Couldn't let 250 go by without preservation from marauding Jedi and Guardians...
Alex
           
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I suspect Jaxom will be at 1 million shortly as well! They have had an excellent competition to get here. 
   
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Good, friendly fun! I like it!
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Congrats, Jaxom! 
Nice medal! 
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#273
by Citizen Brackard - 3/30/2004 8:35:34 AM
So using a few things I learned in the training game, I started and completed a Crippling game the last few nights. How you guys can finish gigantic games continuously, I can only guess. Early landgrab went well. I aligned early with the Torians. The Torians and me were up north. Altarians and Arceans in the center, Yor and Dren in the south. The Altarians were the first to fold and folded to me (I hadn’t even MET them yet? Should this be possible?) This gave me a foothold in the center of the map. The Dren were hurting, until the Arcenas with their 4 systems folded to them.
So mid game found the Torian/Human alliance versus the Yor/Dren alliance. North versus south. There was a tight cluster of planets to the far east that were still open. The Yor and myself found them about the same time. The Yor grabbed three systems I grabbed four. I had NOTHING out there to protect them. Neither did the Yor. They eventually brought up a dreadnaught. I still had nothing in the area so I began building anti-matter missles. Using AMM to clear the planets, I then followed closely with transports. This group of planets would end up being my source of recruits. Think “Attack of the Clones” except on a 7 or 8 planet basis.
I’ve rarely played a game this far down the tech tree, so I eventually came up against overlords. I had a nice stack of dreadnaughts/rangers running around. We were slowly grinding down the Yor in the center of the map. Sure, I’ll take it on. The one ship wiped out the ENTIRE stack. ::cough,cough:: I sue for peace. They gave me every tech I didn’t own except Avatar/Overlord. I researched those myself.
We eventually wore them down, but man was it brutal. The I-league showed up late game snagging two of the former Arcean worlds but it didn’t matter. It was just a matter of time. The last few invasions were brutal. Organizing an invasion with 11 or 12 transports on a 60 billion pop planet. After the dead on both sides were counted, it was well over 100B dead! The Torians held the lead and population simply because I invaded!
Anyway, with 3 planets left the Dren folded to the Torians, and with 4 planets left and overlords swarming in their space, the Yor folded. I was rather glad I didn’t have to invade another planet or two before they folded. 
   
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