The Worst Things That Can Happen

[Atrocities]

I once bluffed the second leading player into surrending his empire by placing cloaked ships on all of his stars and then telling him to surrender or watch his empire die. He withdrew from the game and messaged me telling me that I was a no-good cheating bastard...... I messaged him back telling informing him no, I was a damn good poker player.

I tried this again and a player called my bluff. I had only one star killer and I used it as an example. In response the player, and notice I am not mentioning names here, abandoned most of his smaller worlds and scapped about 80% of his fleet. He then surrendered to my enemy.

I no longer bluff. I give then one chance, if they do not comply, I end their civilization on the next turn.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

52. You are sending your massive battlefleet with over 10 Battleships into enemy space leaving little defenses behind, and you spot a small fleet of several LCs on your way to the enemy. You attack..... only to find several dozen cloaked Baseships traveled with them.

[NullAshton]

Interesting bluff. If that happened, I'd just divert my system forces to the sun

[Caduceus]

53. You finally settle in for a few hours of gameplay, but then your wife gets sick as does the baby. The dogs then decide to develop gastroenteritis. You have to keep everyone alive with tylenol, liquids and TLC.

[El_Phil]

54. You finally build your first sphereworld but before you can colonise it, your ally gets their coloniser to land first.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

19. The Star Destroyers in your systems pull away as soon as you pacify them with EVERY SINGLE SHIP AND COLONY outside your home system and you get ready to rebuild..... when a black hole creator from another enemy shows up in your system.
20. If the black hole creator mentioned above is not in fact from another enemy, but from the same one that parked SDs over all your stars and now controls everything except your homeworld system.

[El_Phil]

21. Your new super uber, first in class, just out of your homeworlds ship yard baseship is taken over by an enemy crew defection intelligence project.

22. 21 and its so tough it can glass your homeworld despite all your defences.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

?????

[NullAshton]

See, people usually have small amounts of forces in systems. Star destroyers are usually not well defended. Just tell forces to attack the star... Or station them ON the sun.

[Renegade 13]

That'd make me mad...

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