Date played: October 27th
Platform: PC
Session fun rating: 9/10
I won my first game!
Sponsored by the Kavithan Protectorate, my people were technologically advanced, had high production and 3 large cities. At first, I really struggled with the health of my people, but eventually my technology, the quests and the virtues tree allowed me to have very good health and support a fourth city. All of my territory was well developed by my workers too.
After a bit of struggling with the systems, I finally focused on the emancipation victory type and worked on fulfilling it's requirements. Emancipation's goal is to build a portal back to Earth, send units through and force technological superiority upon it's citizens. While I was researching the required elements, I sent out a small army to destroy alien nests and find relics to excavate.
The Supremacy tree has some fucking awesome units, many of which require a resource called firaxite. I'm really disappointed that there isn't an easier way to track how my resources are being used. I wanted to try building a cool unit called the Angel, but I couldn't figure out where I was using my firaxite so I couldn't build it...My favorite unit so far is a nice hover tank that ignores terrain... it's very powerful and fast.
Eventually, I researched enough to build the emancipation gate. It took many turns to build, but I was soon ready to send military units through it and take over Earth. It required that I send 1000 strengths worth of units through, but could only send one unit per turn. I gathered my forces near it and slowly sent them through until I was victorious!
I feel like I understand the game's systems fairly well now and will be able to better grow my next empire now that I know what matters and what doesn't. I'm excited to play another game and do things differently!
Platform: PC
Session fun rating: 9/10
I won my first game!
Sponsored by the Kavithan Protectorate, my people were technologically advanced, had high production and 3 large cities. At first, I really struggled with the health of my people, but eventually my technology, the quests and the virtues tree allowed me to have very good health and support a fourth city. All of my territory was well developed by my workers too.
After a bit of struggling with the systems, I finally focused on the emancipation victory type and worked on fulfilling it's requirements. Emancipation's goal is to build a portal back to Earth, send units through and force technological superiority upon it's citizens. While I was researching the required elements, I sent out a small army to destroy alien nests and find relics to excavate.
The Supremacy tree has some fucking awesome units, many of which require a resource called firaxite. I'm really disappointed that there isn't an easier way to track how my resources are being used. I wanted to try building a cool unit called the Angel, but I couldn't figure out where I was using my firaxite so I couldn't build it...My favorite unit so far is a nice hover tank that ignores terrain... it's very powerful and fast.
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| Sending units through the emancipation gate near my capital |
Eventually, I researched enough to build the emancipation gate. It took many turns to build, but I was soon ready to send military units through it and take over Earth. It required that I send 1000 strengths worth of units through, but could only send one unit per turn. I gathered my forces near it and slowly sent them through until I was victorious!
I feel like I understand the game's systems fairly well now and will be able to better grow my next empire now that I know what matters and what doesn't. I'm excited to play another game and do things differently!
