Jeff H, Imperium 24

[jeffh]

Sorry, I've been sick, so I missed the deadline. I hope this can still count anyway, if not, oh well, hopefully someone at least finds it interesting or entertaining.

Please see the attachment for my report. The first page goes over my interpretation of the rules. The report begins on the second. Here is the scoring-relevant information, copied and pasted from page six:

In the 2549-2550 election, I win the game. Of 48 total votes, 33 go to me (humans 5, myself 28 ) and the rest (15) to the Psilons (themselves 9, Darloks 3, Sakkra 2, Bulrathi, who were really getting mauled near the end, 1). This is a Domination win as, without the Humans, I had more than half but less than two thirds of the votes.

I chose to not accept the ruling and enter the Final War, then it occurred to me that I’m not sure if I’m allowed to do that. I didn’t think that counted as “voting for myself”, it’s a quite different question. On the page that follows, my account of the Final War begins, but here’s my scoring information both with and without it (it only affects the 23 planet milestone).

Scoring information:
• Won? Yes
[INDENT]o (2550 Domination if Final War disallowed, 2599 Extermination if Final War counts.)[/INDENT]
• Moonshot? No
• 6th planet: 2367
• 12th planet: 2435
• 18th planet: 2540, two other planets taken in same turn
• 23rd planet:
[INDENT]o If Final War doesn’t count, never.
o If Final War counts, unknown year prior to 2570.[/INDENT]

[Horist]

Good read. Someone (me) found it interesting and entertaining.

[RefSteel]

I second Horist's comments! Since the report did come in after the deadline, I had to call it a Shadow game, but I added a link to it in the results tables I sent Griselda (they'll hopefully be posted by the end of the weekend). As it turns out, your benchmark dates wouldn't have changed the resulting order though - you'd have been third (of the only three who reached them) to the 18 and 23 planet benchmarks (the latter is when the droid reports, "...leaders are already preparing to merge with the mighty empire." Although for all I know, it might not say so during final war!) and wouldn't have placed for the other two. Thus, your final score (including 2 bonus points for reaching planets 19 and 20 simultaneously with the 18th) would have been 16, good for third place overall - behind Horist's 21 and Sargon's 34(!!!) - good game!

I apologize for faling to make it clear in the rules that rejecting a diplomatic victory and continuing to final war is acceptible; just because we declare our right as rulers of the galaxy doesn't mean we have to accept that rule on other races' terms!

Am I reading correctly that the erratic Psilons never declared war on you in the 213 years you knew them prior to Final War? (While the erratic bears, more typically, declared, waded through a long war, made peace, eventually accepted an alliance, and declared war yet again, in the course of 183 years?)

In any case, I hope you're feeling better, and I hope you enjoy Imperium 25!

[jeffh]

Am I reading correctly that the erratic Psilons never declared war on you in the 213 years you knew them prior to Final War? (While the erratic bears, more typically, declared, waded through a long war, made peace, eventually accepted an alliance, and declared war yet again, in the course of 183 years?)

That's correct. It's clear that the Psilons random DOW fired multiple times, but never against me. I tried to be prepared for the possibility but it just never happened.

[jeffh]

And it's fine not to count, I wasn't really playing with the scoring system consciously in mind (though even so, I'm surprised just how much slower I developed than some others).

[Horist]

Yeah Sargon is so redic good/fast! I was in awe.