In my most recent ironman game I was just crushed brutally by the AI. My empire was, I suspect, the strongest in the galaxy, in terms of military strength, technology, economy, planets, population, buildings - in every way. Suddenly, a coalition of two empires declared war against me. I quickly destroyed the fleets of one of those empires, then a third empire declared war. I destroyed the fleets of the second empire, taking heavy but acceptable losses. Another coalition of two empires declared war. I engaged the fleet of the third empire, emerging victorious but my fleet severely diminished. The forth and fifth empires arrived on the other side of my empire, and began rapidly conquering my planets. I sent in the remainder of my fleet, which I had been reinforcing throughout the short war, and was reinforcing while it was enroute. Though I anticipated victory given the military strength and fleet composition of my and the enemy fleet, my fleet was destroyed. I began rebuilding the fleet as the last two empires slowly conquered my planets to the "west". As the third empire returned with a small fleet, and began conquering my planets to the "east." As the first and second empires returned with a small fleet and began conquering my planets to the "north."
I rebuilt my fleet to about half-strength, then sent it behind the fleets of the AI, rapidly liberating what they had conquered, avoiding the large enemy fleet and destroying the smaller fleets in the process, while still reinforcing my fleet along the way. I signed a white peace with the fist coalition after liberating the planets they had taken, but the remaining enemies weren't ready to give up yet, even after I liberated the planets they captured. Finally I had liberated all the planets which had been taken, and proceeded to engage the fleet which had destroyed my fleet earlier. I destroyed it, but was now severely diminished again. The remaining three empires still refuse to sign white peace, but I nearly have the war score necessary to convince them.
Another empire declares war, and proceed straight for my home world in a mad dash, a space blitzkrieg. What's left of my fleet is no match for this new, sixth enemy. I only have one shipyard left though, and it's on my home world. Furthermore, my resources are nearly depleted, and I'm not generating very much after the loss of so many mining facilities. I send my fleet to intercept the enemy at my home planet, hoping that between it and the shipyard, the enemy will be defeated, just barely. The enemy fleet destroys my shipyard just before my fleet could arrive to reinforce it. My fleet was destroyed as well, my home world conquered, and the capture of several other of my worlds imminent. My mineral income was nearly zero, and I had few resources left in reserve. Check mate.
It was at this precise moment that I realized, this is bull. Furthermore, my ally's choice to do literally nothing except send troops transports to attack starships for some reason, is also bull. More importantly, the inability to disable ironman is bull. The moment the shipyard orbiting my home planet was destroyed, I would have disabled ironman, tapped the console and deleted the attacking fleet, of that sixth empire, unaffiliated with the others. I'd still be ruling that magnificent empire, but instead I'm drifting aimlessly through space on the burning wreck that was my fleet's prized flagship, the UNS Kraken - the hull now "kraked" and broken, the ship destroyed, along with the last best hope of humanity.
The peaceful existence of the United Nations of Earth has come to an end, as did the lives of humanity's best men and women who dared wear the uniform in its defense. All because some video game developers in Sweden didn't make it possible to disable ironman mode. Those defenders of humanity died in vain, betrayed by the very people they had given their lives to defend. I can only hope that as those developers look up into the sky and see the Kraken's broken hull falling from it, they regret their treachery of the human race. Paradox has become death; destroyer of worlds.
I rebuilt my fleet to about half-strength, then sent it behind the fleets of the AI, rapidly liberating what they had conquered, avoiding the large enemy fleet and destroying the smaller fleets in the process, while still reinforcing my fleet along the way. I signed a white peace with the fist coalition after liberating the planets they had taken, but the remaining enemies weren't ready to give up yet, even after I liberated the planets they captured. Finally I had liberated all the planets which had been taken, and proceeded to engage the fleet which had destroyed my fleet earlier. I destroyed it, but was now severely diminished again. The remaining three empires still refuse to sign white peace, but I nearly have the war score necessary to convince them.
Another empire declares war, and proceed straight for my home world in a mad dash, a space blitzkrieg. What's left of my fleet is no match for this new, sixth enemy. I only have one shipyard left though, and it's on my home world. Furthermore, my resources are nearly depleted, and I'm not generating very much after the loss of so many mining facilities. I send my fleet to intercept the enemy at my home planet, hoping that between it and the shipyard, the enemy will be defeated, just barely. The enemy fleet destroys my shipyard just before my fleet could arrive to reinforce it. My fleet was destroyed as well, my home world conquered, and the capture of several other of my worlds imminent. My mineral income was nearly zero, and I had few resources left in reserve. Check mate.
It was at this precise moment that I realized, this is bull. Furthermore, my ally's choice to do literally nothing except send troops transports to attack starships for some reason, is also bull. More importantly, the inability to disable ironman is bull. The moment the shipyard orbiting my home planet was destroyed, I would have disabled ironman, tapped the console and deleted the attacking fleet, of that sixth empire, unaffiliated with the others. I'd still be ruling that magnificent empire, but instead I'm drifting aimlessly through space on the burning wreck that was my fleet's prized flagship, the UNS Kraken - the hull now "kraked" and broken, the ship destroyed, along with the last best hope of humanity.
The peaceful existence of the United Nations of Earth has come to an end, as did the lives of humanity's best men and women who dared wear the uniform in its defense. All because some video game developers in Sweden didn't make it possible to disable ironman mode. Those defenders of humanity died in vain, betrayed by the very people they had given their lives to defend. I can only hope that as those developers look up into the sky and see the Kraken's broken hull falling from it, they regret their treachery of the human race. Paradox has become death; destroyer of worlds.
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