[twelve]

Tapper. I just now realized you brought 2 Dreads and a destroyer to the Rigel system. The deal was for 1 ship. Can you please explain your action?

[twelve]

IH you didnt include your PN to me in your post. Please add that in.

[Tattersail_]

Action card exchange Drek?

[D'rek]

Well, there we are.

Now if you ask me, I find it rather worrying that IH has been allowed to pump out 2 war suns, take Mecatol Rex, and managed to swap ceasefires and alliances with the two most warsome factions next to him, plus he holds Twelve's ceasefire now, too.

Up until now, my "plan" per se was to do not much of anything about it, and when he inevitably wins the game throw it in Tapper and Morgoth's face. I figured it'd be good for the forum meta.

But then he goes and does this unnecessary action. Tsk tsk. And if you ask me, it's an over-reach. So maybe we ought to work together to do some disassembly, hmm?

Here's what I propose:

Khell -- Use Vortex next turn; stall Leadership one more time. This should force IH to pass so he can't retaliate to what Tatts is about to do. Furthermore, I will give you the AC I showed you earlier - use it on IH when the time comes. Big attack on Mecatol through the wormholes at the start of next round is highly advisable, but your call.

Tatts -- I'll give you my faction PN so you can stall. You give me the 2 ACs you showed me - I intend to put both to work against IH ASAP. On your next turn after the stall, send the super-dreadnought in your home system with the mech to capture Muaat. I can send you a couple TGs if you need 'em for that mech move.

Me -- Pretty sure I can take out his war sun in Atlas next round, to be honest. Might end up being a choice of IH or Twelve, but IH has pissed me off more right now so it's an easy choice.

Tapper/Morgoth -- I guess you two aren't gonna be willing to do anything that would get your precious PNs played, but you could certainly proxy-help it by offering some helpful ACs. Alternatively, Tapper, you could make a play on Mecatol, forcing IH to play your ceasefire, and then have free reign again. Tatts could even give you his faction PN to "pay back" the lost CT.

This post has been edited by D'rek: 10 May 2021 - 06:49 PM

[twelve]

What about me? You didnt mention me at all? Does this mean you fully plan on continuing your unnecessary action towards me?

[D'rek]

twelve, on 10 May 2021 - 06:52 PM, said:

What about me? You didnt mention me at all? Does this mean you fully plan on continuing your unnecessary action towards me?

Guess I have other fish to fry now.

Ideally you'd not pay more any more TG to IH, but I doubt that is going to happen until he gives you Fires of the Gashlai... though it is strange he didn't do so on his turn.

[twelve]

And I'm not posting my action as it requires IH's racial which he (hopefully) forgot to put in his latest post.

[Tattersail_]

I'm at 0 Tactical tokens, if Khell stalls again then I'll have to pass.

[D'rek]

Tattersail_, on 10 May 2021 - 06:56 PM, said:

I'm at 0 Tactical tokens, if Khell stalls again then I'll have to pass.

Oh yeah, I guess you need 2 stalls. Well, let's see what I get from the frontier explore - I did that to hopefully pull additional stall ACs. (Wouldn't be sad if I got Mirage though )

[Imperial Historian]

twelve, on 10 May 2021 - 06:33 PM, said:

IH you didnt include your PN to me in your post. Please add that in.

whoops yep was supposed to be there

[D'rek]

twelve, on 10 May 2021 - 06:55 PM, said:

And I'm not posting my action as it requires IH's racial which he (hopefully) forgot to put in his latest post.

Yes, I'd suggest waiting 'til we see what my explore is, too, as I will undoubtedly have some follow-up to do once I see it.

[Morgoth]

What was I supposed to do with IH, D'rek? Fight war suns with my starting fleet? Having the Muaat as a neighbour necessitates a number of concessions, especially as a GF heavy faction.

[D'rek]

Morgoth, on 10 May 2021 - 07:27 PM, said:

What was I supposed to do with IH, D'rek? Fight war suns with my starting fleet? Having the Muaat as a neighbour necessitates a number of concessions, especially as a GF heavy faction.

At the very start, sure, fair enough. But now you are a big strong built-up ground-force-teleportation calamity... so what now?

I'm surprised you didn't at least nab Tar'mann this round since IH evidently has no interest in it. It's totally gonna be an industrial relic fragment.

[twelve]

D, on 10 May 2021 - 07:16 PM, said:

twelve, on 10 May 2021 - 06:55 PM, said:

And I'm not posting my action as it requires IH's racial which he (hopefully) forgot to put in his latest post.

Yes, I'd suggest waiting 'til we see what my explore is, too, as I will undoubtedly have some follow-up to do once I see it.

So when I attack my homeworld are you going to retreat or are you going to force me to Duke it out to reclaim it?

[D'rek]

twelve, on 10 May 2021 - 08:08 PM, said:

D, on 10 May 2021 - 07:16 PM, said:

twelve, on 10 May 2021 - 06:55 PM, said:

And I'm not posting my action as it requires IH's racial which he (hopefully) forgot to put in his latest post.

Yes, I'd suggest waiting 'til we see what my explore is, too, as I will undoubtedly have some follow-up to do once I see it.

So when I attack my homeworld are you going to retreat or are you going to force me to Duke it out to reclaim it?

Exactly. Before I'd have said I'd hold the line, but now I'm saying I'll retreat.

[Imperial Historian]

I found it worrying that the hacan managed to end up with a significantly bigger slice of the galaxy than everyone else, on top of the commodity advantage. The hacan are notorious for building up an economic engine which can't be stopped if left free to trade. And you seemed to be expanding relatively unhindered so thought I'd step in.

The mahact power vacuum also didn't seem like it would be in my best interest.

I fully expect to be pounded into oblivion on rex by khell, but the level of overreach you put into attacking twelve had to be responded to.

Tatts I trust you to stick to our alliance, I did you a favour leaving you mallice as an option so you could go through with your blackmail of khell and have another option, and I hope the benefits of our secure border are clear.

Twelve I hope you don't let d'rek off too easy after all her efforts against you!

[D'rek]

Imperial Historian, on 10 May 2021 - 08:40 PM, said:

I found it worrying that the hacan managed to end up with a significantly bigger slice of the galaxy than everyone else

What ludicrous defintion of "slices" are you using to reach that conclusion?

The combined resource/influence values of all the planets you've claimed as yours (not including Atlas) is 24

Morgoth's is 22. Tapper's is also 22. Tatts' is 22, which doesn't include Mallice. Khell's is 22 or 24 if you include Cormund.

Mine is 2 (Lisis) + 2 (Velnor) + 3 (Mehar Xull) + 2 (Tequ'ran) + 3 (Torkan) + 3 (Atlas) + 4 (homeworlds) for a grand total of... 19

Wow, such a bigger slice, I can see why you're so fearful of all my planetary resources and influence you bullshit-spewing lava fucker.

[Imperial Historian]

D, on 10 May 2021 - 08:51 PM, said:

Imperial Historian, on 10 May 2021 - 08:40 PM, said:

I found it worrying that the hacan managed to end up with a significantly bigger slice of the galaxy than everyone else

What ludicrous defintion of "slices" are you using to reach that conclusion?

The combined resource/influence values of all the planets you've claimed as yours (not including Atlas) is 24

Morgoth's is 22. Tapper's is also 22. Tatts' is 22, which doesn't include Mallice. Khell's is 22 or 24 if you include Cormund.

Mine is 2 (Lisis) + 2 (Velnor) + 3 (Mehar Xull) + 2 (Tequ'ran) + 3 (Torkan) + 3 (Atlas) + 4 (homeworlds) for a grand total of... 19

Wow, such a bigger slice, I can see why you're so fearful of all my planetary resources and influence you bullshit-spewing lava fucker.

Plus twelves homeworld and the other two planets of his you were about to take puts you at 28, with hypermetabolism, neural, your agent and your commodities you'd be pulling in conservatively an extra 10 resources worth of stuff on top of that.

[Imperial Historian]

Also, can I just say.

Bullshit spewing lava fucker.

Full marks, d'rek always has the best insults.

[twelve]

D'rek, I'm not sure why you want me to wait for your explore. I really only have one move I can make right now. I'm going to go ahead and post my move now that I have an action to do.