The game got off to an auspicious start, with Flocke dropping out as the game loaded, which wasn't bad for me as i had a 145 system with no terra.
We loaded up again and that game was off and rolling. I started with a 175 system and had 75 terra to grow into.
Cards started at the far right middle edge
and from what i could deduce from later on, the Klings started at the far left middle edge. (I wasn't able to get range to his systems at all.)I scanned the space around me for about 10 turns until i ran into a romulan colony, and only because i had extra range from colonizing a dil system.
It seemed like a poor starting position for the cardies, who were only too willing to meet a major empire and begin the conquest of the quadrant!!
The Cardassian Union declared war upon the Romulan Star Empire after only getting 15k in demands. From reading Flocke's reports in the lobby, it sounded like the Ferengi were breaking open their coffers of latinum faster than college men with a beer keg. This didn't bode well for the cards, with the opponents on opposite sides of the galaxy, and the klings 2 sector tt speed making for quick and aggressive conquering.
As I feared, the Klingon Empire made short work of the Fergs at turn 29.
I was trying to demand from the Feds, but they instead offered an affiliation treaty. It seemed like a break of good luck, I had extra range, trading routes and ai support of ships.
Cardies were finishing up with the Roms, when the map showed Sol lost to the Klingons at turn 35. Damn fast tt!!!!
Cardies then finally took the Romulan Empire at turn 37. I turned my fleet hastily toward fed space to stop the takeover by the Klingons.
As my scouts went into fed space, they reported back that the Klngs were taking systems with 7 BC2's and the necessary tt. Another 2 fed systems fell before my fleet was in 2 sector range of the last fed system.
At that turn the klings attacked the outpost and would take the system next turn. With my fleet 2 turns away I could only watch as the BORG assismilated another major race. Fed was gone at turn 42.
Seeing i had lost the war of conquering resources, i retreated back to an outpost and kept building card dd. After a couple of turns of gathering my fleet i headed to take a kling/fed system. Leaving a fleet of 7 dd at the outpost for defense. The Klingons attacked it with a fleet of 9 scouts, half vet. I knew i would lose, but thought i could get half of the scouts.. I ended up taking out 1.
I took the system the next turn. And my scouts reported identifying Klingon DD2. This prompted my fleet to retreat to cardassia and resume building up the fleet.
Around turn 60 Flocke colonized a system, after card intel destroyed 2 colony ships, to get range to my colonized systems.
His scouts had range to all systems, but his dd could only reach the colonies. And he proceeded to raid them netting around 200 credits a turn.
My scouts scanned tt coming over to his fleet, and i managed to pick off 1 of them. But i knew time was running out, so I upgraded my fleet and started hunting his fleet down.
As it was getting late, and it looked like it was to be a cat and mouse chase, we decided to call it a night and continue tomorrow.
I must say I am impressed with Flocke conquering, and fleet building. But the final say will be the battle to come. The cardassian union looks forward to smashing the weak klingon fleet to pieces.
QD
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