HtH Ladder Earthmichael vs. Kirov - TTT

[Kirov]

 

[Kirov]

sry.

[Earthmichael]

 

[Kirov]

 

[Earthmichael]

 

[Kirov]

 

[Earthmichael]

 

[Kirov]

 

[Earthmichael]

 

[Kirov]

EM, would you allow a reload? I just misclicked a wrong number in the hurry button. It's 3 AM here...

I must say I'm really impressed! How did you go from IA to PTS in 2 turns? I haven't seen such a trick, well not without AA and there is none around. Even with several nearby bases ready to church out crawlers, it seems to be short a bit. Was disbanding regular units involved? I just can't think of a different solution here. Nice.

Also, something I picked up at 'poly and suggest here - when you finished an SP, drop a line in the thread along: "PTS poised for completion". Helps others know that there's no use doing it.

Anyway, good job!  Seems I'm far behind you now.

[Earthmichael]

No problem with the reload.  Go for it.

I had already been stockpiling resources toward Virtual World from the time this base was first built.  I never build anything else at this base; the intial 10 resources from the base was used toward the SP.  Once I got IA, I switched from VW to PTS.  No supply crawlers were used.  No energy was used.  No disbanding was used.

I hate to tell someone a project is poised for completion, because someone else could rush build it by cashing in crawlers, and beat me to it.

I don't know about you being behind.  I normally build a different project first, that I think is better for the long run, but I decided on the early game boost from PTS for this game.  If you build one of the more long term projects, you might come out ahead in the long run.

[Kirov]

Oh my, so it's the Garland Crater in that case? It looks I've made a grave mistake. I'm not even close to that location, with 1x1 spacing pushing towards the Uranium. Now that's a big note to myself for this map. I've played this "normally".

The completion message is sent only when you finish SP next turn anyway. I'm not 100% sure, but I was always under the impression that in such a case no crawler cashing can beat you to that, unlike in the single player. Well, I'm not sure how otherwise the folks at 'poly would do that.

Thanks for the reload, I behaved as if you didn't tell me the above stuff (although it is quite an illumination  ).

And , time to go to bed.


 

[Earthmichael]

 

I use opportunistic development on any map, scouting around the best I can for the best base locations, even if they are not the closest.

This is especially true on a known map.  It is perfectly legal for both of us to take advantage of complete knowledge of the map in planning our strategy.  So you should place your bases to your best advantage based on the knowledge of the map.

If you have not yet developed either of the mineral squares on the Garland Crater, you may be in an unrecoverable position.  You can decide that for yourself.

I am NOT one of those people who wants to insists that his opponent play until the bitter end.  If you feel at some point that it would be best to resign the current game and start a new one, that is fine with me.  If you want to play to my final victory, that is also fine with me. 

However, I also reserve the right to resign if I feel that the game is effectively over.  I don't personally enjoy playing a game I consider hopeless, and would rather start a new game.

Get some sleep!

[Kirov]

hey, I'm busy today and tomorrow, so I'll think about it. I mean I want to play on, but I must say you got my morale low... I'll play soon.

[Kirov]

Of course, it is perfectly fine to use prior knowledge of known maps. My mistake simply comes from the fact it's the first time I play early turns on Vets, so you can call my first 'real' Vets game, and I had a slightly different approach - I focused on turn advantage and the tech lead. And I wouldn't be ashamed in this department, managing to grab the tech lead and doing not that bad with population, if I managed to be the first to IA. Unfortunately, Centauri Ecology got in my way and there is no slot where I can play which doesn't involve 2 strays from IA-beeline (one is Biogenetics, which I want, the second is CE, which I didn't as we had 3 formers). Although it's likely that you'd take PTS anyway, you really caught me by surprise here. I was looking around the map if there are any supply pods I didn't notice. 

But yeah, this Garland Crater thing is probably a big deal. Let's play on some, let's see how we split SPs, this will probably decide the rest of the game. I wanted to meet you and see your war tactics, even if I'm to be at the receiving end of it, but of course there will no point in watching anything if you double me on the chart and pancake me with raw numbers.

But mind you, if we are to reload and we're so big on balance, I'd like to change settings a bit and reduce the number of formers to 1 or even 0, which would force you to take CE before IA. The slot I use right now is already the best I can take.

Of course there's no point in being forced to continue a game you don't enjoy, it's supposed to be fun after all! Those recent turns were quite tense to me!