[Imperial Historian]

I mean he can do that anyway. Remove from quann and move to arinam meer

[Tattersail_]

Imperial Historian, on 07 November 2020 - 04:08 PM, said:

I mean he can do that anyway. Remove from quann and move to arinam meer

But he can move a carrier into arinam mere and the war sun to MR

[Tattersail_]

Either way fuck the early war suns! Ha, I love the chaos of this game.

[Imperial Historian]

The new techs in the expansion make researching war suns something several races could do on turn 1 or 2. I think we'll be seeing them more often which in my opinion is a good thing!

[D'rek]

You know what tatts, you should really take leadership next round. If Twelve wants to eat up all his CTs just being annoying to the rest of us why should we reward it? He's going to have like 3 CTs next round, I say you take leadership and don't play it for a while so he drowns in his own folly.

I know you want to take tech and research twice. But blend must be upset about this stall business too. Maybe we can get you blends PN instead to make up for it?

[Imperial Historian]

Must be nice playing two races d'rek

[D'rek]

Feels like half of one race right now since I can barely do any turns

Tatts can do what he wants, I'm just pointing it out

[Imperial Historian]

The great stalling of 2020 looks to have been effective! I was hoping to try and score the 5tg objective this turn but abandoned that idea when I saw twelve was trying to stall.

Muaat with gravity drive is a monster. Blend I hope you are happy with what you've unleashed!

[Blend]

Imperial Historian, on 07 November 2020 - 10:49 PM, said:

The great stalling of 2020 looks to have been effective! I was hoping to try and score the 5tg objective this turn but abandoned that idea when I saw twelve was trying to stall.

Muaat with gravity drive is a monster. Blend I hope you are happy with what you've unleashed!

I have his Ceasefire, so I don't mind unleashing that upon the rest of the board.

Perhaps this will be the game where Twelve and I actually work together! Who knows!

[twelve]

Blend, on 08 November 2020 - 01:15 AM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 07 November 2020 - 10:49 PM, said:

The great stalling of 2020 looks to have been effective! I was hoping to try and score the 5tg objective this turn but abandoned that idea when I saw twelve was trying to stall.

Muaat with gravity drive is a monster. Blend I hope you are happy with what you've unleashed!

I have his Ceasefire, so I don't mind unleashing that upon the rest of the board.

Perhaps this will be the game where Twelve and I actually work together! Who knows!

I thought we worked kinda together our first game. But this is a game more about deals than true alliances.

[Tattersail_]

twelve, on 06 November 2020 - 03:50 PM, said:

Tattersail_, on 06 November 2020 - 08:06 AM, said:

Once again Twelve, like almost every game so far you've chosen not to negotiate anything early doors and do your own thing. That's fine but I like to see where I stand with a player. Your statement of what's to negotiate its mine shows how short sighted you are. Maybe I am willing to concede Arinam Meer without a fuss to behave a friendly neighbour, it's a 6 influence system but so is MR. I'd prefer to try and take that and keep it.

So in the interest of civility what are you considering as your slice?

Is it possible I could take Torkan for a round seem as you're not invading it this turn?

Which tech speciality planets are you looking at to score that objective?

Tatts. I consider mine everything that is directly adjacent to my homeworld and the system next to Rex in a straight line from it to be mine. Those systems that are equidistant from my homeowlrd and someone elses to be up for grabs. Either we can negotiate, concede or take and hold that is left for us to decide. As Muaat and my ever desperate need for CT a 6 influence system is not negotiable. I'll let you do Rex which is a Sol thing so it's not like you won't get CT. Add in the fact that you have a built in Hyper Metabolisim and your lover of Orbital Drop and denying Sol of as many CTs just makes sense. Now as for things to actually negotiage for I don't have any issue with you taking Torkan this roound as long as you realize you will only have it for a brief period of time. Though I am looking to do the 3 tech specialty objective next round so I guess I can negotiage for you to keep it longer in exchange for the tech planet next to your homeworld next round. Is this something we can work out?

There are two tech speciality planets north of arinam meer so I'm not willing to let you park any ships next to my homeworld.

You've played this round masterful. You get to take A/M this round to pay for MR next round.

I won't go to Torkan as I realise that's what I've just said with Tarmann.

[Tattersail_]

D, on 06 November 2020 - 11:13 PM, said:

@Tatts - so you want to go with splitting Arnor/Lor like I suggested?

I'd prefer the 2/1 planet. You okay with that?

I'm all for you taking Tech next round, would rather not Muaat get it. Do you think you'll play Tech and then move off of Arnor/Lor or the other way around? I can handle either, but kinda need to know in advance.

So I'll take them this round and move off them next round. I haven't planned at what stage that will be, I'm struggling over best course of action. Saar and Muatt are scary.

[Imperial Historian]

I'll pass when it gets round to me

[twelve]

Imperial Historian, on 08 November 2020 - 09:28 AM, said:

I'll pass when it gets round to me

It has come back around to you

[Tattersail_]

Twelve what was the main reason for the stall? No one had resources to build. You could have saved yourself some CTs by doing that move earlier.

I was thinking you was going to move carrier to AM once I had ran out of moves, then went to MR first turn next round for custodians with your WAR SUN. Now I'm at a loss to what you gained.

[twelve]

Tattersail_, on 08 November 2020 - 11:09 AM, said:

Twelve what was the main reason for the stall? No one had resources to build. You could have saved yourself some CTs by doing that move earlier.

I was thinking you was going to move carrier to AM once I had ran out of moves, then went to MR first turn next round for custodians with your WAR SUN. Now I'm at a loss to what you gained.

I always planned on doing 1 star forge and didnt even consider another until it was mentioned. Then I realized how vulnerable my home world is with Malice in the game so having a ship there as clutter longterm until I can do something about it made more and more sense. Hence the second star forge. And me stalling stopped the Saar from scoring this round, Slowed the Mentak from setting up her Mentax scheme and forced Jol-Nar to burn through way more of their CT than they probably wanted to. And you also burned an unnecessary Tactical action. All in all I felt I filled out my fleet and cost my competition in the process.

This post has been edited by twelve: 08 November 2020 - 04:16 PM

[Imperial Historian]

It's what I would have done, smart play, especially with trade and diplomacy not in the mix. Really makes up for muaats generally poor start.

Gravity drive for muaat this early is huge too.

[D'rek]

It's a lot of CTs to spend on very little ships, though. Twelve isn't going to be able to do much next round, unless Tatts lets him have Leadership.

[Tattersail_]

How easy will it be for Morgoth to put everything where it should be?

[twelve]

D, on 08 November 2020 - 05:04 PM, said:

It's a lot of CTs to spend on very little ships, though. Twelve isn't going to be able to do much next round, unless Tatts lets him have Leadership.

I'll have enough to do what I want next round even without leadership.