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I just finished playing a rather long and fulfilling game as the Morganites, which I managed to win through transcendence (oh the irony 
). I started out on the central continent, with Morgan Industries on the coast near the Freshwater Sea. I ended up next to Zakharov, who had a couple bases on the other side of the Freshwater Sea. I was prepared to get along with the Yoops, but apparently Zak was looking for a fight and I got involved in an early war. Luckily for me though, I rolled over him pretty quickly taking two of his three bases and encircling University Base forcing him to swear a pact to serve me
Following that short successful war I was all prepared to peacefully expand and make money like a good businessman. Unfortunately I stumbled across Yang who had landed down near Mt. Planet and he was expanding quickly as well. I managed to get a base founded to my east to secure my border with the Hive and I hoped that Yang would just leave me alone. Not to be. Yang declared vendetta and moved in with a rather large force on my easternmost base, Morgan Distribution. I decided my best strategy was to stay put and let his army break itself on my defenses. Zakharov and Santiago (who I had met by that time) helped me out by throwing me free units. Yang's offensive soon turned into an artillery bombardment not seen since World War I, with occassional probe thrusts aimed at my perimeter defense.
By this time the war was easily over 20 years old and I was anxious to end it and get back to making money, but I was waiting for MMI so I could strike a coup de grace with choppers. Once I did acquire MMI I moved in and tore his army and base defenses to shreads and occupied it. Yang agreed to pledge Blood Truce and the long war was finally over. I had long before decided that as soon as I captured a base and forced him to truce, that I would turn that base into the DMZ of Planet and I set about doing so. I stationed all of my ground combat units at the newly renamed Morgan Energy Monopoly and moved in a former to begin to terraform defenses. However Yang wasn't willing to sit long with the truce and we were soon at vendetta again. Once again I blitzed with my choppers and rovers and captured yet another base, renaming it Morgan Bank and adding to my DMZ, I handed over a third base to secure a second Blood Truce.
My former quickly planted forests on as much of the terrain as possible and built a sturdy net of sensor arrays to alert me of coming Hive units. With the war finally completed I turned my attentions to building and expansion. I had finally met the rest of the faction leaders. Santiago had a truce with me, Deirdre seemed willing to live and let live, Miriam was rather passive at first (I was using Fundamentalist when we first spoke) but she later decided to declare vendetta, and Lal declared vendetta soon as well because I was using Fundamentalist to aid my war effort against Yang. However the PKs and Believers were far away and I stuck to my pre-war ideals of expanding, building, and making money. I was raking in the cash and techs using a Demo/FM/Wealth combination.
But I kept getting involved with Yang, constantly taking Great Collective and returning it for Blood Truce. Santiago and Yang were soon the biggest factions on Planet, with Yang hammering away at almost everyone and the Spartans having a whole continent to themselves to expand. I seemed to be one of the most preeminent military powers on Planet though due to my constant victories over the Hive. I even had a Planetbuster stashed away at Morgan Industries. By the late 2400s and early 2500s I decided to end the vendetta with Lal, seeings as his choppers were finally starting to harass my home bases. I moved across the seas with imposing force of gravships and captured three of his bases forcing him to call for a Blood Truce. Miriam simply wasn't worth the effort. She was penned onto that island at the top of the map and was trading sea bases in a campaign with the Hive.
I finally completed the Voice of Planet and started the Ascent to Transcendence first, getting a leg up on the other factions and I was raking in the cash with a combination of Demo/Simple/Wealth/Eudaimonia. I got involved in a small war with Santiago but got her to agree to truce after taking one of her bases. Yang also decided to call for a vendetta again and I decided that it was a good time to test out my Planetbuster. I hurried the Ascent to Transcendence and than nuked The Hive taking it out along with three other Hive bases, and seeings I transcended the next turn all the vendettas were made irrelevant.
Feels good to be so....evil
P.S. - I also initiated a cornering of the global energy market in 2565 IIRC, and thus would of won the game either way.
). I started out on the central continent, with Morgan Industries on the coast near the Freshwater Sea. I ended up next to Zakharov, who had a couple bases on the other side of the Freshwater Sea. I was prepared to get along with the Yoops, but apparently Zak was looking for a fight and I got involved in an early war. Luckily for me though, I rolled over him pretty quickly taking two of his three bases and encircling University Base forcing him to swear a pact to serve me Following that short successful war I was all prepared to peacefully expand and make money like a good businessman. Unfortunately I stumbled across Yang who had landed down near Mt. Planet and he was expanding quickly as well. I managed to get a base founded to my east to secure my border with the Hive and I hoped that Yang would just leave me alone. Not to be. Yang declared vendetta and moved in with a rather large force on my easternmost base, Morgan Distribution. I decided my best strategy was to stay put and let his army break itself on my defenses. Zakharov and Santiago (who I had met by that time) helped me out by throwing me free units. Yang's offensive soon turned into an artillery bombardment not seen since World War I, with occassional probe thrusts aimed at my perimeter defense.
By this time the war was easily over 20 years old and I was anxious to end it and get back to making money, but I was waiting for MMI so I could strike a coup de grace with choppers. Once I did acquire MMI I moved in and tore his army and base defenses to shreads and occupied it. Yang agreed to pledge Blood Truce and the long war was finally over. I had long before decided that as soon as I captured a base and forced him to truce, that I would turn that base into the DMZ of Planet and I set about doing so. I stationed all of my ground combat units at the newly renamed Morgan Energy Monopoly and moved in a former to begin to terraform defenses. However Yang wasn't willing to sit long with the truce and we were soon at vendetta again. Once again I blitzed with my choppers and rovers and captured yet another base, renaming it Morgan Bank and adding to my DMZ, I handed over a third base to secure a second Blood Truce.
My former quickly planted forests on as much of the terrain as possible and built a sturdy net of sensor arrays to alert me of coming Hive units. With the war finally completed I turned my attentions to building and expansion. I had finally met the rest of the faction leaders. Santiago had a truce with me, Deirdre seemed willing to live and let live, Miriam was rather passive at first (I was using Fundamentalist when we first spoke) but she later decided to declare vendetta, and Lal declared vendetta soon as well because I was using Fundamentalist to aid my war effort against Yang. However the PKs and Believers were far away and I stuck to my pre-war ideals of expanding, building, and making money. I was raking in the cash and techs using a Demo/FM/Wealth combination.
But I kept getting involved with Yang, constantly taking Great Collective and returning it for Blood Truce. Santiago and Yang were soon the biggest factions on Planet, with Yang hammering away at almost everyone and the Spartans having a whole continent to themselves to expand. I seemed to be one of the most preeminent military powers on Planet though due to my constant victories over the Hive. I even had a Planetbuster stashed away at Morgan Industries. By the late 2400s and early 2500s I decided to end the vendetta with Lal, seeings as his choppers were finally starting to harass my home bases. I moved across the seas with imposing force of gravships and captured three of his bases forcing him to call for a Blood Truce. Miriam simply wasn't worth the effort. She was penned onto that island at the top of the map and was trading sea bases in a campaign with the Hive.
I finally completed the Voice of Planet and started the Ascent to Transcendence first, getting a leg up on the other factions and I was raking in the cash with a combination of Demo/Simple/Wealth/Eudaimonia. I got involved in a small war with Santiago but got her to agree to truce after taking one of her bases. Yang also decided to call for a vendetta again and I decided that it was a good time to test out my Planetbuster. I hurried the Ascent to Transcendence and than nuked The Hive taking it out along with three other Hive bases, and seeings I transcended the next turn all the vendettas were made irrelevant.
Feels good to be so....evil
P.S. - I also initiated a cornering of the global energy market in 2565 IIRC, and thus would of won the game either way.
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