Game 2

Lizard Codebreakers

  • 18 turns
  • 6 players
  • Ended 27 November 2002

Hilarious but short game where Steve's invasion of Jeff stalled when Jeff correctly guessed the friendly code of his T-Rex battleship when it arrived at his starbase.

Jim's write-up, from the archive

Who played what

  • Conradas Con10The Rebel Confederation
  • DominateAI4The Fascist Empire
  • DominateAI11The Missing Colonies of Man
  • Ed7The Crystal Confederation
  • Jay1The Solar Federation
  • Jeff8The Evil Empire
  • Jim5The Privateer Bands
  • Steve2The Lizard Alliance

Final scoreboard

Ahead when the last scoreboard was printed: Jim, playing The Privateer Bands. No game in the archive records a declared winner.

Final scoreboard for Game 2, highest score first
#RacePlayerScorePlanetsBasesCapitalFreighters
15PrivateerJim8044021514
21FedJay70837298
37CrystallineEd37316193
410RebelConradas Con29413144
58EmpireJeff28411154
62LizardSteve28319093
74FascistDominateAI2377147
811ColonialDominateAI1522112

Score against turn

Score against turn for game 2, one line per race in the race's own colour.
Score against turn for game 2, one line per race in the race's own colour.score2.jpg

The cluster

A dense cluster, still largely unclaimed at the eighteenth turn.
A dense cluster, still largely unclaimed at the eighteenth turn.map2.gif

Economy at turn 18

ptscore economic ranking for Game 2 at turn 18
RaceHeldTotal%BasesPlanetsShipsWarships
5Privateer69,984128,83854%23,84210,83410,47124,837
1Fed57,285116,89949%24,10210,5237,66015,000
7Crystalline54,872101,40454%17,61113,4414,15219,668
4Fascist42,25765,56864%14,89612,2078,0537,101
8Empire35,11250,86269%17,7667,8082,6696,869
10Rebel31,43064,76248%16,3495,9924,2994,790
11Colonial26,44442,21762%15,1568,3372,370581
2Lizard25,88884,50230%011,8133,33710,738

Held is the value actually in play, total everything the empire has ever owned, and the percentage the ratio of the two — a low one means minerals still in the ground or a fleet that has been shot off the board. The four columns after it break the held value down by where it is sitting. 102 of 500 ship slots were in use.