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Originally posted by jim:
The AI of these guys is wonderful in combat!!
What a neat hedgehog! Reminds me of Royal Marines forming square in the Hornblower and Sharpe stories - though the Aq's do not use a square.
I had no idea that engine killers were shield skipping weapons!
These guys would kill the engines of a ship and, if they did not destroy the ship in that round, they'd engage it again and now .... no shields! I had not placed a supply unit on each one! No engines - no supplies - no shields - no defense!!!
Are any of the other specialty weapons shield skippers like these? (jim off to investigate! ;-) )
Anyway, nicely done Master Belisarius! Nicely done!
Hey Jim, thanks for the kind words!
The weapons in the standard tech tree that skip Shields are the Shield Disrupters (destroy the Shields), Engine Damage Weapons (Ionic Disperser and Ionic Pulse Missile), Weapons that Damage Weapons (Tachyon Projection Cannon), Whormhole Beam (small damage and random move), Tractor and Repulser Beam (move and small damage), Computer Virus (destroy the Master Computer), Null Space Projector (skip Shield and Armors), Temporal Shifter (from the Temporal Tech Tree), Mental Flailer and Allegiance Subverter (From Psychic Tech Tree).
Re: Aquilaeians - and shield-skipping weapons (Master Belisarious, thx!)
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