I lost a game of botf online last night
It started well! there were two of us in game and the rest were all AI controled.
They chose the feds and i picked the klingons and i started in a good place expanded my empire untill about turn 50 when i met the big ears
I refused to sign non agression as it would boost there money income alot and this angered them! before i knew it we were at war. It was a long war and both sides had big loses (how they can build a fleet of 18 command and 26 fast attack from nowhere as they had only 10 systems ill never know) when all of the sudden around turn 70 i meet the cardassians and federation on the same turn.
The cardassians declared war instantly and this put even more strain on my resourses! they had a mediam size fleet of crappy ships compared to my battlecruisers but i had to send reinforcments to our joint borders, i had low income through lack of trade and hardly any credits due to winning the zakdorn over and building a constant supply of ships.
anyway i was in a bad way when the feds decided to take my deep space outposts out and declare war.
the rest of the game was an uphill struggle i signed non agreesion with the cardassias which they broke the turn after and was just holding my own when the feds main fleet arrived. My ships were scattared on 3 fronts and most were still on there way to various places from my main system. I stopped the fed fleet about 5 sectors away from zakdorn which was located in the middle of klingon space there was a big battle which i lost and the cards were helping themselves to my southen systems whilst the big ears were raiding my westeren boarders all in al the rest of the game was me holding them off for as long as possible and causing as much damage as i could before the fall of my empire
This has put me in an extreamly aggressive mood ready for the games ill be having at the weekend so beware jiggy!!
if i were to play a big game that is.
