The unbeatable combination is it out there?

[Nodachi]

Gorza, you're right it is a tough combo to beat but there are ways.

• Mine everything: force him to put sweepers on his ships. 30kt each means fewer guns.
  
• Seekers: use lots of them and force him to be PDC heavy. 20kt each
  
• Cloaking: use cloaked ships to get behind his lines and hit his planets. When he catches on he'll put sensors on his ships. 40kt

By doing all that you're forcing him to react to you and burn up tonnage on his ships.
Although now that his ships have fewer guns you still have to be able to survive getting close to him so you can hit.

• Emissive and Crystalline: a couple of plates of emissive and tons of crystalline, the crystalline will get hit first but the emissive ability should take effect first (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong on this!). His shots just build up your shields.
  
• Emissive and Organic: pretty much the same thing but the organic will Last longer because it has less damage to regenerate.

These are just a few ideas I'm sure there's a million more out there. Part of the beauty of this game is that there is no perfect strategy.

[Fyron]

The armor with the lowest damage resistance is most likely to be hit first. So, Emissive Armor will most likely be hit before Crystalline or Organic Armor.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Gozra:
With PBW Survivor2 coming up it would be an interesting testing ground.

I would be very suprised if any of the tourney rounds Last long enough for anyone to develop and employ the tailsman. They are all low tech, single planet starts. And the quad will be quite crowded.

Geo

[DirectorTsaarx]

To expand on the "lots of targets" idea, go ahead and use fighters - but launch them in Groups of 1. That's right, give him hundreds of targets to shoot at with his Talisman-armed PDC... a few (hopefully more than a few) are bound to get a shot in. I might also recommend engine destroyers, although their usefulness is now limited somewhat because they no longer skip shields. But if the enemy's engines are gone (and he doesn't have Quantum Reactors yet), he can't move and (without supply storage) can't fire his weapons...

And, as someone else mentioned, start destroying his stars. I prefer turning them into singularities, just to add insult to injury. Kinda fun to watch the enemy deal with multiple black hole systems in a row...

[Gozra]

I guess that the Talisman is beatable you just have to think outside the box.