what is this ship attacking me with?

[Silent Sorrow]

In a tactical battle against the AI I had two damaged ships vs. one of his undamaged ships. The AI ship contained no offensive weapons except for planetary napalm, which only targets planets. It also had two PDC and some crystalline armour.

The AI ship took out both my damaged ships.

With what?

[Slick]

My guess is it rammed you.

edit: Did the AI ship run away or approach? If it approached to the adjacent square, it did ram you. This is a common strategy used on some of the better AI's (like in the TDM Modpack) for ships without offensive weapons (like colonizers).

Slick.

[ July 24, 2003, 03:14: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Taera]

actually organic/crystalline armor ramming is quite evil.

[Loser]

Got to love the colonizers with Planetary Napalm.

[Silent Sorrow]

Originally posted by Slick:
My guess is it rammed you.

edit: Did the AI ship run away or approach? If it approached to the adjacent square, it did ram you. This is a common strategy used on some of the better AI's (like in the TDM Modpack) for ships without offensive weapons (like colonizers).

Slick.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm, that would have to be it then. It did charge me instead of running away. However, I actually did consider the possibility that it rammed me but I felt it should have been more heavily damaged than it was after a ram. But I suppose that crystal armour was the difference.

[Nocturnal]

I ram fighters all the time with transports. I rammed a satellite layer with a construction ship. Twice. (Didn't completely smash it the first time, just took out all its engines. So I came back the next turn after repairing.) Sometimes, I ram things with my organically armored battleships just for the fun of it. But if you try to ram a planet, you'll usually lose.

"Gravity is a harsh mistress." - The Tick

[ July 24, 2003, 16:10: Message edited by: Nocturnal ]

[Narf'scompatshop]

can you ram planets?

[Fyron]

Yes, you can ram planets.

And, you can always send an email to Tim Brooks about the password issue. He might be willing to send you your password if you lost it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[PvK]

Um... I knew you could ram planets in tactical ... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

... but, can you actually "win" the ram, and survive?

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

PvK

[TerranC]

Originally posted by PvK:
Um... I knew you could ram planets in tactical ... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

... but, can you actually "win" the ram, and survive?

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

PvK<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Against a planet? IMHO, never. But you can still take down the planet along with your rammed ship though. http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/sad.gif

[ July 25, 2003, 00:49: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Suicide Junkie]

You can ram warppoints too!

Very occasionally useful if your ship is crippled, has no SDD and you can't let it be captured at any cost.

[geoschmo]

Ramming planets used to give an RCE error. But I guess they fixed that at some point.

Geoschmo

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by Silent Sorrow:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Slick:
My guess is it rammed you.

edit: Did the AI ship run away or approach? If it approached to the adjacent square, it did ram you. This is a common strategy used on some of the better AI's (like in the TDM Modpack) for ships without offensive weapons (like colonizers).

Slick.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm, that would have to be it then. It did charge me instead of running away. However, I actually did consider the possibility that it rammed me but I felt it should have been more heavily damaged than it was after a ram. But I suppose that crystal armour was the difference.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Crystal Armour? Then it was the Tessellate! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I have used the same approach that Rollo used with the United Flora (well, except the UF is vulnerable to ID attacks because their ramming ships had not shields).

[Narf'scompatshop]

didn't think about that. it's not lost, i just forgot it. i know where it is though. in the other computer, which is miles away having a checkup. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

where do i find Tim Brook's email anyway?

my password isn't bothering me so much as my list of Online comics is on that computer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ July 25, 2003, 02:28: Message edited by: Narf'scompatshop ]

[Member 4148]

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[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Narf'scompatshop:
didn't think about that. it's not lost, i just forgot it. i know where it is though. in the other computer, which is miles away having a checkup. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

where do i find Tim Brook's email anyway?

my password isn't bothering me so much as my list of Online comics is on that computer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I got this from his profile: tbrooks@shrapnelgames.com

[Narf'scompatshop]

oh. yeah. his profile.

WAKE UP, NARF!

*hits self with hammer*

[Krsqk]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
You can ram warppoints too!

Very occasionally useful if your ship is crippled, has no SDD and you can't let it be captured at any cost.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm not sure I want to know why you know this. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[PvK]

Well he is Suicide Junkie, after all!!!

PvK

[Narf'scompatshop]

Narf, In the meantime, if you want to look more like your old self:
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">thanks, whoever you are. in the meantime, i should send that email.

[Erax]

This reminds me of an 'oops' moment... I was playing a solo game with Tactical combat. I brought my troop transport in close to the planet, but clicked on the wrong orders button, so the ship rammed the planet instead of dropping troops. I couldn't play for several minutes after that, I was laughing so hard.