Star Trek: Conquest, or how I spent my day.

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Day 2 without my computer. I went to tuition early. Spent some time using wireless@sg to check out my FB apps, and make a quick change to my forum sig explaining my absence, and that the current RPGs can assume I'm still alive, just going through the motions. I won't participate in any battles, it's assumed my character goes along with the majority vote in decisions not concerning me, and the most beneficial decision when it involves me.

Let's hope that things don't fly off the rails without a guiding character.

I spent most of my time playing Need for Speed Carbon, mainly in Free Roam, smashing up vehicles, police roadblocks, etc, while doing the challenges from rival crews.

When I wasn't doing NfS, I was playing Star Trek Conquest, as the Cardassians, on Easy, with 5 opponents. It was quite fun, and a great stress-reliever, competing with the Ai, watching my opponents fight. At one point, the Dominion and the Klingons were launching their Genesis devices at each other's homeworlds, ignoring the fact that I was pushing the Dominion back into its small corner on the top-left corner of the screen, pushing the Klingons into the bottom-left corner of the screen, keeping the Romulans at their top-right corner, while mopping up the rest of the Breen forces who dared to stray from their small pocket of 3 systems, all with just 3 fleets, armed to the teeth with Dreadnoughts.

Try saying that in one breath. Still, it was extremely fun. The Dominion, at one point, sent a fleet via the Wormhole Generator deep into Klingon territory. It defeated 3 systems, before it got stopped by a Klingon fleet. Another interesting thing that happened was that my original plan was to use the Genesis device like crazy on the Romulans' homeworld and force the Federation into a corner. With any luck, the Federation would take over the Romulans for a few turns. Since there was no way for them to get out, because one of the Cardassian fleets were blocking them, the Romulans would have forced their way back into their homeworld, making it easy for me to get it, while wiping out the Federation. As it turned out, the Federation adamantly wanted their homeworld instead of the Romulans. They didn't retreat in time, and they accidentally killed themselves off.

I'm bored. The first time we got this game, my dad played the Federation. Due to a terrible choice, the Klingons took over, but he managed to take over the Breen homeworld, then take back his. By the time he was done, he took the Klingons over a dozen or so turns and ended on Turn 55. We later tried the Klingons, with just the Romulans and Breens. They were the ButtMonkey because they focussed on defense, and my father and I decided that we should show that the best defense is a good offense. 39 turns.

My first battle was using the Dominion, against the butt monkeys and the Cardassians. Not very easy, but I defeated them in 40+ turns. I tried again, this time crushing the Cardassians first. 27 turns.

I was suitably impressed with the potential of the Cardassians. 2 movement-based admirals, which meant I could establish a large network of systems before the dogfights began. My current best is 46 turns against 5 opponents, which I set today.

Finally, because I was bored, I went ahead with the two butt monkeys, sending them against the Federation, also known as the accidental butt monkey. Every game, it's always the Federation who gets wiped out first, no exceptions. Back on topic, the Breen did it in 9 turns, Romulans in 8. I used the same strategy for both. Go out, conquer as much as I can and build Research facilities as fast as money permitted, build starbases at key locations, arm your first (and only) fleet with Dreadnoughts, and smash into the Federation homeworld. From Sol, hunt down the fleets as quickly as possible. Done.

The Cardassian victory took me 2 hours. That's about 2 minutes per turn. I have no idea why it took me so damn long. I just tried a simple Cardassian vs. Federation campaign. Damn, that was easy. 5 turns. Let's try that again, this time on Hard mode.

The first thing I realize is that fog of war is not fun. I found out that the Federation forces almost made it to my homeworld, the 6 systems I hold sacrosanct. Still, I took the array, and wiped out the Federation in 13 turns.

Yes, Star Trek Conquest is fun. Imma try Ben 10 Protector of Earth or Avatar the Last Airbender tomorrow.

Mabel, playing Wii because of boredom.