I just finished a long drawn out painful game with my friend. He was the rebs i the imps on a large map, HQ victory. The game itself was pretty close all the way through. Heavy sabotage on both sides along with decent starting fleets (he got escort carriers. either 1 or 2) ensured that no one would win quickly. Eventually though after a few hundred days it just turned into an indiscriminate General Bombardment fest with each side assaulting, scrapping whatever was there, withdrawing the troops and then burning the planet to a crisp (him with a bunch of escort carriers+fighters, me with a swarm of Lancers/VSDs). It all started when he managed to get a successful revolt going in the Farfin sector (i had no generals or troop facilities in the area), giving him all of the planets in the sector by turn 50. I responded by assembling enough firepower to general bombard the whole place to dust and then proceeded to burn each world until there wasnt a thing left. He responded by sending his fleet to the corellian sector and doing the same thing... To make a long story short, by the end of the game SEVEN inhabited sectors were completely obliterated along with a few random planets and most of the Sesswenna sector (except Coruscant, which was solid shields, a troop facility, a shipyard, a construction yard with a billion army regiments + general). I had also obliterated most of the uninhabited outer rim to prevent him from migrating out, so essentially all that was left in the end were 4-5 mostly intact, fiercely defended sectors. The only reason the carnage stopped is because I managed to find where he was relocating his capital via a lucky espionage mission (most just gave me info on the numerous burnt out rebel rocks ) and dropped my fleet on it as it arrived ending the game. Needless to say, we have agreed that General Bombardment is now illegal. Only scrap+withdraw is allowed. Now I was considering some more online play and was just wondering if anyone else has made a "no razing the galaxy" rule cause I dont really want to play that kind of game again. I dont mind having maintenance shortages as that is expected, but it is nice to actually be able to build some mines/refineries and fix the problem
