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Last night (actually last couple of evenings at home...I do have a life, after all, so I can't play 10 hours straight) I was playing Domai, on a huge map, at Librarian difficulty.
Somehow, even though I found out I was on the same big continent with Morgan, he didn't find me or bother me for about 150 years, and neither did anyone else. By that time, I was so expanded that I knew I would eventually win. I was running Dem-Market-Wealth, so I was raking in cash hand over fist.
Then Miriam shows up. She's such a wonderfully nice lady. I was nice to her until I had about 15 probe skimships and a buncha cash. (I'd checked her SE, and she hadn't gone Fundy yet, for some reason) Then I took the war to her, while I kept expanding. I Mind Controlled about 5 of her coastal cities and thumbed my nose at her. She had Impact weapons, I had Probability armor with good morale, so she was just screwed.
I didn't build up her bases greatly, which was part of the strategy. As long as I was on *her* continent, she wasn't going to invade mine, it seems. So, after I took a couple of inland cities by upgrading her Impact stuff to Shard troops and using them (I'd usually capture about 3 or 4 troops with the cities, and then bring in a couple choppers), she pledged Blood Truce. I had randomed the game, and strangely enough, Marr was in the game, but not H'minee. I had fun with him.
Since when fighting aliens, atrocities other than PBs don't count, I used Nerve Gas on him, and then took Probes and used Genetic Atrocity. I did that to all his coastal cities, then Mind Controlled and obliterated all but the HQ, which of course I couldn't mind control. After doing that to all his coastal cities but one, I started taking over any troops on the coast and upgrading them. Then I took his headquarters, built choppers and drop Shard troops and took the rest while Marr grumbled about atrocities, but none of the humans cared.
Meanwhile I'm still expanding and teching and all that. I had 5 of Miriam's coastal cities and one interior one, and one water base of hers. Three times she threatened war if I didn't give one of her cities back. That was part of the strategy. I had 6 or 7 to give back, one at a time, for peace. By the time she had asked for and gotten 3 of them back, I was done, and Transcending(with Domai!). All in all, it was fun tweaking her nose that way after all the trouble she's caused me.
Somehow, even though I found out I was on the same big continent with Morgan, he didn't find me or bother me for about 150 years, and neither did anyone else. By that time, I was so expanded that I knew I would eventually win. I was running Dem-Market-Wealth, so I was raking in cash hand over fist.
Then Miriam shows up. She's such a wonderfully nice lady. I was nice to her until I had about 15 probe skimships and a buncha cash. (I'd checked her SE, and she hadn't gone Fundy yet, for some reason) Then I took the war to her, while I kept expanding. I Mind Controlled about 5 of her coastal cities and thumbed my nose at her. She had Impact weapons, I had Probability armor with good morale, so she was just screwed.
I didn't build up her bases greatly, which was part of the strategy. As long as I was on *her* continent, she wasn't going to invade mine, it seems. So, after I took a couple of inland cities by upgrading her Impact stuff to Shard troops and using them (I'd usually capture about 3 or 4 troops with the cities, and then bring in a couple choppers), she pledged Blood Truce. I had randomed the game, and strangely enough, Marr was in the game, but not H'minee. I had fun with him.
Since when fighting aliens, atrocities other than PBs don't count, I used Nerve Gas on him, and then took Probes and used Genetic Atrocity. I did that to all his coastal cities, then Mind Controlled and obliterated all but the HQ, which of course I couldn't mind control. After doing that to all his coastal cities but one, I started taking over any troops on the coast and upgrading them. Then I took his headquarters, built choppers and drop Shard troops and took the rest while Marr grumbled about atrocities, but none of the humans cared.
Meanwhile I'm still expanding and teching and all that. I had 5 of Miriam's coastal cities and one interior one, and one water base of hers. Three times she threatened war if I didn't give one of her cities back. That was part of the strategy. I had 6 or 7 to give back, one at a time, for peace. By the time she had asked for and gotten 3 of them back, I was done, and Transcending(with Domai!). All in all, it was fun tweaking her nose that way after all the trouble she's caused me.
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