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Veki

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This is the first time to have two SotS AARs running at the same time, really great to see that the old lady still has this much life left in her.

Why not make it 3 AAR at the same time? wink.png I finally decided to give this AAR thing a try as I've never done it before.

 

Welcome to my Hiver AAR!

I'll try to play the same game setup as SV and Silencer.

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One opponent of each race and 2 random to make things interesting.

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This is our starting location. We are at the edge of the map.

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I don't have some grand research plan so I pick tech that I think I'll need most at the moment.

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As you can see, we are exploring our cluster + 1 gate is going to cluster right of us. We have discoverend 2 nice planets (they were colonized immediately).

https://i.imgur.com/8Rq4el.png

Next tech to research is Cruiser construction. You can see all tech we have researched until now as well (Of course in 3 cases we went overbudget).

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And our first random encounter! What did we encounter? Dreaded swarm or maybe formidable Asteroid monitor?

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Neither! It's Alien derelict.

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As you can see, we have a new colony and we have scouted a nice planet. Planet with Alien derelict is not so nice.

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We have a new colony. 3 more planets are scouted. Only 1 is good and 1 has Alien derelict.

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We have a new colony and Alien derelict is dealt with.

https://i.imgur.com/zFVL1l.png

We have cruisers now! Now lets make them easier to build.

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We have scouted 2 nice planets which are immediately colonized. And our gate is halfway to the other cluster.

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Some more research completed (and on time for a change!)

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We have scouted a nice planet. But of course, this had to happen. Frankly I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

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And we start to research fusion.

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While fusion is being researched we scout a new planet (that we can't colonize) and we have a new colony. Also planets that we colonized first are finally finished with terraforming and infrastructure improvement.

https://i.imgur.com/ig5rNl.png

So we have bees in our cluster. And they are going for a planet we can't colonize. Hope we get a lot of honey from them.

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We have scouted 2 nice planets which will be colonized immediately.

https://i.imgur.com/zOgDll.png

Well, who do we have here?

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Our tanker is no match for their DE. But our CR is.

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And fusion is ours! Only 14 turns to research it. Now we go for mega-freighters so we can make a lot of money (we'll need it).

https://i.imgur.com/UV22sl.png

And again VN visit us.

https://i.imgur.com/lTSBRl.png

CR freighters are immediately put into production. And lucky us, we have Modular construction so we'll get 5% more from trade. :)

https://i.imgur.com/dWV8zl.png

8 ships incoming. Good thing we already sent another gate in that cluster so we won't loose easy access to it.

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5% is ours. Now since we have Zuul as neighbours, let's research some weapons.

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Lets get the party started!

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An interesting thing happened. Only DE attacked the gate. CR just went in the opposite direction and waited for DE to destroy the gate.

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Battle report reveals they have green lasers. Well, that's good.

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Sorry guys for not replying for so long. I was on vacation last week. I updated first post and corrected all links in it. Tell me if it's ok now. If it's ok, I'll fix the rest of the links tomorrow (+ a new update!) ;)
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Let's see how Zuul are standing. Looks good : CR, fission and nuclear warhead.

https://i.imgur.com/0Ar0il.png

Looks like we have raiders near our homeworld.

https://i.imgur.com/83BXRl.png

Ok, PD is completed. Now let's improve our colonizes. Hope we'll get Bio transfer as well.

https://i.imgur.com/ZmxC2l.png

And more raiders at our homeworld.

https://i.imgur.com/dd7Kwl.png

C'mon guys, how many of you are there? And we have Bio transfer. Yey! We research is ASAP.

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2 planets are scouted. One is perfect and will be colonized immediately, the other is inhabitable.

https://i.imgur.com/rPlRTl.png

Besides better weapons, we need more ships on the battlefield and bigger ships. So our research is headed that way.

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And we're about to meet our 2nd neighbor.

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Morrigi. That's good.

https://i.imgur.com/TbjX6l.png

A turn later. This is even better.

https://i.imgur.com/WQYd7l.png

DN is within our reach.

https://i.imgur.com/AUYgrl.png

But first we need something else.

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Good! We have a NAP with Morrigi. Now we can focus on Zuul.

https://i.imgur.com/26VC2l.png

This is just my luck. First, I failed to destroy the Queen in 1 turn and then when I kill the Swarm I get 51k credits.

https://i.imgur.com/U1Xo2l.png

And now we go for DN.

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So you're getting flying fortresses! But you'll need to equip them with something. So far I see practically no weapon research, so you're probably equipping ships with missiles and will research better warheads soon. Still, you're missing a lot of very good ship sections. Any plans in that direction? The only suggestion I have would be more scouting, we need to get moving. Hivers are even more burdened with this as speed is not our virtue...
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Last planet in our cluster is scouted and will be colonized.

https://i.imgur.com/xGGkpl.png

Lucky us! We have scouted independent Hiver colony and it automatically joined us. A very nice planet.

https://i.imgur.com/RPvWTl.png

Miracles do happen! We've finished DN ahead of schedule. Now we go for CR CnC research.

https://i.imgur.com/Q3HPNl.png

Zuul colony. We'll just go to another planet, maybe they are not there.

https://i.imgur.com/RqXNbl.png

We finished strikeforce CnC and now we go for better weapons. Unfortunately, we only have Particle beam available for research. Let's try Plasma cannon, maybe we'll have more luck with that branch of research.

https://i.imgur.com/6I9G2l.png

As you can see, this cluster belongs to us now and we have colonies in neighboring clusters.

https://i.imgur.com/czPxEl.png

We have incoming Zuul fleet. Also our research of Plasma cannons is complete and we'll research Anti-Matter next. We also have Fusion cannons available for research.

https://i.imgur.com/5VgWGl.png

Since Zuul is coming to the planet with Alien derelict and we are researching Anti-Matter, we've managed to disable it and get a very nice 25% bonus to research for 4 turns.

https://i.imgur.com/Je34Zl.png

This will be fun!

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Zuul CR before it exploded. In the back you can see Zuul DE. On the 2nd picture you can see DE Bore ship before it exploded as well.

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Flawless victory! You can see they have UV lasers and AP rounds. Still quite weak.

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And these guys again. :(

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2 Queens incoming. That means more money for us. :)

https://i.imgur.com/a2DvXl.png

Hmmm?

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I think going for ballistic weapons would be a bit boring. ;) So I'll try to win this with energy weapons. Maybe I'll get lucky and have a really good energy weapon.

+ I'm not really fond of ballistic weapons (except Impactors).

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