[Galactic Council]

I've PM'd Morgoth a couple days ago, I assume he's just not available during the week! Hopefully he'll pop in this weekend!

[Imperial Historian]

This long wait to see who takes mecatol off me and crushes my dreams is awful

[D'rek]

It turns out there never was a Norway at all, it was all a collective hallucination

[Khellendros]

I, for one, always suspected this. A sovereign wealth fund? As if any country would plan that well. And fjords? Fjords my ass, those were always unrealistic.

[Galactic Council]

[Tapper]

I would make a joke if it wouldn't be the pot calling the kettle black.

[Imperial Historian]

I've dropped morgoth a message on Facebook so hopefully he'll see and log on

[D'rek]

I think we're well within our rights to have Blend just pick for him based on a dice roll or something at this point... but that would just push us to his first turn so probably doesn't matter. Hopefully we can hear from him and see what's up, and hopefully not some really bad real life stuff happening.

[Imperial Historian]

I mean personally I'm happy with calling it here and saying I won

[Galactic Council]

I'll give him until the weekend. If he hasn't shown up by then I'll just do a random strategy selection using a dice roll and we'll move on to the Action Phase.

[D'rek]

That works!

You'll probably have to take his turn for him after Khell and Tapper go, too, but let's see.

[Khellendros]

Sorry, just seen we’ve got going again. I’ll take my turn tomorrow morning once I assess.

[Khellendros]

Soo...I'm thinking I'll try to take Mecatol Rex this turn. Any thoughts/suggestions? I'm rather hoping that if I do so, others might try to block off a counter-attack by IH, rather than pouncing on also-ran me.

Though, speaking of that, I think the VP counts are slightly awry on the first page of the game thread.

[Imperial Historian]

Khellendros, on 09 February 2022 - 12:25 PM, said:

Soo...I'm thinking I'll try to take Mecatol Rex this turn. Any thoughts/suggestions? I'm rather hoping that if I do so, others might try to block off a counter-attack by IH, rather than pouncing on also-ran me.

Though, speaking of that, I think the VP counts are slightly awry on the first page of the game thread.

I personally think this is an outrageous suggestion and you should feel bad for picking on me.

EDIT: also everyone remember Tatts is the L1 and can capture your structures in order to get himself back over the 5 structure target once d'rek inevitably takes his PDS off him

[D'rek]

Khellendros, on 09 February 2022 - 12:25 PM, said:

Soo...I'm thinking I'll try to take Mecatol Rex this turn. Any thoughts/suggestions? I'm rather hoping that if I do so, others might try to block off a counter-attack by IH, rather than pouncing on also-ran me.

Though, speaking of that, I think the VP counts are slightly awry on the first page of the game thread.

That sounds good Khell. I think as long as Tatts doesn't play TECH early (which looks to me like he has no good reason to do so, so he own't) then IH can't counterattack you particularly strongly 'cause he doesn't have Lightwave deflectors so he can't get his other war sun to MR. He would have to send pretty much all his dreads and flagship to MR to have a chance at beating you, and even then if you've got your 4 mechs all on the planet he'll have a hard time winning the ground fight, too. I doubt he'd go for it, but if he really did I'd be happy to send some ships to try and snipe his homeworld or Abyz/Fria.

Plus it'd be really great if you ate his war sun and didn't give it back so he's stuck with just the 1 for the rest of the round.

[D'rek]

Speaking of Vuil'raith eating war suns... neither of you posted the transfer of Quann to Khell in the agenda phase. Did IH just betray his agreement with Khell?

[Imperial Historian]

D, on 09 February 2022 - 02:57 PM, said:

Speaking of Vuil'raith eating war suns... neither of you posted the transfer of Quann to Khell in the agenda phase. Did IH just betray his agreement with Khell?

Uhhhh....

In my defence Khell also clearly forgot that I was supposed to do this in the agenda phase.

Sorry! Next agenda phase!

[D'rek]

Imperial Historian, on 09 February 2022 - 03:10 PM, said:

D, on 09 February 2022 - 02:57 PM, said:

Speaking of Vuil'raith eating war suns... neither of you posted the transfer of Quann to Khell in the agenda phase. Did IH just betray his agreement with Khell?

Uhhhh....

In my defence Khell also clearly forgot that I was supposed to do this in the agenda phase.

Sorry! Next agenda phase!

Wow, so Khell gave you an entire war sun as "up front" payment and you can't fulfill your side for 2 whole rounds (at which point the game is definitely over?). Harsh.

[Khellendros]

Imperial Historian, on 09 February 2022 - 03:10 PM, said:

D, on 09 February 2022 - 02:57 PM, said:

Speaking of Vuil'raith eating war suns... neither of you posted the transfer of Quann to Khell in the agenda phase. Did IH just betray his agreement with Khell?

Uhhhh....

In my defence Khell also clearly forgot that I was supposed to do this in the agenda phase.

Sorry! Next agenda phase!

Sad crying face.

[Khellendros]

D, on 09 February 2022 - 02:55 PM, said:

Khellendros, on 09 February 2022 - 12:25 PM, said:

Soo...I'm thinking I'll try to take Mecatol Rex this turn. Any thoughts/suggestions? I'm rather hoping that if I do so, others might try to block off a counter-attack by IH, rather than pouncing on also-ran me.

Though, speaking of that, I think the VP counts are slightly awry on the first page of the game thread.

That sounds good Khell. I think as long as Tatts doesn't play TECH early (which looks to me like he has no good reason to do so, so he own't) then IH can't counterattack you particularly strongly 'cause he doesn't have Lightwave deflectors so he can't get his other war sun to MR. He would have to send pretty much all his dreads and flagship to MR to have a chance at beating you, and even then if you've got your 4 mechs all on the planet he'll have a hard time winning the ground fight, too. I doubt he'd go for it, but if he really did I'd be happy to send some ships to try and snipe his homeworld or Abyz/Fria.

Plus it'd be really great if you ate his war sun and didn't give it back so he's stuck with just the 1 for the rest of the round.

I don't think I can reach MR with War Suns/mechs - they're blocked off. But I can reach it with my flagship, dreads, and regular infantry.