best weapons on WP's

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Q, how is your enemy ever going to do the "dance"? I've only seen the AI do it a few times, and unless you're playing hot seat, that's the only way to do it. Email and PBW- no tactical, so you have to rely on the AI anyway. And when it DID "dance", it spent a turn in weapons range firing before it moved back out.

Phoenix-D

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You are right in e-mail and PBW games this is not possible. But even there, if you stay with your ships at maximum weapons range you have a big advantage, because the chance to hit a planet is much greater than to hit a ship (unless the race on the planet has a religious talisman).
On the other hand if you give weapon platforms mounts as potent or better than for bases, will you use bases for defense at all?? You have to pay maintenance for bases and they can be located at the wrong side of the planet if the enemy attacks. So I think base mounts should be better than weapon platform mounts. But that's just my opinion.