Beta 13
Dates: February 2004 - April 2004
Winners: Boraxians
Best-Known Boraxian LCs: Hapiface, TumNarDok
Best-Known Ajaxian LCs: Defeatious, EwokDude
Best-Known Tibran LCs: Legion, Son_of_Squid, Anakin
Best-Known Krilgorian LC: Llotyhy
The game started with the legions pairing off to fight each other - the Ajaxians and Boraxians started fighting between Star City and Durius Highlands, and the Krils and Tibs started fighting roughly on the opposite side of the map. The Ajaxians had an initial small-scale victory in Dragor, which emboldened them to attack Durius. This turned out to be a mistake, as they were soundly beaten by the Bors first there, then in Dragor, and then in Star City. Meanwhile, the Krils were gradually getting the better of the Tibs, although not so decisively.
At this point one of the defining features of the game was instituted. The Ajax needed to fight someone other than the Bors, because they couldn't level up while they kept losing. The Krils were winning against the Tibs, but only slowly, and since it was only a matter of time until the Bors started looking for a new target now that the Jax had been firmly put in their place, they needed to finish up quickly. Consequently, the Ajax and Krils NAPped, and this NAP was to last for the rest of the game. The Bors were sitting in Apollo Sector waiting for the Jax to emerge and fight them again, but instead of doing that the Ajax moved through Star City round to TMC to join the Krils in an assault on the Tib scan tower. The Bors couldn't believe their luck, and moved to Star City where they began to attack the Ajax scan tower virtually unopposed, since the Jax had decided that they were unlikely to win an attempt to defend their tower and were better off levelling up off the luckless Tibs. As a result, the Ajax and Tib scan towers were destroyed more or less simultaneously.
While the Ajax continued to try and gain points from the Tibs, the Krils moved round to intercept the Bors, who were moving towards their scan tower. A series of running battles between Durius and Mattas Head resulted initially in the Bors being driven back, and their scan tower was destroyed by the Krils. However, the Krils took a number of hits from anomalies at crucial times, and taking advantage of these coupled to the scan tower destruction damage allowed the Bors to drive the Krils back to Mattas Head, where they were joined by the Ajax in expectation that the Bors would attack the Kril scan tower. Although the Bors had been planning to do this, they didn't want to jump into the combined Kril-Ajax fleet, and instead opted to move back round the OR to DH. After some delay, the Ajaxians and some Krils chased after them to DH, where they engaged the rearguard of the Bors. However, it didn't take long for the remaining Bors to jump back into the fight, and with most of the Krils still behind in Mattas Head, where they'd been caught by an LC election and wound-licking, the Ajax were defeated and forced to withdraw back towards Star City. The victorious Bors then moved back towards Mattas, and after defeating first the Kril elements who had jumped to Perosis and then the remaining Krils in Mattas, they destroyed the Kril scan tower.
From this point no other legion individually had the power to challenge the Bors, although the combined Kril-Ajax fleet (dubbed the Krilaxians by the Bors for their refusal to break their NAP) came close. The NAP meant that the Bors couldn't spend long bombing either Ajaxus or Planet Krilgore before they were forced to withdraw by a strong combined fleet. However, it also gave the allies an achilles heel, in that they were trying to defend two bases on opposite sides of the map with two disparate legions who between them weren't very good at jumping and were inclined to spend time trying to repair their own base after the Boraxians had visited. In addition to this, the Bors made good use of special gates to allow them to gain another couple of ticks' advantage moving between bases, and the result of all this was that the Bors were jumping between Ajaxus and PK, keeping ahead of the allied forces and gradually bringing the health of both bases down (the Tibs through all this were occasionally joining in raids, but were mostly floating about in between and sniping). Although this process took some time, and was briefly interrupted when the allied forces anticipated Bor use of a special gate from Ajaxus to PK, the process of reducing both bases was ultimately seen to be pretty much unstoppable if the allies kept trying to jump both fleets between bases, so (after a short-lived attempt at a tri-NAP with the Tibs against the Bors) they stopped and both more or less sat in their own base defending and repairing it.
And although it took some time, that decision was ultimately what ended the game. The Bors had been gaining strength through this period, while the other two legions (particularly the relatively apathetic Ajaxians) didn't gain very much. Finally, with the Krils sticking tenaciously at home repairing PK, the Bors attacked Ajaxus for the last time. A recent period of time spent attacking PK, plus a following period of the Bors self-repairing at home, allowed the Ajax to repair their base back up to a respectable level, but the defenders in the end were totally overmatched by the huge Bor cruiser fleet. Ajaxus was destroyed in less than two days, and having seen the damage potential of their fleet the Bors decided to have another crack at PK. The Krils put up less resistance than expected, and Krilgore too was destroyed in short order. With the other two legions out of the game, the Tibs never stood a chance in the face of the Bor juggernaut, and after a period of 427 ticks between the start of the game and the fall of Ajaxus, the game was wrapped up within 60 ticks after that, leaving the Bors victorious.
Submitted by VoxDei on 13/04/04
