Challenge: Law of The Sea

[JarlWolf]

Hrm. I suggest if you take up this challenge, while doing what I originally did is always an option, I suggest taking at least 6 aquatic factions. I will have an aquatic faction for you to use in a moment, my Sons of Oceanus one.

[Vishniac]

Yeah, the 6 adversaries must be aquatic but I need someone to make-up the scenario for me with the file. I tried with 6 Pirates but they all had the same color and there were 5 Pirates-2 factions...

For the played faction, it must be terrestrial to get this feeling of being under siege.

[JarlWolf]

If I give you/you get custom factions, you won't need a custom scenario. You just need to load the factions into your game and you can start playing with them.

[Kilkakon]

Yeah we have a bunch of them available here.

[Buster's Uncle]

[Vishniac]

I started a new game a few days ago with
The Gaians
against the classical factions but with The Pirates replacing Morgan

...and Planet Cult replacing the University, I forgot.
(Of course since I was hoping slow research would allow me to tech-lead, which has not been the case. I'm looking forward to try University in the same configuration)

[uss1701jb]

I want to try this, but with:

Me:  on land

Opposing forces:

  on a boat  on a boat  on a boat  on a boat  on a boat  on a boat

Sorry  , no boats for you.

[Vishniac]

I had a very interesting game these two days along the same lines.

Classic / Size standard / Slow research / 70-90% ocean / Abundant lifeforms / weak erosion / little cloud cover
I took The Hive for the industrial bonus.

Under these conditions the Gaians were quickly the powerhouse: they grabbed the Weather Paradigm, the Merchant Exchange, the Human Genome Project and the Empath Guild. Soon Deirdre was elected at the head of the council.

The University was my ally at first and that allowed me not to be distanced in the research race but after some time they changed allegiance. With the Command Nexus and especially the Maritime Control Center, and with a good chunk of land supporting 10 bases, I decided to launch some strike task-forces: cruisers and a transport with marines.
Soon a base was taken then lost: the Gaians had a very numerous military...
And then someone (can't remember who) asked to invalidate the UN Charter ha ha! Then my signature took all its sense!!  A feast of gassed and/or obliterated bases who would have put Saddam and Bachar together to shame, and all legally!

I first killed the University to prevent them to give too many techs to Deirdre. Then Morgan who had just one base left. (yeah, someone else had the stupid idea to melt the polar caps and they all agreed... Bah, I had the strongest navy!). Then Lal fell. I took at last Gaia's Landing and got elected Supreme Leader by Miriam with Santiago abstaining.
Deirdre refused and I had to indulge in a rain of missiles (charter had been reinstated in the meantime) to win.

Boys, it was hard! I wouldn't cope with micromanagement so they downed scores of my needlejets and killed everything I neglected to protect: rovers, formers, transports with 4 attack units boarded (ouch!).

An interesting game!

[Buster's Uncle]

AAR. 

AAR.

AAR.

[Vishniac]

Hey, it's not really an AAR but it's already a good abstract. I don't have a lot of time and my computer messes with the colors when I PrintScreen.

Post me the scenario we are talking about with 6 pirate factions to play against and I'll see to your AAR! 
At least it confirms the power of the Gaians in certain conditions. I should now try the University since Michael thinks them the most capable

[JarlWolf]

All you have to do is you open paint before launching game, screen capture it, window out of game and paste, save. Make whatever edits later.

[Vishniac]

All you have to do is you open paint before launching game, screen capture it, window out of game and paste, save. Make whatever edits later.

That's what I do but see the result:

[Buster's Uncle]

I've seen that happen before.  It's something in the color settings for your machine.  Uno got it because he's colorblind...