Another bad map win, this time against The Grand Duchy. As you can see, GD was adjacent to my 10th planet, the one with all my fuel =(. I colonized orion early, but I was harassed by multiple attacks and could not afford to colonize further. I did manage to send a sci north to explore the northern section of my map, and found little of immediate use. Instead, I sent two BR1 colonies to the south and grabbed 23,20 and 24,20. I traded four of dutchy's ships against my minefield and minefield tricked my four nice planets. At least my really nice ag was close and I didn't have to go too far. I satwalled Orion for the duration of BR3, and as I hit BR4 I built 3 attacks to beat up his 4 old BR3's. They did, leaving me with two, and he seemed to hit BR4 at the same time, building only two ships in 21,21. I had expected an overbuild in his homeworld, but I was delighted to see him building only the two ships. I waited for 2:50 on the update (3-min on tool grudges), and quickly overbuilt 6 more attacks and 2 sweepers (.490 mr). On the update, he still had his 2 puny ships and I moved in to 21,21. Again I waited for his builds, and saw that he was coming with 2 attacks and a m/f in 21,21. This would give him 4 attacks and a minefield, easy prey for my 10-ship fleet. I nuked it, sending a lone attack into his homesystem. That's where I saved the map, I guess you can figure out the rest.
