Well,,my Military score tends to be somewhat...disappointing.
It seems like being hyper efficient in killing and keeping my losses to an absolute minimum both for ships and troops isn't what is premiered here
Like my last game...
For once I did well in the colony rush,,boxing Dregin into the southwest corner and the Terrans to the west side.
What I didn't think of was that cutting them of from the rush would mean I'd still be churning out colony ships/constructors while they began to build a real fleet with the weapon tech to back it up.
All focused on getting to the huge cluster up north before Yor got them,,I felt like kicking myself when Dregin declared war from Cool state.
All I had researched was Space Mil to get the 10% production bonus,,while they were well into the Singularity drivers.
Only migating fact was that I had Midsized hulls already (like to upgrade my flagship earliest possible as well as making a few more).
Normally,,I have enough Diplomacy tech to make someone else distract my opponents until I can achive a weapon adventage,,but this time I had totally overstreched in the colonyrush,,so no one was interested in declaring war on Dregin in spite of being as low as wary.
To make it worse,,my low diplomacy ensured I couldn't trade directly for some kind of weaponary.
Making a long story short(er at least),,some complicated tradeteching and panic upgrading along with total focus on military power made the war end with me paying blood for peace in spite of me taking most of the Dregin planets as I simply couldn't afford war anymore with income in red and approval around low 30.
When I some later gave away my fleet in support of the Iconians (thus making friends while lessening my maintence costs so I could afford to build up the infrastructure) in their conflict against Thalan,,it turned out to be a very bad move...for the Dregin.
Their Declaration of War a few turns later (in spite of me trying to keep them happy with bribes) left them with two PQ5 planets that alone demanded more maintence than the tax income,,a huge fleet pulling them deeper into the swamp,,and me offering just enough tech to get renewed peace and all money they had.
I openly admit that the reson the whole mess occured in the first place was my own mistake.
However,,there is something that keeps me playing... getting bad starting positions,,making stupid mistakes and/or having bad luck like when UP first decides I should "donate" 2000bc in the middle of the buildup phase and then limiting the sole evil player (me) to one traderoute when I finally has been able to crank out a full set of tradeships on their way to their destinations.
Can I still manage to come out on top in spite of the difficulties presented?
Struggling through and perhaps eventually limp ahead will never give me any great Metaverse scores,,but that is the question that keeps me glued to the comp.
