Message	65	
From: The Missing Colonies of Man (mentar)
To all non-Borg players in the game:

Before this championship match started, people were writing a lot of predictions that Dungeonmaster's success in Taurus would doom Andy and preclude any Borg victory. It seems that many players are still convinced that this might be so. Well, sorry to rain on your parade, folks.

Here is a list of only those 15 Biocides which I can currently see in this turn (so even more may very well exist), with their current warp settings:

5, Transwarp
42, Warp0, Fighterplant operated by Yosh
104, Transwarp
227, Warp6
247, newly built this turn
255, Transwarp
268, Transwarp
279, Warp7, Fighterplant operated by Yosh
315, Transwarp
317, Warp0, Fighterplant operated by Yosh
416, Transwarp
444, Transwarp
457, Transwarp
459, Warp1, Fighterplant operated by Yosh
473, Transwarp

15 Biocides. In other words, no matter what the scores say, the Borg already has the most powerful fleet in the game, and since he admitted that Yosh has been fighterbuilding for him since around turn 35, all these Biocides are fully armed. Unfortunately, this isn't all, the situation is even worse:

The idling Lizard main fleet has been found, and it's continuously being blown to bits for PBPs. It still contains 62 PBPs, and since Andy has cloakers, he can now safely destroy all of them without losing a single ship. Which means around 3 more Bios plus 3 FCs, or 2 more Bios and 9 FCs emerge from the Lizard wreckage - take your pick what's worse.

Andy also will not have any problems building them, since he is now taking outer Lizard planets which are going to have minerals just waiting for him on the surface, because they have been mined in the past, but not yet based out.

"But you are so powerful, twice as big in the scores, with three times the planets. You can easily stop them, and you remain the biggest threat in the game!" you say. Unfortunately, this is wrong. At this moment, I have 23 Virgos spread all over the map. I'm lacking the Borg's capacity to bring all of them to bear. As we speak, I'm sending anything I can to the Borg theater, but I will arrive late, and even once I do, I'm still left with the inferior fleet, because 1 Bio roughly equals 2 Virgos in firepower. My higher base count is irrelevant since the queue doesn't move and almost all builds are PBP only. And as long as Yosh continues to do fighterbuilding for Andy, I can't win any war of attrition on fighter cost, either.

So, I want to pose the question to you all: Is this okay with you? Has battle weariness worn you down already? When the rest of the community asks you "why didn't you stop him while you could", will you honestly respond "because I didn't care enough"? I remember this discussion going on on the Taurus board, and I was wincing when people wrote "I wasn't aware". Well, you won't have this excuse this time. Now you know. Clearly.

At least I will not die lying down doing nothing. The Borg still CAN be stopped, if we get our act together. We need to do it NOW, however, and stop putzing around. We worked hard to reach this championship match, so I assume that there is still enough self-esteem in each of us to try our best and AVOID the gigantic shame to give birth to YET ANOTHER Borg emperor against all former odds.

If you want to help, then please send me a message. If you feel that the rest of the game has been so mean to you, you aren't going to win anyway, Resistance is futile and you have no time for this in the first place, then don't. Just don't DARE to come up with petty excuses in the post-match analysis.

So. I hope there's enough fight left in this game to prevent total assimilation ;)

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!

...or something like that.

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