BigB vs pantarei II : Lazy Grudge 485

BigB wins in 26 updates

I built 4 sci at the start of the game and set 2 each way from HW. At update 1, I built 2 col ships to follow. At the next 3 subsequent updates I built another col ship. I met pantarei at update 5 with my 2 sci ships on his col at 20,20. It was at population 1, so I assumed he was tricking and nuked it for key move #1. I explored both links next update and discovered pantarei builder at 20,19. I tricked from updates 8-9 with 6 planets including HW, 18,21, 17,22, 18,22 19,23 and 20,21, all at pop=1. Ended up with an econ lead 8 to 5 and that was Key move #2. After overbuilding an attack fleet on 20,21, I moved to 20,20. panatrei, countered building a fleet of his own to match. I moved to 21,20 instead and built more ships on 20,21. Key move #3 occurred when pantarei backed up to defend 20,19 while I left 1 col ship at 21,20 to colonize, bringing the rest of the fleet to mass at 20,20. From there it was a systematic patient push in for the win. I attacked 20,19 ending up with 8 BR2 ships at 0.28 or so. After nuking it, I retired them on the pantarei HW just as I got BR3. Overbuilt 20 ship strike force, colonizing 20,19 as I landed on the pantarei HW. Game over.

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Vulgar Unicorn
5331
5753
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System 19,23
3049
2929
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System 16,22
5463
7254
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System 17,22
828
4128
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System 18,22
3430
1223
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System 19,22
2359
3329
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System 20,22
1050
4729
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System 17,21
686
5368
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System 18,21
6226
5862
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System 20,21
42
1713
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System 20,20
1770
723
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System 21,20
290
209
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System 20,19
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pantarei II