Turn 5

The Sagittarians and the Aurons use this turn to expand by colonising the worlds that they had found.

It was a gaming weekend in Uffington that allowed the Kellesonians, the Gobbanaean Principalities, the Picans and Strata Inc. to discover just how close they were to one another and enabled them to make a mutual aid agreement. This laid the ground work for some very beneficial trading to take place in later turns. These empires also agreed to exchange map infomation, thus avoiding the need for all four empires to scan the same space. This alliance was to have interesting effects amongst the other players in later turns.

Turn 4

The Kellesonians capitalised on their effective scouting and colonised the two worlds they had found. Similarly the Kallikanzaroi colonised the world their scouts had found.

Meanwhile most of the other empires had now launched at least one scout ship. The exceptions were the Drahmini (researching deep into Planetary Defences), the Caffeinians (who had a deliberate plan to let the other empires build its colonies) and the Fleet (going for a good spread of technologies before building ships).

Impressively Strata Inc. lost a scout ship due to a lack of fuel. This loss was achieved in the minimum possible game time (built on Turn 1, lost on Turn 4). The wreckage of this ship on the world it had just scanned caused the Kellesonians no end of confusion when they scanned it during the next turn.

Turn 3

Strata Inc. went for a quick expansion policy and was lucky enough to find a habitable planet straight away (on Turn 2!). With colony ships at the ready Strata Inc. was the first empire to gain a second colony.

The Kellesonians were also exploring well. They achieved TL3 communications on Turn 1 and built four 100% scout ships on Turn 2.

The Drahmini, the Jerandi People's Republic, the Regul, the Saggitarians, the Fleet and the Worati had invested almost all their Production into Research.

The Caffeinians had all their Turn 1 and Turn 2 productions pumped into Weaponary and continued their research into other topics on this turn.

All the other empires adopted a mixed approach whereby they built some ships on these first few turns while still doing some research.

Turn 2

The players also had to determine the name of their empire and its favoured technology:

Turn 1

After the initial rolls the players ended up with:

Notice that two pairs of homeworlds that are Jump-1 apart. None of the players expected that!

Turn 0

This is the initial map for DOA2. Although the method used used place the planets was designed to bunch the planets in the centre, it is noticeable that the top left quadrant of the map is pretty empty. There are also quite a few clusters of planets that are a mere Jump-1 apart.

The planets were numbered from 1 to 100 starting at the top left (at A3) to the bottom right (P16)