Last night we decided to halt our current TI3 game and give the win to Owen. Then we chose new races and set the board up again!
(*There were too many asterisks (rule mistakes) made in the game.)
This time the setup heavily favored Owen and I. We had a plethora of planets to plunder. Mike’s setup was not bad, but not as great as ours. Ben’s area was the least favorable. Ben made up for this by being the most aggressive. After “choosing†warfare twice in succession he quickly took over Mecatol Rex and a couple of planets in MY area. This allowed Ben to get a victory point, while removing my chance for one. (This will not go un-avenged!)
We got two turns in this time. Owen has delicate truces with both Mike and I, but the board is small and soon those truces will probably fall. (Not between Owen and I, just with Mike. Mike’s aggressive like that.) It was notable that on the very last action of the very last turn Owen had the opportunity to destroy all of Ben’s units on Mecatol Rex with a Political Action card. Actually there was only a 50% chance of doing that, but it also had a good chance of wiping out a few of Owen’s and Mike’s nearby armadas. The flip side (also a 50% chance) was that we would all receive TWO technologies of our choice! Alas, the fairness quotient in Owen would not allow him to decimate Ben that way. (Mike and I would have done it in a heartbeat!)
We’ll get back to this game in two weeks.
Chaos Steve