Perun aka Perun

[Perun]

;D

[Raven]

I just noticed that my plaguarism of your stats on the first post has an error

the image for sail and catapult are the wrong way around.

t4.gif and t5.gif

Please let me know if you want me to remove the images from mine as I suspect it's an overhead

[Perun]

raven said:

I just noticed that my plaguarism of your stats on the first post has an error

the image for sail and catapult are the wrong way around.

t4.gif and t5.gif

Please let me know if you want me to remove the images from mine as I suspect it's an overhead

No need. But you are right - they were swapped. Unfortunately. Sniff! ;D

[Perun]

I see I'm in minus now. Thanks, guys!

[ashimar]

Your island looks a bit like mine. Minor focus differences, but otherwise...

I hear a great war is coming. Frei pointed to a website of another forum, forgot where exactly and there the folks think all the major alliances are building up armies/fleets more than score. Since my relatively quiet quadrant of ocean 14 has of late gotten a tad more busier with several colonizations taking place on islands I used to raid, I have temporarily switched to war-econony, turning out more spearfighters and such. What's your idea about all this ?

[Perun]

I don't care much about score, really.

Good defence is the starting point for the good offence, at least in real warfare. So, I was focusing on that at the beginning. In parallel, I was building sources of resources (I'm a poet, I didn't know it!) and barracks and harbour, just enough to start building ground troops and be able to harvest nearby islands.

After reaching level 10 of both barracks and harbour, I then started researching updates and now I'm almost finished there.

Next step is to max out my harbour and storehouse to start building colonisation ship (I already know the exact location; I hope it'll last long enough).

After I colonise my first island, I'll switch to catapults.

As for "a great war", I don't think it will begin that soon. There is still enough space for all major players to expand relatively peacefully. But, as soon as number of colonisable islands fall beyond certain number, maybe 10 percent, maybe less, war will erupt.

To this point I'm certain of course of events. What worries me are strategies of big alliances: will they first go for major enemies (first strike strategy to weaken opposition [destruction of major fleets] and to allow for second echelon to be even more successful [destruction of infrastructure]), or will they try to wipe out weaker opponents first in order to expand even more and thus trying to gain strategic gain in infrastructure for final conflict.

First option is better for us, I think. By weakening each other, major alliances could help us to emerge as relatively strong underdog. That's just a straw, I know, but possible.

Anyway, I'll try to do my best.

[Ringthane]

Ah, great minds think alike, or not. I'm two levels short of harbour twenty, it's 2 days for space race I guess...

[Perun]

ringthane said:

Ah, great minds think alike, or not. I'm two levels short of harbour twenty, it's 2 days for space race I guess...

I hope not. There's plenty of space for us to expand. I'm going somewhat east from my island; you?

[Ringthane]

Aiming to support JeanYves so building my first colony in 23:4, next supporting you so I'll go for 23:2.

[sparrowhawk]

That's what I like to read!

[Perun]

I'm going for 23:47:24; just three uninhabited islands in the sector, my colony will be in between.

[Arminius]

For your alliance trends, do you want to add [hawk], or are we just ignoring them?

[Perun]

arminius said:

For your alliance trends, do you want to add [hawk], or are we just ignoring them?

Should I? No problem, but they're much behind us.

I've already kicked out dodfi since they're way behind us now.

[Arminius]

Well, I was just wondering what alliances would be good to monitor occasionally. Couldn't really think of any others at the moment, but perhaps our diplomats would want to suggest some.

[Perun]

I introduced trends to show how we are doing against similar alliances. Dodfi fell behind and seluii broke off...