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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4621208" data-attributes="member: 19675">There were several feints along the borders to occupy the Klingons, who responded to the incursions with overwhelming force.  Incredibly overwhelming, since the invading fleets were missing certain ships, and quickly ran away in seeming defeat.  The Klingons didn't press the issue by following into Hydran space- they thought the missing ships were waiting for them, and the retreating invaders were drawing them into a trap.The missing ships that normally would have been with the invading forces joined up with with a HUGE Hydran invasion fleet.By the time they realized what had happened, the Hydran-Tholian alliance had cut off a few hexes of the Klingon Empire.Mop-up of the forces trapped behind the Alliance fleet was swift.The loss of resources wasn't crippling, in and of itself, but it significantly increased the Alliance's production...and prompted the Feds to join the party.We never got to finish the campaign- the F&E board was used to depict force deployment and wins & losses, but we played the battles out in SFB.  That takes time.  We started after coming home from college, and by the time we had to return to school, nothing had been truly decided.On our side of the map, the Alliance was holding strong, but couldn't make any advances.  OTOH, the Feds and Klingons were going at it hammer and tongs, with the Klingons taking the brunt of the losses.  (Not only did the Klingons lose territory, resources, ships and face to the Alliance, the Alliance was interdicting trade between the Klingons and the Romulans.)The Tholian player and I had been talking about how to produce our first joint-tech warships...think about that.  But due to the forces of the RW intruding, we were never again able to assemble the full group to play things out.First, the Hydrans had to cover the bulk of the distance.Second, we agreed to split the resources (natural and manufactured) from the captured territory 60H/40T...but the Tholians got to annex the captured space fully under Tholian rule.</blockquote>

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