Generally speaking, if you're closer to an outpost it's yours. There are exceptions to this though. If a neighbor has a lot more troops in the area you may need to yield. I always try to negotiate for outposts as to not waste drillers in the beginning.

I'd recommend to not mine day 1, and to not fight anyone for the first couple days. Early mines make you weaker, make you a target, and also don't put out a lot of neptunium.

Some interesting stuff has happened. Light blue has attacked dark blue with 60 subs and a general and dark blue has no drillers at his queens outpost. He does have an opportunity for sabatours, double agent, or a martyr but he has hired a thief instead. Also I have a mine. This is day 3. Also I figured out what cyan is doing. He is just charging up his shields and moving around his investigative officer.

I finally figured out what what cyan is up to. He is drilling a second mine. He has 4 diffrent subs with 20 drillers each heading to a single outpost. I might want to take advantage of this. He will be 100 drillers down and this might be a good time to launch an attack. Any thoughts on this plan? Also dark blue is 6 hours away from his queens capture. I am not sure why he didn't get the double agent. Also orange has not logged on for 37 hours. He may be auto resigned soon. With this in mind we may have 2 players eliminated and 1 player with a major target on his back. This is the current situation.

So there are some important happening in the game. Both dark blue and orang have been eliminated. Orang just didn't log on enough and blue's queen was captured by light blue. Now to my current moment. Red, my ally, had the same idea to attack cyan. So I launched an attack. Cyan has not taken military action but instead diplomatic. He asked my why and I said my ally "forced" me to attack and I said I would withdraw afterwards. I am hopeing to gain him as any ally. Any thoughts?

My plan to get cyan allied worked. Me and him are going to work together to take out brown while we try to stop purple from winning. I took one of browns factories with a thief and a lot of drillers. Also magic mark was eliminated by queen capture. He is not on my radar so I do not know what happened. Any thoughts?

Here are the latest events from my game. So I am getting another mine so I am moving around some troops. Also I have an interesting idea. I have a navigator, pirate, and a double agent. I am thinking that this may be a very good replacement if you do not have an assasin. If I had enough drillers I would either scare out the queen and pounce or he loses the outpost. Either way my opponent loses. What are your thoughts on this tactic of replacing the assasin. I could se combos with war general or thief or engineers. Also I think brown will be autoresigned in 4 hours. Me and my allies will start trying to get purple or light blue out. I have a plan to stop blues only mine from operation. I am taking an old outpost to put me in range of blues mine. If he has a lot of drillers I can use a martyr or if is undefended I will just move in and take it. Any thoughts on the game so far?

Purple is now poised to win. He took Browns dormant mine and is now producing 42 neptunium a day. He will win in 2.4 days. Me, cyan, and red are trying to take the mines but no one is in a good position. Here is my plan to take king. I am taking a dormant reactor and I hope I can move enough drillers to take it. I am also trying to take light blues in a similar manner. Any thought on this plan?

So I was going through a bit of history and I noticed an interesting manuver red pulled off. His subs were all close to each other so it was hard to tell what happened but I think he had 3 subs with two of those having assassins. So light blue had a sub with 67 drillers and a general heading to reds queen and mine. Blue also had a pirate sub. Afterwords blue still had 22 drillers but they will be no match for reds shields at 50. He got reds assassins but red got his pirate and general. Here is the before and after. Any thoughts?

You may have noticed that spirals is about 2 days from winning and I am in 4th place. Me and my allies are trying to focus on taking purple out. However we found an interesting tactic to delay purples victory. Red is about to take one of purples mines but he will be unable to survive the counterattack. This sort of works in our favor in that this will reduce the amount of neptunium purple has to about 60 giving us time to hunt for the queen. Your thoughts on this stratagy?

I'm confused about redS tactic. Looks like he could have gotten the same effect with only sending one assassin. Also, why does that guy have. Pirate with no drillers?