The wonderful Jagged Knife

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First off, great addition to actually have my worlds change sides to a new nation.
Now, I was just in a war with a custom race of Terrans. I had just recaptured all my Jagged Knife worlds, when they and two other races attacked me. I soon made peace with the two others, but I am now on the edge of the Terran homeworld. And I can see their worlds. There is the low-level extra world in their system that is still under the control of the Knife. Also, there is a very close level 18 planet that is also under them. Now, personally I'd want those back as soon as possible, and for now they are still under the Knife. I think they should have a greater need to take those worlds back.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Jagged Knife event is insane! I just had a game (gigantic 9 races), where Jagged Knife took 103 planets, 7 of which were mine. I had 19 at the time. I lost Man, research and eco capitols as well as 3 or four wonders   .
I tried to soldier on and actually took 3 or 4 back but I ended up starting a new game.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Wait, I don't have DA (yet). What is this Jagged Knife event?

Lets see if I can extrapolate: Jagged knife takes a bunch of worlds from each civ and makes a new civ, right? Sounds like a pain.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
yea, they are like the I-League, only more aggressive. Like thier name indicates, they are a violent group.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I too love this event, and would like to see the Jagged Knife be a bit more aggressive.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The event is pretty fun, but depending when it comes up it can sometimes be overly easy.

I had it pop up in late-game and despite them having a lot of really nice well-developed planets it took about ten turns before they built a single ship. The moment they appeared I put military production to 100% and had every planet start building troop transports and was able to conquer half their planets before they even had a single ship up.

When they did make ships, they were all troop transports (1hp cargo hulls) armed with weak defenses (something like 1 in all categories, but with 1hp why bother) and weak guns (about 9 attack when the weakest AI had 25 or so on smalls and the strongest had something like 100). I don't think there was a single planet in the game they could have taken with those ships, so they would have been a lot better off building defenders to keep their planets from being steamrolled.

Aside from that and the crash bug (when negotiating with them if the deal turns red the game crashes) I do like the concept of the event. It REALLY does mix things up (especially considering that when it came up I had 3 turns left for an influence victory ) and I have a feeling that if they had lasted five or ten more turns they would have became a massive threat.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Autosave function is your best friend, I just loaded last save when Jagged knife event happened. Now that was really stupid event, I do have other worries with DL.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This event would be alot more fun if the jagged knives actually did something after they taken all those planets. As it is now I will just reclaim my planets with little or no resistance.