In my current game I am the Terrens.
Large Galaxy
Normal Difficulty
Playing against 7 others I think.
I am of good alignment.
Ok I started in the middle of the galaxy, which at the start I didn’t like, but I went ahead and played it. I bought colony ships each turn till I ran out of money, and was able to get a strong foothold on the center and upper left of the galaxy. For many years I have been fighting the Drengins, and have beat them down and into the corner. I have actually traded peace with them for planets, and I love to see them grovel. I am stretch thin at this point, we are currently at peace so I can retool my army. They have recently designed a new ship to counter mine that specific targets there weakness, and has been dominating them for a long time.
At this point a couple of the main races have been taken out, currently there is me (blue), Drengins(red), The other humanoids (light blue), Yellow, grey and green. Basically my civ and light blue have probably 70% of everything, maybe a little less. I am #1 in economy, population and influence, they are 2nd in all those and they are #1 in military where I am #2. We are both good. However, all the other races love me, and they are in the middle.
How should I approach this? I will of course finish off the drengins, given time. But light blue is slowly working on grey, yellow and green, not always warring with them, but they are taking over territories. Since we are both good, will we eventually duke it out? I have been planting several influence bases in there territory over the last couple years, should I back off if they get mad?
Here are the options as I see them (Finishing off the drengins is obvious):
#1- Focus on improving relations with light blue, and try to ally with them, while at the same time funding there enemies in there war campaign.
#2- While finishing off the drengins, start developing fighters to counter light blue strengths, and amass them close by powerful planets. As soon as I finish off the drengins, start focusing on light blue, and request all the civs that are close to me to attack them as well.
My current fear is that by the time I finish off the drengins, light blue could take out grey, green, yellow and have just too much power.
Thoughts?
