Let's Sperg Star Wars: Rebellion - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Death Star

[RP 520]

Ok, so I'm playing a cult-classic called Star Wars: Rebellion. It came out in 1998 and is kind of like a mix between 4X and Grand Strategy based during the original Star Wars trilogy. I'm playing as the Rebellion because who doesn't like fighting the good fight against an organization ruled by a hideous melted bag ogre and his burnt, darkened butt slut?

Anyways the game starts right after Episode IV, the Rebels have blown the Death Star and a bunch of Imperial planets are openly rebelling now. For added fun game mechanics it gives you a random set up each new game with a set of starting characters, units, planets, and facilities.

The galaxy:

(Red=Rebels, Green=Empire, Blue=Neutral, White=Unexplored outer rim planets, Star Marker=Capital/HQ)

A fun thing unique to the Rebels is you get a movable secret base HQ at game start which is placed on a random outer rim planet.

The not fun thing is this game decided to put the HQ in the same fucking sector as Yavin IV, where the battle for the first Death Star happened, which the Empire knows about, which means they're going to send some grey cheese wedges to Yavin soon and then find out about the "secret" HQ, wtg Rebel base planning committee.

So first thing's first, I'm grouping all my troops, important people, and ships to Kashyyk for a nerd con. Then we're going to freak the fuck out and run to a better location. Despite Hyperspace being faster than light, it still takes a good month and a half to little over two months for a ship to travel across the galaxy.

While the Rebellion is gathering its shit together from all across space, I'm using the available infrastructure from the rebelling planets to build some recon built Y-Wings to go explore those outer rim worlds for a nice new HQ location.

P.S. those inner rim worlds are royally fucked, sucks to be them.

 

[Polish Hot Dog (spicie)]

I will be watching this thread with great interest.

 

[A Useless Fish]

This is my favourite game of all time. I cannot count the number of times I have won, as either Rebels or Empire. I could offer strategic advice if you want.

 

[RP 520]

So in this update:

I got those Y-Wing anal probes done and am sending them out to explore the ass of the galaxy. Chuck Tingle should hire me, I can do buttsex jokes, haha.

Meanwhile the Empire is starting to 9/11 the core planets. They also visited Yavin, which means I need to ramp up my evac plans.

*Pictured, crosshairs on the planet that isn't going to be the new Rebel HQ*

So at this point (day 168.) All of the Rebellion is at the Rebel HQ, which is currently on Kashyyyk, which is also canonically the wookie homeworld and where the Star Wars Christmas Special took place. After the annual wookie furry orgy they all packed up in their Evac Fleet, aptly named "Evac Fleet", and headed off to the new planned spot for the Rebel HQ.

Bonus pic, right before the Evac Fleet left I sent out a diplomatic blitz on the newly discovered worlds that are inhabited by neutrals. The goal is to turn the planets to my cause and then build up some specialized planets in relative peace until the Empire discovers them.

 

[Some JERK]

I miss this game. The voice acting for the protocol droid was great.

 

[A Useless Fish]

Please, at least assure me that you are concentrating your manufacturing plants to a few systems. The more buildy things are on one world, the fast they can produce shit. See if you can find a world with 14 energy points on it. Colonise that fucker and fill it with as many shipyards as you can!

 

[RP 520]

I miss this game. The voice acting for the protocol droid was great.

I like how C3P0 says "Palpatine" in two differnt ways during his introduction speech.

Please, at least assure me that you are concentrating your manufacturing plants to a few systems. The more buildy things are on one world, the fast they can produce shit. See if you can find a world with 14 energy points on it. Colonise that fucker and fill it with as many shipyards as you can!

Yeah that's what I'm intending to do. In a sector I'm going to have a planet dedicated to construction, one for troops, and one for ship building. The rest of the planets will be mainly refining and mining.

So on that diplomacy mission I've started turning planets to my side in the Xappyh sector. One of the planets, Ambria, has been selected to be the dedicated building planet since it already has one construction yard. I have all my construction yards from other planets building and sending a construction yard fab to Ambria to speed things up. After the yards are built up I'm going to start fabricating troop facilities from Ambria and then eventually ship yards.

*lol told you they were going to settle a different world for the HQ*

Meanwhile the Rebellion army/fleet/whatever has settled down on Womrik in the Dufilvan(sic) sector. It's pretty isolated, no other inhabited planets that I can see, for now the Rebels will have to live in mud huts and hunt space kangaroos or something until some proper infrastructure arrives. While I wait I'm going to rename the Evac Fleet ships after lolcows or something.

The galaxy as of day 334, almost a standard Earth year into the campaign, if Earth was a planet in this galaxy...I guess a Coruscant year is similar? Anyways, the Empire continues to dox destroy and harass terrorize the core sectors, they've even been bold enough now to invade some of the inner worlds while the leaders of those planets were in their bathrooms taking a shit.

 

[RP 520]

*There, that's more like it*

Everything is unusually quiet, with very little in the way of Imperial terror attacks in the remaining core worlds nor blockades or invasions. So I'm continuing to do boring things like build up infrastructure and send out probes to explore more outer rim sectors. Infrastructure being having a series of three planets per sector dedicated entirely to construction, shipbuilding, and troop training. All other planets will be mining and refinery worlds.

To help speed up acquiring uninhabited planets in sectors I've newly acquired I've built a medium transport, the Phillip Delici which will ferry troops locally to uninhabited planets, much like how Phil ferry's pointless trash (himself) from Portland to Oakland on a monthly basis.

I sent a bunch of probes to a northern sector called Glythe with plans to convince inhabited planets to join me and colonize the uninhabited ones.

Luke gets a story event and fucks off to Agrabah to hang out with retired rapper J Master Yo-Dah. They do psychedelic shrooms and chill.

Due to nothing worthwhile happening in the next few months young Harrison Ford gets bored and massacres a village. The frame freezes on Ford shrugging and credits roll to a laugh track and some 80's sitcom music.

 

[A Useless Fish]

You should take the fight to the Empire. Send a shipto fly around the core systems they own as a scout. interdictors have not been researched yet, so you don't have to worry about losing any big ships. Look for worlds without planetary shields, and whose politics are leaning towards the Alliance. If you find one, send ships there under somebody like Solo, ideally at this stage Dreadnaughts or alot of corvettes if you don't have the shipyards yet to build a few of those bigger ships. Go there, sweep aside whatever is in orbit, and then nuke the fuck out of any Imperial garrison forces on the ground. Not only will you likely turn the world to your side, or at the very least turn them neutral, you will drop Imperial support across whatever sector you're doing this shit in. People ain't gonna follow Palpatine if you can just roll in and fuck up their shit whenever you want.

 

[RP 520]

You should take the fight to the Empire. Send a shipto fly around the core systems they own as a scout. interdictors have not been researched yet, so you don't have to worry about losing any big ships. Look for worlds without planetary shields, and whose politics are leaning towards the Alliance. If you find one, send ships there under somebody like Solo, ideally at this stage Dreadnaughts or alot of corvettes if you don't have the shipyards yet to build a few of those bigger ships. Go there, sweep aside whatever is in orbit, and then nuke the fuck out of any Imperial garrison forces on the ground. Not only will you likely turn the world to your side, or at the very least turn them neutral, you will drop Imperial support across whatever sector you're doing this shit in. People ain't gonna follow Palpatine if you can just roll in and fuck up their shit whenever you want.

I've been intentionally abandoning the core systems because I want some good battles for this play though. I did what you suggested on a past game and it just got too easy for me. I'm wanting hijinks, embarrassing defeats, and memes to happen. That and I want to see what happens if you leave the AI alone. It makes for a fun let's sperg.

Big update day.

The galaxy, day 600:

I've got Xhappyh sector mostly developed at this point, as is the Glythe sector. I continue to explore the outer rim and formulate something resembling a plan on how to go forward, mainly build more shit.



Oh and a Star Destroyer showed up at Womrik but then it ran because it was a pussy.

By day 693 I have my first fleet built (or second counting the Evac Fleet). I continue to explore and everything is going peachy until:

Fuck. So I've got what looks like a rape fleet on its way to Womrik, I fled that place faster than Chris when confronted with reality. After the HQ panic fled to Zebitrope IV I then non-panic fled it to a neighboring sector, Kanchen and the planet, Smarteel.

So yeah, the rape fleet took the planet, luckily nothing important was on the planet. Though it did just disappear all those base constructions that were en-route to the planet. Fucky you Empire!

 

[A Useless Fish]

I've been intentionally abandoning the core systems because I want some good battles for this play though. I did what you suggested on a past game and it just got too easy for me. I'm wanting hijinks, embarrassing defeats, and memes to happen. That and I want to see what happens if you leave the AI alone. It makes for a fun let's sperg.

Ah, fair enough! I'll just sit back and enjoy watching the galaxy burn, then! :3

 

[Zaryiu]

Rebel Scum! sigh no one on forums ever pick the Empire

 

[RP 520]

So where we left off last Womrik got Empire'd. So now we need to do things about that, but first:

The Phil transport has been completed and is colonizing the uninhabited planets now.

Anyways onto the Womrik problem. I decided to spam spies at the planet to see what they're up to. Hopefully I can cobble something together and stage an invasion or sabotage something. (for some reason I never took a screenshot of the results of the spy mission. Basically there was two minor characters on the planet and two Dark Trooper squads and a Imperial droid squad)

In the meantime I'm building another transport to speed up colonization in the sectors, this one comes with a state of the art vodka bottle launcher.

I noticed the Imperial fleet stationed around Womrik got bored or something and decided to leave for some reason. I'm taking the opportunity to send my Xappy Happy fleet to blockade Womrik and do something, I guess.

 

[A Useless Fish]

Nuke everything! Remove Imp!

 

[TiggerNits]

My best memory of rebellion was getting some mod on it and building 10 death stars and loading them full of Defenders while raping the rebellion

 

[RP 520]

Took a break due to busy with a side of playing other games so I won't burn out with this one.

Anyways...

Xappy Happy fleet arrives at Womrik and does the blockade thing. I proceed to lightly bombard them which kills off most of the stationed garrison there (spoilers: it wasn't much) and causes the planet to immediately go into a rebellion.

Meanwhile I'm beginning to build some proper fleets, now that I have a decent economy and shipyard.