My backside hurts... or AAR round 2!

[Green1]

Looks like the rum has worn off after losing Safe Haven and seeing his production areas preparing to fall in rapid sucession!

Rather than backside hurt of Dee, Sven chooses to get wise with some of his backside intact!

But, you got to give it to Sven, it was a long, brutal fight. He at least leaves with a somewhat decent empire left. More so than the paltry collection of far flung bases Dee has.

[Green1]

Mind Machine Interface, arguably one of the most prized of the techs in SMAX is ours.. 

Which brings us to the question of the little project called The Cloudbase Academy. For those lurkers who may not know, Cloudbase Academy is POWERFUL. Particularly for big air/big space style players. It provides an aerospace complex in EVERY base.

Now, Aki had gatten MMI before us, which raised Rozes eyebrow a bit.

Now, I had been keeping track of this situation, because I do have infiltration. She was going to have Cloudbase in 8 turns! Fortunately, though I had been working on Nueral Amplifier, a minor psi project and could redirect to Cloudbase. In a way i also owe Yang a favor, since he did nuke Aki's original attempt to make it.

Unfotunately for AKi, I have the cash and minerals to instabuild it!

You see, Aki as an AI is one of these very deceptive AIs. Yang, you know it's on. Miriam, well... we know that lady. But Aki is the person that is everyone's buddy.. till the end of middle game.. then she goes nuts! Maybe it is Kyrub's mod. Maybe it is an ancient attempt by Firaxis at late/middle game drama.

Well, Aki was pissed at losing Cloudbase... because while this is all happening, I deal huge blows to Yang (which I will go into).

Pact Sisters we are no more!

[Buster's Uncle]

Sven's backside is revealed.

[Green1]

lol!

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Green1]

Yang's backside is now revealed as well.

You see, Yang has a big bang but should not have blown everything with his only shot. Although, I must say Aki and myself were pressing. I would have had 2-3 nukes before doing that. Then again, Aki air was hurting him.

You see, a mass of AAA Chaos Rovers and Mindworms of Roze's landed at Fecundity Tower and took it easily. Then one of the rovers drove casually over to The Hive itself and took over unopposed due to Cybernetic airpower depleting sentinels.

Making this backside invasion worse, a probe was stuck up in Seat of Proper Thought, Mind Controlling it and making him lose 5 units and the base being under the banner of the Angels!

Not to mention offshore bombardment of other cities and air preparing to come down on more.

It was a Data Angel and Cybernetic backside sandwich!

[Green1]

Cloudbase Academy is ours! Aki switches to the other MMI project, the Cyborg Factory which we will be racing against for.

Aircraft from 5 empires were taking it's toll on Yang. In one city off the coast of Yang's island, there were Gaian, Nautalis, Peacekeeper, Cybernetic, and Data Angel jets stationed.

With yet another transport of AAA chaos rovers landing and a Cybernetic transport waiting to land filled with troops seeking blood for the nuclear attack on Pi Complex, Yang decides that the backside hurt is too much to bear!

[Green1]

Which by the way, I do not think anyone will have a problem with me grabbing free energy by doing this...

[Green1]

So.. whats up, Aki Zeta? She seems to be massing troops over at the city near where we took over from the earlier war. I now have 4 cities over there.

From infiltration, the rest of her cities are not well defended, but i notice in support screen she has unhappiness from troops statioed out of territory due to her running Free Market.

No copters, though. I can have copters in 2 turns. I could decimate her.

Morgan? Pathetic. Only reason I have not messed with him is because he has done nothing. He is like one of the little barky dogs that bark a lot but do nothing.

So.. even though rounds earlier I was considering against it, I dare think it would be in every leader's best interest to bow before me as Supreme Leader!

Fotunately, (for them at least) no one dares challenge this. Only a vague whimper from Morgan and Aki.

[Green1]

Oh yeah.. for those that actually care about numbers..

[Green1]

Post Mortem:

The game, I am sure looked easy, but there were actually some spots things COULD have gone wrong.

Early game was one of them. In fact there are those that say early game decides victories. If I would not have kept Deidre from aggressively expanding or blocking me in, this could have been a different ballgame.

If Dee would have gone Doctrine Air before String Theory, There would have been no way for me to backstab her like I did without huge consequences. But, having air versus someone else not having air and only beginning AAA troops makes your empire fall in mere turns.

Yang could have been even more of a factor if it had not been for strange pacts with Aki then war with Aki, then a nuke that did nothing but hack everyone off.

If Sven would have sided with the Cyborgs with Cyborg tech, that would have been a grand Alliance which would have given me a REALLY hard time, maybe even a loss mid game. The sole reason Sven dropped was tech disparity. R-Laser Jets vs Chaos Jets is no match even with interceptor on them. Instead he sided with Yang, who made fatal mistakes.

Morgan...WTF???

Lal.. I expect better. But he had a bad start, must have gotten a unity foil and spread out his settlements too much. Pirates really put the hurt on him.

Still.. feels good to give the AC2 guys and lurkers a win. Yeah, I was thinking no diplo, but I was secretly hoping for the "theatrical" deal of Aki defying! Since I do not restart.. I guess it will do. But, this is not a bad AAR for those who like tactical talks anyways.

Aki? Aki did what Aki usually does. I just got too powerful towards the end. A Pirate/Dee/Aki axis would have been her best and only choice. But, Aki's AI is a pacifist usually until late game when Future Society stuff comes.

Hope everyone enjoyed

[Buster's Uncle]

Hail to the King, baby! :win:

[NewAgeOfPower]

Early game was one of them. In fact there are those that say early game decides victories.

Yep. In almost any 4x game, if a human wins early game, he is almost guaranteed to crush AI opposition. Right now, I feel I could possibly fight every enemy combined. Even if Deidre and Miriam magically backstabbed me.

[Davyboy]

Congrats on your well deserved win 

The game, I am sure looked easy, but there were actually some spots things COULD have gone wrong.

The non-linear lure of SMACX semi-random gameplay. The reason why it's always different when it's the same old same old.

Well done. Good demo for noob lurkers and everyone else. Entertaining too.. 

[Flygon]

That was quite entertaining! I quite enjoyed this!