We've all had some games of Ares that have been particularly memorable. And we've all have some pretty big battles. If you'd like to share them, this would be the place.

My favorite game I've played:

We were both Salrillian, because the other person was about as good as me. Anyway, I did the strategy of building a carrier and then building all gunships. He seemed to be making it up as he went, but I'm not sure. In our first battle between our fleets, his was very beaten up when he ran, and mine took minimal damage. However, I then proceeded to build five transports (so that if they were discovered, they'd be easier to defend) and he built a second carrier. I built more gunships after I cloaked my transports and sent them off, and he built a mix of cruisers and gunships. Our fleets ended up meeting again, and mine was slaughtered even though he built cruisers, the two carriers made up for it. I ran, and I had some gunships left. He still had most of his fleet. When I ran, he sent his fleet to my planet. All of the fighters that his carriers launched were exposed, and I attacked. My fleet got about half of the fighters when his fleet jumped in. I ran. Although I took advantage of his blockade being gone and built a few more gunships. We continued this game of cat and mouse for a long time, my stealthed transports heading to his planet the whole time. I managed to get his bunker, but his fleet arrived again, and I was reduced to about four gunships, total. He then went to my planet again, and I zoomed out. My transports were almost all the way to his planet. I couldn't hear the landing, because I keep changing which version of ares I'm using when I do multiplayer, and when you do that it redoes the preferences, but he began warping to his planet, so I guessed that he heard it. Anyway, a couple seconds later, I was victorious. I like that game because it just shows you that you don't have to have the better fleet to win in ares. It was also fun to keep running.

My largest battle:

My largest battle happened a long time ago. I had a friend over, and we were both human. We agreed to capture one bunker each, and do a fourty five minute buildup of fleets. Needless to say, our fleets ended up being massive. We then sent our assault transports to each other's bunker, and followed them. That battle lasted a long time. We both had built only gunships, and they aren't designed too well to kill each other, unless you're piloting them yourself. Anyway, he doesn't have Ares at his home, because he has a small hard drive on his computer and he would rather have Harry the Handsome Executive on it. So he wasn't a very good pilot of a heavy destroyer, and his fleet ended up losing. The battle took a VERY long time, though...

Those are mine. How about yours?

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"I can ail what cures you."

I playes a Gaitori vs. Gaitori game with Vegeta on scratching post. We both had captured an outpost and had at least four carriers each. It was a stalemate, no one made a move and the fleets continued to grow. We had both been contesting the center bunker station in a few earlier skirmishes, so when I began moving towards it he reflexively warped to it. He arrived there only to discover I had stopped moving towards it and now he had an angry bunkerstation on his hands. It managed to destroy two carriers before he managed to kill it.

His fleet was still in disarray when I quietly moved towards it and starting lobbing rockets at him. It was a long battle (The gaitori take a long time even to kill each other), I lost all my carriers and cruisers, but I came out top dog in the end. Of course he immediately started hyperbombing me and messing around, but inevitably he ran out of energy and I hunted him down.

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I do not suffer from insanity
I enjoy every minute of it

-Cantharan Commodore za'Grom
After the capture of Earth

Whoa... Mine was also against Vegeta on Scratching post. Only this time we were both human. Anyway, when the game started, he built another HVD and some assorted gunships andf cruisers, and I just stuck with my trusy HVD and got a squad of three gunships and made a drive for a bunker station as soon as I built an ATR. The station died with me screwing up and losing a gunship, but that was all.

Surprisingly, Veggie-chan didn't go for the other station. Getting paranoid, I cranked out gunships at breakneck speed and coughed up three more HVDs. I made squads of three gunships per HVD (including mine) and had two at my planet, and two at my station.

Suddenly, Veg launches an ATR and three cruisers for the other station, and I moved my squad to intercept. That was the last time I fell for that trick. By the time I had destroyed his envoy, he had launced two HVDs and six gunships at my station, and easily took out my squad stationed there. I got back, and took out his fleet, but I lost the station and everything gut my HVD in doing so.

Vegeta launched another squad, and I had no choice but to fall back. Within minutes, he had the station, and was using it to his full advantage. So I built another ATR and proceeded to take the other station with ease. Knowing I had to chop down his advantage, I musterd my full piloting skills and launceh a suicide mission to his planet. After he decimated my fleet (and suffering some amazing losses I should add), The odds were evened.

Twenty minutes in. Vegeta has built a transport, and I reciprocate. We spend about ten minutes doing nothing but building ships. I stuck with my method of building four gunships to each HVD, and vegeta seemed to just build at random (he had many cruisers and two carriers in addition to his gunships and HVDs). About the time I cranked out my third transport, I started launching them in hopes that Vegeta would think they were bait for a slaughter. He fell for the inverse trap (not attacking them) and I launched a FULL offensive; I didn't even leave anything to defend my planet. Our fleets met, and what a fight it was! The battle raged for about five more minutes, but eventually ended up (barely) in my favor. I had four ships left. My transport arrived (after I had delayed them to avoid the battle) and the game was mine.

That has to this day remained the longest, most difficult, and funnest game I have ever played.

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Throughout their history these "unenlightened" beings have continually opposed and fought abuses of power wrought by their own bretheren. We, as the prophets would do well to learn from these Humans.
-Final statement of the Salrilian reformist Sirthis shortly before his execution.

Rock-Rock. He was Audemedon, I was Gaitori. I immediately build a large force of gunships and two carriers. By the time they were all done I had possession of the station on my side. He built a carrier and some smaller ships, and got his station. He launched a minor attack on my planet. He sent too small a force. I took medium damage and destroyed his entire attack force. Later on, he attacked my station, with the same results. I built several assault transports that I immediately told to go to his station. I then hypered into the asteroids. Seconds later, my fleet emerged on top of his station. I wiped out his defenses and captured the station. He sent a large fleet into my space, headed, slowly, for my planet. I was about to intercept when his transport reached my planet and took it for him. I had beated large Aud fleets with Gait fleets, and I had still fallen for the old hide-a-transport-in-a-huge-fleet-and-go-to-their-planet trick. Yeesh.

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-Traek Cicion of the Taeskor

"Never tell me the odds!"
-Han Solo

"Then we'll do it real quiet-like."
-Han Solo

I still enjoy beating unregistered users.... they're so naieve.....

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StarLance

Speaking of them, I met two that were very unusual one day.

The first one was a horrible tactician, but he beat the pants off me at Spaze Warz. He could do the same to you, Slug. He was really good at ship-to-ship fighting.

The second was just horrible with Ares in general. It was his second time playing. He couldn't warp or build ships or...Oh, it was just scary. Anyway, I just attacked with my Gaitori HVD, and I flew bad enough that a RAT could have outflown me. He was horrible. I beat him, taking no damage. I sure hope he gets better...

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"I can ail what cures you."

I have never had a mermrable battle maybe to day can be the lucky day
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My most memorable battle was when I played against a player who I do not know the name of. He was Audemedon. I was Salrilian. And we were playing in Scratching Post. I first built a carrier and then the rest gunships. He made a huge force of gunships, and attacked me first. My HVD and carrier were both destroyed almost instantly, while also losing most of my gunships, while I only took out about 1/2 of his fleet. I then took my remaining gunships and ran. I stationed my gunships somewhere outside of the stations and cloaked them all. I then took control of a single gunship and was able to decoy all of the gunships that were at my planet (including him) away and build about 5 more gunships. I then started to, with my single gunship, attack his gunships. I took out 4 of them before my gunship ran out of energy. Then I took control of my fleet of gunships and attacked all of the ships at my planet. He then started to run because he had wasted all of his money on an HVD. It took me about 15 minutes, but I was able to chase him down (the coward ran like a scared dog) and destroy his fleet.

My largest battle was at home, I created an Appletalk network with my two LC 580's, and I controlled both forces. I only have one reg code, so one had to be Ishiman, but I used cheats and had my max of all ships for both fleets. When they came together, the old 68LC040 processors couldn't handle it, and the frame rate slowed down to about one every two or three seconds. Then the computer locked up.

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What I really enjoy doing is beating an Ishiman Opponent while playing human. Those gunships will beat the tar out of anything he can muster.

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Originally posted by Slug:
**What I really enjoy doing is beating an Ishiman Opponent while playing human. Those gunships will beat the tar out of anything he can muster.
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Exactly!

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