Distant Worlds live series - The Caleph Alliance

[Haree78]

Hi all, inspired by the fun of doing my year live during Das and Larry Monte's collaborative YouTube series I plan to do a live play through starting very soon.
I plan to start the game around mid day on Sunday (UK time) and see how far I get. Please drop in and join me, advice and interaction with other Distant Worlds players makes this extra fun.

My channel:
www.twitch.tv/haree78

Hope to see you there.

The Play list:
Distant Worlds Live Series Play List

Set Up
Part 1 - A Terrible Start!
Part 2 - Watch out insect scum!
Part 3 - Haha stepped on a bug!
Part 4 - Stay down Gizzies, stay down
Part 5 - Prelude to War
Part 6 - War with the Yor!
Part 7 - Yor bite off more than they can chew, do these things chew? oh who knows
Part 8 - Yor bite back
Part 9 - These bugs really tie the Galaxy together
Part 10 - My mouse is my biggest enemy!
Part 11 - Nope my ships refuelling strategies are my biggest enemy!

[StarLab]

Awesome! [8D]

I hope you'll UL to Youtube as well as I tend to miss a lot of the live streams due to timing. I should be around for your broadcast this Sunday though... [:)]

[Haree78]

Will definitely upload to youtube afterwards, hope to see you there

[Tcby]

Great! See you there. Midday in the UK is about 9pm over here, and I have an exam first thing the next morning. But I'll definitely be there for the start

[Keston]

Don't know that my schedule will permit, but I'd be interested.

[Haree78]

Part 1 is up, had to contend with an interesting start

Part 1 - A Terrible Start!

[Haree78]

Uploaded part 2.

Part 2 - Watch out insect scum!

[Haree78]

For info I will be streaming the 2nd session on Tuesday 15:00 UK time, that's 14:00 GMT.

[Tcby]

A midnight start for me...I'll be there [:D]

Highly recommend others check it out. There have been plenty of surprises so far.

[Haree78]

Thanks Toby, see you there.

Uploaded part 3 which was the last part that day, more coming tomorrow.

Part 3 - Haha stepped on a bug!

[Keston]

I am curious whether trade sanctions followed by a (legal) blockade was an available option to force the bugs to war. Hiring pirates and spying missions tend to anger the AI as well. However, they might have just looked at the defense pacts and refused to declare no matter what.

[Haree78]

That's a good idea, I could have gone that route. In the end I just decided to declare war myself because I thought I was ready, turns out I was but they bit back a little bit at the end there so we shall see!

I'm about to kick off my stream in about 15 minutes by the way. Looking forward to see what happens next.

[Haree78]

Part 4 is uploaded to youtube

Part 4 - Stay down Gizzies, stay down

[Haree78]

Uploaded
Part 5 - Prelude to War

I think my next stream will get very interesting...

[Keston]

Despite the nominal odds that discount the value of your decisive weapon, surely the extreme recklessness of the Yor is bound to be their downfall as they rush into vast swarms of deathly Caleph fighters. (The Gizzies are not to be trusted - if they nag you about independence, it's probably a savings in force commitment and resources in the long run to just crush them, or at least take all their resource stations.

Will next time be Sunday as before?


EDIT: One can't help but be impressed by massed fleet fighters.

What is the defense ? Putting a few PD on most ships is useful, but what about purpose-built size 300 or so "PD-Boats" loaded with PD to attach as needed when facing fighter-oriented opponents? Would those work? Designated as what role, if we want them to defend against fighters and not use its weapons against ships in a battle. One notion: have it not part of a fleet but assigned to escort a large ship likely to be heavily in the fight.

P.S. Can PD engage missiles at all or just "ships" including fighters?

[Haree78]

Yep, le't say Sunday at mid day as that is my next day off.

I guess the best defence is point defence everywhere and fast ships to catch the carriers. A comparable fleet in range of their carriers is going to burn them down at similar speed. Despite everyone else having better torpedoes and blasters having them fighters actually puts me on a par or a step ahead in some cases which will even out later game as the fighter advantage will slowly be lost. I will always have the best fighters but when they catch up with better point defence and fighters themselves I wont feel so strong.

[Tcby]

Looking forward to kicking off this war [:)]

[Blackstork]

Nice series! I was on job so could not watch it in time, but thats some well-planned nice action vs out-teched, overpowering empire.

Also nice to see Caleph mod in action! Glad you all like it.

[Haree78]

Uploaded
Part 6 - War with the Yor!

Thanks Blackstork was fun to highlight the mod, I'll be keeping it going for this series

[Haree78]

Part 7 uploaded
Part 7 - Yor bite off more than they can chew, do these things chew? oh who knows