XenoTech vs. System X

[NightRychune]

You've probably seen the front page, and this is me making this post. You already know how this game turned out. Let me begin by saying that this was the best game I have ever commanded in my time playing Allegiance. Even considering the prior period of XT's total dominance, I have never seen my squad perform so cohesively and so well.

Virulence (Iron Coalition, AdvExp, AdvSup) vs. Spideycw (Technoflux, AdvExp, Sup, Tac, SY). HiHigher, 1.25, 1.25, Normal resources, treasures off. Three hours, 21 minutes.

-XT opens with an Op push low that builds next to their home, SysX opens by building their op in the midlow choke, a tp high at the U rock, and ultimately plants a ref high.
-I direct my team to not engage SysX's op, but instead push our 12 opening lt ints through their home high, where they are mining, as we mine out the low sector next to our home.
-I build a TP midhigh next to our home on the U rock and get our expansion up there. We conduct absolute brutal, organized miner rushes on their miners, which are still mining high. XT draws first blood on miners for the game, and sets the pace for the rest of the game.
-SysX tries to put an op midhigh next to our expansion, but we force them to recall it and build an op of our own there as they finish mining high next to their home and their expansion builds.
-SysX attempts to pull a miner to their midlow op, but we sweep into the sector next to our op, cut in behind the miner and burn it down. SysX attempts this several more times through the course of the game, but never does much mining.
-XT finishes mining our expansion, and we get hvy ints up by approximately the 20 minute mark as we continue to hammer SysX's miners and land several more kills.
-SysX builds a sup midlow behind their op and plants a ref there.
-In a hard call, I order XT to kill SysX's last miner as 3 of our miners come under attack. Miner 207 escapes alive, but we lose two of our miners at our midhigh outpost.
-I hold our last miner at our garrison until enhanced miners are finished, and then pull it to our midhigh outpost. We gradually payday a sup as we mine with 207 in an incredible display of miner defense and 500m diameter prox clouds, and SysX struggles significantly to keep us from mining. We mine one and a half full rocks there, build our sup midlow next to our home and next to their op, and we move our miners there to mine out two rocks.
-Miner 207 continues to come under attack amidst this, and accumulates a 39 KB. We all become attached to this miner, and consider him a noble hero.
-I buy a second miner and we mine out 2 rocks at our sup. Amidst one of our brutal miner rushes, which costs SysX another miner, Miner 207 and Miner 271 come under attack in our home. We scramble as many people as we can to defend our miners, but our defense rallies around 271. Miner 207 is destroyed.
-A sudden quiet passes over our TeamSpeak channel, and someone asks, "...Was that 207?" We observe a few seconds of silence in mourning, and then our fury is doubled as we enter a berserker rage and swear vengeance.
-Meanwhile, SysX starts buying tac cons. They build one at their midlow op, and push one to our midhigh op. I believe we managed another miner kill amidst that push, and mined out two highly regened rocks at our expansion in the process.
-Our galvs come online, and the first thing we kill is the ref at their sup, which is still a mostly full sector, and the tele there.
-We kill the high op next to our home next.
-Shortly after SysX's high op dies, they launch another tac con and attempt to push it high. We force them to pull it back once with a brutal int rush.
-They dock it at their expansion, and we get home. Instead of trying to stop their con push, instead, I order my team to galv the Si rock in the high sector.
-We start galving it, SysX scrambles ints to try and stop us. Most of our initial fighters die, but the si rock is brought down to 10% health.
-As their tac con approaches, Defiance and several other prox it and slow it down as we stream in more fighters one by one to continue galving the rock. The tac makes it within 1k of the rock as the rock explodes, heralding massive cheers from everyone on TS.
-XT has two miners at this point and we are mining comfortably while SysX scrapes regen in their home, at their expansion and at their midhigh op.
-SysX pushes their tac con low to our op as we kill another miner, and it builds.
-We DM our midhigh and low ops, focused on our low op, as SysX launches bombers and attempts to kill it, until our figbombers come online.
-In an opportune moment, we swarm FBs at our low op and destroy their tac.
-We repeat this midhigh, for their second tac.
-We do this once more, for the tac midlow next to our sup, which is ~3k from the aleph.
-Our mining is impeded for a time while SysX continues to scrape regen, and builds a shipyard in the empty sector high next to our home. We sweep our exp for probes for some time, but ultimately a plan is hatched to destroy it.
-Drizzo, Bahamutz, Weedman, OneManBucket and myself walk ints, along with Void's scout, from our midhigh outpost, through their op sector and to their expansion, which had recent miner activity. As we arrive at their expansion, their miner slips into their shipyard sector.
-As we make our approach, the rest of our team prepares our figbombers.
-We close and engage the miner, drawing an enormous amount of defense away from our exp sector aleph, and a large portion of SysX launches in scouts. As we make our assault, I order our figbombers to launch and make theirs. They are successful, and destroy SysX's shipyard as Spidey builds another one in the empty sector midlow.
-We continue to mine and perform carefully planned and executed miner rushes, and SysX simply scrambles to defend for a time.
-We attempt to push an outpost to their shipyard as they launch a flagship 2. I pull the con out and we withdraw our forces in order to defend our sup. Afraid of our camp, Broodwich's flagship rips to their home, on a tele close to our low op's aleph, and we are unable to get a camp up in time.
-In a fierce battle, XT scrambles adv fighters with dis2, galvs, and dumbfire 1, as well as Mini1 heavy ints, and engages SysX's capital ship while under heavy fire from turrets and escorting ints.
-The Flagship is destroyed approximately 2k away from our outpost, and we cheer.
-I plant the op low, next to our home, in the empty sector that has a significant amount of he3 in it so that we can safely mine there and wannabe heroes, like Sheffwill, cannot bring the miner to the brink of death without being destroyed by my mighty nan scout's seeker 1.
-We safely mine there and buy adv scouts and tp2 while SysX attempts to attack our low op with another Flagship 2. Another battle ensues, and this flagship falls as well.
-As this happens, our tp2 scouts move into position. We perform an excellent drop on their expansion, yielding 15 XT figbombers, and seal its fate.
-We position several more drops, and attempt to int bomb SysX's shipyard via the op we recently build in the center.
-Our first bomb run fails, but we manage to destroy many of their ints. A second bomb run is soon mustered and follows before SysX can build their new exp, and their shipyard is destroyed.
-SysX builds another exp in their home as I prepare another exp con, initially to push into their home, and plant an op on the only other U rock on the map midhigh next to their home.
-I walk my exp con midhigh to try and plant it, and SysX rushes it hard. We attempt a very hasty tp2 drop on their exp but are unable to muster enough FBs on such short notice to destroy it.
-We concoct another plan: Bucket sets up another tp2 on their expansion in their home, while I move a tp2 scout onto our low op's aleph, which is less than 2k away from their exp.
-Bucket drops his TP2 in sector, drawing a large portion of their defense away from the aleph.
-I make my drop, and XT puts another 15 FB run on their expansion, destroying it, as we build our expansion midhigh and take the final rock.
-We buy mini3 and booster3 for our heavy ints, and commence open hunting season on SysX's remaining interceptors.
-We push an outpost to their sup midlow, and thus commences the final battle.
-In a brutal onslaught, SysX sacrifices heavy interceptor after heavy interceptor to destroy our outpost.
-I command my team to leave Spidey's heavy int alone, as he must die by my hand. I maneuver to engage Spidey's int, and in a panic he attempts to flee from my onslaught and dies by ramming the rock our outpost is still trying to plant on.
-Our outpost builds, and we eliminate all but 1 of SysX's remaining heavy ints. We launch a bomb run and commence our assault, destroying waves of TF enhanced fighters as Brood is hunted by an XT deathsquad.
-SysX's sup is destroyed, and Brood retreats to their garrison.
-Our bomb run follows suit.
-SysX attempts to defend with bombers and nans, but they are swiftly destroyed by our Mini3, boost3 heavy interceptors.
-I tell Kumquat not to destroy the Garrison until I kill Broodwich.
-Just as I close in to deliver the killing blow on Brood's 2% hull hvy int, Kumquat blows his load too early and destroys SysX's garrison, ending the game, and rendering XenoTech victorious at the end of a mighty struggle.

[TheCorsair]

Very good fun game!

[One-Man-Bucket]

Chiming in on this being the best game I have ever played.

You know all those boring dragged out 3 hour PUGS you sometimes get? This was intense action from start to finish.

[lexaal]

Question: Do you make notes in the game to write a 3 hour game review?

[Striker]

Wow! That sounds like one epic game. Congratulations to XT for winning.

[Jyppa]

A good comm knows where he's at and how he got there.

[Koln]

QUOTE (lexaal @ Apr 19 2010, 01:27 AM) Question: Do you make notes in the game to write a 3 hour game review?

This:

QUOTE (Jyppa @ Apr 19 2010, 01:28 AM) A good comm knows where he's at and how he got there.

On other hand:

Wow in that recap it seems like it's easy to beat SysX . Really nice job XT, i look forward to meeting you again on the league

[id3nt1ty]

Sounds like an epic game XT! Wish I could have watched.

[Broodwich]

seriously, i dont even remember half of that. however i must note that killing low was the first priority with that flag2, which is why we placed the tele right there, we just happened to be launching it at the same time you pushed the op. Oh and you never would have caught my int, accel2 boost3 tf hvy? sheeit son, i coulda run outrun you forever unless more people showed up.

And i must say gg, had we had a proxing faction it might have gone differently. Teams that size and who cares if its only prox1, dropping 30 of them around your miners hurt :(

[Deadwood]

FALCON PUNCH!