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My first diplomatic victory for SMACX
I finally won a diplomatic victory for SMACX and with the aliens (Usurpers) in it too. For those of you who don't know, you have to defeat the aliens before you can win diplomatic victory in SMACX.
I was playing Cha Dawn. Here are the other factions: Believers, Usurpers, Spartans, Pirates, UoP, and Cyborgs. I was on the same continent as the Believers and the Spartans. Zak was on a nearby continent. Aki-Zeta was on a far away continent with Marr, and Sven was far away around the jungle. It was a standard planet.
I started out strong as Cha usually does. I met Santiago first. To my suprize she just wanted to trade tech and make peace. It must have been because I was so powerfull. Truth be known, I really didn't want to mess around with her disciplined troops early on. Then I met Miriam. She didn't start anything either and she only had scouts for military. I needed to take some territory from one of them and make her a submissive so that I didn't end up fighting both of them at the same time. I chose to take out Miriam first. I took one base and she was done. BTW, that was the beginning of the worsening of my reputation which eventually became "wicked"
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Meanwhile, I signed a pact with Santiago and went after Zak. He also surrended after I took one base. I think it's because my power was so big. Anyway, now I was really strong, because I had three pact mates and treaties with the other two human factions. So I go after Marr. I started Nerve Gas/Raiding his coastal bases. He had no Navy, and even if he had my IoDs would have taken it out easlily.
Stupid Aki-Zeta wanted me to remove my troops though, and when I wouldn't she declared war. I sent about 6 mindworms over there. She held out until she lost 2 bases, and then submitted. I wanted to get the Manifold Nexus from her, but that didn't work out.
During that time Santiago started taking advantage of the situation. I think she stole 3 techs from me. They were good too. One was Neural Grafting, and I was trying to build the neural amplifier of course. I couldn't declare war on here right away, because my troops were up north. That meant that I would have to ruin my rep further later when I was ready to take her on.
Marr was beaten down hard, so I only had to worry about Santiago and Sven. I had MMI so I could call council and elect myself supreme guy of the planet as soon as I eradicated the aliens. Aki-Zeta was helping me a lot there. Since Santiago was not my submissive I would definitely have to be ready to fight her though.
So I repealed the U.N. Charter. This worked out great since I had built the Neural Amp, and I had native life at every base. Nerve Gas doesn't work against native life. My production was also very good so I was able to build 2 X-needlejets, and 3 X-Choppers very quickly. To make a long story short, the plan worked out very well. I even captured the Empathy Guild from her.
Meanwhile in the ocean, I attacked Sven at the same time that I attacked Santiago. Pretty bold, I know, but I felt that I could do it. So I was fighting 3 wars at the same time. All of my enemies were pretty weak though. Still it was tough to round them all up since they had a lot of combined territory. Finally, I killed the last Usurper (with much help form Aki-Zeta).
I called council in MY2234, and won. I thought that Miriam might defy along with Santiago and Sven since she was #1 in military and second in power, but she went right along.
I haven't played the last 20 years yet, but Sven really has no chance. Now I can use my whole military against him and even get Miriam along for the Crusade. Plus, I will research Centauri Geneitics in 4 years. Locust do great for capturing those remote bases.
I was playing Cha Dawn. Here are the other factions: Believers, Usurpers, Spartans, Pirates, UoP, and Cyborgs. I was on the same continent as the Believers and the Spartans. Zak was on a nearby continent. Aki-Zeta was on a far away continent with Marr, and Sven was far away around the jungle. It was a standard planet.
I started out strong as Cha usually does. I met Santiago first. To my suprize she just wanted to trade tech and make peace. It must have been because I was so powerfull. Truth be known, I really didn't want to mess around with her disciplined troops early on. Then I met Miriam. She didn't start anything either and she only had scouts for military. I needed to take some territory from one of them and make her a submissive so that I didn't end up fighting both of them at the same time. I chose to take out Miriam first. I took one base and she was done. BTW, that was the beginning of the worsening of my reputation which eventually became "wicked"
.Meanwhile, I signed a pact with Santiago and went after Zak. He also surrended after I took one base. I think it's because my power was so big. Anyway, now I was really strong, because I had three pact mates and treaties with the other two human factions. So I go after Marr. I started Nerve Gas/Raiding his coastal bases. He had no Navy, and even if he had my IoDs would have taken it out easlily.
Stupid Aki-Zeta wanted me to remove my troops though, and when I wouldn't she declared war. I sent about 6 mindworms over there. She held out until she lost 2 bases, and then submitted. I wanted to get the Manifold Nexus from her, but that didn't work out.
During that time Santiago started taking advantage of the situation. I think she stole 3 techs from me. They were good too. One was Neural Grafting, and I was trying to build the neural amplifier of course. I couldn't declare war on here right away, because my troops were up north. That meant that I would have to ruin my rep further later when I was ready to take her on.
Marr was beaten down hard, so I only had to worry about Santiago and Sven. I had MMI so I could call council and elect myself supreme guy of the planet as soon as I eradicated the aliens. Aki-Zeta was helping me a lot there. Since Santiago was not my submissive I would definitely have to be ready to fight her though.
So I repealed the U.N. Charter. This worked out great since I had built the Neural Amp, and I had native life at every base. Nerve Gas doesn't work against native life. My production was also very good so I was able to build 2 X-needlejets, and 3 X-Choppers very quickly. To make a long story short, the plan worked out very well. I even captured the Empathy Guild from her.
Meanwhile in the ocean, I attacked Sven at the same time that I attacked Santiago. Pretty bold, I know, but I felt that I could do it. So I was fighting 3 wars at the same time. All of my enemies were pretty weak though. Still it was tough to round them all up since they had a lot of combined territory. Finally, I killed the last Usurper (with much help form Aki-Zeta).
I called council in MY2234, and won. I thought that Miriam might defy along with Santiago and Sven since she was #1 in military and second in power, but she went right along.
I haven't played the last 20 years yet, but Sven really has no chance. Now I can use my whole military against him and even get Miriam along for the Crusade. Plus, I will research Centauri Geneitics in 4 years. Locust do great for capturing those remote bases.
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