Do you have Plague dropping experience?

[Cyclop]

I am currently in a game where I want to use Plague as a strategic tool so my closest friends who recapture a planet have to spend time curing the plague I drop on them.
So how can I maximize a fleet to destroy only the Weapon mounts on the planet but yet still have enough population left on the planet for a long term plague? I was thinking of setting the Drop Troops Formation Planet damage setting to 20% so the ships that don't have the plague bomb don't destroy the planet but that may not ensure my plague bombers to hit the planet. Or should I limit the attacking fleet to ships with Plague and regular weapons?
Anyone with good plague delivery experience please reply ...

[ June 11, 2004, 19:53: Message edited by: Cyclop ]

[Grandpa Kim]

I must be crazy to answer this at all, even with a negative response. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

I see no foolproof way to do this. By setting your standard attack ships to only damage the planet 20%, they will do just that, then look for other targets. Finding none, they will then finish the job on the planet. Sending in plague-only ships will work but the losses will be horrendous and you will have to replenish the fleet regularly.

But face it, I won't give your buddies a chance to capture these planets anyway. Simpler to just surrender now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Of course you could be talking about another game... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[sachmo]

This one time I ate some bad Mexican food and when I had to go to the restroom I....wait. You're talking about something else, aren't you.

sorry. Carry on.

[dogscoff]

cspture the planet, scrap the facilities, ship off as much cargo/ pop as you can and then abandon it.

It's at least as much effort to recolonise a planet as it is to recapture & unplague it.

[Paul1980au]

I prefer to invade straight out but if i am to not have enough troop transports or troops immediatley to take a planet in a system i have a few plague bombs ready to bomb the biggest or most important planet - then can withdrawl my fleet and wait for the troops to arrive - this also has the effect of slowing the enemy advance.

Also useful for those of you advanced enough with cloaker and quantum fuel devices (unlimited supplies) waging a behind the backline war (make sure you have a fleet with a big ship with plague bombs and a few mine sweepers)

Actually its fun waging war silently from behind their front line - really confuses the enemy AI.

[Cyclop]

Actually Grandpa Kim this strategy is for another 2 on 2 game that needs a little spice and distraction. But don't get me wrong, I will be testing my theories on my closest Vrok friends.
I was actually contemplating giving up just before the first onslaught was thrown after me (some 50 turns ago) but my little people held the dams rather well and I decided to keep playing despite the corner I was thrown into. The battle has just begun and our people just LOVE glassing Vrok ships. I wish I could say the same for your ally but it seems he is just building up a force to try again.

See you on the battlefield ;-)

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Cyclop:
Do you have plague dropping experience?<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Only when I cough on the bus. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Cyclop:
Do you have plague dropping experience?<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Only when I cough on the bus. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I can only imagine the severity of a canadian common cold http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Cyclop]

Thanks psimancer. That small fleet strategy sounds like a good tactic.

[Puke]

i always used lots of cheap escorts. a heavily shielded ship will probably get banged up anyway, and then you have to worry about repairing it.

you can just let the escorts die.

edit: or maybe drones are the answer...

[ June 14, 2004, 19:07: Message edited by: Puke ]

[psimancer]

manual system for plague operation 3 ship fleet
all with cloaking
ship one cloaked tanker has supplies with one repair bay (until it gets solar collecters)
ship two minesweeper (god i hatee those little buggers)
ship three plague delivery ship has massive armor/shields it runs in to range fires the plague bomb and then runs out

for some real fun add a third ship sat layer sats being cloaked with lr scanners and tachyon sensors

now you can leave a watchpost in system and go off and plague some other planet -evil grin-