Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:31 pm
*Dome@Z (Yellow) Omicron Hive - Adv Expansion, Adv Tactical, Adv Supremacy
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Spideycw@XEXY (Blue) Iron Coalition - Tac, Drydock
Settings: High-Med
Map: Star
This was an incredible game with some real quality squad game play. There is no way I will be able to remember everything so think of this as the highlights:
-Both squads opened low, 9 Xexy lt ints and two scouts vs 9 Zenith fighters and two scouts. Both squads bunched their players together and slowly moved towards each other. When the formations got within 1000 meters of each other, all Zenith ships reversed thrust and lured Xexy in to attack. The opening furball was one of the better ones that I've seen. Both op cons went up and were about 1.8k from each other.
-Zenith sent second tp and op high, while Xexy took its choke with a TP. There was only one Uranium rock on the whole map, in Zenith's home, so we took it early. Xexy got a Tac low next to its home and started in on miner-o, killing two Zenith miners. Zenith was fairly successful at miner-o as well and scored some critical kills.
-Xexy bought bombers and bombed Zenith's low op and low tp, then started ripping around making Zenith scramble to d from various approaches while they mined, and Zenith could only mine with one miner. Zenith owned only one sector (high) outside of its home at this point. We focused on getting heavies up and got there relatively quickly. Zenith also tried to push a con to and bomb Xexy's choke tp but failed, lost the op con and bomber.
-Xexy got a Shipyard in its home and also took Zenith's choke with a tp. Corvettes started poking around everywhere both aggressively and defensively. Zenith massed heavy ints and swarmed corvs, killing some.
-Xexy secured the middle of the map with tps and started mining full loads out of there. In response, Zenith sent a full force bomb run and op con push to its own choke and thankfully succeeded. Zenith then had a better position for miner o, and claimed the He3 in that sector.
-Zenith got a tac up high in the sector next to its home. Xexy got its drydock up and sent a cruiser from left choke to Zenith's op/tp high and a cruiser from mid through to Zenith's choke. Zenith ALL docked, everyone got killer 1 sfs, five launched to defend high, while 7 launched to defend choke. Both cruisers were destroyed but the cruiser at choke was able to destroy the Zenith op. Xexy then went back to mining for more cruiser money and Zenith went back to mining for sbs.
-Zenith got sbs up, and sent four out to start clearing the map of tps. While that was happening Xexy got an assault ship in Zenith's tac sector and ripped in a cruiser while two more cruisers entered the sector from Zenith's choke.. Zenith had killer 2 at this point so we all scrambled to defend and shoot down nukes. Zenith successfully killed all three cruisers, leaving the Tac with a tiny sliver of hull. In the fray KingJoffrey ate a tac-bound nuke with his sf, then ate another nuke with his pod. Definitely the most clutch save I've ever seen. (All three of the cruisers had a 0 kb. If any of them with missiles that hit had even a 10kb the Tac would have been gone.) While that was happening the assault ship got into Zenith's home/exp sector and another cruiser ripped in and successfully killed Zenith's exp, but was killed before it could kill the Gar. While all of that was happening Zenith's sbs wiped Xexy's tps off the map.
-Zenith focused on taking the map then, got more miners, and snuck sbs into Xexy's tac sector. Xexy took a cruiser and a large force of nans high, so Zenith sbs attacked and just barely killed Xexy's tac low.
-Xexy continued sneaking more assault ships around and ripped in a couple cruisers right next to Zenith's high tac and destroyed it. Zenith rebuilt the tac, then got another one, and then a sup and upgraded it (ab hammer3, dis3 adv figs, etc). Zenith sbs started killing Xexy's home tps over and over. Xexy used assault ships with corvette cover to rip in bombers and kill some Zenith tps.
-Xexy sent another huge assault ship/cruiser/corve run to try to kill Zenith's second tac high, but were all podded. Zenith took the opportunity and sent all craft into Xexy's home: sbs, figs, sfs, reg bombers, everything. With coordination from sbs already set up on the drydock, the gar was destroyed and the drydock immediately after.
GREAT GAME! Allegiance at its most epic.
Weedman's video of opening, miner kills, tac defense, gar defense, and final run: (NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Qj5nd ... x4&index=2
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Spideycw@XEXY (Blue) Iron Coalition - Tac, Drydock
Settings: High-Med
Map: Star
This was an incredible game with some real quality squad game play. There is no way I will be able to remember everything so think of this as the highlights:
-Both squads opened low, 9 Xexy lt ints and two scouts vs 9 Zenith fighters and two scouts. Both squads bunched their players together and slowly moved towards each other. When the formations got within 1000 meters of each other, all Zenith ships reversed thrust and lured Xexy in to attack. The opening furball was one of the better ones that I've seen. Both op cons went up and were about 1.8k from each other.
-Zenith sent second tp and op high, while Xexy took its choke with a TP. There was only one Uranium rock on the whole map, in Zenith's home, so we took it early. Xexy got a Tac low next to its home and started in on miner-o, killing two Zenith miners. Zenith was fairly successful at miner-o as well and scored some critical kills.
-Xexy bought bombers and bombed Zenith's low op and low tp, then started ripping around making Zenith scramble to d from various approaches while they mined, and Zenith could only mine with one miner. Zenith owned only one sector (high) outside of its home at this point. We focused on getting heavies up and got there relatively quickly. Zenith also tried to push a con to and bomb Xexy's choke tp but failed, lost the op con and bomber.
-Xexy got a Shipyard in its home and also took Zenith's choke with a tp. Corvettes started poking around everywhere both aggressively and defensively. Zenith massed heavy ints and swarmed corvs, killing some.
-Xexy secured the middle of the map with tps and started mining full loads out of there. In response, Zenith sent a full force bomb run and op con push to its own choke and thankfully succeeded. Zenith then had a better position for miner o, and claimed the He3 in that sector.
-Zenith got a tac up high in the sector next to its home. Xexy got its drydock up and sent a cruiser from left choke to Zenith's op/tp high and a cruiser from mid through to Zenith's choke. Zenith ALL docked, everyone got killer 1 sfs, five launched to defend high, while 7 launched to defend choke. Both cruisers were destroyed but the cruiser at choke was able to destroy the Zenith op. Xexy then went back to mining for more cruiser money and Zenith went back to mining for sbs.
-Zenith got sbs up, and sent four out to start clearing the map of tps. While that was happening Xexy got an assault ship in Zenith's tac sector and ripped in a cruiser while two more cruisers entered the sector from Zenith's choke.. Zenith had killer 2 at this point so we all scrambled to defend and shoot down nukes. Zenith successfully killed all three cruisers, leaving the Tac with a tiny sliver of hull. In the fray KingJoffrey ate a tac-bound nuke with his sf, then ate another nuke with his pod. Definitely the most clutch save I've ever seen. (All three of the cruisers had a 0 kb. If any of them with missiles that hit had even a 10kb the Tac would have been gone.) While that was happening the assault ship got into Zenith's home/exp sector and another cruiser ripped in and successfully killed Zenith's exp, but was killed before it could kill the Gar. While all of that was happening Zenith's sbs wiped Xexy's tps off the map.
-Zenith focused on taking the map then, got more miners, and snuck sbs into Xexy's tac sector. Xexy took a cruiser and a large force of nans high, so Zenith sbs attacked and just barely killed Xexy's tac low.
-Xexy continued sneaking more assault ships around and ripped in a couple cruisers right next to Zenith's high tac and destroyed it. Zenith rebuilt the tac, then got another one, and then a sup and upgraded it (ab hammer3, dis3 adv figs, etc). Zenith sbs started killing Xexy's home tps over and over. Xexy used assault ships with corvette cover to rip in bombers and kill some Zenith tps.
-Xexy sent another huge assault ship/cruiser/corve run to try to kill Zenith's second tac high, but were all podded. Zenith took the opportunity and sent all craft into Xexy's home: sbs, figs, sfs, reg bombers, everything. With coordination from sbs already set up on the drydock, the gar was destroyed and the drydock immediately after.
GREAT GAME! Allegiance at its most epic.
Weedman's video of opening, miner kills, tac defense, gar defense, and final run: (NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Qj5nd ... x4&index=2