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Originally posted by Maerlyn:


1.) which of these weapons are blocked by armor? which of these weapons are blocked by shields?
(I heard f.e. that the engine killers are blocked by shields, but that the computer virus is not)

2.) which of these weapons are useful, which are not?

3.) are you using a lot of weapon overloading weapons? what are their weaknesses? because in my eyes they look like the total "over" weapon to me. are they blocked by armor/shields?

4.) are you prefering the direct fire engine killers or the seeking engine killers?

5.) do you use smart bombs? plague bombs?

6.) what is the best/most effizient way to use ship capture? small ships with lots of armor? huge ships with shield depleters?

7.) am I correct in my assumption that a combination of computer virus and allegiance subversters are unrockable?

8.) if you have got any other weird ideas of how to use specil weapons please shoot .

1. Engine killers are affected by shield, all others go straight through and do nasty things

2. I like all of them except Ionic missiles - too weak and vulnerable to PDC

3. Weapon killers are not as good as null-space weapons, IMHO. I use them sometimes but more for fun.

4. direct-fire are (almost) always better.

5. Plague bombs... not very usefull in unmoded game - it is too easy to wipe out planets. But in Proportions/AIC, they are true WMD !

6. Since ship uses _ALL_ boarding parties in one attempt and lose all shields, boarding ships are one-shot and expendable. Hence, use the swarm of small ships.

7. After Last patch, computer pilot prevent subVersion even after distraction by computer virus.

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