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Hi everyone,
I've just posted a video to my website with high-detail footage of a "pretty big" battle. Since we've recently been attacked by the 14 year-olds of doom crying "I want more screenshots!", I decided to make a video to tease said audience.
The purpose of this video is mainly to give an overview of a standard fleet battle to those who can't play SOASE. For those who *can* play SOASE, this video will probably not be too exciting, unless you just enjoy watching others play. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is what AIs normally do to each other (1 ship at a time) and 10 is Multianna (is the "multi" in his name an insinuation of his thirst for multitudes of ships?), this fleet battle ranks at 6 or 7 -- both sides have multiple capital ships, and dozens of cruisers and defense platforms are involved.
I'm playing on the 2v2 medium map Flashpoint. It's TEC vs. Vasari, and I'm playing TEC. After massing a significant economic lead and hardening all my border world defenses, I walked away from the computer for 2 hours, to find the teal Vasari AI (shown in combat in the video) invading my homeworld, and having captured 2 of my asteroids! Enraged, I scuttled some economic and research structures on my remaining worlds and built shipyards, and began the process of building a new fleet. Fortunately, my economic figures were off the scale, so literally "money was no object", and I had all the military and most of the civil techs researched through the second to last tech level (12 research stations). I quickly learned that the enemy AI was not far behind my tech level when I examined their hitpoints and armor values.
Not shown here is the dramatic battle for my homeworld that occurred about 30 minutes before the video footage -- my fledgling fleet of 5 capships, well-rounded between Kols, Dunovs and Akkans at levels 3 to 4, entered the system to desperately try and save the homeworld from about 20 cruisers and two Vasari capships, levels 5 and 6. Ultimately I managed to destroy both of their capships, and they only successfully pulled out a handful of their cruisers -- but not before destroying three of my capships and bombing my homeworld to neutral, so I had to re-colonize it
The fleet battle in the video shows me (in red) making a comeback, with my fleet maturing from level 4 to 5 in the battle, and two dozen or so Kodiaks coming to the rescue in the middle of the fight. I tried to use various zoom levels to give a sense of perspective; I caught the lead enemy capship's explosion, and then filmed the retreat of their defeated cruisers. The main punch of the Vasari fleet was their many cruisers, since their capships were low level and they went down quickly. The video ends when the sector I defended is free of enemy ships.
Technical data on the clip:
*Captured with Fraps, original resolution 1920x1200, captured resolution is half of that
*Encoded with VirtualDub/ffdshow
*Filmed on a Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8800GTS with max. graphics detail
*Audio Codec: MP3 128kbps; you shouldn't need any extra software to play the audio on Windows
*Video Codec: MPEG4. If you can't view the video, grab ffdshow to view it in Winamp or Windows Media Player: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow or just install VideoLan Client from http://videolan.org
*File Size: About 105 Megabytes (10 minutes to download on a 3 Megabit DSL)
*Length: 5min 8sec
In case you missed the "external link", get it here: http://www.tiyukquellmalz.org/soase_battle.avi
Enjoy,
-allquixotic
P.S. - criticisms of my poor strategy will just bounce off. I fully realize what I did wrong, particularly due to the number of times I've watched the video in the codec evaluation process. "Oh yeah, I shouldn't have done that". Well anyway, you can nitpick, but I won't get angry with you
P.S.S. - Dialup users need not apply!
I've just posted a video to my website with high-detail footage of a "pretty big" battle. Since we've recently been attacked by the 14 year-olds of doom crying "I want more screenshots!", I decided to make a video to tease said audience.
The purpose of this video is mainly to give an overview of a standard fleet battle to those who can't play SOASE. For those who *can* play SOASE, this video will probably not be too exciting, unless you just enjoy watching others play. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is what AIs normally do to each other (1 ship at a time) and 10 is Multianna (is the "multi" in his name an insinuation of his thirst for multitudes of ships?), this fleet battle ranks at 6 or 7 -- both sides have multiple capital ships, and dozens of cruisers and defense platforms are involved.
I'm playing on the 2v2 medium map Flashpoint. It's TEC vs. Vasari, and I'm playing TEC. After massing a significant economic lead and hardening all my border world defenses, I walked away from the computer for 2 hours, to find the teal Vasari AI (shown in combat in the video) invading my homeworld, and having captured 2 of my asteroids! Enraged, I scuttled some economic and research structures on my remaining worlds and built shipyards, and began the process of building a new fleet. Fortunately, my economic figures were off the scale, so literally "money was no object", and I had all the military and most of the civil techs researched through the second to last tech level (12 research stations). I quickly learned that the enemy AI was not far behind my tech level when I examined their hitpoints and armor values.
Not shown here is the dramatic battle for my homeworld that occurred about 30 minutes before the video footage -- my fledgling fleet of 5 capships, well-rounded between Kols, Dunovs and Akkans at levels 3 to 4, entered the system to desperately try and save the homeworld from about 20 cruisers and two Vasari capships, levels 5 and 6. Ultimately I managed to destroy both of their capships, and they only successfully pulled out a handful of their cruisers -- but not before destroying three of my capships and bombing my homeworld to neutral, so I had to re-colonize it
The fleet battle in the video shows me (in red) making a comeback, with my fleet maturing from level 4 to 5 in the battle, and two dozen or so Kodiaks coming to the rescue in the middle of the fight. I tried to use various zoom levels to give a sense of perspective; I caught the lead enemy capship's explosion, and then filmed the retreat of their defeated cruisers. The main punch of the Vasari fleet was their many cruisers, since their capships were low level and they went down quickly. The video ends when the sector I defended is free of enemy ships.
Technical data on the clip:
*Captured with Fraps, original resolution 1920x1200, captured resolution is half of that
*Encoded with VirtualDub/ffdshow
*Filmed on a Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8800GTS with max. graphics detail
*Audio Codec: MP3 128kbps; you shouldn't need any extra software to play the audio on Windows
*Video Codec: MPEG4. If you can't view the video, grab ffdshow to view it in Winamp or Windows Media Player: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow or just install VideoLan Client from http://videolan.org
*File Size: About 105 Megabytes (10 minutes to download on a 3 Megabit DSL)
*Length: 5min 8sec
In case you missed the "external link", get it here: http://www.tiyukquellmalz.org/soase_battle.avi
Enjoy,
-allquixotic
P.S. - criticisms of my poor strategy will just bounce off. I fully realize what I did wrong, particularly due to the number of times I've watched the video in the codec evaluation process. "Oh yeah, I shouldn't have done that". Well anyway, you can nitpick, but I won't get angry with you
P.S.S. - Dialup users need not apply!
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