Fight Dirty?

Pooka · #1 May 5th, 2003, 06:49 PM

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Originally posted by Grandpa Kim:
Does he have ships or bases with space yard components on them? If so, steal one of those. Then use the space yard to deconstruct and analyze on the spot! This works, but I don't know if this happens at the beginning of the turn before any combats or at the end so best move it to a vacant sector first.

I've tried moving a sector away, doesn't work. Before the ship can move it just gets gunned down.

oleg · #2 May 5th, 2003, 07:27 PM

Useless AS ???? For God sake, refit your small ships with AS and get all his Dreads for free

Once he swith to MC, give virus to every your ship and replace AS with TK !!! If he is really newb, he is a toast.

Loser · #3 May 5th, 2003, 07:42 PM

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Originally posted by oleg:
Useless AS ???? For God sake, refit your small ships with AS and get all his Dreads for free Once he swith to MC, give virus to every your ship and replace AS with TK !!! If he is really newb, he is a toast.

Yeah, that isn't even dirty, that's just the way it is.

Allegiance Converters could turn this tide for you if he doesn't have Master Controls on all his ships. You have their designs, you're sure to know, now.

AS Frigates are mean. What a mess that will make.

And if he is all about the MC, then throw the virus at him.... crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside.

BTW, a MC ship with busted MC is just a floating hulk, right? It cannot be captured or anything else cool that you can do to a floating hulk either... can it?

Ruatha · #4 May 5th, 2003, 08:15 PM

I LOVE the AS.
If you have drones, make AS drones en masse!
Now you can move them back through a wormhole after theyve been used and pick them up again with a drone launch ship and reuse them.
Bus ususally I make ordinary ships with ordinary weapons and one AS. When you're up against some other psychic race and get lucky you can convert his entire fleet in an convert cascade!
(Capture a ship with a converter - that ship captures a ship with a converter....and so on, if you have better offensive/defensive values than the enemy!)

A MC hulk can be capturd with troops, repaired with a shipyard ship and put to use.

[ May 05, 2003, 19:16: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Pooka · #5 May 5th, 2003, 08:25 PM

First off, thanks again, all, for your advice and assistance. I'm just glad that he doesn't do his own research! =^.^=

As for AS... is the AS/Talisman combo as disgusting as it sounds?

And hmmm. ECM+Stealth+AS on a Frigate sounds properly evil and currently undefended against. Okay, after I get Intel 3 I'm racing up the psychic weapons tree. =)

geoschmo · #6 May 5th, 2003, 08:44 PM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
Now you can move them back through a wormhole after theyve been used and pick them up again with a drone launch ship and reuse them.

Drones can't be recovered once they are launched.

Loser · #7 May 5th, 2003, 09:00 PM

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Originally posted by Pooka:
Okay, after I get Intel 3 I'm racing up the psychic weapons tree. =)

If you are a close to the wire as you seem, you might want to use that handy Reorder Projects and put Int3 on the back burner. You won't lose any progress, and can go right into Psychic Weapons, which will prove immediately useful.

Or not...