FG: Galactic Overlord 9 - The Golden Age

[Hercules]

Now that was close.

[Jamski]

Chapter 5b

"All ships launch and prepare to defend Polleeton IV!" ordered Cian Pollus. "Abandon the plans to ally with (deleted) and attack (deleted)! Its far to late to get there now!"

Far away Overlord (deleted) gave a sigh as he realised that his orders for an allied attack with Pollus were never going to come, and ordered his fleet to stand down.

And then... the fleet of Agath Agathari exploded out of hyperspace and with a mighty hymn of praise to the Galactic Squid, they fell upon the defenders of Polleeton IV!

[Hercules]

Hold on a second. I am being attacked. Who'd want to do that.

Not not, oh no not. it can't be, not what's his name, not Aggatha

[Skanky Burns]

(deleted)

[Jamski]

Chapter 5c

What can I say? In the total confusion of the defender's laser-heavy fleet launching at short notice range while Agath Agathari's fleet appeared form hyperspace all over the place, and proceeded to close in to use their lasers the only winners were chaos and death.

Agath Agathari 
Ciann
Pollus 


Tassadar

Hercules



Close
In, Spread Out

Default



66

33

M

15



 

66 HITS



0

M

33

132



132 HITS

 




264

33

15

30





234 HITS

Results: All of the ships on both sides are destroyed. Tassadar is emliminated and Hercules is one lucky lucky bastard to keep his bases.

Manouvred lasers at close range

[Jonny]

DOUBLE LAZORGEDDON!!!

[snoopy369]

lol ...

On a serious note, I think that in the future, if orders aren't in by start, NO orders are accepted, including defensive OOBs. Knowing you're under attack, and particularly with several overlords subtracted from the mix, could easily affect the OOB you give - and that's really not fair to those of us who send in orders on time ...

And it's not like there weren't 3 days ffs ...

[Jamski]

Chapter 5 - STANDINGS



Next round's orders due by 2000GMT on Thursday. (About 2 days)

Don't be late

-Jam

[Hercules]

I thought I still had up to midnight, plus doing other things.

[Jamski]

Originally posted by snoopy369
lol ...

On a serious note, I think that in the future, if orders aren't in by start, NO orders are accepted, including defensive OOBs. Knowing you're under attack, and particularly with several overlords subtracted from the mix, could easily affect the OOB you give - and that's really not fair to those of us who send in orders on time ...

And it's not like there weren't 3 days ffs ...

Yes, there wasn't a perfect way to resolve it without someone getting it in the ass. Really, Herc should have sent on time. As a result he has lost his entire fleet, and his ally (deleted) has wasted a turn. Ok, Tassi is probably a bit miffed that he didn't get an auto-win by attacking someone who had sent no defensive OoB, but Herc would be equally miffed at being autodestroyed when he actually beat the update post by a few seconds. I made a GM call, knowing someone would get the sharp end of the stick. Either way a palyer would be eliminated. I opted to run the combat, and let battle resolve the problem. I'm glad I did. Tassi goes out in true style in GO's first double lazorgeddon death

-Jam

[Jamski]

Originally posted by Hercules
I thought I still had up to midnight, plus doing other things.

No, the last two rounds have had a 2000GMT deadline, because I make about 400% less mistakes when I'm a bit more awake

[Hercules]

Anyways glad to have survived.

Fortune favours the eh early, eh no ,the eh timely, eh no the late.

Look at this way. Big winners this round were those great overlords (deleted) and (deleted).

[snoopy369]

Okay But why not a random OOB? That's what Smiley i think did, and what I did the one time it came up - no autowin, but random OOBs (no M allowed, just 6 randomly between LLFFTT, and normal/normal) still give the defense some chance while penalizing them by probably sucking

Oh - and what do you mean, ally (deleted) wasted a turn?

I thought that if you say "I will attack Player X, allied with Player A" and Player A doesn't show, it's called "you're screwed" and your attack goes through anyway, but by yourself. More than one player in the past has done this on purpose (being player A) and screwed someone thereby (:weasel: ) ...

[civman2000]

Might it be possible to include the total tonnage of each overlord in the chart, or at least the total tonnage in each weapon?

[Jamski]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Okay But why not a random OOB? That's what Smiley i think did, and what I did the one time it came up - no autowin, but random OOBs (no M allowed, just 6 randomly between LLFFTT, and normal/normal) still give the defense some chance while penalizing them by probably sucking

You know me - I'll not tolerate random elements. I better restate this in case people are unclear - no OoB or an illegal OoB means auto defeat.

Oh - and what do you mean, ally (deleted) wasted a turn?

I thought that if you say "I will attack Player X, allied with Player A" and Player A doesn't show, it's called "you're screwed" and your attack goes through anyway, but by yourself. More than one player in the past has done this on purpose (being player A) and screwed someone thereby (:weasel: ) ...

Aaagh, forgot to mention this! Yes, I had some illegal orders this round from player X! They didn't send an OoB for an allied attack, but posted some vague nonsense about "using the same OoB as player Y" Sorry, but this isn't gonna hang with me. Send your OoB. What if one of you gets spied? What if one of you is backstabbing? Always send an OoB, and always send a defensive OoB too, unless you are shielding, you never know when you might get spied or backstabbed.

Thanks for reminding me Snoops Someone got lucky that their lack of precise orders were not taken advantage of.

-Jam