SPACE EMPIRES: 4X - Solo Alien Empires Playthrough - Episode 14

Attack on Terra itself. Mines who knew...
Space Empires by GMT games. I am playing the solo Alien Empires on hard level using the basic and advanced rules in just the core game. This game was designed by Jim Krohn, and was originally released in 2011.
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Space Empires is a game in the finest tradition of 4X space games - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. Each player builds up a space empire and uses it to conquer the other players. Exploration on the mounted map is simple for players (and dangerous for their ships), revealing different space terrain that affects movement and combat.
Space Empires was developed to keep a rich theme without overcomplicated rules. The game includes carriers and fighters, mines, cloaking, a very large technology tree, fifteen ship classes, merchant shipping, colonization, mining, terraforming, bases, shipyards, black holes, warp points, and non-player aliens. Yet the rules are short and intuitive: The basic rules are 8 pages long and increase to 11 pages in length when the advanced rules are included.

[@richardkirby5888]

That was a very nasty surprise with the mines. Now you know about them, and given is it 80 defence for the AP?, that is potentially 16 mines but you won't know until you enter their system! Do you upgrade your SW tech then build enough SW to cope with 16 mines - and then find that there are no mines, but loads of bases instead? Or build a huge fleet and risk it!
Unless you call it, your best option might be to send a scout on a suicide mission to investigate their system so you know what you are up against.

[@aaronsibley39]

Hi there. Yes that was a nasty surprise. Thanks for watching and I hope you have enjoyed the series, mistakes and all.