Sorry this is so late, but I'm finally done with the set! I'm afraid the situation in the save is also a bit ... messy. I guess I can say that the plans I made were good enough to overcome making some egregious errors in execution and a certain amount of rotten luck, but that doesn't make the errors any less severe.
I'm not going to have time to post anything like a report tonight, so some really brief notes for now:
1) You've got almost 1,500 BC in the reserve, but basically nothing has been funded yet this turn (including the URs!)
2) I didn't try for Altair because I'm pretty sure they have enough Hyper-V bases to slag our current bombers. I did go for one of the peripheral Alkari worlds though: What turned out to be an artifacts world in the north that I ended up glassing in the interturn because I underestimated how much damage the bomber would do. We can recolonize it if you like. At least it's better than...
3) I colonized a couple of rich worlds in the corners of the galaxy just for fun. One turned out to have a lizard cruiser en route when I founded the colony, and I didn't haverealize I had a fleet I could get over there in time to repel it. The Sakkra cruiser is in orbit there right now, but didn't bomb, so the additional LR colship I sent in advance of some transports and a fleet of neutron fighters (so that hopefully neither would crash) may be superfluous. I freely admit the entire endeavor is and was very silly.
4) Willow (once a Psilon colony, now ours) has a bunch of Psilon fleets incoming. We also have a fleet of neutron fighters coming to kick them out. The Psilon ship designs are basically all bombers - the larger ones are two-movers - except for the smalls, which are ... nuclear missile boats. The fighters should be able to handle the first wave of attacks, but I'm sending a Repulsor bomber (still can be vetoed) from the bombed-out Art world in the north to help with the next set that comes in. ... This is a gross waste of resources, so please do veto it and do something better (like reloc'ing a repulsor large to do the job from Paranar instead of fiddling around with a colship for the Art world).
5) Tau Cygni (also an ex-Psilon colony, also ours, but pretty small) also has a bunch of incoming fleets. There are fighters already there, but there are some big fleets coming against which they will be inadequate. Probably Drakka should do something about this.
6) I tried not to leave you with too many transports in space, but there are I think three groups. One is heading toward the aforementioned Rich reach world (the southern rich reach world; I didn't bother doing anything for the one up near Psilon space because it's purely to taunt the brains and be fun and silly - so feel free to prove me wrong and come up with a way to make it a huge contributor to our empire or something if you want) and due in I think four turns. The other (two?) are bound for the galactic center (Sol, I think? Or Phyco...) and will arrive quite soon. None of our planets are overflowing though, so this isn't a problem; just a thing.
7) I doubt if I'd really be building Class X planetary shields at so many planets this turn if I were actually playing it; your call on what to actually do of course. (What? Yeah, we have Class Xs. One of exactly three techs I pulled from over 300 Psilon factories. Fortunately I got all the good techs before I invaded. Not by spying of course. In spite of excellent computer tech levels and keeping spies active on every rival every turn, I didn't get a single espionage success.)
8) These really aren't all that brief, are they? Errrr, oops. Sorry.
9) We have a bio-toxin antidote, so spores can be ignored. I've seeded Impulse Engines heavily, Absorption Shield a bit, and now also Cloning. Still no investment in any other tech field.
10) The Meklar have Impulse Drives. Not necessarily on any of their ships, but in their spy reports. They've had them for several turns now.
11) There's an ultra-poor Psilon world with no defenses and a few factories in the far east, just past Tau Cygni. The other defenseless Psilon world is Mentar. I haven't bombed it yet, but maybe I should have instead of dreaming of setting up a possible invasion.
12) Mentar's not in the nebula, but note that our amazing UR toxic world of Drakka is. Note also the Psilons have Controlled Toxic.
13) Okay, okay, I'll be quiet now until I can post the report. The save is attached!
I'm not going to have time to post anything like a report tonight, so some really brief notes for now:
1) You've got almost 1,500 BC in the reserve, but basically nothing has been funded yet this turn (including the URs!)
2) I didn't try for Altair because I'm pretty sure they have enough Hyper-V bases to slag our current bombers. I did go for one of the peripheral Alkari worlds though: What turned out to be an artifacts world in the north that I ended up glassing in the interturn because I underestimated how much damage the bomber would do. We can recolonize it if you like. At least it's better than...
3) I colonized a couple of rich worlds in the corners of the galaxy just for fun. One turned out to have a lizard cruiser en route when I founded the colony, and I didn't haverealize I had a fleet I could get over there in time to repel it. The Sakkra cruiser is in orbit there right now, but didn't bomb, so the additional LR colship I sent in advance of some transports and a fleet of neutron fighters (so that hopefully neither would crash) may be superfluous. I freely admit the entire endeavor is and was very silly.
4) Willow (once a Psilon colony, now ours) has a bunch of Psilon fleets incoming. We also have a fleet of neutron fighters coming to kick them out. The Psilon ship designs are basically all bombers - the larger ones are two-movers - except for the smalls, which are ... nuclear missile boats. The fighters should be able to handle the first wave of attacks, but I'm sending a Repulsor bomber (still can be vetoed) from the bombed-out Art world in the north to help with the next set that comes in. ... This is a gross waste of resources, so please do veto it and do something better (like reloc'ing a repulsor large to do the job from Paranar instead of fiddling around with a colship for the Art world).
5) Tau Cygni (also an ex-Psilon colony, also ours, but pretty small) also has a bunch of incoming fleets. There are fighters already there, but there are some big fleets coming against which they will be inadequate. Probably Drakka should do something about this.
6) I tried not to leave you with too many transports in space, but there are I think three groups. One is heading toward the aforementioned Rich reach world (the southern rich reach world; I didn't bother doing anything for the one up near Psilon space because it's purely to taunt the brains and be fun and silly - so feel free to prove me wrong and come up with a way to make it a huge contributor to our empire or something if you want) and due in I think four turns. The other (two?) are bound for the galactic center (Sol, I think? Or Phyco...) and will arrive quite soon. None of our planets are overflowing though, so this isn't a problem; just a thing.
7) I doubt if I'd really be building Class X planetary shields at so many planets this turn if I were actually playing it; your call on what to actually do of course. (What? Yeah, we have Class Xs. One of exactly three techs I pulled from over 300 Psilon factories. Fortunately I got all the good techs before I invaded. Not by spying of course. In spite of excellent computer tech levels and keeping spies active on every rival every turn, I didn't get a single espionage success.)
8) These really aren't all that brief, are they? Errrr, oops. Sorry.
9) We have a bio-toxin antidote, so spores can be ignored. I've seeded Impulse Engines heavily, Absorption Shield a bit, and now also Cloning. Still no investment in any other tech field.
10) The Meklar have Impulse Drives. Not necessarily on any of their ships, but in their spy reports. They've had them for several turns now.
11) There's an ultra-poor Psilon world with no defenses and a few factories in the far east, just past Tau Cygni. The other defenseless Psilon world is Mentar. I haven't bombed it yet, but maybe I should have instead of dreaming of setting up a possible invasion.
12) Mentar's not in the nebula, but note that our amazing UR toxic world of Drakka is. Note also the Psilons have Controlled Toxic.
13) Okay, okay, I'll be quiet now until I can post the report. The save is attached!