Dear OGame players,
It's story time with some extra spice! 😎
HAWKS present to you not only a new TOP 1 ACS battle, but also a new TOP 1 overall battle of the universe!
For over 15 years, Hawks have always been a family and an army in this war game.
And every war is about destruction, spying, provoking and a multitude of tactics to take down the opponent.
That's also how best battle stories are made. And this one is no different.
And you know what else? A family always punishes those, who insult its members. Without remorse 😈
1) 😡 VIOLATION AND INSULT 😡
The SW4G alliance has insulted at least 3 Hawks on multiple occassions. Be it words or random reasonless plundering of few sattelites or stealing auctions - every reason is a good reason, right? 😉
However the tip on the iceberg was a situation, where one of their members came to me with an offer of a no-attack pact, while providing a reasoning (in the same message) that one of our family members is an idiot.
Oooof. What audacity! 🤬
Well, these guys had yet to learn that NOBODY f*cks with Hawks.
And so our goal became clear. Punish SW4G for their insolence.
And what better punishment there is than utterly destroying Charlemagne, the leader of the alliance? 😎
2) 🔎 PREPARATION AND TACTICS 🔎
From our monitoring we knew what Charlemagne's fleet is, when he is usually online and where he resides. That's basics, we monitor around 40 people.
But waiting for him to forget his fleet and then smash him randomly? That's too boring and wouldn't make for a glorious battle story! 😩
No, we wanted to lure him out and kill him when he suspects absolutely nothing. Something special. Make him suffer. A lot. Oh yes. 😈
Insane, you say? We've never had any sanity to begin with 👀
And that's where ONYX comes in!
Onyx was just about to finally (after a 3-day long cooldown) join Hawks as a new trialist after he persuaded me of his qualities in an interview... when suddenly a wild invite from SW4G appeared!
14th October
Onyx: one of our targets invited me to his alliance. Charlemagne.
Francesco: you can be our spy muhahaha
Onyx: exactly where my mind went lol
And so the general plan was set - after properly twisting Charle's mind, Onyx would require ACS defense from him, and Charle would get disintegrated 💥
For the next 2 weeks, Onyx was deploying his excellent FBI manipulation techniques inside SW4G and preparing Charlemagne like "hey, I pissed some guys off, be ready for ninja" and such 🧐
Dear Charlemagne, what happened to you was not a random sudden bailout.
Your death has been planned from the very beginning. You had no chance.
[On a serious note for a moment] To be clear, we play fair. We have never used any filthy stuff like online times of SW4G or their Discord comm to our advantage or to smash someone. Nor did or would Onyx give that out. Some boundaries must never be crossed.
3) 🧨 PLANNING OF THE D-DAY 🧨
We spent a lot of time planning, chatting, voice talking, calculating.... It might sound straightforward when you have a spy in opponent's alliance, but it really wasn't. There were so many questions!
- What if Charle sends only part of the ships?
- What if Charle doesn't fly to defense alone?
- How to get our fleets, Onyx and Charle close to each other?
- How to ensure Charle will be where we need him to be?
- What if someone wants to catch us on return?
- How to make sure Charle suspects nothing and isn't suspicious?
And the biggest challenge was in the fleet setup!
Onyx has a much smaller fleet than Charle...
So how do you send an ACS attack of 3 people with a totally overkill fleet to smash Onyx without Charle being suspicious of "WTF, why are they sending so many ships at you???" when asked for ACS defense? 🤣
The only thing we knew for sure was that the attack will happen around 22:00 server time, as that's when Charle always has activity on planets.
And also that Charle won't send his 16 RIPs to the defense due to their slow speed.
Luckily we are Hawks, so we managed to lay out a precise plan together, as a team, as you'll see just now.
4) 💥 EXECUTION OF EXECUTION 💥
On the D-Day, the following stuff happened in this precise order (we were on the voice chat for the main part):
- Onyx rellocated his planet with a moon to the neighbouring system next to where Charle's fleet is (yeah, rellocation was set up the day before as it takes time before it activates)
- Onyx's fleet flew to the moon after rellocation (that was the fastest option due to jumpgate cooldown)
- All Hawks jumped nearby through the gates (3 of us were attackers, but the rest was prepared for potential blind phalanx from the SW4G side) and transported deut there
- Kjub launched a solo attack at Onyx
- Onyx took a screenshot of that attack incl. exact fleet and posted it to SW4G Discord, alerting Charlemagne
- Kjub created ACS attack and invited me and Francesco, and we joined it
- Charlemagne, properly manipulated from the past 2 weeks, took the bait and flew to Onyx's defense (with exact ships that we calculated with in the simulator)
- Seconds before attack, Onyx lifted his fleet
- Hawks destroyed Charlemagne, creating a new TOP 1 battle of the universe
- Onyx's fleet landed back
- Onyx partially recycled debris, instabuilt more recyclers and recycled the rest
Everything worked out exactly as planned and Charlemagne had no idea what's coming for him.
Imagine seeing his face after the battle, when his fleet suddenly wasn't returning home. Gone. Empty Overview.
❗❗❗ However we would like to congratulate Charlemagne, as he jumped up in Military Points Lost to the first place!!! Huge achievement! ❗❗❗
5) 🦅 AFTERMATH 🦅
Onyx left SW4G Discord and the alliance, passed the Hawks trial, and we're happily waiting for him to finally and oficially join Hawks 😊
And I would like to once again thank all Hawks who were a part of this huge event that we have undergone as a family!
Everyone played a part in this and I am really proud!
Glory for the HAWKS!
🤣 RANDOM FUNNY BLOOPERS 🤣
- Just before we launched the attack, Onyx was like "guys, did I mention I have 14 000 light lasers on the moon?"
- Some guy on SW4G Discord posted a screenshot of debris after the battle, having no idea he was actually celebrating his leader's downfall. Brutal.
- Charle's first reaction after he realized he died - "WTF there were more ships!"
- Actually there was another guy from SW4G flying with Charle to defend Onyx. Unfortunately he sent the defense to the planet, not to the moon... Thanks, unknown bro!
- The original first D-Day had to postponed because Onyx's rellocation effort failed due to insufficient DM, resulting in a 24h cooldown before he could attempt another rellocation
- Before the battle happened, both Hawks and SW4G were prematurely celebrating New Top 1 ACS of the universe
- If Onyx didn't lift the fleet, Hawks would have crushed him along with Charle. But Charle would have taken all the debris and I wouldn't be all smile & fun in this board post!
- We were 15 minutes far from calling the attack off, when suddenly Charle responded to Onyx that he will send the defense. Yeah, luck is also part of the game. We didn't have deut for another round next day.
Onyx is one of these guys who cannot be taken down. Nobody is able to do that. Not even Istanbul with his huge ego 😉
On 30-10-2022 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker Kjub [HAWKS]
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Light Fighter 24.798
Heavy Fighter 5.146
Cruiser 2.823
Battleship 705
Battlecruiser 914
Bomber 726
Destroyer 629
Reaper 892
Pathfinder 2.615
Small Cargo 10.504
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Attacker S-hitman [HAWKS]
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Light Fighter 6.698
Heavy Fighter 5.827
Cruiser 3.330
Battleship 1.284
Battlecruiser 1.254
Reaper 737
Pathfinder 1.486
Small Cargo 17.500
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Attacker Francesco [HAWKS]
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Light Fighter 11.947
Heavy Fighter 8.274
Cruiser 2.394
Battleship 1.646
Battlecruiser 2.812
Bomber 917
Destroyer 643
Reaper 970
Pathfinder 2.726
Small Cargo 10.000
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Defender Onyx [Sw4g]
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Light Laser 13.386
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Defender Charlemagne [Sw4g]
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Light Fighter 6.981
Heavy Fighter 14.086
Cruiser 1.602
Battleship 1.395
Battlecruiser 2.809
Bomber 984
Destroyer 1.218
Reaper 925
Pathfinder 1.780
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After the battle ...
YOU HAVE FAILED, PLEASE DIE!
Attacker Kjub [HAWKS]
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Light Fighter 15.870 ( -8.928 )
Heavy Fighter 3.937 ( -1.209 )
Cruiser 2.528 ( -295 )
Battleship 682 ( -23 )
Battlecruiser 896 ( -18 )
Bomber 718 ( -8 )
Destroyer 629 ( -0 )
Reaper 892 ( -0 )
Pathfinder 2.297 ( -318 )
Small Cargo 6.771 ( -3.733 )
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Attacker S-hitman [HAWKS]
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Light Fighter 4.273 ( -2.425 )
Heavy Fighter 4.496 ( -1.331 )
Cruiser 2.984 ( -346 )
Battleship 1.238 ( -46 )
Battlecruiser 1.234 ( -20 )
Reaper 736 ( -1 )
Pathfinder 1.333 ( -153 )
Small Cargo 11.410 ( -6.090 )
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Attacker Francesco [HAWKS]
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Light Fighter 7.715 ( -4.232 )
Heavy Fighter 6.410 ( -1.864 )
Cruiser 2.173 ( -221 )
Battleship 1.597 ( -49 )
Battlecruiser 2.772 ( -40 )
Bomber 908 ( -9 )
Destroyer 643 ( -0 )
Reaper 970 ( -0 )
Pathfinder 2.431 ( -295 )
Small Cargo 6.452 ( -3.548 )
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Defender Onyx [Sw4g]
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Destroyed!
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Defender Charlemagne [Sw4g]
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Destroyed!
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The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
0 Metal, 0 Crystal and 0 Deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 224.008.000 units.
The defender lost a total of 1.008.469.000 units.
At these space coordinates now float 230.771.577 metal and 165.794.026 crystal.
The attacker captured a total of 0 units.
The chance for a moon to be created from the debris was 20%.
The attacker(s) captured the debris.
Summary of profit/losses:
Summary attackers(s)
Metal: 98.897.577
Crystal: 82.957.026
Deuterium: -9.297.000
The attacker(s) made a profit of 172.557.603 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -519.768.000
Crystal: -377.592.000
Deuterium: -111.109.000
The defender(s) lost a total of 1.008.469.000 units.