Re: 2 easy ways to win Spiral Arm!

From: havok@st1.vuw.ac.nz

Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1991 04:08:56 +0000

In article <1991Sep9.172801.1@st1.vuw.ac.nz>, havok@st1.vuw.ac.nz writes:
>  This is Havok in the guise of Protector (or as some of my victims know me
> DIE UBERMACHT..(german for 'the overforce')).
>
> There are two very easy very simple ways to win spiral arm.
> Number 1.  Build lots of UK, convince your neighbours not to attack you and sit
> on your bum for 20+ turns.  Watch those UKs!  Buy tech 25 or higher and roll
> everyone else, you will decimate them.  I know this works, I am doing this in
> one of my current games and all of the twelve people I am fighting are losing
> industry whereas my control percentage goes up by approx 1.5% per turn.
> This is commonly known as UK building and the enormous increases in UK really
> only happen in the last 4 turns.

This method known commonly as the "UK Builder" it is very successful,but it
does really upon certain factors.
 1. Do you have enough stars to build IND on? Obviously if you have no IND to
build Fleet with when you have the high techs eg 25, then you are as a dog
with a very loud bark and no bite! So to start building UK from turn one is
a very bad move as you lack an Industrial base to work/build from.
 2. Can you be assured that people will leave you alone. This is the most
important part, else you get only the 10% bonus instead of the 20% bonus, when
strangers/neighbours crash into you! This means effective diplomacy and
deception.
 3. Can you deceive your neighbours? Protector had my help in this, we worked
together to mislead players into thinking that "we" were at war. So players
didn't want me on their borders and allowed him to be a "buffer". Of course
nothing was happening, but they didn't know that!
 4. Do you have the patience to wait 20 or more turns? For us a turn is every
fortnight and this meant that Protector waited some 40 or more weeks, a bit
more than ten and a half months. Can you wait this long? I sure as hell can't!

> Method 2.  Kill lots of UK builders.

What a good idea! A weak player eg no Fleet, who I can kill in two turns or so.
--
HAVOK! Not an X-man! A loyal Follower of the Dragon.

"The most elegant speeches may sway the hearts and minds of men, but not one
ever stopped a bullet!" - Anastasius Focht, Comstar Precentor Martial.
 "When you've built as much character as I have, you can let things slide."
- Natasha Kerensky, damn Clan Khan.
 "Diplomacy is a nine letter word!" - Archon-Coordinator of the Draconis
Commanwealth.

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2 easy ways to win Spiral Arm!
havok@st1.vuw.ac.nz
Mon, 09 Sep 1991 05:28:01 +0000

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2 easy ways to win Spiral Arm!
havok@st1.vuw.ac.nz
Mon, 09 Sep 1991 05:28:01 +0000