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Thank you all for an exciting game. A shame it is not ranked, though :-)

A big Hat tip to FireAge, he used every trick in the book and a few more. I learned quite a lot of things (sometimes boldness did pay off. Often, however, it did not...)

Gratz to the victors and thanks for a nice game. Though I must say, I have never been destroyed so thoroughly in 10 turns :)

Game summary:

I started out in the north part of the cluster.

And discoverd the location of the homeworld of the bird and the borg in 3 turns... Which even though I messed up my selection of ships and arms, ended up poorly for the bird. Him flying off to the north-east with a single ship of clans in hope of better days.

By turn 20 I still had not managed to destroy the Borg:

And I was getting a little distressed. The longer you wait, the more worlds are ruined. So I threw some ships on his homeworld and managed to destroy it, but due to bad counting of torps and fighters, lost a Godzilla and a T-Rex in the process. And of course, the borg by then had many new homeworlds, so not the best move ever.

By turn 40 I was pushing back the borg, though slowly, as he had managed to capture a buccaneer and was dragging a cube from planet to planet, making it hard for me to defend against until I got enough minefields up.

I continued to push on, and encountered the Fed, who was working with the Borg to keep me at bay. So I started pushing on his worlds as well, though lots of them contained an unhealty amount of citizens, likely from Borg assimilation.

By turn 60 I managed to push the borg back by quite a lot (seems he was opposed by other people as well in other places), and was encroaching on the Fed territory.

So the Fed decided to strike back.

Unfortunately for him, he made a bad choice to land, even though he had the element of Firecloud surprise (eh I mean bridgekeeper :/). As I had just build 6 Godzilla in that region. The fed split up his fleet to attack several planets at once, and I wiped our his whole fleet while only loosing 2 Godzilla in the progress.

Not long after that the borg and fed stopped submitting turns. In the meanwhile I was playing around with the Orion in the west. With a few small ships. Grabbing a base here and there by clan drop, and being a pain in the ass with minefields. A lot of buccy's lost their valiant lives while playing kamikaze on empty loki (eh constitution) and big minefields, so I saw no need to commit more to that region. Until he managed to drag a Rebel Assault carrier over there and started destroying my precious, badly defended bases.

So I send a bunch of Godzilla that way with all the fuel I could find (it was getting quite scarse) and some of my constitution. But by the time I got there, I was greeted by a little surprise.

What what?

As my entire fleet was scattered around the echo cluster hunting down borg/bird/fed in the east and Orion in the west, and as I was completely out of fuel almost everywhere, I just applied lubricant and prepared for impact...

12 turns later, my empire was in shambles, with my core region being either overtaken by Draklor Imperial troops or Death Star madness.

So nice job on the Empire, Orion, Cylon combo. Knocking me so far down, even the Crystal managed to get above me :)

See you again some time in the echo cluster.