Anon10/21/25, 04:53No.2179461
>behind in tech and population
>Yang declares war on me
>manage to hold him off with navy and some needlejets parked in a strategically placed airbase I built on an islet next to his continent
>start terraforming a bunch of emtpy space in advance while I build a batch of colony pods to pop boom and double my empire
>finally get everything set up around my new bases and start pop booming
>get all of them to population 7
>power graph spikes above everyone else's (screenshot was taken at this point)
>switch back to Planned + Knowledge, get shard weapons tech while Yang still has chaos
>decide to take advantage of my now doubled industrial capacity and tech lead over Yang
>build a few dozen shard amphibious invaders and shard battery artillery
>invade and easily crush units, taking over 3 of his bases including one with The Virtual World that he conquered from Zakharov
>he starts building dozens of probe teams
>I build a few of my own quickly in each of the conquered bases
>he sends waves of them at each of the bases and despite perimeter defense + sensor arrays + higher morale, my probe units start dropping like flies
>he uses mind control to retake all bases AND MY UNITS INSIDE THEM
>taunts me
>is now building shard units of his own
>my power graph nosedivesI'm seriously considering ragequitting (again) right now bros, I want to cry
