Yo CHarc....

From the lack of action in this forum and not seeing that many people logged in and making any significant progress I would say that its time to check the roster for inactives again.

It is always good to know just how much of an alliance that we have out there trying to support the effort at any one time. I have been elbowing space against the no2 alliance and in fact I got jumped again today with 56 battleships. I was on the job though and kept damage down to a bare minimum. All told he got about 30 metal and 25 crystal. I even got the debris fields left by my solar satillites. I left the planet just minutes before he arrived. I then recalled my ships to come home just minutes after his attack was over. As soon as the ships came back to port I sent the recycler right out to the debris field and grabbed it before his recyclers got here. About the time his recyclers would have got here and reported that nothing was here he sent more probes to find out what was going on. I shot those suckers down  so he still doesnt know what happened. It was quite an interesting morning on here.

Gazzic.. what sort of defense do you have that you say can stop 85 battleships? I have tried every combination that i can think of but speedsim says I dont really have any chance of defending against 56 battleships at least until i can build plasma turrents.

As far as the rest of the alliance goes.. this keep our chins up and stick together. We are getting up to the levels now that this is gonna get real interesting.

One interesting trick that has come from these ongoing gurilla battles down here in galaxy one is to stick a bare bones colony right up next to the top guys that you are terrorizing.. You deploy your planned attack fleet to this colony and then launch the attack as soon as the deployment is complete. You are right up next to mr bad guy so he does not get much warning that you are on the way. As soon as the attack is over and your ships return with the booty to the colony a short distance away you use the ships to immeadiately move the booty from the colony on to your real planets which should be some number of systems away. That way when the Bad Guy empire brings the retribution crashing down it comes down on the colony which now is as bare ass again as the day it was born. The bad guy can only see the planet you launch the attack from and does not see where you actually off with his stuff to. This of course down not work in the neighborhood of a bad guy moon because the moons can see where you are going.

Anyway if we start falling short of really active players we may have to start working out a merger or some other sort of alliance with other players in the game. We are just simply going to need more guns to take the bad guys on with.