Fleeing from battle -- how?

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Originally posted by Shadowstar:


To ram or not to ram, that is the question...

There really isn’t a right answer to this one. Whatever you chose, a lot of times you will whish you had taken the other option.

Here is how I use to do it against the AI (I play all battles on strategic since tactical gives the human player to much of an advantage, and makes the game to damn easy). Against humans it is probably better to vary.

First 20-30 turns:
Unarmed scouts and transports I set to don’t get hurt. If they meet an opponent with the same tactics they will survive, and they don’t have enough bulk to do any damage ramming.
Colonizers I set to Ram. They can often survive relatively unharmed against the AI’s scouts, usually escorts or frigates with a couple of DUC’s. If the AI uses missiles you are dead anyway. The disadvantage is of course when you meet another colonizer, then both players usually ends up with empty hulls they still need to pay maintenance for.

Later in the game I just don’t care, as any unarmed ship is a dead duck.