Nightmare of combined race advantages - and they didn’t use the killer one!
Also highlighted how difficult wasp/wasp cooperation actually is, even as full allied/team.
As a wasp you CANNOT beam fuel up from an allied planet, you have to rely on ship to ship transfer. If you are the central team player that needs to traverse your teams space to help - this makes things pretty much impossible. Given my wasp experience I had expanded rapidly a long way and built a large fleet by ship limit. It was hard enough to fuel my own ships down to the front let alone attempt it across my allies.
@joshua @beefeater - to enable games such as this one wasps must be able to better cooperate together and share fuel more easily. In addition I found it impossible to use another wasps accelerator - needs fixing too. I will put in a bug/suggestion report on this.
General wasp comment while I’m at it - I’m sure rock power has been reduced of late. Big rocks no longer zero planets it seems. Lots of small rocks no longer work either....
Game plan was I played the centre so I could get the economy and
fleet and rush headlong to the centre of the map without too much concern. My colleagues woukd hold flanks, but I would then be able to help from strong base. Fuel sharing put pay to that. We had chances to do damage mid game - took out a whole bunch of novas with a surprise attack but was then on defensive. Armada if ships coming from deep in map ferried by MCBR’s Mixed race assault: colonies stripping protofields. Fascists come in cloaked towing away ships and thier double beans ripping through brood fighters. Then the big gorbies and golems.... sat over key planets, hard for a wasp to dislodge without significant losses of ships and fuel. Hoped that ships woukd stumble on traps set, but In the end too many ships, always in retreat and my opponents did not fall for anything... Apologies to my teammates that I was not able to help you as much as I wanted to
Had I been on one of the flanks, particularly the west facing the Fed player - maybe we woukd have had more of a foothold and more importantly the ability to knock out a race or to taking and advantage with them. Could have given a chance. One of the key reasons wasps can do well in melee games is not all nasty combos are there. Some get removed very early.
So, very well played by the non wasps - some good very play on display. Also a lot of patience by those away from the front charged with economy and supply vs the initial fighting/landgrab
Ultimately I think we had no chance. Perhaps with better fuel access or a 4th team member we could have had a chance, but even if you had the top 3 wasps in there,I think they would have struggled towards the end. Those playing were not exactly noobs!
Would love to play another (just needs some tweaks) and an ideal game for those wanting to learn wasps to have a go see how some established players do it.
Well done all
Vin |
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