The Great Crusade.

My Ultracorps game is rolling along. I've finally gotten several big fleets (and a bunch of little ones) formed and launched an invasion of Ckat's space. So far, so good. I'm about to attack the single strongest world in the game (defending firepower is 1,253 - which is huge) with four fleets that will total about 1500FP.

Interestingly Ckat hasn't logged on for about five turns. His inattention is my advantage. Once I noticed his absence, I moved everything. I'm not going to miss the chance to grab multiple worlds while he's not looking!

Here's the almost current map. (I captured one world after I screen-capped this.) I'm white, Ckat is magenta, and Saxondog is green. In the lower right, you can just see a world with "Ter" above the number 177. That's my home world, Terrapin Station. I now hold 5 of the 6 home worlds in the game.

( Gridlore uber alles! )

While I'm focused on eliminating Ckat, I'm putting together a fleet to take out Saxondog's main bastion at Moab (upper right corner.) This is going to be heavy on units that cause massive population damage, so that even if the initial attack fails, he won't be able to quickly rebuild.

It's interesting. I'm now facing the same problems that the Red Army had. Massive superiority in terms of firepower and troop strength, but travel time to the front is getting longer and longer.

Movie image meme

Think of your favorite underrated film, type the name into Google and do an image search. Find the best pic and then post it in your journal, but don't say what the name of the movie is! Once you post the picture, it's up to your friends to figure out what the movie is from the pic you posted. No cheating by looking at the image filename! Responses are screened so that everyone can play. :)

( Get yer popcorn ready! )

Yogi was right.

Down 5-4 in the bottom of the ninth, my Giants rally with a homerun from Lance Niekro to tie the game and great base running from Pedro Feliz after Rangy Winn's bloop single with one out to secure the win.

This is whay I love baseball. Everything can change with one pitch. Niekro's homerun came with two strikes.

San Francisco Giants: 6
Atlanta Braves: 5

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Giants win the four-game series 3-1. Next up, Houston.