Ever since the mechanics overhaul, I’ve been wanting to test a moon destruction (MD) with the new turtle speed to see if it’s still viable.
Turns out it is… but mostly against people who don’t use a safe system and enjoy healthy sleep schedules.
So basically, not us.
I teamed up with Nekkar, since the player who inherited the account a few weeks ago is none other than ONLiNe - my in-system buddy since day one.
Liawi turned out to be the perfect test subject. He only had one moon and, for some mysterious reason, never got another.
First, the original Nekkar dropped a colony into his system and tried to catch him the traditional way.
Then the new Nekkar (ONLiNe) gave it a few attempts as well.
I also joined the club and tried from the next system - also no luck.
Somehow, Liawi kept slipping away.
So we decided to do something radical: observe.
That’s when we discovered his biggest weakness - a full 9 hours of sleep. Honestly, respect! Couldn’t be me.
That gave us our window - time for an MD.
Since Nekkar only had 36 RIPs (budget MD edition), I moved into system with a mobile as soon as Liawi logged off, deployed my RIPs, and launched a 5.5h MD. The timing would land close to his wake-up, but since he liked his ~10h fleet returns, everything lined up nicely.
There was a bit of defense on the moon, so we politely removed it with IPMs to make sure Nekkar’s 6 waves of 6 RIPs could do their thing without tripping over plasmas.
In the end, we got quite lucky - Nekkar popped the moon while losing only 6 RIPs.
At that point, we still had nearly 3 hours before the fleet landed.
To stay under the radar, I generously gifted Liawi a brand new moon (8944 fields!) to cover the destruction.
We then launched fleets and recyclers at +0s, leaving Trico, the well-known hit stealer, absolutely no chance this time.
Not that it mattered… he was asleep too.
Liawi logged in about an hour before impact, built a few rocket launchers… and logged off again.
He didn’t even bother saving his expo fleets that arrived before the main fleet.
So I guess this might be the last we see of him. A shame, really, the uni is already dying faster than RIPs to plasmas.
Big thanks to Nekkar for the teamwork, and to Og/DarkGhost, Fearm3, and Lanz for the moonshots!
I don’t think I’ve ever had three people shooting at me at the same time - 10/10 would recommend. 🙂
This is the second ACS hit on Liawi, and it will push our previous one with Og (from almost two months ago) out of the Top 10 ACS. I guess it’s only fair.
On 08-04-2026 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker Captain Hammer [Gangstas]
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Small Cargo 100.000
Large Cargo 1
Light Fighter 1.591.748
Heavy Fighter 70.438
Cruiser 34.907
Battleship 61.770
Espionage Probe 84.431
Bomber 30
Deathstar 1
Battlecruiser 33.304
Pathfinder 28.174
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Attacker Governor Nekkar
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Small Cargo 53.000
Large Cargo 30.951
Light Fighter 354.983
Heavy Fighter 24.992
Cruiser 17.001
Battleship 5.418
Bomber 9.378
Destroyer 2.777
Deathstar 16
Battlecruiser 125.581
Reaper 2.541
Pathfinder 11.480
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Defender Liawi [DIR]
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Small Cargo 86.359
Large Cargo 39.168
Light Fighter 113.110
Heavy Fighter 29.039
Cruiser 11.032
Battleship 4.303
Recycler 928
Espionage Probe 118.084
Bomber 4.356
Solar Satellite 600
Destroyer 2.628
Deathstar 67
Battlecruiser 10.032
Reaper 2.425
Pathfinder 13.261
Rocket Launcher 152.959
Light Laser 77.756
Heavy Laser 13.971
Gauss Cannon 163
Ion Cannon 6.782
Plasma Turret 2.224
Small Shield Dome 1
Large Shield Dome 1
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After the battle ...
Attacker Captain Hammer [Gangstas]
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Small Cargo 92.054 ( -7.946 )
Large Cargo 1 ( -0 )
Light Fighter 1.466.006 ( -125.742 )
Heavy Fighter 67.403 ( -3.035 )
Cruiser 34.208 ( -699 )
Battleship 60.981 ( -789 )
Espionage Probe 67.882 ( -16.549 )
Bomber 30 ( -0 )
Deathstar 1 ( -0 )
Battlecruiser 32.877 ( -427 )
Pathfinder 27.579 ( -595 )
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Attacker Governor Nekkar
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Small Cargo 48.666 ( -4.334 )
Large Cargo 29.918 ( -1.033 )
Light Fighter 326.561 ( -28.422 )
Heavy Fighter 23.940 ( -1.052 )
Cruiser 16.675 ( -326 )
Battleship 5.354 ( -64 )
Bomber 9.282 ( -96 )
Destroyer 2.742 ( -35 )
Deathstar 16 ( -0 )
Battlecruiser 124.094 ( -1.487 )
Reaper 2.523 ( -18 )
Pathfinder 11.237 ( -243 )
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Defender Liawi [DIR]
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Destroyed!
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The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
517.564.506 metal, 161.619.604 crystal and 100.275.464 deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 1.021.059.000 units.
The defender lost a total of 6.237.754.000 units.
At these space coordinates now float 976.817.359 metal, 729.450.967 crystal and 159.236.080 deuterium.
The attacker captured a total of 779.459.574 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: 845.170.865
Crystal: 559.011.571
Deuterium: 219.722.544
The attacker(s) made a profit of 1.623.904.980 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -2.836.847.165
Crystal: -1.746.024.971
Deuterium: -480.485.444
The defender(s) lost a total of 5.063.357.580 units.
gratz
