from player board to 318
• deploy colony ship to 304 material slot
• deploy 2 colony ships to 318 settle adv material and grey as material
• Reset 2 colony ships
• Redeploy 1 to 318 and settle orbital with money
• Incomes should be 8 money, 6 science, 8 materials
• (4$, 2S, 10M Upkeep -10)

IH - Ok move dreadnought from hive to 108 and cruiser from twelves homeworld to vega

Morgoth - Pass 1st of round

CF - Pass 2nd of round

Tapper -

Khell -

D'rek -


Turn 5

Spoiler

Tatts

Gnaw

Twelve

IH

Morgoth

CF

Tapper

Khell

D'rek

[Galactic Council]

Unless Tapper checks in shortly it looks like we're pretty much done for the day?

[Gnaw]

I'm off to run some errands. be back in a couple of hours.

[twelve]

Gnaw, on 27 November 2013 - 06:54 PM, said:

twelve, on 27 November 2013 - 06:21 PM, said:

Eh. As long as a combination of two of CF, Tapper or D'rek buys up the two plasma cannons before Tatts or IH get them it won't be a total loss.

Well, assuming that CF passes also it looks like you and I will be last to get the tech.

There are 3 Gluon Computers. If I don't get one of the three I will be royally pissed and might pull an "earthquake" move (or whatever the galactic equivelant to it is) and blow the game up. The sick thing is that there will be 4 players before me that have the science to research it. I can easily see CF and Khell grabbing two of them. Morgoth will hopefully grab the flux missiles and D'rek doesn't have the source to use them so hopefully one should get around to me. If it doesn't then I'm done. I hope that Tapper and D'rek to grab the plasma cannons to keep them out of Tatts and IH's hands.

[Imperial Historian]

Judging by how your game has gone so far... none of those things will happen, your supernova will explode, and someone will grab all the wormhole generators before you can afford to get them.

Unless Khell makes a move looks like we are done for the week.

Also honestly does anyone have any idea why he is so confident? As far as I can see he's pretty close to being completely annihilated.

That said I'm currently reading WASP, maybe Khell is playing the role of a wasp and just distracting us all before we crash the car.

At this point though I can't see morgoth and CF not winning.

[cerveza_fiesta]

I still have to make up quite a few points here - it's hardly "in the bag" for us

Note to @GC

I didn't actually pass officially - I just said I probably would.

But here you go. I officially pass.

[Galactic Council]

cerveza_fiesta, on 27 November 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

I still have to make up quite a few points here - it's hardly "in the bag" for us

Note to @GC

I didn't actually pass officially - I just said I probably would.

But here you go. I officially pass.

Was there a .1% chance you'd not pass? Seeing as how that would give the rotation choice to somebody else?

[Gnaw]

Imperial Historian, on 27 November 2013 - 07:29 PM, said:

Judging by how your game has gone so far... none of those things will happen, your supernova will explode, and someone will grab all the wormhole generators before you can afford to get them.

Unless Khell makes a move looks like we are done for the week.

Also honestly does anyone have any idea why he is so confident? As far as I can see he's pretty close to being completely annihilated.

That said I'm currently reading WASP, maybe Khell is playing the role of a wasp and just distracting us all before we crash the car.

At this point though I can't see morgoth and CF not winning.

I figured Khell was blustering. Until Twelve said "khell is in for a bad surprise". That worries me.

I think that Khell is betting on Tapper defending the Planta homeworld while he keeps you and Tatts occupied. That's all I see.