[PBEM] Stellar Languish

[Habbaku]

Helping the other 5 players out is really nice and will raise awareness of Chinese issues.

[Tamas]

Alright everyone, I believe I have corrected everything and the latest file is now the correct game state EXCEPT that Berkut got screwed and without a mission now - will need to redraw, sorry Berkut, if you want to find the one you had I am sure we all trust you so go ahead when it is your turn.

And in the spirit of keeping all happenings posted in this thread, here is Celed's Japanese build phase of Turn 2.

2 LV1 rockets
2 LV2 rockert
1 Crewed Vehicle (he kept things turned on their reserve side so I can't read names)
2 Orbiters
1 Flyby

This spent all of Japan's budget for the 2030s.

Next one is Wag as Asia.

Wag, you need to do 2 things:
1. draw a mission
2. Build new units

ping me on Discord and I'll talk you through it.

[celedhring]

Oh, I did that to check the costs. It's the IJN JS Seishing, a CV2

[Tamas]

I walked Waag through his Build phase to show the intricacies of Vassal and the game.

Asia built:
-Telescope
-Flyby
-Rover
-Probe
-2 LV1s
-1 LV2

That's all their robotic explorers available, BTW.

I have also uploaded a quick replay to add the Russian base - I did that already but then skipped redoing it when I made my earlier fix. We should be good now.

Berkut is up for China's build phase.

[Berkut]

Done.

I built a Orbiter, Prove, CV2, and a couple LVs to blow them all up.

Not sure who is next, but someone is!

[Tamas]

Crazy Canuck is up next with Build phase for Europe.

It's worth highlighting that Europe is one of those factions whose CVs can't yet leave Earth orbit and won't be able to research how to do so until start of the next decade. So although Europe has an excellent exploration CV2, it may not be a good investment this decade, as all they could do is go Earth orbit and research Biology there. Plenty of REs to build, though.

[Berkut]

What would be the point in building a base at the moon instead of earth orbit? Or the NEAs for that matter?

[Tamas]

What would be the point in building a base at the moon instead of earth orbit? Or the NEAs for that matter?

Mining or research. Once a Depletion lets us place a World Card on them they might become valuable for either or both. Or they remain duds. Will see. But in terms of resupplying CVs you are right it doesn't make practical difference where you put them between a main world and its satellites.

[Berkut]

OK, that makes sense - right now we simply don't know.

[Berkut]

This game is going to die soon at this pace.

[Tamas]

CC will be jumping on Discord today so I can help him through the build phase if he gets stuck.

But I agree we will need to improve the speed.

[Tamas]

Helped out CC with Europe's build phase:

2 LV1 rocket
1 LV2 rocket
1 telescope
1 rover
1 orbiter

$10 remains in their budget.

Russia is next.

[Habbaku]

The proud Russian Federation purchased significant quantities of stuff to resupply our space base and expand outwards.

[Tamas]

North America bought:

1 LV1
1 LV2
1 Rover
1 Probe
1 Orbiter

I have done the start of the movement phase, and once again I used my 1st initiative position to jump ahead and do the North American moves as well. I tried to do it in a detailed way so do run the replay of the turn if you want some pointers on what to do. If you can't find something, right-click.

The American Crewed Vehicle stayed on Mars, while the Rover and the Probe got launched toward Jupiter by the LV2, which was also successfully recovered after launch.

The LV1 launched the Orbiter toward the Main Asteroid Belt successfully, but recovery of the rocket failed.

South America (grumbler) is next.

[grumbler]

ASA launched its Ptolemy satellite, using up a LV1, and its Empressa CV2, using up an LV2.

Looking at the vlog, I apparently stopped the log before destroying the LV2 (it's still sitting on the launch pad).  Ignore it; it's gone.

Japan, I believe, is up next.   Bonsai!