[Galactic Council]

Battle 4: 304 said:

IH vs cubes

Nukes: yes
Missiles: no
Shields: no
Computers: yes
Specials: none

IH nukes cubes, takes hex.

Influence?

rep draw: none

[Galactic Council]

Battle 5: 232 said:

D'rek vs cubes

Nukes: yes
Missiles: no
Shields: no
Computers: yes
Specials: Absorption Field

D'rek nukes cubes, takes hex.

Influence?

rep draw: none

[Galactic Council]

Battle 6: 230 said:

Gnaw vs cubes

Nukes: yes
Missiles: yes
Shields: no
Computers: yes
Specials: none

Gnaw nukes cubes, takes hex.

Influence?

rep draw: none

[Galactic Council]

Battle 7: 228 said:

Khell vs. Tatts & Gnaw

Nukes: yes
Missiles: yes
Shields: no
Computers: yes
Specials: Point Defense

Tatts: 1x Cruiser 5 init, 3/3 health, +2 comp, 2x ION cannon. 1#2d6x4
Khell: 1x Int 1 init, 1/1 health, +1 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon. 1#1d6x5
Gnaw: 1x Int 3 init, 1/1 health, 1x PLASMA missile. 1xION cannon. 1#2d6x6 (Missile) 1#1d6x6 (cannon)

Firing order: Gnaw missiles -> Tatts cruiser -> Gnaw int -> Khell int

Retreat is not possible

Battle orders: ?

Engagement Missile:

r5 228 Missiles: Gnaw 1x PLASMA battery. 1#2d6x6

http://orokos.com/roll/154006#
Description
r5 228 Missiles: Gnaw 1x PLASMA battery. 1#2d6x6
Results
1#2d6x6: 1 # 2 [2d6x6=6, 4]

One hit for two points of damage. Interceptor destroyed.

Gnaw retains hex

[Galactic Council]

Battle 8: 226 said:

D'rek vs. Gnaw

Nukes: yes
Missiles: yes
Shields: see special
Computers: no
Specials: Absorption Field

Gnaw: 1x Int 3 init, 1/1 health, 1x PLASMA missile battery. 1#2d6x6
D'rek: 1x Int 3 init, 3/3 health, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x6
Gnaw: 1x Int 3 init, 1/1 health, 1x ION cannon . 1#1d6x6

Firing order: Gnaw missile -> D'rek -> Gnaw cannon

Retreat is possible for D'rek

Battle orders: to the death


Engagement Missiles:

r5 226 Missiles: Gnaw 1x PLASMA missile. 1#2d6x6

http://orokos.com/roll/154007#
Description
r5 226 Missiles: Gnaw 1x PLASMA missile. 1#2d6x6
Results
1#2d6x6: 1 # 0 [2d6x6=2, 5]
both miss.

Both interceptors survive

Engagement One:

r5 226 Eng One: D'rek: 1x Int, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x6. Gnaw: 1x Int, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x6.


http://orokos.com/roll/154008#
Description
r5 226 Eng One: D'rek: 1x Int, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x6. Gnaw: 1x Int, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x6.
Results

engagement
1#1d6x6: 1 # 0 [1d6x6=4]
1#1d6x6: 1 # 2 [1d6x6=6]
D mises, Gnaw hits.

1#1d6x6: 1 # 2 [1d6x6=6]
D'rek hits. Gnaw destroyed.

1#1d6x6: 1 # 2 [1d6x6=6]
1#1d6x6: 1 # 2 [1d6x6=6]
1#1d6x6: 1 # 0 [1d6x6=3]
1#1d6x6: 1 # 0 [1d6x6=3]
1#1d6x6: 1 # 0 [1d6x6=2]

Khell retains hex.


Rep Draw:

[Galactic Council]

Battle 9: 213 said:

D'rek vs cubes

Nukes: yes
Missiles: no
Shields: no
Computers: yes
Specials: Absorption Field


D'rek nukes cubes, takes hex.


Influence?

rep draw: none

[Khellendros]

Galactic Council, on 09 December 2013 - 05:47 PM, said:

http://orokos.com/roll/154006#
Description
r5 228 Missiles: Gnaw 1x PLASMA battery. 1#2d6x6
Results
1#2d6x6: 1 # 2 [2d6x6=6, 4]

One hit for two points of damage. Interceptor destroyed.

[/indent]Gnaw retains hex

Hehe, nice shooting Gnaw



Thanks for the defence of my homeworld D'rek, much appreciated.

[Galactic Council]

Battle 10: 204 said:

IH vs Ancient Ship

Nukes: yes
Missiles: no
Shields: no
Computers: yes
Specials: none

IH: 1x cruiser. 3 init, 5/5 health, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4
Ancient: 1x standard ship. 2 init, 2/2 health, +1 comp, 2x ION cannon. 1#2d6x5

Firing order: IH -> ancient

Engagement One:

r5 204 Eng One. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4. Anc: 1x Base, +1 comp, 2x ION cannon. 1#2d6x5

http://orokos.com/roll/154009#
Description
r5 204 Eng One. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4. Anc: 1x Base, +1 comp, 2x ION cannon. 1#2d6x5
Results

1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=1]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 1 [2d6x5=4, 5]
IH misses, Ancient hits twice. 3/5 and 2/2

1#1d6x4: 1 # 1 [1d6x4=5]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 0 [2d6x5=4, 1]
One hit each. 2/5 and 1/2

1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=3]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 0 [2d6x5=3, 1]
Both miss

1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=2]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 0 [2d6x5=4, 2]

Both miss.


http://orokos.com/roll/154010#
Description
5 204 Eng One. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4. Anc: 1x Base, +1 comp, 2x ION cannon. 1#2d6x5
Results

1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=2]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 0 [2d6x5=3, 1]
Both miss

1#1d6x4: 1 # 1 [1d6x4=5]
Ancient destroyed.

1#2d6x5: 1 # 0 [2d6x5=4, 2]
1#1d6x4: 1 # 1 [1d6x4=5]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 1 [2d6x5=1, 5]
1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=3]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 0 [2d6x5=3, 3]

IH takes hex.


Red draw:

This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 09 December 2013 - 06:13 PM

[Khellendros]

So in case anyone was still wondering, I was not just crazily influencing and de-influencing, and moving my ships into entirely random spots.

One of my original aims was to either claim without a fight or in a fight Iota Bootis, and I wanted to do it near the end of the round. An opportunity presented itself early in the round, but I spurned the window. After that I hoped that D'rek would do it.

A second aim was to garner more income production to spend next round, because, without any advanced tech, I had reached a block on my production in my current space. Mission half-accomplished, because...

...the third aim was to get either Gnaw or Tatts or both to overreach themselves by presenting myself as a juicy target for annihilation. Unfortunately, that also ended up entailing the destruction of all my ships, which the slightly increased production stores only partially cover.


Ok, I didn't exactly plan my moves all in advance, but those aims were definitely in there!

This post has been edited by Khellendros: 09 December 2013 - 06:02 PM

[Galactic Council]

Battle 11: 108 said:

IH vs Ancient ship

Nukes: yes
Missiles: no
Shields: no
Computers: yes
Specials: none

IH: 1x cruiser. 3 init, 5/5 health, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4
Ancient: 1x standard ship. 2 init, 2/2 health, +1 comp, 2x ION cannon. 1#2d6x5

Firing order: IH -> ancient

Engagement One:

IH 5/5 health, Ancient 2/2 health.

r5 108. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4. Anc: 1x Base, +1 comp, 2x ION cannon. 1#2d6x5

http://orokos.com/roll/154011#
Description
r5 108. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4. Anc: 1x Base, +1 comp, 2x ION cannon. 1#2d6x5
Results
1#1d6x4: 1 # 1 [1d6x4=4]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 2 [2d6x5=3, 6]
One hit each 4/5 1/2

1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=1]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 1 [2d6x5=4, 5]
Ancient hits once 3/5 1/2

1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=2]
1#2d6x5: 1 # 2 [2d6x5=1, 6]
miss. Ancient double taps. 1/5 1/2

Spoiler

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1#1d6x4: 1 # 2 [1d6x4=6]
Ancient destroyed.

1#2d6x5: 1 # 0 [2d6x5=4, 2]

IH takes hex

Red draw:

This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 09 December 2013 - 06:20 PM

[D'rek]

twelve, on 09 December 2013 - 05:34 PM, said:

D, on 09 December 2013 - 05:10 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 09 December 2013 - 04:53 PM, said:

This game. I love it.

Me too!



I played a 5-player table game on the weekend. Somehow both the Planta and the Mechanema managed to each completely wall themselves off from the rest of the galaxy with no more than half-wormholes, though the Planta explored two warp portals and kept them. Magellan got the warp portal discovery, I (exiles) explored the other warp portal and Descendants eventually built the warp portal development. We all got into a big tug-of-war in the Planta hexes, while Mechanema just sat in a corner fighting ancients (poorly) and surprisingly not building monoliths. It ended up being a strangely low-tech game - even by the end half the players were using ion cannons and I don't think anyone ever researched gluon computers, plasma missiles or wormhole generators. And, there was only one attack on the ancient dreadnaught in the middle, and it failed. It was a strange game!

(Descendants won)

Sounds like a strange game indeed. No one took the center all game long? It's way too juicy of a hex to leave alone. And not getting military tech just sounds crazy stupid. Usually that is what I aim to grab as quickly as possible at the expense of the cheap tech. Though I like the idea of keeping IH and Tatts with just Ion cannons all game long in this game.

I think it was a combination of fewer science planets than usual being drawn in the hexes and things just escalated really quickly with 4 warp portals being uncovered in the first two rounds. There was a lot of materials on the board, so players will putting a ton of ships into sneak attacks very early, and then everyone was focusing on more money and materials to counterattack rather than research lots of upgrades. Neutron bombs, positron computers, nanorobots, gauss shields, starbases, advanced economy and advanced materials were the ones researched the most. I think there was only one plasma cannon and one improved hull tile drawn in the first 7 or so rounds. I personally had +2 or +3 science almost the whole game. Even when building orbitals I was always colonizing them with money to afford more hexes and moves. It was frantic!

[Galactic Council]

Battle 13: 105 said:

105a said:

Morgoth vs IH

Nukes: yes
Missiles: no
Shields: no
Computers: yes
Specials: Absorption Field

IH: 1x cruiser. 3 init, 5/5 health, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4
Morgoth: 1x Cruiser. 4 init, 5/5 health, +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4

Firing order: Morgoth -> IH

Retreat is possible for Morgoth and IH

Battle orders: ?

• IH: Battle orders vs morgoth, shoot until he hits me. If he has been hit for 3 or more damage by this point, to the death!
• Morgoth: retreat if 3 pts of damage with no hits on IH

Engagement One:

IH 5/5 health, Morgoth 5/5 health.

r5 105a Eng One. Morgy: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4.
http://orokos.com/roll/154012#
Description
r5 105a Eng One. Morgy: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4.
Results
1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=3]
miss

r5 105a Eng One. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4.

http://orokos.com/roll/154013#
Description
r5 105a Eng One. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4.
Results
1#1d6x4: 1 # 1 [1d6x4=5]
IH hits for one.

both survive 5/5 and 4/5

Engagement Two:

IH ?/5 health, Morgoth ?/5 health.

r5 105a Eng Two. Morgy: 1x Cru. +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4.

http://orokos.com/roll/154014#
Description
r5 105a Eng Two. Morgy: 1x Cru. +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4
Results
1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=1]
miss

r5 105a Eng Two. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4.

http://orokos.com/roll/154016#
Description
r5 105a Eng Two. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4
Results
1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=1]
miss

both survive 5/5 and 4/5

Engagement Three:

IH ?/5 health, Morgoth ?/5 health.

r5 105a Eng three. Morgy: 1x Cru. +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4.

http://orokos.com/roll/154018#
Description r5 105a Eng three. Morgy: 1x Cru. +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4
Results 1#1d6x4: 1 # 0 [1d6x4=1]
miss

r5 105a Eng three. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4.
http://orokos.com/roll/154019#
Description r5 105a Eng three. IH: 1x Cru, +2 comp, 1x ION cannon. 1#1d6x4
Results 1#1d6x4: 1 # 2 [1d6x4=6]
hit for one

both survive 5/5 and 3/5

Engagement four:

r5 105a Eng four. Morgy: 1x Cru. +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4.

http://orokos.com/roll/154021#
Description r5 105a Eng four. Morgy: 1x Cru. +2 comp, 1x PLASMA cannon - 1#1d6x4.
Results 1#1d6x4: 1 # 2 [1d6x4=6]
hit for two damage 3/5

Contingent triggered: IH: Battle orders vs morgoth, shoot until he hits me. If he has been hit for 3 or more damage by this point, to the death!
IH health 3/5, Morgoth health 3/5

contingent says retreat.

Confirm please

Rep Draw:

This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 09 December 2013 - 06:38 PM

[Galactic Council]

Battle phase paused while waiting for order confirmation.

Switching computers. Be back online in 15 or so. I'll do rep draws and discoveries.

If IH hasn't responded by then I'll probably process the retreat. I have a vested interest in that so I'd prefer him to confirm.

This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 09 December 2013 - 06:45 PM

[cerveza_fiesta]

To be fair,

Shouldn't Morgoth's retreat orders have triggered before that last engagement? He was at 3 health and IH was still at 5.

[Galactic Council]

cerveza_fiesta, on 09 December 2013 - 06:49 PM, said:

To be fair,

Shouldn't Morgoth's retreat orders have triggered before that last engagement? He was at 3 health and IH was still at 5.

His says "if 3 points of damage with no hits on IH'. He only has two points of damage.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Ah, I see. Read it the wrong way around. Carry on.

[Morgoth]

cerveza_fiesta, on 09 December 2013 - 06:49 PM, said:

To be fair,

Shouldn't Morgoth's retreat orders have triggered before that last engagement? He was at 3 health and IH was still at 5.

No, I wanted to retreat if IH had done three damage to me with no damage received. So that condition never materialized.

[Galactic Council]

I've got to reboot then I'll do rep draws.

@IH You didn't specify which hex to retreat to.

[Morgoth]

And off all the lousy rolls. Good thing it's not critical yet.

[Galactic Council]

Sorry, not intentionally dicking around. I'm testing my nephew's laptop prior to him selling it.