Tapper, on 01 June 2015 - 01:34 PM, said:
cerveza_fiesta, on 01 June 2015 - 11:56 AM, said:
Imperial Historian, on 29 May 2015 - 11:53 PM, said:
cerveza_fiesta, on 29 May 2015 - 05:10 PM, said:
I guess the rest of you know who to gang up on now...tapper and IH are going to be pretty goddamn unstoppable after this.
Realistically if khell had attacked me it would have helped you a lot more than him.
I'm struggling to see how me and tapper are now the big bad, we have decent point potentials sure but I'm struggling to see how we'll keep up with the other two alliances in terms of combat effectiveness and points. That huge material income gives you such a huge advantage in the points race, it's hard to see how we'll be able to stop you.
ooooh me and tapper are soooooo innocent and not a big threat to anyone!!!
Except that you have 4 dreads on the field, both of you have improved hulls, tapper has enough research for antimatter splitter cannons very soon, probably he will have plasma missiles before anyone, you have a nice chokepoint on our side, a decent shot at taking the GC next round, and Khell decided to leave you alone when you are least able to bolster your eastern defenses....nope.....not a threat to anybody.

Says the guy with 4 fully developed cruisers and a quarter of the galaxy under his control

As for "turtles", if you keep pressing our borders, you're more or less pushing us into that strategy, at the least for the short term, right?
The "decent shot at taking the GC" is also only because your own ally decided on moving his two dreads in support of an invasion of our space. If you didn't seek the fight, it would probably be safe from us, too - that last dread I moved into the crowded hex was supposed to clear out the ancients next to IH's home planet.
So, basically, this situation is entirely of your own making.
And with regard to the fleet of dreads: we do have 4 dreads, yes. After this combat, it will probably be less.
Says the guy with 2 "well-under-development" dreads, and an ally with 2 "well-under-development" dreads sitting on our border and enough research points/economy to get a significant tech upgrade and make an incursion next round regardless of whether we attack this round.
Mr pot, I am kettle. Pleased to meet you.
No denying that the situation we're in is our fault, but c'mon...you and IH are in a good position to beat us to pieces no matter what we do. A couple of high-hull cruisers are hardly a match for equally high-hull dreads with +3 computers on board! We are trying to do EVERYONE else a favour and knock you two down a peg...and then KHELL comes along and puts his stupid rock ships where they don't belong...