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

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Thank you for sharing your game summary with us. It was nice to read. And it was interesting that there actually were two respectable Firecloud (i.e. Bridekeeper) invasion fleets you had to repell.

And congratulations on that you finally managed to destroy one Death Star (it was under privateer control for a maximum Rob Fuel effect - rob up to 2597 fuel with one ship :D). According to Klemens, it was his bad that he did not realize you had a T-Rex as well in addition to your Godzilla.

Well, according to your second screenshot, snouka (the Bird) never had a chance. It's great to see that he managed to recover somewhat.

Here is my view of the universe. My Homeworld was p#472. The next Homeworld (Rebel) was 409 LY away. As you can see, starting conditions were really different. I believe "HomeworldsRadius" ist one of the most important AMaster configuration values. I usually prefer a value of 300 and more to ensure a fairer initial race deployment. FirstSteps had a value of 100. No Go.

Ironically, you conquered p#411 in turn 85 with some sneakers. This planet was the source of the invasion chunnel.

The Empire built 16 Bistro/Multitraf Death Stars, one of them was crapped (privateer pilot :P). I.e., when I had to fight more than one capital ship (Godzilla, Mon Calamari, Eraser Cube) I usually had a Super Star Destroyer at hand to prepare the dirty work. Or, in some cases, the enemy capital ships did not have enough torps or fighters on board.

I was confirmed in my strategy to always max out Death Stars if you can afford it (both in regard to ressources and time). It's not cheap, but it's a blessing. With 650 Fighters, you can blow up 7 Rebel Assault Carriers without more than a scratch and finally consume one of those Mon Calamari Cruisers, as well. (That's a calculation example, I never had these numbers, of course.)

And finally: Double thumbs up for using VPA! ;)

It's a shame you can only run it in a DOSBox in recent operating systems. Up to Windows XP (which I even used yet until around turn 60), the mixed mode version could be used.