Is that dark trying to confess his true love for hideki???

i must be a god damn sexy blond as watcher explained 3 years ago... (hell, it was already that long time ago...)

Whatever just pm ur mail, and yea i love blond japanese girls like in anime.

T48

Though it is possible to develop point defense systems, I decide that building ships more efficiently and increasing our industrial capacity is paramount, and so set our scientists to work on Expert Systems. They claim this will take 6 years to research at full spending.

I order three Agamemnon+ built each at Excalibur, Tully and Hercules, for defensive purposes.

T49

We saw only a pair of enemy insectoid ships at Chepren less than a year ago. We know they do not travel faster than light, and yet now, when we attack, there are seventeen insectoid vessels forming up against our nine...

How can this be?

We have no time to ponder this now though… Paktu S’jet Armada fleet has met our enemy head on, and we will engage them, no matter if they have seventeen, or seventeen thousand ships. Humanity will prevail.

Though we have no specific anti-missile technology, our lasers are sufficiently accurate to destroy multiple waves of incoming missiles


Our weaponry still greatly outstrips the enemy’s feeble slugthrowers, and we push straight through all their ships to the world, where we detect several hundreds of thousands of the strange insect creatures. After destroying the strange wing ship stationed just before the planet - it had projected an energy field above its main hull -, we proceeded to clear the surface of the insect infestation.

We have sustained no losses.

Tully starts construction of colonizers to take advantage of the 20% infrastructure already present on the planet. Chepren will truly be a jewel of a world in the Human Empire one day.

Chepren: the future

We still detect a single old insectoid defence platform in orbit, this technology is interesting. We may wish to look into it. Six of the enemy ships choose to abandon their duty and run from the field of battle. It would not have helped their cause if they had stayed, however, we will now have to track them down and destroy them. No matter, they are easily caught up, though we will need more fuel before we can move from Chepren.

T50

Task Force Pesticide arrives at Zhadum, where before the strange cobbled together ships were found.

The smaller ship breaks off, and we engage the larger vessel. Though it is quite massive, it is no match for our sheer numbers. However, its weaponry is diverse and partially quite advanced.
It is equipped with a large sustained beam weapon which causes significant damage to our ships, along with large mass driver cannon.


The force of impact of the mass drivers send any destroyer they hit spinning wildly out of position.

With precision firing however our old ships are able to disable the dangerous turrets on the enemy vessel.

Beam removal

The ship quickly succumbs to our might, and the small support vessel is also tracked down and eliminated.

Again, we suffer no losses, and the destroyed vessel yields a fairly valuable cargo to be added to our treasury.

The Zhadum system indeed shows itself to be of great potential, and we begin to make plans for colonization…

Excalibur starts on this vital work, beginning a colonization fleet, while Tully continues production of the one slated for Chepren.

T51

With research of Expert Systems at 56% of its projected total budget, we cut back on spending to allow us to fully utilize our production bases for the construction of further colonizers.

The first colonization fleet for Chepren is ready at Tully, and sets off.

T52

One of our Exploratoria+ pickets at Errai engages a fish-people scout; it barely takes damage to its paint layer while demolishing the pathetic vessel. It was using small mass drivers and a missile launcher.

We detect another such fish ship incoming on Excalibur, but it is still three years away.

T53:

One of our old Exploratoria class finds five fish ships while passing through Betelgeuse, it is destroyed with all hands lost.

On a more positive note, Expert Systems are already usable, 3 years ahead of schedule with current technological investment. We now move on to Point Defense systems.

A second colonizer fleet leaves from Tully.
We detect a fish ship two years out from Zhadum.

T54

Excalibur’s second colonizer fleet leaves.

T55

The colonization fleet on its way to Zhadum encountered three green laser alien ships at Merak. The fleet was able to keep range and escaped unscathed.
Merak
Also, the fish ship at Zhadum was destroyed.

The first colonization fleet has arrived at Chepren, it is ordered to set down and claim this world.

T56

We start overharvesting resources on Chepren to speed up its growth.

Though Paktu S’jet Armada fleet is not yet repaired, it is sent after the insectoid ships, we hope we will catch them up before they reach Arokor

T57

The second colonizer ship on its way to Zhadum again encounters the three enemy ships at Merak, the outcome is the same as last time, no damage is sustained.

The second colony fleet is ordered to expand the settlement on Chepren

T58

PSA fleet arrives at Arokor, there is a fish ship here, but also a green laser opponent ship. Both are destroyed, though we notice a number of our laserblasts reflecting off of the green laser alien ship. When we examine the vessel after the battle, we note that the occupants are hairy lizards of some kind; we also find that the reflection was some kind of coating on the surface of the armour. We may have to look into this technology ourselves if we face these enemies more often.

We determine we have four years until the insectoids arrive. We decide to send PSA fleet back to Chepren in the hope it will have developed sufficient infrastructure in 2 years to perform some repairs.

We cease overharvesting at Chepren.

Point defence systems are now over their projected budget, so we cut down on spending. We forgive the scientists for now as they provided us with expert systems so soon.

T59

While we are uncertain whether or not PSA fleet will be in a fit condition to deal with the insectoids, we decide to route Task Force Pesticide to Arokor, it will arrive there well ahead of the insectoid fleet.

The second Zhadum colonizer fleet has arrived, and is ordered to perform its slated duty.

T60

Point defence tracking weapons are now ready for trial on our ships.
Due to the long distances between the stars in general and our colonies in particular, we order our scientists to start work on refining Node Drive technology, with Node Focussing.

Though PSA fleet can not yet be repaired at Chepren, we decide to order them back to Arokor to act as support for Task Force Pesticide, though they are quite heavily damaged, they will serve well as reinforcements, while TFP does the heavy work. With our experience so far with the insectoids, this should not be necessary, but we will not risk the lives of the venerable TFP veterans without reason.

Thus is the state of our empire at present:







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Here we go then, sorry it's taken so long to post this, I've been playing multi games almost non-stop over the easter weekend so I didn't do my turns... I'm glad it was missed though, that means it must be appreciated

I've limited myself to 3 full size pictures. But I do want to have pictures in it in normal image format, because otherwise it's just a lump of text and combat pictures especially really do look good

The save is here:
http://www.filecrunch.com/file/~wlrl5h

Turn 62:

Task Force Pesticide came out victorious from battle with bugships. We killed all enemy destroyer, while loosing only one of our own.

One of Enablers, sent to explore nearby star, passing Lomoshu system, noticed that it was recently colonized by fish people. With no defending ships present, capitain decided to try his luck with planetary bombardment. Attempt was succesful, small enemy colony was destroyed, ship itself sustained minor damage from planetary defense systems.
Planet itself is avalaible for colonization - with enviromental rating of 240, and our ships will be dispatched in the future to take advantage of this fairly large - class 7 - world.

Turn 63:

While Task Force Pestice is on it's way to conduct repairs, we detected another 6 bugships, on course for our Zhadum colony. They will reach their destination within 7 years. Paktu S'jet Armada can be at the planet within four, so for now it will stay where it is, to undergo repairs. Also construction of several new destroyers was started on Excalibur, to create 3rd mobile taskgroup.

There is also fishpeople destroyer on it's way to Excalibur. Planetary defenses will take care of it.

Turn 64:

Bugpeople invited us to NAP, offer refused.

Task Force Pesticide on it's way to Excalibur encountered 3 green laser fitted destroyers, belonging to monkey people. They seemed to be a 2 colonizers with tankers. Enemies were destroyed, but we lost 3 of our own ships - they were already heavly damaged. TF P was also stopped on a planet, because loss of a tanker.

We found homeworld of fish people. Planet's name is Noshu. It's fairly close to Chapren - approx 3 node jumps.

Turn 67:

TF P faced 4 fishpeople destroyers - all colonizers. They were removed without losses. However we noticed fish people started using UV lasers similar to our own, as well as lighting weapon, that was damaging few our ships at a same time

Colonizing fleet has been made on Chapren, it is being send to Lomoshu.

Turn 69:

New colony is made on Lomoshu

Paktu S'jet Armada arrives to Zhadum, it is reinforced with new group of ships, now it is forming fully sized battlegroup.

Turn 70:

PSA wins it's battle, and after repairs is send to some uncolonized planet, that has incoming bugships to it. Interesting observation - bugships are no longer using missiles. Research is WAY overbudget.

Turn 71:
Research ready, ships will be redesigned to fit newest technologies. New shipclass added - point defense destroyer going under name of 'Hydra'. Orbital foundries tech is next on list, we feel need for bigger ships, that could easly break planetary defenses of fishpeople.

Turn 72:
Homoworld attacked by slavers, defending Agamemnons managed to fight back intruders.

Turn 74:
Task Force Pesticide - now old and obsolete, is repaired. It will be sent to Merak, to guard this planet - that seem to be mid-stop for many enemy scouts and fleets.
Research is overbudget - yet again...

Turn 75:
Research finished, we now begin research on cruiser construction.

New task force - under codename of Free Collective is constructed on Zadum. Fleet is fully operational and consists on numeroud Advanced Agamemnons, Hydra destroyers, and other support vessels. It is being sent to Egoun, fishpeople planet, that we could possibly use for our own advantages.

Turn 76
Multiple bugship fleets detected in proximity of unsettled worlds. We have no free forces to deal with them at present. One enemy groups is heading for Merak, where Task Force Pesticide is stationed. TFP will be reinforced to deal with the threat.

Turn 78:
We attacked Egoun. Defending force of 10 destroyers was removed without any losses, then planetary bombardment began. It continued until we had to pull back to resupply. During this phase we lost 2 destroyers - to planetary fire and to orbiting satelites, that turned out to have advanced weapon systems onboard. We killed 300 million, of 800 total.

Cruiser construction tech acquired. Strarting Strikeforce CNC tech.

Turn 79:
Egoun relived of fishpeople presence

PSA destroyed incoming bugships fleet without any losses or particular damage, it will now head to intercept another group.

Turn 80:
Task Force Pesticide after reinforcments repelled bugships with ease, it is now fully operable battlegroup. It will be sent to conduct repairs at Zhadum

Free Collective is clearing planet of Egoun of defense satelites. Colony ships are enroute.

PSA is heading for last known bugship position.

Now, hopefully Raziel will guide us to great victory.


Save: http://www.folko.republika.pl/SotS/RnFt80.sav

yes kill them all, murder rape and maim. DO it DOIT NOW

no? none of that?

Sounds like they've won.

sorry, last few weeks have been busy, and got into a bit of an argument with Mecron which put me off of playing SotS, i'll get back to playing the next set of turns later this week.

Incidentally, in the meant time I did complete another TAR, a 140 turn one which wasn't very hard, a bunch of us on the kerberos forums played from the same turn one savegame, a sort of challenge game.


Here's the write up for that:

http://www.kerberos-productions.com/for ... sc&start=0