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[Knave]

Japan has some sexy fast shield techo cruisers.

China has rusty old subs with BF Missiles, hopefully we'll be modernizing soon

[Sheb]

Yup, but in term of gameplay they aren't so different. Quality vs Quantity I'd say.

[Mr.Person]

Cheap crap vs "holy shit this thing is fast and well defended oh my gaaaaaaaaaaawd", really.

[Knave]

Yup, but in term of gameplay they aren't so different. Quality vs Quantity I'd say.

Not my fault we didn't get special gunboat/fighter tech

What other special things can we develop to have a theme of our own... drones?

Giant starbases?

[Sheb]

Well, PDCs, orbital bases, Multiple Warhead Missiles, very large ships, specialized microwave ships...

[Knave]

Well, PDCs, orbital bases, Multiple Warhead Missiles, very large ships, specialized microwave ships...

Well we do have the giant multi warhead missiles, and mesons. Just have to blow the dust that's accumulated on them!

[Sirus]

True, a 10,000 ton tender would be quite fast. It could also hold lots of fuel and maintenence supplies for long-term voyages, and maybe even a gun or two. I'm also leaning towards A.

And yeah, I'm definitely sticking with fighters for as long as possible. They were a big reason I picked the US in the first place 

@ Knave: You could always take the Gaunt rush approach. Hordes of cheap, fragile missile boats. Or do the dwarfy thing and kill everything with magma (plasma) 

[Bremen]

Huge, immobile weapon platforms and tugs.

China has a fairly large colony on Mars, they could turn it into an impregnable fortress with PDCs and claim it as exclusive territory.

[Mr.Person]

China is basically the Zerg. Swarms over and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Azkul]

I'll join for the EU

[Bremen]

I'll join for the EU

Glad to hear it! The number of actual participants is small enough I worry about one or two people losing interest and having no one to give orders for a side. Lots of other posters, though, so at least I know people are following the thread.

I could be updating more, but... Dance with Dragons just came out! Only 600 pages to go!

[Azkul]

Could there be a general summary of colonial possessions and ship stats of the powers in the next update?
More specifically, the stats for FF Illustrious, the bodies apart from earth which the EU has population/facilities on, [and the positions of naval assets.]*

*only if they are based on a different planet than earth

Spoiler: EU Orders (click to show/hide)

Space Orders:
--Gallileo is to finish the Asteroids belts, then come back to Earth for mothballing.
--All automated mine are to be shipped to Deimos by civilians. Don't forget to send a mass driver as well.
--Once the Infrastructure is done, ship it to Mercury using our own Freighters.
--Once we have enough people on Mercuy to maintain ships, send the 1st Mercurian Squadron there (12 Broadswords, 1 Magazine)
Production Orders:
-Shipyards:
--Stop expansion of our large shipyard and retool for construction of OSR-232 as soon as possible.
--Start producing two OSR-232
--Retool the gunboat building shipyard to Poleaxe and add a fourth slipway. Set production of 4 more Poleaxes.
--The new naval shipyard will be used for all non-Poleaxe craft. Retool it to produce Magazine and produce two mores.
--Expand our Warlock Shipyard to 10,000 tons.
-Factories:
--Set 30% of our industry to build construction factories, 30% convert mines to automated and 50% to:
--Construct a naval shipyard
--Construct 200 Infrastructures
--Construct 4 mass drivers
--Construct 25 Fuel Refinery
--Construct Research Labs

-Ground Forces:
--Train a total of 4 Brigade HQ, one Division HQ, 4 Replacement Battaillon and 12 Heavy Assault Battaillon. Organize them in 4 Brigade of 3 Heavy Assault Battaillon and 1 Replacement Battaillon. Name the Division the 1st Assault Division

Research Orders:
--Split our research labs:
---6 under our best EW specialist will finish researching Max Jump Squadron size 3 and send it to everybody. They will then research better lasers. As soon as we have all the techs for the Jump Drive, they will research a Commercial Drive able to transport a 10,000 tons ship, stoping their current research.
---6 will research mining rate 12 followed by research and construction rates.
---Once the Jump Drive is ready design the Newton Science Vessel. It should use commercial engines, weigh 10,000 tons, have both Grav and Geo sensors, the Commercial Jump Drive and have at least 2 years of autonomy, both in fuel and spare part. Use any remaining space between some weapons, armor and more fuel/parts.

Other Orders:
--If another Spy team can be formed, do it and send it to Japan.
--Attempt to create a solid non-aggression pact with the PRC in order to preserve the current peace between the nations

[DemonOfWrath]

Well, with all this spying now going on I suppose it'd be rude of me not to join in, so a slight edit to my orders.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Production orders: Once the smaller naval shipyard is done upgrading capacity I want to add another slipway
Build another 2 Mirais, I'm feeling rather undergunned at the moment, and if I'm not bleeding wealth badly with that another freighter

Research orders: Once jump drive efficiency 3 is done I want to put those labs on eff 4 (I ran through survey ship designs using eff 3 and it was... rather disappointing, not to mention it'd require a jump engine that'd take about 2700 research points)

Other orders: form a spy team and stick it on the EU

[Sirus]

It's kinda cool that the EU has so many people playing for it. Disagreements are sure to arise, just as they would in real life when a bunch of sovereign nations are trying to work under one banner. It's more realistic!

[Sheb]

Yeah, I like it. Good to see you've adapted to our system of editing with colours.
However I don't think this is the place to ask for non-aggression pacts. You need to ask the Chinese players.

Also, just to make thing clear: I wasn't trying to get a profit out of moving your mines. I just want you to give us the fuel needed, since we so short on the stuff.