A bad map win against 40oz. The first clan game of my second season started out looking pretty bleak. I managed to explore most of my territory by the time I pop tricked with Orion, Low Post, and 19,18 E. I did not know at that time how bad my map was since first contact was at Orion. I'm sure you can see from the map that it could just as easily been at 19,19 (which had 10ag to begin with). There were three major battles in this game. The first happened over Southern Comfort as I hit BR4. I uncloaked a cloaker in SC to tilt the odds in my favour. Unfortunately, this left me with .00xx ships. I moved one attack into each of Southern Comfort and Smirnoff and set the rest to nuke. It was his turn to end turn, so I also overbuilt another fleet at Orion. He had built attacks at Crown, and easily crushed my patsy ships. I then moved my fleet into CR, including the two low-BR ships over his non-building planets. MUCH to my surprise, he did not cover those planets. I didn't get the nuke, and I missed a chance to nuke 2 planets =(. The second battle occured as 40oz beat me to BR5. I had satwalled Orion and he chose to circumnavigate it, going the southern route. I saved Low Post, but my system at 21,17 was nuked. The final battle came when 40 tried the same trick as before after I satwalled Orion. This time I dismantled all my satelites and built 14 ships at Orion. He had just enough time to get back to save his homeworld, but he forgot to move his ships from Southern into Crown. A cheap win? Perhaps... but on this map I will take it.
