Re: Order of weapons fire / damage?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Dam, why that never happens to me?
I always win, mostly because the AI can't put together a fleet as big as mine, so I take on their fleets at piece meal.
I would be sooo cool to lose to the AI.

Aside from attacking Homeworlds, all other fights are way too easy. When it comes to a war of attrition the AI can't compete.

The only thing the AI managed to do quite well its sabotages, and that only until I found out the tactic of colonizing a system with at least 2 breathable planets with low resource output and devoting it to Intelligence, no matter how bad my research situation.

[ March 23, 2004, 20:49: Message edited by: Yef ]

Re: Order of weapons fire / damage?
 

you just have to love the FAQ.

Re: Order of weapons fire / damage?
 

Bah! It was to another player that I suffered this. The AI would *never* get me in the position I'm in in this game...(ie: really really screwed)

And, well, I did see that answer in the FAQ, but, gosh, I would swear that although I *was* the defender, my guys still didn't fire first. Maybe it's something with my strategies...

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Dam, why that never happens to me?
I always win, mostly because the AI can't put together a fleet as big as mine, so I take on their fleets at piece meal.
I would be sooo cool to lose to the AI.

Aside from attacking Homeworlds, all other fights are way too easy. When it comes to a war of attrition the AI can't compete.

The only thing the AI managed to do quite well its sabotages, and that only until I found out the tactic of colonizing a system with at least 2 breathable planets with low resource output and devoting it to Intelligence, no matter how bad my research situation. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

Re: Order of weapons fire / damage?
 

Being defender means you get to go first. But, you might still end up firing after the attacker, depending on the distance between the ships, speed, range, etc.

Re: Order of weapons fire / damage?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Although you would naturally assume A, B and C are three different empires, I have come to believe that 3 different fleets are all you need. So, if he came in with two fleets, luck of the draw could easily give him first shot. I don't know if this is true, but I'm getting that feeling from my own experiences.

Re: Order of weapons fire / damage?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Is this your gruelling defeat before the awesome weaponry of the Xetan Empire you're refering to?

Seriously, if so, I woudln't say you're really screwed - if I had not won that battle, I would have lost the war - I would not have had enough production to build sufficient hardware to even slow you down.

Re: Order of weapons fire / damage?
 

In one game against the religious player I had a fully trained fleet of ~200 dreadnoughts 2 squares from the warp point and my enemy had ~80 talisman baseships 4 squares from the warp point. The plan was to warp (get closer in combat) and get the first shot as a defender fleet. Next turn I lost the entire fleet when the enemy lost ~10 ships. I didn't even look at the movement log as it was obvious that he warped first and got the first shot. Oh well...