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Feb 14, 2009 3:41 am
Feb 14, 2009 3:41 am
Subject: Re: EURE Spiele _hier_ :)
Biggest game so far for me, concerning the number of players - and it was huge fun once again. I set out with an agressive air based strategy because I figured that everyone would mostly keep to themselves in the beginning in order to macro up and let the others start toring each other apart first. I scoutet south first and followed with a very early bomber that did considerable damage to beko. After this succesful harass I decided to not devote additional ressources there and was content with having a "clean" southern border so that I could focus my attention elsewhere.
I went east and discovered pedi who was largely unprepared against an air assault. His way of carrying around his pioneers in transport planes was very efficient (I may adopt it next game at some point) - but his lack of fighters hurt him as I approached him from the south and found a hole in his defenses. With only one antiair in my way I destroyed two mining stations and split his remaining base in two (Screenshot 1). I then took my time to further build up my base - meanwhile beko had recovered a bit and was duking it out with eiko in the far south.
After massing enough forces I met little resistence from the weakened pedi. Continuing south I took Eiko's base without any difficulties, because he was busy fighting with beko. I then made the mistake of underestimating beko and tried pushing him both from the south and the north. My southern army was forced to run after I had lost almost all of my fighters and the remaining planes were running out of ammunition. In the north I did hardly any damage with my push but lost all my bombers to a surprisingly massive mobile anti air defense. The game continued with a lot of very exciting micromanagement treats between beko and me - he used his defenses really well and held me up for a long while, much to his own dismay since he wanted to go to sleep.
After another crash we decided to call it a night. It is unclear how much longer he would have been able to hold out, but we agreed that it was just a matter of time. Very fun game indeed.
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Biggest game so far for me, concerning the number of players - and it was huge fun once again. I set out with an agressive air based strategy because I figured that everyone would mostly keep to themselves in the beginning in order to macro up and let the others start toring each other apart first. I scoutet south first and followed with a very early bomber that did considerable damage to beko. After this succesful harass I decided to not devote additional ressources there and was content with having a "clean" southern border so that I could focus my attention elsewhere.
I went east and discovered pedi who was largely unprepared against an air assault. His way of carrying around his pioneers in transport planes was very efficient (I may adopt it next game at some point) - but his lack of fighters hurt him as I approached him from the south and found a hole in his defenses. With only one antiair in my way I destroyed two mining stations and split his remaining base in two (Screenshot 1). I then took my time to further build up my base - meanwhile beko had recovered a bit and was duking it out with eiko in the far south.
After massing enough forces I met little resistence from the weakened pedi. Continuing south I took Eiko's base without any difficulties, because he was busy fighting with beko. I then made the mistake of underestimating beko and tried pushing him both from the south and the north. My southern army was forced to run after I had lost almost all of my fighters and the remaining planes were running out of ammunition. In the north I did hardly any damage with my push but lost all my bombers to a surprisingly massive mobile anti air defense. The game continued with a lot of very exciting micromanagement treats between beko and me - he used his defenses really well and held me up for a long while, much to his own dismay since he wanted to go to sleep.
After another crash we decided to call it a night. It is unclear how much longer he would have been able to hold out, but we agreed that it was just a matter of time. Very fun game indeed.
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