Same game as the previous two posts,
I started with a nice home system, which included a 20 pop poor swamp and some smaller poor planets. My sector was good as well, I had a nice 12 pop average Tundra with a 9 pop Arid rich as my second system. Early within my range there was a 15 pop Gaia with a small Radiated world, a 5 pop UR terran with a smaller planet, and a monster with an UR NG.
While all this was great, Cabman by far had the best sector. Lots of terrans, and some good rich and UR planets all with high pop ~20. Alex's sector was terrible, your imagination would suffice
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
. I had contact with Alex ~t65 or 70. We had some small FF battles and I eliminated his outpost. We lost contact. About the same time, Alex and Cabman started fighting. I took advantage of the time to tech-up and expand, finally taking advantage of some of the good systems around me after aquiring supercomputer. Shortly after I aquired Zortium, Alex gave in. Cabman reached me about two turns thereafter (antimatter drive). Even though I had been building BBs since aquiring Zortium, I only had time for two before his strike on my UR 25 pop
![Crying or Very sad :cry:](./images/smilies/icon_cry.gif)
. I knew that I would need more ships to be effective with missiles, but I was surprised that I didn't even hurt one of Cabman's six titanium BBs
![Surprised :o](./images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif)
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Anyhow, I felt like a real newbie not even worth fighting.
![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
. But Cabman and Alex are more than worthy opponents
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
. Thanks for the game guys!