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Originally posted by WhiteHojo:
Personally, I've never seen a valid use for the tractor beam or repulsor beam... if anyone else has used em let us know. To me, they'd just be wasted space.
I found the following strategy to be amusing against the computer: I fortified a warp point leading to the home systems of an AI I really didn't feel ready to fight with a couple of Battlestations armed with engine-killing weapons and massive mount repulsor beams... They'd send a couple of ships through the WP, and I'd lock down their movement and shove 'em out of range. When combat would end (generally rather uneventfully), the AI would have a fleet of useless ships draining his resources. If you could take out all the weapons on the ships as well, you could probably do the same to a human (unless they had SDDs)...
Yes, I know it's unfair to do this to the computer... But I felt justified in this particular case, as that filthy race had the nerve to be mechanoid, and hence invulnerable to my first contact plagueships...