"Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of War!"
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I downloaded this game last Sunday. After playing the game on easy perhaps three times just to wrap my brain around the mechanics....did not even try to finish a scenero, it was time to play for 'real.'
Went with the humans, a medium sized map and set all my opponent races to Brilliant (or whatever you call the last setting before you are giving the alien scum economic advantages). Got stuck with a bad postion in a corner edge situation, plus the star system right next to me had no planets I could settle.
Anyway as I always do in these games I put about half of everything into research. Built up a middle of the pack military. My nieghbor (forgot which race it was i have a hard time remembering all those guys...wish I could enter my own names like Klingons and all that in for them) was weak but foolish enough to start putting those influence starbases in my sectors. Mess with with the Humans and his Majesty Netjam? ...I will teach this interloper! Started spying and postioning my fleet now equiped with nice cruisers on the border ready to let loose war upon the scum!
But a funny thing happened on the way to his Empirial Majesty (me
) opening a can of whop a$s on that race. The Yor the most powerful race declare war on me before I can jump the weak neighbor. I detect five waves of ships belonging to the Yor on the way one of my systems. I intercept them with three cruisers (HMS Dark Prince, HMS Repulse & HMS Royal Oak) win the first battle and am thinking yeah who is da man??!! But the next four waves overwelmed me and within twenty minutes of game play the Yor ate me and my small empire up like cornflakes.
Netjam's dream of intergalatic hegmony lay smoking on the burnt out ruins of Earth.
Truely a kick bitt game the Devs have made, I love it! ....but I'm going to get those freaking Yor before its over!
Went with the humans, a medium sized map and set all my opponent races to Brilliant (or whatever you call the last setting before you are giving the alien scum economic advantages). Got stuck with a bad postion in a corner edge situation, plus the star system right next to me had no planets I could settle.
Anyway as I always do in these games I put about half of everything into research. Built up a middle of the pack military. My nieghbor (forgot which race it was i have a hard time remembering all those guys...wish I could enter my own names like Klingons and all that in for them) was weak but foolish enough to start putting those influence starbases in my sectors. Mess with with the Humans and his Majesty Netjam? ...I will teach this interloper! Started spying and postioning my fleet now equiped with nice cruisers on the border ready to let loose war upon the scum!
But a funny thing happened on the way to his Empirial Majesty (me
) opening a can of whop a$s on that race. The Yor the most powerful race declare war on me before I can jump the weak neighbor. I detect five waves of ships belonging to the Yor on the way one of my systems. I intercept them with three cruisers (HMS Dark Prince, HMS Repulse & HMS Royal Oak) win the first battle and am thinking yeah who is da man??!! But the next four waves overwelmed me and within twenty minutes of game play the Yor ate me and my small empire up like cornflakes.Netjam's dream of intergalatic hegmony lay smoking on the burnt out ruins of Earth.
Truely a kick bitt game the Devs have made, I love it! ....but I'm going to get those freaking Yor before its over!