Author Topic: AAR: A pilgrimage through fire and steel - [Complete] (Read 13857 times)

ete · « **Reply #45 on:** October 24, 2014, 12:11:16 AM »

My troops are starting to arrive on Imperium territory.

Infiltrated. Five stealable techs, and he's at war with almost everyone else.. I feel confident about this. I think the bulk of his army must be fighting someone else for there to have been this little resistance.

My production has switched over to primarily Probes and Facilities, since the number of rovers I have is starting to be a drain on my production. Those Network Nodes are going to need more income when they're operational, that's when I'll drop out of planned into green.

ete · « **Reply #46 on:** October 24, 2014, 12:22:33 AM »

That was unexpected. Even with the probe bonus I have.. anyway. Not going to declare war, they'd turn my rover around and hit me. I can always start war on my turn, if I want, and until then will just have to be more careful with my stacks.

Probed off Sepsu. Not a great tech really.

This base had only one defender, so I pick it off and capture.

ete · « **Reply #47 on:** October 24, 2014, 12:32:36 AM »

Aw, really.. still not worth war, but...

Die probe. Die.

Fun how you can kill probes without them caring if you use a probe.

Hopefully more worms to capture!

ete · « **Reply #48 on:** October 24, 2014, 12:46:43 AM »

Ah, Omar of the Leviathan Body.

That was pleasant, slightly more trade now too. I considered the pact offer, but would rather stay peaceful for now.

Probe, weeee. Both fairly nice techs.

Base with three defenders this time, but no match for a team of mostly elite impact rovers.

ete · « **Reply #49 on:** October 24, 2014, 01:03:00 AM »

Probin', Probin', Probin'

It's nice when you get the tech right as you pick it.

Hard choice here, but I felt like I could use a weapons upgrade before too long.

Rovers streaming in, and stole their map. Looks like they're down to the last couple of bases already!

ete · « **Reply #50 on:** October 24, 2014, 01:06:12 AM »

These bases are a bit better defended, but still no match for the forces flowing into the jungle.

Lovely bases too, this'll be of great help.

And the HQ falls.

From here on I may do much less frequent updates, unless people like to see all the detail. It'll let the game move much faster.

Sigma · « **Reply #51 on:** October 24, 2014, 02:07:15 PM »

Gotta love the impact rover caravan there.

Are you going after the Genarchs next? Taken them out and the game is probably yours, if it isn't already.

By the way, I think I'm most pleased with Omar's dialog out of all the factions that I built.

ete · « **Reply #52 on:** October 25, 2014, 02:18:16 AM »

Quote from: Sigma on October 24, 2014, 02:07:15 PM

Gotta love the impact rover caravan there.

Are you going after the Genarchs next? Taken them out and the game is probably yours, if it isn't already.

By the way, I think I'm most pleased with Omar's dialog out of all the factions that I built.

Yes, most likely. They started with The Cloning Vats, so taking their HQ would put me in an absurdly good position. They're not super close by though, so it'll take a while.

And yea, the Leviathan Body has some good text.

The game is essentially mine already, it's kinda disappointing that the best non-crazy builder faction I know of in the monsoon jungle with starting forests can be crushed so easily.

JarlWolf · « **Reply #53 on:** October 25, 2014, 02:49:12 AM »

Am I reading this right? Vazheli Vatzev is a PACT BROTHER of Sepsu?!

ete · « **Reply #54 on:** October 26, 2014, 09:01:55 PM »

He is, indeed..

ete · « **Reply #55 on:** November 16, 2014, 11:51:23 PM »

Alright, while I'm waiting to start the next group AAR, let's finish this up. Will be doing just highlights from here.

ete · « **Reply #56 on:** November 17, 2014, 12:18:41 AM »

Slight spoilers here, but let's show what I'm up against, and why the Genarchs were doing so well in the powergraph:

The University started with the VW and HSA, the two projects perfected suited to them. And the Genarchs.. they have the Cloning Vats, a late game SP that makes their bases grow extremely quickly. The Leviathan have the Telepathic Matrix, another very late game SP which stops all drone riots.