Above The Law Open PBW Game

[Atrocities]

I did not know there was a Judge Dread set out.

[primitive]

Too late everybody

Hide your wives and daughters, the Primitives are coming.

[cybersol]

Are there supposed to be AI's and neutrals?

EDIT: Ah, the second one doesn't have them anymore.

[ June 05, 2003, 10:32: Message edited by: cybersol ]

[Narrew]

ok, I don't know when is a good time to talk about stratgy, but I have played a while and thought I had a good handle on things and I just had a battle where I lost all my ships and only took 1 of Primitives, I didn't expect to live, but I thought to myself, WTH? I killed only 1.

I went Psysic and tried to RP the race by using just their type of weapons, I tried to use 2 types of ships, close fighting ships (with Teleknetic Projectors, 5 phased shields and alot of reg armor since the ships I am fighting have Shield Depleters) and Max distance ships (with Mental Singlitary Generator).

My strategy was set up to Has Weapons, Most Damaged, Nearest, Strongest. All ships break formation ect...

What I wanted, was the close in support ships to engage the enemy while the Max Range ships would sit back and thump them.

What happened, I was defending a Warp point, he came in, and all my ships bunched up, did not break up (couldn't move) and then just got slaughtered.

I had hoped that with my ships having many reg armor slots, it would absorb alot of damage.

Am I so messed up to try to limit myself to my races weapons AND/OR are we just pushed into the beams and that is all we can do if we want a chance?

Just a thought I wanted to discuss, sems the writing is on the wall in this game, though I have had a bLast.

[Fyron]

Armor is dismally underpowered in stock SE4.

[Paul1980au]

I would attempt to capture some planets and try to reverse the direction of the game that said perhaps emissive armour research is what you need. Plus quick reaction weapons for wormhole attacks.

[primitive]

Bang bang

Your racial setup really screws up your to-hit chances, so you will always be at a disadvantage. The fact that some of your ships didn’t have maxed sensors doesn’t help much either.

When your ships have less chance of hitting than your opponent, the ONLY way to go is: Point blank – Break formation – Nearest first. Looking at the replay, your ships just got stuck in traffic, everybody trying to get at a ship having a little damage. If such was not reachable they just wasted their shot at a random ship at max range. Not easy to win battles with a 1% to hit chance

Don’t think using regular weapons instead of racials would have made any difference. My ships are heavy with Crystalline armor and pretty hard to kill anyway. The way to go against Crystalline is Shield depleters and then the biggest gun available. Those “red globe thingies” (forgot their name) you got should be pretty good if you can get close enough to hit.