Spacecadet -> RE: (POSSIBLE SPOILERS) When Shakturi starts? (12/30/2010 7:18:23 AM)
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SPOILER ALERT ! ! ! ! ! Wow! What an epic game I just finished. Yeah, I was Beta Tester so I should know what to expect, but it's always a surprise at how it plays out. I could have just whacked them when they showed up, but I let it play out as it was intended to be. The Shakturi managed to claim a handful of systems spreading from the left to the right side of the Galaxy - not something I was looking forward too. By the time all the cards fell into place it wasn't a pretty picture. I was on good terms with most of the other Empires and had carefully accepted a few MDP's. I was wanting the Dhayut taken out before the trouble began, but no luck there. My first Fleet (3 Capitals, 5 Cruisers, 7 Destroyers) got waxed in the first encounter and it wasn't even in the Shakturi home system [X(] That's about when I lost my first planet - KaBoom. My next Fleet had one goal/target, and it succeeded but I lost a third of it. I sent this one to attack a weakly defended system, and threw in a couple "Floating City" Capitals I designed [;)] Even with all that, talk about a fire-fight . . . . I managed to get most of the other Empires into the mix, and a good thing too. The Shakturi had Fleets all over the Galaxy. I don't think without their (other Empires) help I'd have been able to hold off the Shakturi the way they were rolling. I needed the other Empires to at least distract them while I tried to co-ordinate my efforts. Some truly epic battles in this one, it went back and forth a couple times - really surprising. Oh, and did I mention that I had completed the Tech Tree by the time this all happened? I had some truly decent firepower, and it was only enough with the help of my Allies [sm=Cool-049.gif]
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