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Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Mitchell » Mon Aug 25, 2003 5:02 pm

Here relates the tale of a new Hyperion Beta (1.4b) started this year of our Pancreator, 4956 among the following nobles:

1. Li Halan (myself(Mitchell Baldwin), Lord Boulvi)
2. Hazat (Matt Caspermeyer)
3. Decados (Mike Ely, perhaps in persona as the formidable Comar)
4. Hawkwood (Mike Bonkowski)
5. al-Malik (Krzys Dabrowski (4956-4960) / Wyatt Baldwin (4961-present))

Universal Warehouse is OFF, Combat Reports are enabled as is the Plague and units will consume food.

Li Halan chose the following Traits (using the Hyperion Points Trait System):

Noblesse Oblige: +4
Enlightened Nobility: +2
Friend in the Church: +1
Bioengineering Documentarium: +1
Psychosocial Engineering Documentarium: +2
Spendthrift: -2
Disdains Trade: -2
Enemy in the League: -0

Total = +6 (Intermediate level player for Hyperion, allowed +5 to +7)

Lord Boulvi of House Li Halan personally led the attack and capture of about 80% of the cities on Kish. Rebel forces were also engaged by legions stationed on Moonvick and Quentrand. Earth was extensively explored, with reconnaissance forces spotting and fixing the position of several formidable Rebel groups. Attacks will begin next year.

Lord Boulvi hopes to engage in cooperative development projects on both Moonvick and Quentrand. No attacks were initiated against either the Decados or the al-Malik, who he feels have equal right to their occupied portions of those planets.

Given the grave state of economic affairs and dire need to quell rebel uprisings throughout the realm, Lord Boulvi was forces to impose a temporary tax levy while at the same time curbing military spending (primarily through a reduction of the troops’ well deserved pay). The Finance Ministry stressed these measures will be corrected as soon as the rebels have been sufficiently dealt with. There was not a single report of dissention among the troops or population, another testament to the popular support for Lord Boulvi and the integrity of the Li Halan people.

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Matt Caspermeyer » Tue Aug 26, 2003 2:24 pm

Hazat (Viridius Kohl) chose the following traits:

Rule of Law: +4
Administration: +3
Spendthrift: -2
Enemy in Church: -1

Total = +4 (Expert, +4 or lower)

Lord Viridius Kohl on Earth captured a Farm and was going for another when he blindly flew his Cargo Plane into a Rebel Partisan ambush. 2 Special Forces were lost in the blunder.

On Aragon, rapid capture of approximately 60% of the planet's structures took place. The Aragon Church is very heavily defended from both ground and orbital attacks and so Viridius Kohl will not be fighting the Church for a long time.

On Schemadin, the Noble force is poised to capture the Arborium. The Anti-Infantry Tanks are on the run and hopefully will find safety within the Fort.

Unit loyalty was sustained, but Viridius Kohl had to raise taxes in the meantime to correct the ecomony and turn it around to the road of prosperity.

Lab research is centered around Physics and Microbiology.

Viridius Kohl has shown a glimmer of hope for the Hazat people and is poised to be a great leader compared to his predecesors.
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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Mind Elemental » Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:51 am

How on earth are you guys cleaning up your homeworlds so rapidly? I get the feeling that I really bungled the job in my Corinthian game. :confused:

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Matt Caspermeyer » Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:52 am

You gotta be good!

;)

Actually, if you try it, I think you'll find out that you can capture bunches of cities on the first turn.

For most planets, you can capture the Rebel Space Fleets, too, although that is a good way to put a damper in your economic prosperity.

Give it a try next time you play, try to capture as many cities on the first turn as you can and you'll find that several of the Houses can capture a significant portion of the cities on turn 1.

One thing that really helps is to use your starting Cargo Plane and Engineer to build lots of roads connecting as many cities as you can. Continue on turn 2 and then build a city after you're happy with your road system.

Also a Blademaster and fast unit (or fast and good unit (i.e. Cybercorp!)) loaded aboard your Assault Lander can capture lots of cities (and the surviving units)! That doesn't even include a Battlemastered Noble.

Just be careful with attacking cities that are too heavily defended or you may lose your Assault Lander (with the Blademaster loaded aboard - ouch!).

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Mind Elemental » Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:57 pm

Actually, if you try it, I think you'll find out that you can capture bunches of cities on the first turn.

For most planets, you can capture the Rebel Space Fleets, too, although that is a good way to put a damper in your economic prosperity.

Give it a try next time you play, try to capture as many cities on the first turn as you can and you'll find that several of the Houses can capture a significant portion of the cities on turn 1.
Well, I captured the Rebel space fleets as some of the Houses, and I had the whole planet under control by Turn 4 at latest, and Turn 2 with one House! Do you always get the whole planet under control on Turn 2, then? :D

One thing that really helps is to use your starting Cargo Plane and Engineer to build lots of roads connecting as many cities as you can. Continue on turn 2 and then build a city after you're happy with your road system.
I did that with the Cargo Plane/Engineer -- so you marched your units along the roads, too, then?

Also a Blademaster and fast unit (or fast and good unit (i.e. Cybercorp!)) loaded aboard your Assault Lander can capture lots of cities (and the surviving units)! That doesn't even include a Battlemastered Noble.

Just be careful with attacking cities that are too heavily defended or you may lose your Assault Lander (with the Blademaster loaded aboard - ouch!).
Why load the Cybercorps onto the assault lander? Unlike the Blademaster, he wouldn't give you a +20 bonus against routing... o.o

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Matt Caspermeyer » Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:36 pm

Well, I captured the Rebel space fleets as some of the Houses, and I had the whole planet under control by Turn 4 at latest, and Turn 2 with one House! Do you always get the whole planet under control on Turn 2, then?
It depends, but usually. In my other game with Li Halan I've kind of been playing cautiously (maybe too cautious) and didn't really capture that many cities on Kish (maybe 50%).

I did that with the Cargo Plane/Engineer -- so you marched your units along the roads, too, then?
Right, certain units can travel really far if you give them a road to drive on, so it really helps for those purposes.

Why load the Cybercorps onto the assault lander? Unlike the Blademaster, he wouldn't give you a +20 bonus against routing... o.o
Because you can use them to capture units and also to attack weakly defended cities without wasting the Assault Lander's movement and the Blademasters can do that, too. Basically, the Assault Lander only needs to attack more heavily defended stacks, Battlemasters and Cybercorp can attack the cities with just Militia and then you have more movement points for your Assault Landers to get around and capture more cities (and units) with your team.

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Mike » Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:50 am

Decados report.

Traits : Noblisse Oblige +4
Warrior Ethic +2
Enlightened nobility +2
Administration +3

Disdains Trade -2
Spendthrift -2
Insanity -2
Enemy in Church -1

Total +4 ( experience player )

First turn went as expected for the most part. The Decados air units cleaned up almost the whole planet and should finish in the next turn. However, I did lose a noble attacking a church, so I expect that to hurt in the long run.

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Mitchell » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:56 pm

4957, Kish:

Li Halan forces reclaimed several of the remaining cities on Kish, but a few Rebel strong points remain, and two strong, roving Rebel groups were located shortly after they’d retaken some of our hard-won territory from last year. Sadly, too, our vaunted Cybercorp unit was utterly destroyed in an ill-fated, late-year assault on a Rebel fortification that turned out to be significantly better defended than expected. Lord Boulvi himself led that assault and is reported to have been gravely injured. He was quickly spirited away by the waiting cargo plane, but no official word has been released concerning his condition.

Several rebellious cities on Earth were also brought under control, helping with the general stabilization of the economy overall. The pace of scientific research doubled as new surplus income was appropriated for the start-up of two recently liberated Labs, and diplomats issued trade offers to other Lords of the Known Worlds for our newly discovered technologies.

Mapping operations continued on Moonvick and Quentrand, and happily those world remain free from strife between Noble Houses as we all consolidate our resources to meet the significant Rebel threats there.

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Matt Caspermeyer » Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:15 pm

The year 4957 marks the year of the death of high Noble Halcyon with the elite Earth guard forces. A well-organized stack of 5 Rebel Partisans and 4 Reaper Field Tanks lead by a Commando obliterated Halcyon's forces.

The battle lasted months, but in the end, Halcyon could not hold out, yet he fought valiantly to the end.

All that is left of the Earth forces are a battered Naval fleet and a small contingent in the Starport.

It does not look good for the remnants of the Hazat Earth forces.

Elsewhere, in the galaxy, Aragon have largely been secured save the island Rebel stronghold. High Noble Embrielle is planning the island assault from the safety of her Fortification.

Schemadin plans are going well with the capture of the Arborium lead by high Noble Kaley Belle and the rescue of the 3rd Anti-Infantry Tank division by the Elite Assault Legion force.

Invasion of Osquen has begun with the use of the Aragon Elite forces lead by high Blademaster Khaden Phorge. Planetfall was successful and the initial Rebel forces quelled. However, this undertaking is far from over as the Rebel forces are regrouping with Partisan commanders and planning their assault.

Also, there is fear of an advanced Rebel fleet jumping into Osquen at any time, so the remaining space forces may need to jump out leaving Khaden to fend for himself.

From Byzantium II, Viridius Kohl sits in his Fort looking towards the upcoming elections...
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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Krzysiek » Thu Oct 09, 2003 10:25 pm

al-Malik report:
Traits:
battlemaster,
insanity,

4956/57 :Krzys of House al-Malik has agreed to secret treaty between House Hawkood accroding peace and future zoning of Araindor. All citizens are happy that fruitless war has been prevented. However, On Earth and Istakhr al-Malik forces encountered strong resistance from the rebels.

On Earth, not only captured starport, but also destroyed air transports had sealed off kniaz Milosz from the rest of the world. Not suprisilngly, intelligence reported that other Houses were also facing serious troubles, and rumors say of several assasinated nobles.

On Istakhr we have received some help from the Church as large fanatics garrison moved into the mainland elliminating several rebell armies. Unfortunately,our campaign there is still not running well. Rebells managed to recapture one of the continents exterminating whole expeditionary force. Lord Krzys had to cope with other issues at that time and could not lead the defense himself.

Small power armor brigade is venturing galaxy to
reach Araindor and help in gaining more territory from the rebells. There are strategic plans to launch an assault on the palace but firstly our chances have to be estimated.

Krzys

P.S I came upon strange behaviour of my submarine.
While scouting Quentrand and moving through the hex filled with some other ships, it boarded the transport. Than disobeyed the order to be unloaded. I hope it can be done in one of my ports....

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Matt Caspermeyer » Sat Oct 11, 2003 3:00 am

Krzys:

That behavior is normal - that is one of the "quirks" in Hyperion. When combining naval stacks with Water, Naval, and Crawler, you have to move Naval Movement-type transports onto Water or Crawler units that can be loaded not the other way around, otherwise they'll automatically board the transports (because that is a built-in EFS behavior for moving Wheel (Water in Hyperion) or Crawler units onto Naval unit transport stacks (because Wheel and Crawler were not designed to move on water, but were designed to be loaded aboard a Naval Transport)).

You can't unload them on the water because they're not water units (or not supposed to be anyway) so you'll have to unload them the normal way - in a city or bump into a land hex.

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Matt Caspermeyer » Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:52 pm

Year 4958 House Hazat:

On Earth, the remaining Hazat Naval Fleet is healing and being repaired in a captured Farm. They are the last remnants of the Elite Earthguard forces and so it is imperative that they hold on there.

On Aragon, Embrielle is still devising her strategy for capturing the island Rebel Stronghold.

On Schemadin, Kaley Belle has secured some outlying Farms to ensure that there is at least a surplus of Food there. However, her forces are spread too thin to leave any defenses there and so this cat-and-mouse game with the Rebels will continue. Near the Palace, the 3rd Anti-Infantry Tank Division has joined forces with the 1st Assault Legion force to seek out and destroy nearby Rebel Partisans.

On Osquen, Khaden Phorge captured a second Farm, which has been instrumental in ensuring sufficient Food is available there for the local populace. However, a Rebel Vlad Cruiser, Space Frigate, and 2 Assault Landers were sighted over Osquen apparently a hidden Rebel Starport is located in one of the Ruins on the planet. To protect the forces from Ranged Space combat, all vulnerable forces were moved to Aragon. Khaden Phorge remains to lead the continued conquest of the planet.

There is a strange quiet throughout the galaxy as no wars between opposing Houses have broken out yet...

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby mikegamer » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:35 am

Hawkwood posting. Sorry guys, Ihave forgotten which traits I took at the beginning.

On the first turn Hawkwood came to treaties with those houses where we share planets. On our home planet we took the Church and immediately skimmed the offerings. We also took almost half the cities.

On the second turn We lost our noble on earth and have also lost our spaceport. A few small naval forces and a farm are all that are left on earth. On Delphi whe have taken all the cities except for two labs. We will let the rebels feed those researchers for a while! We have offered our help on Isenas(sp?) in putting down the rebels.

Sorry it took so long to figgure out the posting on this site.

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Matt Caspermeyer » Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:53 pm

House Hazat Year 4960:

Game is back on after a few month's hiatus!

On Earth, forces are simply recovering hoping to hold off Rebel forces.

On Schemadin, Kaley Belle is struggling to maintain control as Rebel Partisans have been pressuring the Palace vicinity. Nonetheless, our forces are hanging on.

On Osquen, Khaden Phorge is cautiously moving his forces to break up the Rebel forces and capture any stragglers we can.

Last year, we lost our entire offensive fleet at Something and so we are trying to make due with our transports the best we can.

Elections are 5 years away...

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Re: Hyperion Beta II PBEM game

Postby Matt Caspermeyer » Sun May 09, 2004 1:36 am

Game on! Wyatt Baldwin has taken over playing House al-Malik

House Hazat Year 4961:

Not much happening for Hazat.

Scouting reports from Mythos indicate that the forces there are too formidable for our current forces and technology level, so we are bypassing the planet.

Our scout jumped into Voxer space and all seems clear, the rest of the fleet was sent in to follow. Hopefully the forces at Voxer will not be as tough as the Mythos forces.

Elsewhere in the galaxy, the Earth forces are still recovering (what is left of them).

On Osquen, Khaden Phorge is going on the offensive to break up and capture the Rebel forces there. Khaden Phorge single-handedly attacked 4 Rebel Soldier legions and captured 2 of them. He'll get a medal for his bravery.

On Schemadin, we have captured a Chemicals Plant and now we only need an Electronics Plant - this is critical to the construction of new troops to bolster our dwindling forces.

The elections are getting closer...

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