Crazy thing just starting out

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New to the game and just started playing, I was on a gigantic galaxy with everything normal. Doing well but still not great. My economy was extremely strong and I owned at least 1/4 of the map. My research was light years ahead of everyone else. Didn't have a strong military but my strength is in quality and not quantity. The few engagements I did have I lost maybe one ship for every 5 or 6 I killed. Getting into mid game when all of a sudden the Terrans jump up to about 250 in research and population and influence. They were actually smaller than I was until this point. I was in no condition to attack them as they had formed alliances with two other races almost immediately after it happened. The Yor were soon conquered in short order, and my diplomatic and technology victory were stolen from me. At the end I stopped researching and declared war on them. Started pumping out ships before all the trade I had with the rest of the races started to hurt more. Just as I was about to capture three planets the terrans owned. The game crashed and now I am debating on starting over from my last actual save or the auto-save. Last actual save I might be able to stop the Terrans before it gets out of hand.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If the Terrans were allied with two other races, then attacking them would put you in a state of war with three races. So, can you beat them all? Give it a try, if you lose, you lose. No big deal. Play a new game.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
that is strange but do you recall an event in wich it says this *the waning civilazation has found a device that gives them an almost unlimited power*? if you have it causes every thing they have to become incredibly strong and i usually lose against them.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hi!
Getting into mid game when all of a sudden the Terrans jump up to about 250 in research and population and influence.

- Are you strong enough, and willing to do lots of micromanagement to destroy them and their allies?
- If not: can you take the rest of races (one at a time) that aren't allied to them and this way grow strong enough to conquer Terrands&comp. at the end?
- If not: you can ally with them and gain an alliance victory. Just like one of the game-tips says: ally with the strongest and chrush the rest that doesn't want to ally.

BR, Iztok
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It was a glorius battle but the fact that I had absolutely no money coming in from trade when the war started did me in. My ships were heavy on defence and was plowing through most of the Drath and Arcaen forces with ease. I had a few capitol ships with a bunch of fighters designed to counter their attack and defences(for some reason the ai only used mass drivers). So that made it fairly easy. Was a about to deal the terrans a major blow when they pulled out 2 dreadnoughts and about 30 fighters, they learned to counter my attack. So for about an hour it was a Cat and mouse game. I would keep the bulk of my fleet in range of my starbases with loads of starship attack and defense modules (those help out more than I would have thought. The Terrans were just too strong. I had to set my tax rate to over 80% to keep out of the red.

I wish I could have saved the videos of the final battles above the home planet.I had pulled every last ship back when all was lost. I kept some of my faster fighters and Falcon class Fighters on as raiding parties taking out any Transports. My raptor class fighters (tiny hulls 5/4/0att 0/0/20def) were legendary in their defence of homeworld. But in the end it was a crushing defeat.
It was a hell of a lot of fun though. My Medium class fleets with fighter escorts were blowing through everyone that I thought I might of actually had a chance. Figuring their defenses and attacks early in the game really does pay off in the initial stages of a war.

I still am perplexed as to how it happened, everything was going fine than I click on empty space and the research graph had shown me no longer on top and the terrans dark blue line was at the top and all the rest were in this little line hovering just above the bottom. It was not a gradual climb either, Checked the Influence, same thing. I had almost made allies with the Yor but the Terrans had conquered them in short order.

It was a hell of a lot of fun though. My tiny Destroyer and Cruiser class fleets with fighter escorts were blowing through everyone that I thought I might of actually had a chance. I am keeping the save game to see if there is another way out of this.

I know a lot of people play on Higher levels and all but just starting out I can not put myself through that yet.