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| Ok, here we go. A really nice read. :) :)
Prepare for a long answer. ;)
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First, reading this I was a bit surprised by some of the Borg actions (not setting PE on his ships, decloaked LCC), as Sudo is a Borg Vice Admiral. But he was a very trustworthy ally to the end. We traded ships early on and I gave him an early base in my area for a FCC + a Bio. I planned on focussing on cloning them and using those as my main battle fleet instead of puny T-Rex. I had so much money and minerals that I was able to clone 15 Bios I think. Unfortunately the FCCs came without beams, so I couldn't use them to hiss. But hey, a FCC is a FCC so nothing to complain about.
Everyone is making mistakes. I didn't tell you about my best one in this game. Remember the fleet attacking from the Southwest between turn 30-35? I planned on moving fast before the Bot could mine the whole place and I was 2 turns away from your homeworld, ready to chunnel in the rest of the Bios. And then I accidentally set both FCCs to chunnel to each other with the one in your area having a lower ID. It wasn't easy to see in the GUI because both chunnel lines overlapped. And instead of chunneling my fleet to your area, I chunneled everyone except 4-5 ships out, with no way to return. I was so furious at that moment, nearly dropping the game. It was such a stupid mistake.
About your mistake #6: Definitely a major one. Glory Devices were the ships that could have killed my whole approach. I relied on LCCs moving in cloaked and Bios or SSDs clearing next turn. GDs would have stopped that. Even the fear of a GD might be sitting there would have slowed down the whole attack significantly.
Talking about mistakes, my major one definitely was to ignore right/left combat side for too long. My plan was to send in a T-Rex before the Bio, taking down your shields, losing the T-Rex but securing the Bio. For that to work, I had to set numercial FCs. I really, really think that the advantage of the left side is a [b]major flaw in this game[/b]. Instead of doing that, sending in just a Bio from the right would have been much more efficient than sacrificing a T-Rex with Mark 8 torps. That firework was really awesome though. To my defense, I expected that I could afford burning my fleet a bit because my homeworld logistics were really strong. I made about 30k MC each turn and I stockpiled 1000s of minerals on my bases. Lizards combined with FCCs are just insane. So one of my thoughts was that I could replace my army why you couldn't. No excuse for losing the battle though.
By the way, T47 thanks for not saying "Liz was too dumb to send a cloaker together with his fuelless SSD". ;)
Overall, as I already said it this was my best game on .nu. Diplomacy once again proofed to be the most decisive factor of winning the game. I wasn't sure who would win this for a long time. But telling everyone that your 3-races-alliance will win unless everyone allies with me definitely helped a lot. ^^
So in the end from my perspective the major mistakes from your (allied) side:
- not enough GD ships
- Bots and Fascist being a bit too passive, the Crystal had like 2 ships defending the whole Northern area. A more aggressive approach could have caused a lot more pressure.
A very fine game indeed. |
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