The Talisman

Arkcon · #1 January 27th, 2005, 09:08 PM

TurinTurambar said:
"Is ECM III even going to help me?"

No. And keeping your ship at long range only gives you the distance penalty. Amass fleets that are larger than his, set strategy to short range or point blank, and hit them hard (most powerful weapons, not longest range or balanced resource cost).

Try to get the rest of the players to turn against him with an "its Us vs Them" mentality. And try to hit his planets that are sources of income to pay maintenance.

Nodachi · #2 January 27th, 2005, 09:48 PM

Here's one I use against the talisman. Include in your fleet ships that have nothing but shields and a short ranged weapon. The default strategies tend to target ships with the most hit points so while he is wasting his shots against those ships you're able to slip ships in to do damage to him. You'd be surprised how much havok you can create by using those shield ships along with small ships toting an NSP.

One rule I play by when facing off against a religious race is that my ships are disposable.

spoon · #3 January 27th, 2005, 10:27 PM

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Arkcon said:

Try to get the rest of the players to turn against him with an "its Us vs Them" mentality.

This is your best bet. Failing that, there's not much to do if you can't out-produce him.

If you can get just one other player to help you, you can "double up" on a minefield (each player lays 100 mines in the same sector). Then when is uber-fleet runs into it (there's always an uber fleet!), counterattack. That trick will work once. And is a questionable tactic in some groups, so you might want to clear it with the game owner if you aren't sure.

Colonel · #4 January 27th, 2005, 10:31 PM

Easy soultion sends lots of small weak ships against it then just basically swarm.

TurinTurambar · #5 January 27th, 2005, 10:58 PM

So the New Alliance is pretty much screwed. LOL!

It's 4 empires against three, and the one with the Talisman has almost as many ships himself as any two of ours.

Oh well, there's a lot of RP going on and it's fun anyway!

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Zereth · #6 January 28th, 2005, 12:09 AM

Maybe you can get around this. Is it possible to attack, not the ships, but the system they're in? I think making their suns into black holes would work rather well, if you can afford it.