Woah! Strange Random Event

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In my current game since the Torians had a military equal to my own and a huge domain I decided it was safer to assimilate them that fight a costly war with them. It came down to me having almost half the map and the other races paying me tributes (always a good sign that they won't attack me) and the Torians being smothered to death in my influence.

Then I got the random event that the Torian Leader had been killed and they blamed me and the new leader delared war on me. No problem....every planet of mine had at least 1 Acorn Fighter in orbit and near the 3 remaining Torian planets I had fleets of Nut Busters, Nut Crackers, Nut Crushers and the dreaded Nut Pulverizer Battleships. (yes I play as a Squirrel. lol)

So I thought "hah" that will just make your death more swift. Then I see the mini map and their were 100-200 ships spread all over the entire galaxy. I think it had said something about pirates or privateers or something. I was worried that they could kill all my trade routes and wipe out all my planets defensive ships all at the same time and maybe even wear down my war fleet.

Has anyone ever encountered this as well? What can they do? I paid 15,000 bc to end the war and then all the tiny ships flew off the side of the map like going down a drain over many turns.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Lol, I like the part with the Squirrels, hhehe. But more to the point those little sniper ships that appeared (called Vengeance) are harmless really, they only have to mass driver attack, and you could have 'pulverised' them quite easily, I think.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah. It's a hoot to squish all those ships.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What's annoying about it is that it tends to do that between me and the race with the closest relations in the game, the one I'm building battle fleets for so they can fight off a Drengin invasion. Why not do that with the evil races that I don't mind whacking? Also, it spawns those stupid little mass driver fighters right on top of every starbase I haven't gotten round to arming yet.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had the same random event late in game I was almost winning, except that instead of a few hundred ships, the Arceans got thousands of defenders:



It wasn't much of a windfall for them-- I sued for peace and the maintenance cost on the new fleet bankrupted them. Within a dozen turns they were at -50000BC and had scrapped all the ships.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Wow justkevin!!! that is one screenshot. I haven't run across that one yet, but I'll try my hardest.... anyway defenders shouldn't hurt you too badly late-game, even thousands of them bunched into 15+ fleets... couple of battleships should do quite nicely.

PS. I said it before but I like the screenshot!!
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That would be an even worse screenshot from hell if you were in a game with high logistics points.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If you're a high-infrastructure (ie, starbases) player like me, tthe Vengeances from that event are evil. They blow up all your stuff before you have a chance to react. I usually don't build defenses on my economic bases.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had this event happen twice to me while trying for my first political victory in a game where I forgot to turn tech trading back on. luckily spin control center had them willing to pay me to end the war soon after it started. I thought at the time that it was actually another race paying them off to go to war with me or something, but they said they made it more clear in 1.1 when this was the case. I haven't received this yet in 1.1 so I don't know if it falls under that category or not. Perhaps I was just really unlucky that game...

Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had a wierd random event yesterday. the race i was about to totally crush after a long war sudently found a hold crapload of precurser rangers. one plannet of there had over 500 ships surounding it each in fleets of 10. I wiped them out pretty easily but it was anoying added another two hours to my game. just cos i had to fight so many battles.