Posted: 30 June 2008 at 5:07pm | IP Logged

Ok here are the details.  There are 16 races that have been in this conflict.  They each have 4 command points and 3 cards in the reserve.  The numbers are going to corresponde to each racews rather than typing the name each and every time.  The races are going to be fighting along thier borders and across from each other by adding or subtrcting 8.  Ergo race number 4 (geko) can attack race 3(POT) and 5(J'xar) and 4+8=  12(Clydon)  The 12 (clydon can attcack 11 vektrean, 13 krebiz and 12-8 = 4 Geko...the numbers also corresponde to the order.  If any race destroys or gives 12 points to a sector HQ that race also gets the number of the race it attacked.  ERGO Gekos #4 gives 14 points to POT.  Geko's are now considered #4 and #5 allowing it to attack more butbe attacked more as well.  This represents conquering additional territory.

1 Corporate , 2Mechad, 3 POT, 4 Geko, 5 J'xar, 6 Tufor, 7 Leopan,  8 Orgon, 9 Bollaar, 10 Zedan, 11 Vektrean, 12 Clydon, 13 Krebiz, 14 Scorpead, 15 Dragon, 16 Argonian.

Posted: 30 June 2008 at 5:09pm | IP Logged

Turn 1

1- 1 play T10 Super massive star, play T10 Intergalactic gate.  swap A4 executive position for s4 Minesweeper
2 play t6 gorgochok, swap o5 freak occurence for t5 sun, play T5 sun
3 play t3 agro moon,swap C4 navigator for t4 rabuff, play rabuff
4 play T8 Scandig system, play T7 Massive astroid,
5 play T5 star, play T5 Earth, play T1 plan storm
6 play T8 tufor system, play  8 ball
7 play pentier play T6 Virin planet, swap
8 play T9 Dragon lair, T6 dragon eggs, t3 dragon hole
9 play bolaar covert system, t6 vorn,
10 play play T10 mayfair, t9 blookerak
11 play t5 Patrice swap for t5 custom military, play T5 cutom mil
12 play  8ball, t7 undiscovered system, t5 Jnaphahr
13 play T8 saltwater world, t3 crystal planet, t1 small moon
14 play blookerak, swap mine sweeper
15 play t9 dragon liar, swap for t5nest, play T5nest
16 play t7 fighter planeoid, swap for s5 ligth, play jozef

Each Player Draws 2 cards at the end of his turn. oops... underlined cards were combined terrain.

Posted: 01 July 2008 at 9:46am | IP Logged

Sounds way cool, I'm really looking forward to seeing how this comes out.

One of my secret vices is that I enjoy the coverage Wizards gives to their MTG professional tour. Getting anything like that for GE is way awesome.

J--

Posted: 05 September 2008 at 2:09pm | IP Logged

1 fully engage S9 Battleshp & S7 Batlcrusr. Repair S7 shields & 1 structr.Play S4 Lt cruiser to Void
   coming out engaged.S7 fire 3VP&3 phsr at Argo escort BOOM. S9 fire 8VP& 2 phsr at argo command
   REACT w/e4 hull rotation reducing damage to 4 off of shields.  S9 & s4 fire 4 phsr at S2 Mechad
   BOOM.  fire 2 phsr at S2 mech frig#2 emf down 1 Play S4 mine sweeper and T4 Obelisk. Draw 2
2 Fully engage S2 Frigate & S4 crusr .  S2 EMF 3 and S4 at 8.  Play O3 Offensive Elect Warfare to S4
   fire 10 at Geko HQ. victory celebration .  Play S9 Juggie and S7 dread.  Draw 2
4 NO engage.  Play S3 swarmer, s5 subwarrior and O8 tech breakthrough.  Draw/Play S7 Samaurai, T7
   Massive asteroid and M6 mind control beast onto J'xar S5.  Under control of MB the Jxar fire onto
   thier own b9 starbase BOOM.  draw 2
5 Fully engage Drednot and both transgates.  Transgate in S1 armed jump ship.  fire 7 phasers at Geko
   HQ REACT L8 targ error onto jxar HQ.  Fire 5 seekers at Geko subwarrior BOOM. Play C9 Temp Engineer
   onto S1 and draw 2. Recall S1 into hand play T7. Draw 2
6 Fully engage War crusr and Hvy crusr. Fire antimatter mines at Jxar dred and crusr.  Tufor hvy
   crusr fire 1 thunder and 1 phaser at Jxar S5 assault BOOM.  Both tufor fire 2 thunder and 6 phsrat
   Jxar Dred.  REACT E1 Emerg shields.  Play S10 Stephania, S5 Spy & S2 Escort
7 Fully engage S9 Battleship& b2 fighter garrison. Engage S4 Warcrusr w/ 1 plasma.  Play L9 luck
   demon. Fire 10 Phaser at D10 draxos...oops overwatch and dragon eggs prevent 3 damage.  fire 3
   plasma at T3 dragon eggs BOOM.  fire 2 plasma at T5 nest. Play S7 hvy troop, S2 Scout and T8
   Chronos. Draw 2
8 Fully engage Blob and Straith. 2 reasearch against Leo luck demon.Play M8 ship collector w/ A5 temp
   comprehension.  Play H9 shield resonance against S7 Bollar dred w/extra shields  shields cause
   dmage to ship and BOOM. Orgon Blob and straith using card damage S6 Bollar o shields and 4 strctr
   left.  Ship collectr engulfs Leo S2 scout.  Strith fire  2 ecto and 2 phys at Bollaar s6 BOOM.
   Blob does 4 phys against bolaar S3 BOOM.  Blob does 2 phys against bolaar HQ.  Ship collector w/A5
   eats Leo S4 War crusr.  M9 Kraken does 3 against leo Fighter carrier and leo S9 and S7 use armor
   systems to negate damage.  Draw 2
9 No engage. Play T5 military Res, S2 Ultrlight and S3 Med. Draw 2
10Fully engage S1 Patrol sct, S10 Flag, S7 Batlcrusr and S5 War crusr. Play L3 Lucky Targ on S10.
   fire 3 phasr at bolar S2 BOOM. Fire 6 phasers at bolaar S3 BOOM. Fire 8 phaser and 4 bolts from
   Zed Flag (12*1.5)plus 5 bolts from rest at Bolaar HQ  BOOM. Pick up number 9.  Fire 2 bolts  at
   S2 Mech frig.  Play T6 Vorn and T3 dragon Eggs and S6 command. Draw victory celeb and Draw 2.
11Arm Vek starbase hvy weps.  Play T7 Vek Systm and T/B9 Starbase #2. Fire 14 damage from both Star-
   bases at Zedan Flag.  REACT using T10 Mayfair move C9 Admiral to S7 Batlcrusr. Flag = BOOM. Astrd
   Carrier 3 phasers at Zedan S1 BOOM. Draw 2
12Fully engage War Crusr and Man-o-war.  Play M3 shield fiend & L3 warp engine breach on krebiz ship
   Play Clydon flag w/ O7 Surprise attack.  Play C5 Weapon officer onto flagship. Fire 5 hvy weps at
   Krebiz ship BOOM.  Fire 13 phasers & 7 heavy weps at Krebiz Hq. Since 10 points from flag w/ weapn
   Offcr an extra 5 damage krebiz HQ  BOOM. fire 3 at Vek battlecrusr. Draw 2 and victory celeb. 
   pick up number 13.
14Occumbus gone.  Fully engage S9 Battleship withx4 phsr mag and engage S7 Batlcrusr no phsr mag. Play
   C1 Sysop, E7 Etreme Phasr refit and E9 future ship on S9. S9 now has 14 phasers doing 4 dam each.
   Using Sysop apply future ship to S7 and using T7 comet lore apply S9's phsr mag to S7.  So I have
   20 phasers at 4 damage each.  Fire 3 phasers at draxos Boom. 1 phaser at T5 nest to take shields
   down.  4 phasers at Cyber dragoness w/A5 molt BOOM.  3 Phasers at at Overwatch BOOM. 7 phasers at
   Dragon HQ BOOM.  Pick up number 15. Fire 2 phasers at Argo S6 command BOOM.
WHY IS THE ARGONIAN SMILING????????????
16No engagement. Dirty grin still there. Play L10 Galactic Armageddon.  All cards are discarded except
   terrain. Play S10 Argo Flagship and O7 surprise attack.  Play E9 Future ship and L3 luckytargtng
   onto  Flag. Fire 14 phasers(x1.5) at Scorpead Hq.  BOOM Fire 2 phasers and 5 heavies at Orgon HQ
   (x1.5) for 10 damage. draw 2 victory celebs and end turn draw 2.

1(2) Corporation     2 Mechad       4(3) Gekonuauk     5 Jxar         &a mp;n bsp;  6 Tufor    
7 Leopan              8 Orgon        9 Bollaar          ; ; 10(9) Zedan       11 Vektrean
12(13) Clydon        13 Krebiz      14(15)Scorpead     15 Dragon         16(15,14) Argonian
#3 was POT eliminated round 3
#13 Krebiz,  #15 Dragon,  #14 Scorpead,  #9 Bollaar  were eliminated round 4
(#) means the race now has more territory to control.

Posted: 11 December 2008 at 6:05pm | IP Logged

Wow, finally back in here.  Alot has been lost but here is some news of the War.  The entire war lasted 32 turns.  The final winner were the gekonuauks.  They outlasted the corporate and Jxar.  There final HQ points ended at 2pnts remaining.  The corporate lasted longer than the rest due to 2 characters.  A C1 Luckguy/A5 greater Automaton/A6 promotion  allowing him to buy 2 luck cards of up to 8 strength per turn.  This allowed threats of Heavy weapons backfire on the gekos and misfire and miscom on the jxars to have them fight each other.  Another character which helped with the downfall of the orgons was a C4 Trophy hunter/A5 Greater automaton/A6 promotion killing any 2 monsters per turn.  At one point they were on a planet with an E7 clone device.   Unfortunately, buying the luckcards back allowed for great defense but very few new cards in the hand reduced offensive capabilities.  The Orgons were doing very well with a8 seporations and monsters as allies.  they managed to take out 3 hq's and were beating on the corporate,jxar and gekos.  Their downfall came with the trophy hunter was given an autmaton and then promoted.  The jxar did well with the gating but died from the onslaught of the orgon and geko heavy weapons which went after the gate capable ships.  The last point of the Jxar Hq was chewwed up by the corporation.  The final two were the corporate and gekos.  The defensive position of the corp. was very strong.  The gekos held back thier heavy weapons until hazards had taken out the corp defensive ships. 

Lessons learned from the war...  I got lost and forgot many things trying to play too many opponents.  I would forget special capabilities of ships, weapons and monsters, but nottoo often but enough it may have made a difference.  Also by playing borders it made it far more realistic, the last players wer'nt always the first knocked out. Badly was the fact that a large deck while making play more diverse made for some losses as some hands that needed ships were drawing unwanted cards.  Also good/bad  allowing more lower ships of races made more believable play it made longer play which made it slower.  Coupling this with no minor empires such as the indig promo cards I liked because most of the games always had the same indig in it.  I also found that by making promo terrain in exception slots the terrain made for a balanced game, perhaps this should be adopted.  Even if making the terain absorb partial slots eg a T4 terrain is .4 of an exception slot.

Posted: 12 December 2008 at 10:39am | IP Logged

Thanks for the review, I'm glad to see the J'xar made a good showing.

Next time everyone dog pile Geko!!!!

J--