Schucks. Hope you learned a lesson Good luck.

I think you should always clear enemy attackers regardless of the situation given shared portals, and even tickers. I like to clear up to 5-6 ticks from HS camaar speed given the opportunity and funding. You should never ever let attackers portal up with you in the same systems, unless NAP'd of course.

There is an advantage to the attackers because of their race bonus Thus it's usually better off being the attacker than the defender. Especially when fleets are similar!

Ail, if it makes you any happier i can tell you that atleast you didnt lose youre entier fleet, cuz i overjumped you to clear you, and it was only to push back some agressive planets you had on my fam, not hurting you. so atleast you got to keep the fleet.

What TCO said, but we decieded not to hit you in what could / would be your core

> TCO wrote:

> sorry dude, it wasnt planned to hit you as hard, but you WERE in a lot of our systems, with portals, and had just jumped a shitload of figs and droids (we had the infil) so there was only one thing we could do : clear you. We actually aimed at destroying that fleet and just taking the shares, but since runs didnt have much effect (we thought you had hidden most of your fleet actually) we HAD to push you back to at least 2-ticks ... and that were, regrettably, a lot of planets. Oh, and tell your retakers that if thier trannies get shot down by groundfire, they should try some bombers for a change, otherwise it dont really help

So I actually was lucky for having made that mistake as it hid my fleed?
Well, this only leaves the mistake of not having gone for you directly after the jump.

At least I learned something there.

*nod*
its not the big strategies or the great names that win a round (they help but thats it), its activity and the ability to minimize mistakes and accidents combined with a knack for dealing with those in the most efficient way when they do happen - coz they are bound to

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