Oceans 11
From Astro Wars
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Foundation
OXI was founded in beta 10 by some former TGE (The Galactic Empire) members: SuperHoschie[1] Piodiwan[2] Mannix[3] and Amaze[4] our friend KingKitega[5] spawned up somewhere else with little time to play and couldn't join us for that edition.
Purpose
The intention of OXI was to have a small team consisting of reliable players, no egoists and a good portion of humour.
Development
Beta 10
Our memberlist in Beta 10 [6]
We started to recruit some local members who looked experienced and with some nice feasible races. One of them was bigvinz[7] who managed one round later to be #1 just 10 seconds before the end of gold 1. Beta 10 was really funny, because we shared systems with NIAI and they broke the NAP contract during the beta and all our activities were focused on defense. The public discussions in the NIAI board can be found here: [8] Still funny to read :-) In the end we had a lot of experience of how to defend and were the alliance with the highest average playerlevel. A new friendship with TNR started in the end of beta10, because they helped us to defend against the much bigger alliance of FJLM and NIAI.
Gold Edition 1
Since some players wanted to play with their former alliances or quit playing at all, we decided to merge with TNR since they looked pretty well organized and with the right point of view to the game. The merger was a real success since we managed to win gold edition 1 with a head to head race with bigvinz of TZAR
Gold Edition 2
Gold Edition 3
In edition 2 and 3 we still played together with TNR but the core OXI team more and more disliked the way TNR was running. We all had some kind of leadership roles within TNR but the coherence didn't fit anymore.
Gold Edition 4
Our memberlist in Gold Edition 4 [9] The core OXI people of beta 10 plus some other great players of TGE and TNR decided to reactivate Ocean's 11. Again, a small but good organized team was the purpose. Not too many NAPs but nice fights and lots of fun was the aim, which could be achieved. KingKitega managed to be one of the fastest guy in the universe and SuperHoschie almost was in the top 50. A game between Ragna and strider prevent him from that [10]
Gold Edition 5
The Team Our Team [11] Gold 5 was a nice and exciting round for Ocean's 11. Some former members of AssortmentOfRemarkab [ARC]: dasteele and Confoundid joined the team. From the beginning on they gave good support and integration was no problem. Nek, a former TZAR, NEMO and Mofo player, and solan, who played for LGT beforedecided to be members of OXI as well, since they popped up in our territory. Vandolph, an old friend of TNR days could be persuaded in interbeta phase to be a strong part of OXI in GE5.
The Round After evaluating our territory and our neighbours we decided pretty fast to have a fight with the WAR alliance. Since they were about 35 players and OXI consisted of only 14 members, negociations with other alliances for at least napping them started right away. The response of KAB, VOiX, CRS and Mill was pretty good and at least KAB, CRS and MIll agreed to combined assaults. Unfortunately KAB and Mill started to fight with CRS and other alliances, but this is another story. Fact was, that only a small part of KAB was able to help us against WAR. From an outnumbering situation of about 50 united players against 35 WAR fighters the opposite happened. 14 OXI and a handful KABs ( and later some GBB players) faced the whole WAR alliance having fighter and trader-fighter races across the board. Initial successes with a strategy of offence gave way to a more and more defensive stance. Planets became rare and OXI couldn't manage to occupie any more WAR planets, but to take refuge in the outer space to keep the production going. Holiday time was another factor which reduced the active OXI members to 5 at some point, which didn't help , too ( but hey, it's just a game )
This outer-rim maneuver allowed us to collect lots of PPs to build SBs where there was a chance to defend the big fleets of WAR. Even if WAR took way more planets from OXI as OXI did from WAR, the overall battle result was quite good:
View of WAR Battles: 480 Battles won: 255 (53%) CV Killed: 330906 CV Lost: 504974
View of OXI Battles: 480 Battles won: 225 (47%) CV Killed: 504974 CV Lost: 330906
since we managed to kill almost twice as much as WAR did.
After all a nice but heavy round with no bad words to or from WAR. Thanks to WAR again at this point.
Gold Edition 6
Our Team [12]. OXI had a nice round in GE6. In the interbeta phase we had some negociations with BBA since some of us met them at AW RL Meeting. We decided to do login at the same time. BBA had some old issues going on with BLA alliance and we gave our word to help them hitting them hard. It turned out, that OXI did all the work and they found themselves in the situation to face some friends of BLA (whose asses really got kicked ;-) ) in form of the CPO alliance. They turned to be a really good opponent and we had some nice battles the entire round.
CPO vs. OXI View of OXI Battles: 292 Battles won: 120 (41%) CV Killed: 302151 CV Lost: 149598 Attacks: 129 Attacks won: 72 (56%) Defends: 163 Defends won: 48 (29%)
View of CPO Battles: 292 Battles won: 172 (59%) CV Killed: 149598 CV Lost: 302151 Attacks: 163 Attacks won: 115 (71%) Defends: 129 Defends won: 57 (44%)
BLA vs. OXI
View of OXI
Battles: 380 Battles won: 191 (50%)
CV Killed: 212611 CV Lost: 52396
Attacks: 238 Attacks won: 112 (47%)
Defends: 142 Defends won: 79 (56%)
View of BLA Battles: 380 Battles won: 189 (50%) CV Killed: 52396 CV Lost: 212611 Attacks: 142 Attacks won: 63 (44%) Defends: 238 Defends won: 126 (53%)
Gold Edition 7
Our Team: [13] GE 7 just started and some BBA members joined us. We are in a really crowded area and diplomacy isn't easy at at all. We are happy that our friend AllmightyWill joined again in this round. Welcome back.
