the second one (dead asteroid one) was close, hardly a horrible defeat for
how exactly do you define me shredding your infrastructure as a "close" battle?
I seem to have difficulty understanding where you're coming from, theres no way any sane person would consider that battle "close", your armada was shredded by mine at a decent click, thats after I shredded your infrastructure through the usage of a minor handful of ships.
Where I did, in fact, engage in several offensives
name one, please.
ok fine, so you sent a small strike group of frigs in past one planet, but those were torn to shreds very quickly. after that you were far to busy with your defense
There is, naturally, no certainty, but relieving the constant strategic pressure that asteroid was placing on me -- especially since it would have given me a route other than the sun to reach your territory, alleviating what amounted to a strategic choke point -- would have allowed me to increase my offensive "spending".
Ron I put *NOTHING* on that asteroid, there were a couple of missile defenses and thats it. you *could* have chosen to go through the asteroid to attack me, and similarly I'm sure you wouldnt have defended it sufficiently to prevent me from going through it in any case
and if it was so vital why didnt you take it back? its because I never gave you the chance to. that was a solid, complete defeat ron. and it was done in relatively quick time to, so stop BSing me.
now frankly you didnt do badly, you might have tripped up during the beginning but otherwise your choice of economy exceeds what I expect from a player, I in fact define you as good. what happened there was that I had a perfect opportunity and I siezed it.
