Covert Operations - General (2125 - 2149)

[Snoddasmannen]

It looks like we have three strong sides in this game. The giant industrialist Morgans with the PTS, the combined Gaian/Angel axis and the strong starting militarist Spartans soon to have the Uni and PK's submit to them.

[Googlie]

Currently researching:

Known:

Sparta - Doctrine Initiative (2148) (10 bases, 19 population)
Hive - Optical Computers (next year) (17 bases, 53 population)
University - Industrial Economics (2153) (6 bases, 23 population)
Peacekeepers - High Energy Chemistry (??) (7 bases, 17 population)

What we deduce:

Gaians - Doctrine Flexibility (notwithstanding their denial) or Ethical Calculus

Morgan - Adaptive economics (or maybe its prereq, Progenitor Psych)

Angels - Doctrine Flexibility (if the Gaians offer to trade it to us by the turn of the decade was via getting it from the A's instead of directly researching it themselves) or possible High Energy Chemistry

[Googlie]

Interesting tidbit following the 2145 trade with Zak:

None of the other 3 teams yet have Social Psych

(so perhaps, when the Gaians earlier suggested they might be able to trade to us Social Psych and Doc Flexibility before decade's end, it meant that they were researching Soc Psych and the Angels were researching Doc Flex?)

[Googlie]

(For some reason replacing the pic isn't working, so I've deleted it and posted the corrected pic below)

[Snoddasmannen]

Does that image indicate, as I suspect it does, that the Angels have Ecological Engineering? How did they get that?
Or is it just that it won't fit on the screen?

[Googlie]

LOL - I didn't pick that up. When I cut and pasted the commlinks I must have covered up the Ecol Eng and Secrets techs.

Pic above now deleted and corrected pic posted below that reflects the true situation

(Thanks for your vigilance - a true Spartan trait!!)

G.

[Googlie]

Here is the corrected pic:

[Googlie]

Hmm - If I were the Gaians, I'd be very, very wary

(And as Sparta, I'd keep on Yang's good side!!)

Here's the Hive build orders for 2145:

[Googlie]

Hmm - I wonder what it'd cost for the Gaians to mind-control seat of Proper Thought (their nearest Hive base). There's quite an army assembling there!!

[Googlie]

Here are the maps of the Arcadia continent:

Arcadia - the North


Arcadia - mid continent

Arcadia - the South

[Googlie]

The Hive's military - 2150

[Googlie]

And the pitiful University's:

[Googlie]

And, finally, the peacekeepers - lotsa scout rovers

[Googlie]

University bases and production - 2150

[Googlie]

And the Peacekeepers' base production and garrisons