Hmmm... makes the game sound fairly basic yet with some cool new features. But I hate the fact that space battles are ging to be fast and furious. That is just... GAH!!!!



I just loaded up a game of Warlords tonight. This time I wanted a big slugfest of battlewagons, the big stuff. So I changed map to Byss (nice red map) and upped the starting resources to a full million.

WOW!!! Did that change stuff. I stayed back initially, that was bright as the Rebels just came at me with fighters. That unfortunately lead me to build lots of corvettes and Lancers, but I got my Destroyers and light cruisers going. And suddenly I got embroiled into the massive brawl in the center of the map.

It is quite funny how it started out. The Rebels had posted a Longprobe unit to keep an eye on me, so I sent a unit of A-9 interceptors (think super TIE Interceptor) to blast them. Well, they ran for home, dragging my A-9s with them. There I learned bad stuff, the Rebels were strong indeed, so I tried to flee. This in turn dragged a number of corvettes and frigates along, so I had to send in reinforcements. This kept going until all my forces and all the Rebel forces (or so I thought) were duking it out. My cruisers and corvettes blasted ship after ship, those Enforcers (Interdictors without the gravety well projectors) are damn strong little ships. But the Rebels kept feeding ships into the battle. Nebulon-Bs and other ships of that size. That ground all my corvettes out and I felt the pressure. But by now I had built a number of Carracks and my first Imperator... Muhuhahahaha!!!!

But to my surprise the Imperator didn't turn the tables, but at least it absorbed everything thrown at it and so kept my presence there while the rest of my fleet faltered. Eventually I reinforced the first ISD with several more, then a number of ISD IIs and finally an Allegiance Destroyer and a number of Victories (concussion missiles galore). When I got my first ISD II added to my four ISDs I began to win. Pushingthe smaller Rebels back. But then I met what I had feared. Two enemy ISDs and a massive number of Mon Cal cruisers... I was dead! I had at the time three ISDs, two ISD IIs and two Victories, but my ships were damaged, and I tried to fall back, but lost the Victories and an ISD in the process (they had put up a Golan III and its massive amounts of missiles tore into my ships).

Meanwhile the Rebels had been hurting my economy with heavy fighters and such. So I had to divert my meager reserves to deal with that. Luckily the Rebel fleet held back and I managed to return to the center. Mind you the exchange of turbolaser fire never stopped entirely.
When I got my first Allegiance SD into the group the Rebels attacked... Just in time. And the battle became a nasty exchange of death, but this time I had brought repair droids with me and they made the difference. It was brutal but I won after having retreated to my own Golan III and I. By this time I had run out of money and expended my last resources on mole miners.
Good choice as the battlefield was full of wrecks to be recycled.

The Rebels then began to pound out fighters again, the sign of bad economy... I thought.

My last attack was with a massive force of Destroyers of various kinds, but the two Rebel Golan IIIs took a heavy toll. All Vics and several ISD IIs fell to their massive weaponry. After that it was just mopping up, but I had struck at the right moment, had I waited the Rebels would have rebuilt as they were recycling wrecks faster than me and they had better production capabilities.

I think I will have another battle tomorrow.