Here, since the other one is malfunctioning:
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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
Kender, you have obviously not read a single bit of Mac's mod post. It would all make sense if you did so.
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Actually I did, sure it makes sense, but did you read my points? Well here they are...
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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
Capital bases are permitted to have a defense fleet hand-picked by the Dreden player (and I will be picking that defense fleet shortly). True, I might only have 500 million credits to spend, but as Mac pointed out, these guys are the elite of the Dreden Navy (and likely to inflict many more losses). Mac also pointed out that capital system defense fleets are controlled by a member of that government. Be sure you know where you're coming from before posting your complaints.
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It sure didn't say that in the rules. Mac conveniently pointed all this out after we had already expended effort attacking it. Are you assuming that Ipvicus's imperial fleet wasn't elite as well? Surely skyblade the elite dreden are among your fleet.
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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
Therefore, we must now re-do the Battle of Dreden. I requested that the alien players stop the attack on Dreden while I waited for Mac to answer a few urgent questions, but they didn't. Since they didn't stop posting, all those posts have to be void now. If the aliens decide to attack again, chances are they'd win (about 60% chance or more). The only reason I voided the attacks on Dreden was because we hadn't picked a defense fleet for the system, and weren't given a chance to post for it. Make a bit more sense?
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You made no request, you just brought up a question to mac. We made one attack post after that. I on the other hand made a request for you all to stop posting while mac considered the problem. It was completely ignored. You guys captured: Tifton, Xerxes, Brex, Exerd, Masada, Camden, Tarkard.
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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
You're right, I specifically told you and grundy that you couldn't hand pick a fleet for core worlds. And Mac didn't even make the rule about players picking their own defense fleets and given command for capital systems until after the attack on Dreden had already begun.
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Exactly, he made the rules after we already attacked.
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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
Numbers mean nothing, my friend. Tactics are what matters. I happen to have every single German operation and armored tactic down (from Rommel to Balck, you name it. I've studied every aspect of WWII tactics for the past seven or so years), and the German forces of World War II were constantly able to defeat forces five to eight times their size, especially on the Eastern Front. If you know what you're doing, then being outnumbered isn't a problem. It's the commander and the quality of your fleet, and how well your operations are carried out.
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Of course tactics matter. I know my history very well too. The Germans had superior technology and superior men against the Soviets on the way to Stalingrad. Their war tactics cannot be compared to stellar battles between spaceships. You cannot say that the Dreden have superior ships and men then us. I had the impression that you were with your fleet in Exerd, not sitting home in Dreden. Tactics may matter, but numbers do not mean nothing.
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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
Surrender not accepted. We're going to re-do this. If you're upset about the Dreden battle being re-done, then you can fuss to Mac about passing that rule.
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You don't have a choice. Go ahead and destroy our fleets then. I'm upset at it being redone since that the whole point was to take your capital without our capital being taken. Well that's obviously too late. I am "fussing" to Mac. I don't intend on wasting any more effort on this. I coordinated the attack with my comrades perfectly the first time. There is no second opportunity.
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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
If you were in our shoes, wouldn't you want to pick your own capital defense fleet and command it? It's the most important system of the game, geez.
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If I were in your shoes, I would truly accept a well planned victory. You may not lose any sleep redoing it, because you have nothing to redo. You have no idea how long Grundy, Ipvicus, and I spent the last three days planning this campaign out with tight details and precision. You have no idea of the wasted effort we spent planning the movements, purchases, and tactics of all our fleets in coordination with each other, and to have pulled it off perfectly but rejected. The proposition of redoing all of this, and with our capital obviously dead, is not particularly appealing. I don't intend on wasting any more effort on it after so many hours planning it out. The chances of winning against you dreden with your latest battle posts even discluding Sentarus prime: 2 %. Chances of recovering against the HC even if we did take dreden: 5 %. You won, good game. I was annoyed at how this was handled, but a game is after all a game. Oh well.
Skyblade, there is absolutely NO golden opportunity. What are you talking about? Don't delude yourself, there are 6 commanders and fleets right next to my capital. Woopdeedoo. Sorry to make you waste time typing out more stuff about dreden and your fleets, but it's over. I don't intend on making any more wasted efforts that would yield pointless results. If you wanted Ipvicus to take it slow, my capital would be gone by the 2nd post, no question whatsoever. I really hope this isn't your idea of "fair," Skyblade and Mac, applying from the beginning of this entire thing. Good game and let's leave it at that.
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Go Red Sox! Down with the Yankees! 
ZMT had a "field day" with my fleet -- and I did not even know I was being attacked. c) YOU changed your own rules and allowed (ordered?) ZMT to continue attacking my fleet, nearly obliterating it. (Just as IRL war, technological problems like mine ... happen. That's life, and I have not protested ANY of the crazy losses I incurred at Pollux.) d) I am still trying to catch up on all the BFS related posts since my technological glitch -- and this is the busiest / craziest time of the last several months for me, so I have limited time to catch up. You are just gonna have to live with a little "pirate anarchy" on this point. I'll let you know where I went when I'm caught up.