Game 3

Lizards vs Evil Empire

  • 38 turns
  • 7 players
  • Ended 21 January 2003

A game with enormous gaps between clusters of planets. Main feature was a Lizard offensive against the Evil Empire primarily consisting of cloaked ships dropping ground troops.

Jim's write-up, from the archive

Who played what

  • Conrad10The Rebel Confederation
  • Ed7The Crystal Confederation
  • Ed Has Murdock9The Robotic Imperium
  • 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.

#RacePlayerScorePlanetsBasesCapitalFreighters
15PrivateerJim2,3557777315
22LizardSteve2,2455378615
37CrystallineEd1,367644247
41FedJay1,3016142011
59RoboticEd Has Murdock6973121317
68EmpireJeff58825298
710RebelConrad42023170

Score against turn

Score against turn for game 3, one line per race in the race's own colour.
Score against turn for game 3, one line per race in the race's own colour.score3.jpg

The cluster

The cluster in tight knots with long empty runs between them — the feature of this game.
The cluster in tight knots with long empty runs between them — the feature of this game.map3.gif

Economy at turn 38

RaceHeldTotal%BasesPlanetsShipsWarships
2Lizard330,487534,17962%95,70257,84420,404156,537
5Privateer281,074489,76457%93,20233,59516,713137,564
1Fed161,758278,03858%43,97420,07815,48082,226
9Robotic138,500265,92452%42,79835,54316,46043,699
7Crystalline133,149350,01738%46,78728,6558,38049,327
8Empire102,237182,05856%30,40233,9129,02028,903
10Rebel35,76074,26448%16,4567,451011,853

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. 305 of 500 ship slots were in use.