Galactic Overlord - Game Thread

[Ljube]

You employed Jamski?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Jamski
Heh. Yummy indeed. I'm updating now - I slept in for once

-Jam

Trust. I'm just about to go out to dinner, then sleep, then work from 6am for 9 hours.

[DrSpike]

Update.

[Jamski]

Round 6

Round Six

The Battle of Eider

In an all-or-nothing gamble Vlad threw his entire fleet against the might of DrSpike, who had instructed his captains to patrol defensively. So it was that every ship Vlad commanded encountered every ship DrSpike controlled in a huge battle by Eider, a yummy little base formerly controlled by Duke.

Vlad : (Fighters->Lasers->Torpedoes)

2x Carriertitan, 2x Carriercruiser, 3x Carrierfrigate, 1x Torpedotitan, 1x Torpedobattleship, 3x Torpedofrigate, 1x Laserdreadnought, 1x Laserbattleship, 1x Laserfrigate.

DrSpike : (Torpedoes->Fighters->Lasers)

6x Lasertitans, 6x Fightertitans, 7x Torpedotitans

Results

Vlad         DrSpike
17 Fighters  35 Torpedoes  DrSpike takes 17 Hits
 8 Lasers    30 Fighters   DrSpike takes 8 Hits
11 Torpedoes 30 Lasers     DrSpike takes 11 Hits

DrSpike takes 36 Hits, losing all seven of his Torpedotitans and one Fightertitan damaged.
Vlad's fleet is unscathed and captures the base Eider

Vlad was very lucky, for more than one reason...

The "Battle" of Hive Sector Alpha

Spaced Cowboy sent a small fleet in to attack Vlad's holdings - but there was noone there! His ships quickly captured all of Vlad's home bases without anyone to oppose their landings.

Spaced Cowboy :

4 Lasertitans, 5 Fightertitans, 4 Torpedotitans

Vlad :

None

Spaced Cowboy captures Hive Sector Alpha, Hive Sector Beta, Hive Sector Delta, Hive Sector Gamma, Hive Sector Epsilon & Hive Sector Zeta, leaving Vlad with only the captured base of Eider.

The First Battle of Mallard

The scheming Skanky Burns was back - with a new ally, Trokair. Together they gathered their battlefleets and attacked DrSpike's holdings in the area formerly belonging to Duke. Did DrSpike's fleet, crippled as it was after the defeat by Vlad, stand a chance to save his crumbling empire?

Perhaps. The allies had failed to agree on a shared battleplan. Angrily Trokair gathered his ships and struck first, leaving Skanky to his starcharts and schemes.

Trokair : (Torpedoes->Fighters->Lasers)

3 Lasertitans, 3 Torpedotitans, 3 Fightertitans

DrSpike : (Torpedoes->Fighters->Lasers)

6x Lasertitans, 5x Fightertitans

Results :

Trokair       DrSpike
15 Torpedoes  0 Torpedoes   DrSpike takes 15 Hits
15 Fighters   25 Fighters   Trokair takes 10 Hits
15 Lasers     30 Lasers     Trokair takes 15 Hits

Trokair takes 25 Hits and loses 3 Torpedotitans and 2 Fightertitans.
DrSpike takes 15 Hits and loses 3 Fightertitans, but defends Mallard successfully.

The Second Battle of Mallard

Having seen his ally fail to crack DrSpike's defenses, Skanky approached more cautiously. DrSpike had taken two beatings already, but was still defending his systems like a tiger.

Skanky Burns : (Lasers->Fighters->Torpedoes)

1 Laserfrigate, 1 Fighterfrigate, 2 Torpedofrigates, 1 Torpedobattleship, 1 Laserdreadnought, 6 Lasertitans, 6 Fightertitans, 6 Torpedotitans.

DrSpike : (Torpedoes->Fighters->Lasers)

6x Lasertitans, 2x Fightertitans

Skanky        DrSpike
35 Lasers     0 Torpedoes   DrSpike takes 35 Hits
31 Fighters   10 Fighters   DrSpike takes 21 Hits
35 Torpedoes  30 Lasers     DrSpike takes 35 Hits

Valiant to the last, DrSpike's fleet takes a huge 91 Hits and is vaporised. His bases are shared between Trokair and Skanky, unless they object to this (if it was deliberate to send different OoBs to try and get all the bases, say so NOW) as I think they intended to attack together.

In other news, a spy training program run by Ljcvetko was infilterated by agents from another Overlord, and used to learn counterespionage methods which made Ljcvetko's newly trained spy worthless.

*phew* Starmap here, fleet list to come...

-Jam

[GeneralTacticus]

Is it just me, or does it appear that that extremely one-sided battles are more the rule than the exception?

[DrSpike]

Yeah, the combat system needs revision, especially now that I am wiped out.

My list just got longer.

[Jamski]

Player Name

Bases

BPs
Total
Ships

Frigates(1)

Cruisers(2)

Battleships(3)

Dreadnaughts(4)

Titans(5)





Las

Fig

Torp

Las
Fig
Torp
Las
Fig
Torp
Las
Fig
Torp
Las
Fig
Torp




Skanky
Burns

6(5.5)

41

26

1

1

2

-

-

-

-

-

1

1

-

-

9

9

9





Trokair

5(4.5)

34

15

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

7

5

3





Spaced
Cowboy

6(7)

47

19

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

8

9

8





Ljcvetko

5(13)

52

20

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

2

1

3

1

2

7

7

6





Vlad
Antlerkov

0(1)

103

13

1

3

3

-

2

-

1

-

1

1

-

-

-

2

1

Heh, at this rate the game will be over in 2 or 3 rounds and we can try more complicated combat rules then.

BTW - Vlad is in deep trouble. He can't build any ships with all those lovely stockpiled BPs unless he builds some bases or gets his old ones back. He's lucky to be alive at all though.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

w00t! Skanky and Trokair r0XX0rs. Well, except Skanky for double-crossing me in the first place. As might well have Trokair.

[Jamski]

They set you up the bomb, Duck. Now all your base is belong to them.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Vlad has one base, so he can build 100 of the small ships right?

[duke o' york]

Jamski's talking in code, and I can't borrow one of Ljube's spies to decipher it.

[Jamski]

Vlad has one base, so he can build 100 of the small ships right?

No! Only self-built bases count to the hull-size limit, remember! He'll have to build bases this turn, and hope to survive till next turn, or strike to re-capture his old bases to resume production.

-Jam

[Ljube]

You've been double-srossed by Skanky too Duke?

[Trokair]

Jam, we did mean to attack together and use sepearate plans just to make sure we didn't get ousted by a perfect OoB from the good Dr.. A great round well played if I must say so myself

[Jamski]

Transcript :

Titles: In A.D. 2101, war was beginning.
Captain: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set us up the bomb.
Operator: We get signal!
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on!
Captain: It's you!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say!!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha ha....
Operator: Captain!!
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!! You know what you doing. Move 'ZIG." For great justice.

This should make everything clear, Duke.

-Jam