War of attrition

Not quite so disheartened by the results as I was yesterday. But pink is still a tricky customer to deal with. He just doesn't know when he's beat.

This game is tremendously wearing though. I doubt I'll play again. I'll find some other game to blog about!

My initial fleets are all basically decimated. Just whittled down by his constant 24/7 micro managing. I have a number of his stars in his two most lucrative clusters. I just cant seem to fully capture the clusters though. If you look at his most southerly stars in the second picture, he's got a huge force, probably his last big fleet which he just keeps reinforcing and then using to take back any star that seems weak. I think I'm going to have to wait it out a little. I can get my reinforcements down here but my main base is so far way it takes a while to get ships down.

Attacking is so costly to the campaign - but you have to sacrifice some ships in order to take stars. It's definitely a two-edged sword.

Red has been doing great. He's my little trouper! I don't think pink expected him to do so well, I certainly didn't. Green has taken a little longer to get off the mark, only taking his first pink stars this morning but intel tells me he's moving 4 fleets downwards having taken a while to rebuild his troops after pink's big push the other day.