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[Wimdit]

Spoiler: Time for more Peacekeeper stomping. (click to show/hide)

It seems somewhat appropriate for a Peacekeeper base.


Tch. The Believers are growing powerful.


Sixty years behind. I've been busy, okay Oldbeard?


The Rock's looking nice.


Pirates Morganites spotted!



That is useful.


Well, I am producing a fair amount of energy. I might actually make some profit out of it. Plus, things are already looking poor on the diplomatic front.



Well, that explains why he's in such a bad mood.



Here are the maps. Santiago's territory looks fairly barren.


Ouch. Lal's going to have a hard time surrendering now.






Oldbeard's revenge.


There was much celebration over this. I have no idea why, apart from the capital's name being slightly more meaningful now.



Toad Hall is coming under attack a lot. It's like the Isles of the Deep are attracted to it somehow.


At least it's no longer part of the front line.


Oho. This is my island, mister.


More philosophy. I told the science teams to get busy on something useful, like optical computers.


I don't know why we need philosophy to form a militia, but okay.


...That was actually a pretty clever maneuver there. In unrelated news, the Peacekeepers have impact weapons now.


This name is also appropriate. Sort of.


Took a different base.



Ahahaha.



As soon as the sunspots stopped screwing with communications...



That's better.




And just after the war ends...

Looks like she's been kicked down a notch. This is about all she said: looks like there'll be no more extortion from her. And just after that...


Should I? He's already making a lot of profit from the Treaty, and I'm not seeing any of it - I was wrong about having enough energy income for trade. I also don't really need friends anymore.

Other Important Decisions:

What to name U.N. Planetary Trust? I'm also going to found a sea base soon, which I'll call Bellsmaw.

Do I go to war with Santiago? It's looking feasible now, even though she's ahead of me in technology. Lal's already at war with her for some reason, so honour sort of demands it. Even though the Pact was forced. I can also land Probe Teams on her island in order to get her High Energy Chemistry, or just leave her alone.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

Step one: Steal tech.

Step two: Manuver units as close as possible.

Step 3: Declare war.

Step 4: Destroy her.

Step 5: Profit!

[Floirt]

Step one: Pillage.

Step two: Burn.

Edited for comprehension. 

[Jackrabbit]

Step one: Kill everything. Twice. For emphasis.

Edited for comprehension. 

Edited once more for even greater understanding.

[Aqizzar]

Wimdit - Too many images.  Use multiple spoiler tags and/or fewer screenshots, so it doesn't choke my browser to death.

That said, yay for rockin' Alpha Centauri game.

[andrea]

i wish stores still sold this game.


anyway... i agree with the first post. first steal tech, THEN declare war. you need to start at least with equal units.
it would be best if you could sink the ships on first turn of war.

[Iituem]

Step one: Pillage.

Step two: Burn.

Edited for comprehension. 

Someone knows their Rule One.

[Rysith]

Having played extensively as Morgan, war is not something that he wants at all. Free market/wealth gets in the way of that, and dropping out of free market/wealth means giving up a significant part of his advantage. He's also friendly with you, and is likely not to be much of a threat. I'd go for Santiago (honor, revenge, territory, and once she surrenders someone to pass tech and weapons to to fight for you) first, then see how Morgan is doing. I'd also start worrying about the believers, since they are powerful and crazy.

To get more commerce, there are a few techs you can research, and raising base size gives you bonuses as well. It's also "free" energy, as in commerce energy is in addition to what a base would normally get, not subtracted from it. I wouldn't worry too much about the income being unbalanced.

High Energy Chemistry + CDF will make your bases more or less invulnerable, and landing impact plasma infantry will mean that Spartan bases that you capture will also be more or less invulnerable. That's a huge advantage.

So, to summarize:
1. Steal High Energy Chemistry. Ignore Morgan
2. Move units into position while finishing up CDF. Make sure to build a navy, possibly research doctrine: Initiative
3. Force Santiago to surrender
4. Try to find the believers. They will likely be the next target. Remember to research toward pre-sentient algorithms, because you want the hunter-seeker algorithm before going up against Morgan or Miriam.

[PandaLord]

Ah, I remember this game from when I was pretty young. I wish I could find the CDs for this game, so I could play it again from a new perspective. Maybe I'll have to buy new copies off of Amazon or something.

Also, about suggestions as to what to do next, I really have no idea. My tactics in this game, back when I played it, were to get the coolest/best guns/armor, and move my little guys into their little guys until I got bored. I played on the lowest difficulty, which I think is 'Citizen'. I'm not sure. Either way, I am no dispenser of proper advice in this manner.

[Wimdit]

Spoiler: Stomping doesn't work on water. (click to show/hide)

Good work, research people.


Back to extortion. Well, I'm not going to stand for that anymore.


Only trouble is, I haven't yet had a chance to steal her tech, and my navy is almost nonexistent.


First intelligence reports... ouch! Santiago must be dying for minerals, with all those units to support.


Hmph. Not what I wanted, but it'll do.



This'll make me mostly invincible, for the moment. Movie. Warning: May be unsuitable for SENSITIVE TYPES, including children and such.



I guess the planet didn't like my industrial boom?


Hmm... At least Miriam seems to be using obsolete technology.



Your headquarters has just been taken by Miriam, so you declare war on me? Besides, I'm pretty sure that factions which have surrendered are literally incapable of betraying you.

...Heh. 'Evils of communism and nationalized industry.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Scuppering barnacle. Stupid Spartan naval blockade and sea fungus preventing me from getting foils to the Barony.


Why do people call me unethical? It's like my scientists are powered by ethics or something.


Oh well. At least it's a cool name.



Woo, armour. Also, Miriam's at war with Santiago, it seems.


And with that, I have control of the seas.


Ah, dwarven pirates. Incidentally, the immediate area around this base is now called Fondledwater Bay.


Very nice, very nice.


She completed the Empath Guild, by the way.


Sure. I don't want Miriam to be governor anyway.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Infiltrated Santiago's datalinks. I guess her Free Market is the reason she has so many drone riots. Might also explain why Morgan attacked me.


Damn, that was an elite probe team.



Gatling, eh? More probe teams en route...


Blah blah blah.


One-upped the Gatling!


That's a base the Spartans built in the Barony. I also retook the Aqizzarium on the same turn.


A more appropriate name is needed.



A friendly chat with the Gaians.


Beachhead established.



Woo. You know what comes after Superconductor and Pre-sentient Algorithms? Fusion power.


This. Is. SPARTA! Also, in the bottom left it shows one of my formers dugging a borehole. Normally boreholes are useless until mineral and energy restrictions have been lifted through tech advances (before that, you can't extract more than two minerals/energy per turn), but resource bonuses also lift restrictions. The Mountainhome is about to become a mineral-extracting waste-spewing industrial giant. In fifteen years.

Now that a council has been called, I can contact any other faction. I spoke with Chairman Yang of The Hive, but he didn't have anything useful to say. I don't really want to talk with Miriam yet: she might decide to go to war with me. Then again, she'll probably leave me alone apart from engaging my ships on the high seas. Deirdre's got some tech I want: Centauri Empathy and Gene Splicing, to be exact. She won't trade because she doesn't like me.

As for Santiago, she's starting to churn out gatling troops, so I might want to leave her mostly alone until I've got a few Chaos Speeders zooming about. Then I can just blitz through her bases, with my infantry bringing up the rear and consolidating my position. Also, just for anyone wondering, those funny yellowish circles are the Uranium Flats: they give +1 energy per square.

I've been rushing towards Pre-Sentient Algorithms for almost 250 years. I'm currently researching Advanced Military Algorithms, which is the last of its prerequisites. Soon I'll be able to switch to a Knowledge-based society with effectively no drawbacks.

[Aqizzar]

Kicking some ass now aren't you?  Am I right in surmising that Santiago has the best military right now?  Or does Deidre have mountains of mindworms waiting to eat your brain?

[Wimdit]

Nah, that's Miriam. She's doing pretty well for herself. I'm probably going to run into this huge Believing empire once I explore a bit more.

[Pandarsenic]

You have to go on the offense against the Believers. Otherwise the Believing attack bonus will rape you.

Also, I've just made an .iso of my SMAC CD. I'm putting it on Megaupload now, PM me for the link.

[PandaLord]

If you are in the business of taking suggestions for city names, I would like it if you named one of the cities Pantropolis, in my honour. Perhaps one of the captured Spartan cities?

[Wimdit]

Always need base names. There's also an old Peacekeeper base that's up for grabs.