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Everyone out there has a game they aren't too proud of. So here is mine. Yes I just got my butt waxed by (gulp) the AI. *** Awaits the snickers ****
The game was going swimmingly and I had all the cards in my favor. The game setting were perfect directed research a huge planet. I played completely random and got Lal who I'm fairly proficient at. I had completed my tech run to IA had captured all the early SP's I could something like, Command Nexxus, HGP, VW and PTS.
I was connected by a small isthmus to a largish continent that had Domai right next to me and Moragna and Santi onthe far side of the continent. i played nice with Domai allied with Morgan and went to war with Santi using Doami as a buffer as Domai was also at war. Starting to feel cocky as I had just aquired Environmetnal Economics (all restrictions now lifted) from Domai framing Marr and had recently discovered Synth Fossil Fuels (missile yeah baby!!) I decided to take my next tech as DAP and preceed with a plan for a little alien ethnic cleansing as I didn't want to go after Domai right away he still had his uses. In the process I decide why not raise a land bridge and start a rover X campaign.
Huge huge mistake. My bridge was fully in place long before my rovers were. DAP was a full 8 turns a way. The turn the bridge arrived Marr ssent my way a full 5 needlejets which had never been sighted up to that point. My bridge now became the conduit for the alien horde. One by one I saw my bases fall. A few turns later I got DAP. Now the tides would turn right? Wrong!
One thing I've learned is that you never ever build interceptors to take on Marr. His +25% attack means he will send conventionals forcing your stupid interecpetors scrambling only to be chewed up assuming same weapon strength and morale. At the cost of those tactical babies its not worth it. So rover become upgraded to SAM capable. What that means tho' is that I've forgone the ability to put Nerve Gas on them. In the meantime, though I had used nerve gas meaning it was a duel to the death. Guess who's death?
Ohh the inhumanity of it all. From glorious Apex of Power to the cook pots of some slimy booger thing.
Post your sob stories here if you dare!!
Call me Ogie 'Custer' Oglethorpe
Everyone out there has a game they aren't too proud of. So here is mine. Yes I just got my butt waxed by (gulp) the AI. *** Awaits the snickers ****
The game was going swimmingly and I had all the cards in my favor. The game setting were perfect directed research a huge planet. I played completely random and got Lal who I'm fairly proficient at. I had completed my tech run to IA had captured all the early SP's I could something like, Command Nexxus, HGP, VW and PTS.
I was connected by a small isthmus to a largish continent that had Domai right next to me and Moragna and Santi onthe far side of the continent. i played nice with Domai allied with Morgan and went to war with Santi using Doami as a buffer as Domai was also at war. Starting to feel cocky as I had just aquired Environmetnal Economics (all restrictions now lifted) from Domai framing Marr and had recently discovered Synth Fossil Fuels (missile yeah baby!!) I decided to take my next tech as DAP and preceed with a plan for a little alien ethnic cleansing as I didn't want to go after Domai right away he still had his uses. In the process I decide why not raise a land bridge and start a rover X campaign.
Huge huge mistake. My bridge was fully in place long before my rovers were. DAP was a full 8 turns a way. The turn the bridge arrived Marr ssent my way a full 5 needlejets which had never been sighted up to that point. My bridge now became the conduit for the alien horde. One by one I saw my bases fall. A few turns later I got DAP. Now the tides would turn right? Wrong!
One thing I've learned is that you never ever build interceptors to take on Marr. His +25% attack means he will send conventionals forcing your stupid interecpetors scrambling only to be chewed up assuming same weapon strength and morale. At the cost of those tactical babies its not worth it. So rover become upgraded to SAM capable. What that means tho' is that I've forgone the ability to put Nerve Gas on them. In the meantime, though I had used nerve gas meaning it was a duel to the death. Guess who's death?
Ohh the inhumanity of it all. From glorious Apex of Power to the cook pots of some slimy booger thing.
Post your sob stories here if you dare!!
Call me Ogie 'Custer' Oglethorpe
And Zonk, that sort of then happens to everyone, even Aredhran 
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When I got the message that the sea levels were going to rise about 700m I quit. Remember I was on a small island, about 90% of my land would have been submerged.
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