Was fighting for the enemies home planet with a pretty average Unity fleet. Things are going well, no real enemies around until bam! a TEC force three times my size zips in. Three cap ships, with the rest being the usual light frig spam. I lose everything but 5-ish illums and my two cap ships, but the light show was amazing. 30 Illums, and 4 guardians doing to main work...it made me fall in love with the Unity again.

I had a great moment last night against the AI about 3 hours into my "Go Big" campaign. I was TEC and was defending a planet on the edge of my possessed space with about 5 cap ships. I had just decided things were relatively quiet enough to send them two skips over to take an asteroid in order to bump up my metal production. Of course, right on cue, right after the first jump, the Advent sent an attach force to that planet I had been defending, so I had my fleet do a u-turn and go back. By the time my fleet got back, almost all of the planet's defenses had been knocked out and they were bombarding the planet itself.

They sent two other waves of ships to that planet, and by the end of it I was down to two badly damaged capitol ships and a couple of sentry guns; the planet had been lost and regained at least twice (used the colonize cap ship upgrade) and I think I lost something like 8 ships total.

I then spent the next couple of hours rebuilding my fleet and slowly climbing up the tech tree. When I finally got up to ten ships I sent them out on a tour of destruction and won the match soon after.

Talk about Zerg rush; it really felt touch and go there for a while. I just kept targeting the enemy's capitol ships and keeping up on my ships' upgrades, and due to my exemplary planetary defense and the ability to keep cranking out capitol ships to join the fight I was able to win that battle. Definitely the most fun I've had in this game to date.

Cheers~

Yeah, it can get really exciting and heartpounding when you're the one about to lose a planet, instead of the opposite way around. =P

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As the Vasari, I launched my attack fleets to begin the campaign to bring the rest of the system under my control. First, one system, then I would split my fleets up, one to pursue any defensive fleet, the other to destroy planets. My two main attack fleets lined up and jumped.

At that moment, I remembered I had forgotten to fire my Mega Cannons into the target system to soften it up.

I hastily quick keyed to them, fired, and hoped my timing would be okay, knowing that if my fleets got there too early, they could be hit by the effect.

Watching the projectiles stream into the system, passing OVER my fleets just as they phased in and seeing the impacts in all their glory...ah, that was satisfying. Needless to say, that fight was very much in my favor, with their defensive structures offline and their ships suffering from double shock.

The cleansing that followed was glorious, but the opening salvo...that was a thing of beauty and timing (lucky, though it was) all in one. I tried to coordinate it, but...no way I could have done it that perfectly without forgetting. I love it when a plan comes together...even accidentally.

A 5v5 I played in a 5 system map. All 10 players located in 2 systems. Being newer then I was, I did my fleet building and all, and got a decent sized fleet. I was co-ordinating with an ally who was on the other side of an enemy, and we got ready to hit him. We both got delayed, as the player hit me, and rebels hit him. I had had no real fleet before, so I kind of surprised him this time, managing to pick off one of his capitals, while no damage was done to me. He then hit one of my 3 planets with a sizable fleet that I thought was his entire fleet. Whoops. I went and hit one of his planets and found a fleet there. He kept sending a ton of reinforcements, which I held out on for a long time, doing a sizable amount of damage to his planet's structures, and his ships, while he demolished my planet meanwhile. I'd had defenses, but they were nowhere near enough. I did some damage there, I suppose. My ally had hit him meanwhile to find out that he had backup, and another(If smaller) fleet. Not sure what happened to my partner overall in that game, but I'm assuming they lost, especially as we had a drop where two of our players became AIs. I built up a fleet of like 40 LRMs at my last planet, and when he came in a huge fleet, I managed to get his level 7 capital ship, atleast. =P

Was my first good online experience.

Hehe..the hidden backup fleet can be surprising.

Bump. I like hearing these stories.

I had a nice one today. I was planning to rush someone with a Kortul and some Assailants. Turns out, he rushed me first, with a Mothership and some Disciples. I had seen him, and had churned out maybe 6 Assailants to delay. Turns out, I got the bulk of my fleet there before he arrived, so I surprised him. Made him turn tail and run, and followed him all the way. He quit before we got to his planet. One of my teammates was getting demolished, and the guy who was demolishing him was being hit by my other teammate. The guy pulled back after destroying all but the homeplanet which was being slowly destroyed by the capital ship.

The guy sent maybe 30 LRMs to hit this guy's illuminators and capship. He destroyed the capship before he got to the illuminators which were at his homeworld. My fleet was coming in right behind him. My teammate was destroyed by the other enemy. I quickly finished off the remaining enemy, and turned my fleet which was being constantly reinforced to better efforts.

I don't want to say I won it by myself, because I don't think I did. But this was one of the first time that I felt like I knew that I was a driving force behind the victory.