If you do that, you might want to use a dict. stealing stock in terms of landgrabs, dont ever use spies unless if they have <20 SPAL, or you'll just weaken your own defence. it's a lot harder these days when they can spend 3 turns to pull it back and put it up again, though i'm sure a lot of them don't do that, cuz turns is money.

with a dict, you also decrease the likelihood of bouncing ops and giving htem a headsup before you strike. you can even spend a few days checkout their entire tag, if you join another alliance for protection, that alliance will be responsible for killing you, you'd be much better joining LaF for protection, and using their site against them (that's if they havent banned you yet), otherwise if you do join an alliance, you'll still be able to use their site to log all your ops so you can browse through their countries at leisure.

if you're playing untagged, go commi. even if you like to hit things, hit smart, and commis give you an advantage in production. tyr is only good if you can farm things, or bottom feed, so unless if you outgrow entire tags, there's no point in being tyrant. though with ghost acres, if you can protect your ass and keep production levels up (eg tech start + maintain max tech), you gain extra on ghost acres and that's a boost. just make sure you dont get farmed. if you get farmed, it's much better to play rep where your explore rate wins over DRs.

i've played tyr for as long as i remember, and it's my preferred strat. i sometimes forget when i'm netting, and end up hitting like a tyr. the other benefit about tyr is that you can farm ppl into lower DRs, cuz you're making 1 hit attacks instead of 2, so it's beneficial as long as your hits give you more than your explore rate (given that you don't lose too much military and gain cash and tech with each grab).

but even with land trading, a tyr with max strat tech gets on really well with ghost acres. you gain extra with land trading, and you gain extra with ghost acres, giving you 25% more land than you would if you weren't. though that only works if the alliance that you're attacking retals 1:1

and if you can't maintain your production level, then you cant do retals when you are grabbed, and that limits your play a lot.

hope that was useful. feel free to contact me for more advice.

superfly, i've been watching your hits this set. you dont only retal. you also LG quite a bit. =D i actually wanted to retal you for a hit you did on me at the beginning of set, but i fell asleep 3 hrs to the end before my jets came back from the last retal. =)

Merry Christmas! Christmas starts faster in China, does it?

seriously? death threats? what, for a game?

haha you're not gonna let that go, are you? =D

haha blid. damn. were you farmed or were you retalled? better luck next set. what's your country nick?

just the risk you have to run then. they dont actually take too much when they grab you, the only thing it seriously affects is your private market.

use half your ending stock on tanks and troops?

how much stock do you have? cant you buy up halfway? =P

haha. yeah. =P i still have 100 (200) turns cuz i was too busy yesterday. so plenty of turns to make jets still =) im determined to get all my retals done before the end.

hmm. depends on your acreage, as a commi with full techs, i don't mind PSing up to 8m jets atm. =D but im only doing retals.

well if you dont hit commies all set, then you have no worries in the last 6 hours. =D

are you serious?

lol its not about whether or not 113tz deserves anything, it's jsut that i cant afford to hit him while im warring with you. if i had some nukes, i might have sent them his way, but i didnt.

are there special bonuses on Christmas? i'm unfamiliar, as i only just started again. i stopped playing years back when mehul sold the game and it died. i was planning to AB you, as fighting on two fronts would only waste my turns. besides, I've worn you down a bit, so i'd take care of you first. =D

Merry Christmas, btw. =)

yo =P

i was planning to start ABs today. well met, good fight, good fun. nuff said. =) i didnt ask him to GS with me, i thought it was stupid to GS you after farming me, it'd look like its a joint effort, but really, it wasn't. =) im sure we were both just picking our own personal fights for our own reasons, and that's the jizz of it. i normally don't drag others into my battles, takes the fun out of it.

ah well, good fun. and yes i lost fair and square. starting at C again next set. =D

but it really depends on what type of show down, if its a fashion show down... who'd win that?

power rangers are still going? gawd, i grew up watching those. even named my lil brother after one. the green ranger.. that was cool until they got shiny.

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or have dr per attack type

so GDI switches off, or just for that person?

is there a time frame for this? Or if they hit you twice anywhere during the set, you can GS/AB them?

sounds good.

ooh, so that's why noone had troops or tanks. doesnt this rule automatically render TTR useless? is this just in Express, or everywhere else too?

ah okay. i wish they put all the new rules in one place. i cant find anything here.

hm, we're both 5.1m nw, and he hit me 2 hours ago. so i dont know why i cant hit him.

he's the same nw as me, and i cant spy on him, and i cant hit him. humanitarians wont let me do anything. ><

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