Emandab1's Rantings

.:: Empire's points
- Points in mines: 69.426 ( 23.4 % )
- Points in other structures: 101.378...

As Andromeda has aged (say since December 2009), it became clear that there was no room for "middle" alliances. There were the top ones like Dynamic, Chaos, etc... There were the small ones whose names I don't know. And then there were the middle ones. The alliances my son likes to refer to as "targets" for the top alliances.

So in December, HoI had an identity crisis. We either had to start limiting ourselves to higher ranked players (HoI has always had an open-door policy), or be targets.

While our new identity sort-of sprung up on its own rather than...

I often tell newer players that fleets are not planetary protection. If anything, they encourage attack. I just completed an attack that was a perfect demonstration of how a fleet invites problems.

I found a target who, compared to the fleet I had on hand, had a fair amount of defense and a reasonably good size fleet. After running the sims, I saw that I could not defeat him but that I could attack him with with relatively small damage.

In the attack I lost one battelship and got no loot as the battle was a draw. The battelship costs 45K metal and 15K crystal. But I created...