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Ralof, playing as Njal, sent this around the start of December, 1998, stating it was his final game. What a way to go.
The following is a game history: Njal, who started the game in the far southwest, nuked Rhororrim and Twit. Rhororrim was an easy nuke. Njal colonized the planet next to HW and attacked at new BR. He was immediately attacked by Twit, who came from north. Twit, however, made a serious mistake. He let a science ship pass all the way to, and through, his HW. When the battlefleet came around he built sats for defense, assuming the fleet would try to nuke his planets (bummer@ and Arrgh). It did not, instead it continued straight to his HW, met up with the sci and nuked Twit. Poor guy had a lot of sats on the passed planets and could not build enough to defend his HW. Njal then met Rashomon who had similar economy - around 20. A nice and long battle started, first for uncolonized planets, then for life and death. A nice split-and-rejoin fleets strategy from Njal (attacking from two fronts but the fleets all aimed for the same planet) made it possible for him to nuke key planets and the battle was over. Then the really rough game began. Sweet Valley, who early in the game had announced that he wanted revenge on Njal, and Ceredigion joined forces. No other empires remained. A wild race for planets began. Njal managed to establish fronts and the game went into a catch-breath phase. At that point Njal had a a economy of 32, Sweet Valley had 24 and Ceredigion had 10. Njal started to feel like a winner. When the battle started again it suddenly was very obvious for Njal that he was hopelessly behind in tech. Ceredigion had probably not done much fighting in the game and was probably 15-20 techpoints up of Njal. Sweet Valley was up maybe 7-10 points. That, together with Ceredigions frequent use of cloakers, made defense real difficult. Before long they had a total EC advantage over Njal. But when Njal got a new BR (9) he managed to strike back and clear out all Ceredigion planets close to his borders (and within), not bothering that Sweet Valley nuked a couple of small planets. Since Ceredigion had closed all jumps, he could not get any ships in for a number of updates. Njal could use brute force to break through Sweet Valley's defense. The game had been great that far. When Ceredigion realized that Sweet Valley was falling, instead of helping he started to invade his friend's planets. Not that it really mattered. The game was over with a bad after taste. The map shows update 164. Sweet Walley was nuked a few updates earlier. Ceredigion was being hunted down. More planets existed in the southwest, engineered off by Sweet Valley. Ceredigion may have 6 planets in the northwest
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