Fornax System

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Guys,

I'm joining for team 2 and am checking on my two proposed team mates to get them to join. Hopefully this can be confirmed over the weekend. If they can't make this game I may pull back out to allow others to take the spot I am hoping we can fill the full team.. TBC.

Greetings all!

Ah Halion, you may be new to the Borgs, your reputation states you can play any race. I am sure your teammates will help since you are in so many games together.  Also, the game hasn't even started and I have already discovered your spy on my homeworld...  For shame  ;-)

Ahem, oops, I guess I should have read the roster.  Halion is playing the Colonials and Spacesquad is playing the Borgs....

   sorry...

Hehe I think I have a while to go before I could tackle the Borg in this type of environment!

Best leave it to those who have the experience!

Should be good game judging from the line ups.

Just one more player and we're good to go.

P.S. Definately need to improve my graphics and avatar skills by the way this thread is going ;)

“Resistance is futile”, the lizard spy tried to repeat.

“No,no,no.Less thinking.Don’t forget, they can’t think for themselves. They only have one brain to share for all the Borg. Cross a valley girl with a cactus and then you have the thinking pattern of a Borg.Now walk over there and say it again.”

The lizard spy started across the room to repeat his phrase.

“Stop!You are NOT a Lizard.You can’t move with agility and power.Think Zombie!You are brain dead and your limbs are not yours”

The instructor slapped his tail against his forehead, and then lowered his head into his claws.“ We have to infiltrate the enemy Borg.It’s really hard to dumb down a lizard to Borg level!”

Looks like it is now...

Hehe indeed.
Someone once told me 'go big or go home'

Although on 2nd thought maybe i make the first vote for your proposal :)

-Not enough Megacredits and supplies?
-Unhappy with your native government?
-Birds, Spiders, Cats or other pain in the neck?

No need to quit the game or write a “ They are cheating” post in the forum!

                                         Call 0800-B-O-R-G

Our friendly Borg service will HYP in and wipe out.

Our Service includes:
-          Fully assimilation
-          Total Annihilation
-          Biocide, Genocide, Avicide, Arachnocide, Felicide* and many more.

Space Borg Inc.  There’s no better way to die!

(*Robot only)

It is still easily recoverable given how early the game is but you are right the longer we leave it the worse it gets.

Personally i would prefer not to need to take such drastic action as a resign/restart.

Jamie&Jack are you working to find a replacement yourselves with someone in mind or hoping for a willing volunteer?

Seems the people posting are alll on other teams.. have you got a grand master plan..? ;) let us know as some people may be put of joining you as they are unsure if the team themselves have a plan to replace and don't want to gatecrash..

I have written the admin again.  Hopefully they will understand that even though a player dropping is not unusual, a team game is unique and it is in the best interest of all to have a full compliment of all teams for the challenge.  We are not all in this game for points, we are in this game to play the best of the team commanders out there and enjoy destroying or getting our butt kicked... (hopefully more of the former for me ;-)  )

Team #1, can you pipe in?

  It seems I am the lst for the turn, I will wait a few more hours and then necessity demands I turn it in.  God's speed and good gaming!

-=The DragonDejhi=-

I have not found a replacement player as all my "trusworthy" fellow players have their hands full right now. I dont care if I have to wait till we find an other player. Too bad cause I sent my team mates some strategies and now will have to start again......

Jack

Ratingen,

What you did wrong was you forgot to run your MCBR's through the minefield uncloaked and at warp 4.

This will ensure maximum benefit as per Mjs's instructions.

My advice would be to follow his appoach for all ships and all journeys just to be safe.

Olathe Fire Department

“you are always in my thoughts boys”

“We are surround by webs Captain Shovelhead.” Said the one eyed, tin-headed evil Borg.  

    “Then I guess we have stayed past our welcome.  Prepare the chunnel.  I will check with Captain Panhead and see if he is ready to receive us.”

  Using the powerful communication method of the collective, the Borg Captain decided to first check on the events of another Captain rumored to be in trouble.  It was mentioned that this other Captain was with an entire fleet, even capital carriers, which were in the midst of web mines.  This of course this was all a decoy and part of their devious master plan.  They would lure the enemy into believing they were in trouble and dealing with pirates, Birds and Rebels; then the Borg, lizards and Colonies would strike hard destroying all in their path.  There is nothing more powerful then the secret weapon of the chunnel !!!

  What?  No answer.  Awe there it is. It seems the allied Firecloud had gone off course. Not a problem.  Shovelhead knew he could just chunnel in ships, and the allied commander will just need to chunnel out.  All would go well and this alliance will see the enemy knell before them !!!!

  “Set the chunnel in 3-2-…… What’s that approaching?!?!?!?  Call the allied firecloud up, we need to change chunnel trajectories.  It’s a cube ship!!!!  What’s that on the scene?  Our allied Firecloud also has an enemy ship hovering over them. ?!?”

   All Shovelhead saw was an explosion on the screen and fire braking out in his command center.

   “Chunnel! Chunnel ! Chunnel!”

  The only thing heard now was the guttural laughter of little dragon whelps.  “SSShall we ssscoop up the dead for dinner”

  “Naw, they are borg and taste nasty.  But I believe we can piece some together and have mighty good toilet scrubbers. I guess resistance is not quite that futile.”

Thank you Joshua for all your help.  As I have mentioned before, I completly trust in the integrity of both the hosts and the players in this game.

-=The DragonDejhi=-

Mike, you really surprised me with your “findings” better let Bond do the figure analysis and concentrate on your excellent Economic game play. :P

The reason why we lost is simple: webmines! But if you never played against a good crystal you will not believe those “web tales” until you find your Fleet empty and captured.

What should I say, some of us had to learn it the hard way. hehe :-)

I am not sure how you came to 3.5 to 0.5, actually its 1.3 to 1. We ruled the cluster, but we failed to find a strategies against your webs. And on our run to have 300 we scored second. That’s ok for me.

The figures are:              

                                Planets                Starbases            Warships

Team 2                1.3 (173)             1.1 (141)              2.7 (106)

Team 3                 1     (227)              1     (164)              1 (287)

Team 4                 2,4 (92)                2.2 (72)                10.2 (28)

Well for me this was the best and enjoyable game I have played so far. I have learnt a lot about the game through working with others and playing against great players. I think i really enjoy the co-ordinated team game style the most at the moment and am sad the game has ended.

However T3 have deservedly won after some excellent play.Well played to all 12 of us as i think it was a good game indeed.

Reading the assessments already posted I would tend to agree with most of the points although i think there are other pivotal points not mentioned.

I will very much enjoy to see the turn histories at key points and see 'what might have been'

Listening to Mike talk about the Sanchez Brothers team play it is no wonder the result. That much history,experience and proximity for the 3 players in Team 3 is an almost insurmountable obstacle for 'novice' teams. Point also taken that the Team Britain group may well come backa more lethal force next game now they have 'warmed up' :)

Space,Thin and I have had many many chats about this game and our strategies. We also spoke about what we would do differently next time and there are a number of points which interestingly (and encouraging for us since we came to same conclusion) you have mentioned Mike about the roles each member plays in the team.

We did start out with these sorts of intentions but the discipline was lax on some occasions.

I also think we as T2 had our moments to conclusively take the game and some early 50/50 strategy decisions (and occasional mistakes) meant we were unable to do it.

there were many factors in the wiinning and losing of this game. I think we have proven the capability to defeat T1 and T4 from a military perspective(I really love the colony fightersweep... crackpot must hate me!), Musso even indicated their team combo was not as complimentary as possible. However Team 3's Web mine deployment was underestimated by ourselves (and the lack of a mine limits! hehe) that was just something we could not recover from once we had lost the first round of heavy ships and didnt have a critical mass of sweeping capability... lessons learnt well on that one for all 3 of us :)

I\m also not entire sure on my view about teams having mutual borders that they do not fight for.. myt view on these team games was it was everyone against everyone and diplomacy was about inital borders and not a perpetual agreement way into end game.. thats just my view but it certaibly didnt help us and massively helped T3 that they didnt need to bother with T4... still thinking about that one and dont know how it should play out as far as 'rules' etc. same as i would be uncomfortable about 2 teams allying and 'coming south' i think this topic was raised to heated debate in one of the eary team games but perhaps never concluded.

I think a lot could be said about this game and it is a shame we could not sit in person and have a beer over it to talk it through as again i feel some good learnings and perspectives would come out of it!

Regarding the ending of the game and 'resignation' For me I am proud of this game and I will not resign as i want it kept in my records so you will have me flitting around until  you achieve your 300 planets. 

Good game guys and look forward to a time when we can have a rematch! Or maybe combine if there are larger formats opened again..

Halion.