Popgun Armies

The game started in the beginning of Febuary 2004. This is also the first game I've played in online (Together with Pebble in the sky). Sofar the game is progressing very fast witch is nice, a few friendly neighbours, you never know what could happen.

Finished this game. As it was hosted on AH, most of the people posted thier views on the Universe. Because the game was voted over before it really WAS over (In my opinion) there will be different opinions on who whould have won. Anyways, here is most of the Postings made by some of the players.

ForceUser :

Ok, shure the Lemmings and wibblers won, congrats guys, but what could have happened ???

I played the ETHEREALS. We (AR) started in the SW corner and Luckely had a great neighbour (Thanx Baatezu). The race was a decent one for an AR although a low pop grouth in the beginning was a bit bad. Also sentered(Kinda) hab also made intercolonization abit of a pain.

I expanded agressively in the beginning, coming into contact with a VERY aggresive player (Not shure what PRT he was) the K9 Pack. I held the HOTH cluster for a while untill his ETHDEATHS (Blackjack cruisers) started whiping out my stations. I countered with blackjack stations and that whiped out most of his cruisers. He then used a big horde of Frigate beamer combined with Cruisers and I lost the Hoth Cluster but made a promise to return and eliminate the evil K9 Pack.

At the same time in another part of the Universe, The Network and I had a bit of dialog while I tried to speak in his native tounge and sucede rather well. He was busy whiping out another poor AR that we tried to convince him will be better as an ally than an enemy. It looks like I was right since he was being whiped out later in the game.

Back to the Ethereals, things were looking bleak. Large Fleets of Frigate Beamer hordes were targeting my next planets (Luckely more than 1 W9 jump away from Hoth Cluster) and I had a rather big mineral shortage. I had begun constructing my minefields just after the first attack on my Planets and so had a rather large Minefield around LGM2 just out of scanner range of the K9 Pack (Apparently). Then the big break came. The baatezu and Network joined in and occupied the Pack long enough for me to get rather deadly Ultras in orbit. The pack then Sent a desperate attempt at LGM2 but sadly 125 Frigates at W10 (Or W9) doesn't do to well with a minefield He lost a big deal of his frigate horde and damaged his cruisers heavily. After that he limped back home and never sent another fleet past the Hoth Cluster.

After that I started Negotiations with the Wibblers as thay were really getting close and I showed them some goodwill by offering some planets in my territory. I then started taking back my Hoth Cluster that Started the Whole Pack/Etheral war. The Bateezu were already biting into his flank and had taken a large chunk of his planets. I then Started with my Superbugs and Mineral shortages were nomore. I then started construction of my main fleet and has since not stopped constructing standard BB Beamers. I had since constructed 100 Superbugs (About 300000 KT mining rate of each mineral on 100 conc planet, Asguard for example )

We are now at the present, where I control the Hoth cluster and is starting on assaulting the remainder of the Packs Worlds.

The reason why I was so shure that me and my ally would have won was that he was PP. And thus with my mineral capacity of about 300000 * 3 = 900 000kt a turn he could shoot 9 100 000 packets a turn and would have bombed most of the universe clean in a few years. Minefields are of no use against them although we might have had some trouble once your fleets arived but they can only take out one world at a time. With some luck (And a bit of surprise) we could have tryd to beat the 1 and 2 position by recruiting any other race still left.

Anyways, Thats the Ethereal View of situations. We had resourses of 32K (We had just started construction of our Deathstars so that could have increased by 50%) We had 86 Tech lvs with the Bateezu having Nubs (Or VERY near it) and we were ranked 4th with the Bateezu either 3rd or 5th (Not shure) As soon as we started constructions of Nub ARMS, We could have basically made unlimited of them and totally whiped out whomever stood in our way as we had unlimited minerals. This is why I wanted to continue but sadly my Ally has abandoned me and nobody wants to finish this game

Aw well... Anybody up for a rematch?

ForceUser, Ethereal Leader. 4th place.

Big Wib :

The Wibblers and Lemmings accept victory. Thanks ForceUser.

K9's are CA.

89k resources. 1st place. 72 planets. Tech 18/22/15/18/19/13. My growth curve is still just shooting up into the beyond and was just beginning to feel the effects of my fleets of OA's doing the rounds. With the last level of prop just about to be acquired, my worlds would have been headed on the way to maximum production levels in short order.

I've got colonisers and fleets of LF's above most of my worlds and they've nearly all got max defenses and a W10 driver over them. Those warp 14 packets tipped me off. So while you'd get a few of my outlying worlds, most could be back in production a year later and you'd be hard pressed getting through my minefields to kill the orbiting LF's. I reckon those mineral packets would supplement my ship building needs nicely

I've just taken out all those Baatezu sweepers that appeared over my worlds which seemed to be the starting move of an eventual attack on my poor little Wibblers. With Mega Disruptor BB's in full production and loads of Doom BB's crossing the void looking for action, they had just been assigned the task of taking out all nearby Baatezu bases, that with gateable B17 bombers already on standby to raze their planets would have destroyed a number of packet flinger bases before they could do their worst.

The Network are surrounded by my my exploding minefields and have made little progress in clearing them. With a host CC's just entering the war zone to take out their sweepers and their inability to detect my cloaked minelayers I feel sure they'd have remained well bogged down.

The Lemmings are making good progress in taking over Network territory and have sufficient fleet numbers with far better weaponry to deal with the Networks own amassing fleet. They would have been passing w23 on to me shortly with ARM's around the corner. I'm sure that the Lemmings would have had the odd spare fleet to help out with any campaigns against the Baatezu and Ethereals.

The main problem my race has to contend with is that all my research areas are expensive.

As to the E's taking out the K's I'd made arrangements to steal the K's HW. I was intending to ask first and see if it could be given up freely. If not, well I'd have hated to see it given over to the enemy.

Slave of Seven :

Thanks for the game everyone.

Let's see... vanilla flavoured HG JoaT - finished on 56k res/30 planets/96 tech levels.

First half of the game was quiet for me - held the #1 spot for the first 50 years or so before the Wibblers economy exploded and we switched places. Early on formed an NAP with the NetWork and an alliance with the Wibblers, and then an NAP with the Pleh.

When the Pleh were attacked by the NetWork, I started supplying them with FF's hoping they'd help slow down the NW's expansion, but they weren't slowed for long. By the time the NW finished off the Pleh, I'd all but run out of planets to colonize and my economic growth was slowing down, so I decided to take advantage of the NW being spread a little thin and dissolved our NAP to attack them. I was pretty confident that with the big (relatively speaking) economy and superior weapons (at some point I concentrated soley on weapons research while the Wibblers handled everything else) the NW wouldn't be able to produce enough ships or well-armed enough ships to stop me. That seemed to be born out by the way the war went.

A shame the Baatezu dropped out, but I'm by no means convinced that the Ethereal/Baatezu alliance would have taken the game. Would have been interesting anyway, that's for sure.

Ulysses :

Needless to say this didn't go as I hoped. Ended fifth, 25 k res and 24 planets. My habs and my bare corner held me back a lot in a game which turned out to be pretty strictly economy building. I had hoped for more early warfighting in this game and if there'd been anybody else thinking that way to get together with, maybe things would have been different. I really didn't expect a CA and a Joat and a all expensive SD and TWO AR. Doesn't seem like the mandatory tech setting made much difference at all.

Game Setup

All players must have weapons expensive.

Other stuff:

REGISTERED Version JRC4.
All player levels invited.
Limited to 10 Players.
Host will not be playing.
Medium,Normal,Distant
Slow Tech on
ACCBBS on
Events on
Clumping on
PPS is OFF
Chaff & split fleet dodge allowed only.
Winner by consensus.