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I am gonna try my best with this AAR.
I was getting frustrated, and had to keep restarting games on normal/intelligent AI(I always set them to intelligent)
At the start here were the races:
The Altarians
Torian Confederation
Iconians
Yor Collective
Thalans
When I designed my custom race I was about done with the game, but thought I'd give it one more shot. My first colony, Freebee I had a nice couple of production bonuses(one of each). Colonization began immediately. After several years, the Freebees were looking up, I had over 2 dozen colonies, and most of them were size 12+. I hadn't even actually met any other races for some time, I had just colonized the last few planets. My 'influence' was circular in nature. Well, the Freebees began exploring space, and finally began meeting other races. First the Altarians. They didn't seem to bad, they even traded techs a couple times. The Iconians, the allies of the Altarians(they seem to always ally in any game I play) were also making good, but most of there planets were size 12 or less. There military strategy: lots of fighters with fast engines and lots of fire power. The Altarian strategy: Big ships with weaker fighters.
Well, the next race I met was the Thalans, and the Yor collective had sent there flag ship just to meet the Freebee people. Another race that the freebees met, and found vary curious, was the Torian Confederation. They never amounted to much, nor did they ever even have any influence, they just sat there on there inital colonies. Not to worry.
Then, it became apparent that the Altarians had completely surrounded the Freebees on all sides of there influence. It reminded me of playing Risk, and owning Africa- and so I began the military build up. My first design was the Battleship Killer, a might cruiser, and as it turned out, didn't quite live up to its name but was definately an effective crusier. More like Fighter Squadron killer, as the Iconians would soon learn.
Well, the Altarians decided to help me in my conquest for war against them and decleared war on the Thalans. The Yor, being allied with the Thalans joined in the conflict. The world saw the military might of the Freebees during this time. Inorder to test our Battleship killers, we sent a fleet of them along with a few of our troop transport. We conqured two worlds of theres, but failed to take the third. One became a colony of Freebee, the other was handed to the Yor, as the Freebee republic was now running a deficate- and to facilitate good relations.
Our next design: Battleship(with Singularity drivers) proved to be a good design.
Mean while, the ever incrouching Altarians, seemed to have no good intentions up there sleeves- the Freebees called for war. The inital strategy was to take there eastern colonies by heading southeast, and take there western colonies by heading west. So, the war began, and three worlds quickly fell into the hands of the Freebees. However, the freebees had not originally known the depth of the Altarian empire- but they soon found out as fleet after fleet arrived on our door steps- although the battleship killer and battleship were good vessels, they delth well with the Iconian fighters coming in from the south. But compared to an ALtarian battle fleet- they were simply destroyed. Though, they had enough fire power to kill one vessel per attack. The freebees knew then that all was not lost- but it was lookign grim. The most productive worlds were blockaded, in that as soon as they produced a warship, an Iconian fighter squad, or Altarian battle fleet would, sure enough destroy it. The Altarians made a blunder at this time: They attacked the Dark Yor, and 2 whole fleets were destroyed. It took a third to finish off the Dark fleet. This didn't seem so big at the time but it was very big.
To be continued
I was getting frustrated, and had to keep restarting games on normal/intelligent AI(I always set them to intelligent)
At the start here were the races:
The Altarians
Torian Confederation
Iconians
Yor Collective
Thalans
When I designed my custom race I was about done with the game, but thought I'd give it one more shot. My first colony, Freebee I had a nice couple of production bonuses(one of each). Colonization began immediately. After several years, the Freebees were looking up, I had over 2 dozen colonies, and most of them were size 12+. I hadn't even actually met any other races for some time, I had just colonized the last few planets. My 'influence' was circular in nature. Well, the Freebees began exploring space, and finally began meeting other races. First the Altarians. They didn't seem to bad, they even traded techs a couple times. The Iconians, the allies of the Altarians(they seem to always ally in any game I play) were also making good, but most of there planets were size 12 or less. There military strategy: lots of fighters with fast engines and lots of fire power. The Altarian strategy: Big ships with weaker fighters.
Well, the next race I met was the Thalans, and the Yor collective had sent there flag ship just to meet the Freebee people. Another race that the freebees met, and found vary curious, was the Torian Confederation. They never amounted to much, nor did they ever even have any influence, they just sat there on there inital colonies. Not to worry.
Then, it became apparent that the Altarians had completely surrounded the Freebees on all sides of there influence. It reminded me of playing Risk, and owning Africa- and so I began the military build up. My first design was the Battleship Killer, a might cruiser, and as it turned out, didn't quite live up to its name but was definately an effective crusier. More like Fighter Squadron killer, as the Iconians would soon learn.
Well, the Altarians decided to help me in my conquest for war against them and decleared war on the Thalans. The Yor, being allied with the Thalans joined in the conflict. The world saw the military might of the Freebees during this time. Inorder to test our Battleship killers, we sent a fleet of them along with a few of our troop transport. We conqured two worlds of theres, but failed to take the third. One became a colony of Freebee, the other was handed to the Yor, as the Freebee republic was now running a deficate- and to facilitate good relations.
Our next design: Battleship(with Singularity drivers) proved to be a good design.
Mean while, the ever incrouching Altarians, seemed to have no good intentions up there sleeves- the Freebees called for war. The inital strategy was to take there eastern colonies by heading southeast, and take there western colonies by heading west. So, the war began, and three worlds quickly fell into the hands of the Freebees. However, the freebees had not originally known the depth of the Altarian empire- but they soon found out as fleet after fleet arrived on our door steps- although the battleship killer and battleship were good vessels, they delth well with the Iconian fighters coming in from the south. But compared to an ALtarian battle fleet- they were simply destroyed. Though, they had enough fire power to kill one vessel per attack. The freebees knew then that all was not lost- but it was lookign grim. The most productive worlds were blockaded, in that as soon as they produced a warship, an Iconian fighter squad, or Altarian battle fleet would, sure enough destroy it. The Altarians made a blunder at this time: They attacked the Dark Yor, and 2 whole fleets were destroyed. It took a third to finish off the Dark fleet. This didn't seem so big at the time but it was very big.
To be continued
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