BigB vs Desperado : Challenge Match 1114

BigB wins in 61 updates

This was a game I had been waiting to play for a long time. Desperado is one of the few Old Timers left that I hadn't played one on one. This game featured an almost critical error...I accidentally built a Sat instead of a minefield at 20,20 allowing Desperado to nuke it. I recovered by using a couple of engineering tricks which ultimately won the game for me. First I closed the link from 19,20 to 20,20. This gave me the time to pull of a second pop trick to enable me to terraform 140 units in one turn and then pop trick for the third time to get all 10 of my planets to full strength, econ 12 and from there a methodical push north. End game required a Sat Wall breakdown to win through to the Desperado HomeWorld.

22 38
35 22
(1) (0)
System 19,25
53 51
53 51
(0) (0)
System 19,24
100 100
100 100
(13) (0)
Desperado
15 7
12 25
(2) (0)
System 19,22
26 4
22 16
(0) (0)
System 20,22
4 9
11 9
(0) (0)
System 21,22
11 24
24 24
(0) (0)
System 20,21
7 21
14 21
(0) (0)
System 21,21
50 52
52 52
(0) (0)
System 19,20
15 3
11 25
(0) (0)
System 20,20
0 8
10 8
(0) (0)
System 21,20
100 100
100 100
(1) (0)
Vulgar Unicorn
2 43
35 52
(0) (0)
System 20,19
22 36
43 36
(0) (0)
System 21,19
24 46
52 50
(0) (0)
System 22,19
21 21
71 21
(0) (0)
System 19,18
25 6
20 25
(0) (0)
System 20,18
66 14
66 66
(0) (0)
System 21,18
51 15
51 51
(0) (0)
System 22,18
9 37
37 37
(0) (0)
System 19,17