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Originally posted by geoschmo:
What kind of weapons/shields did you and your opponent have. I agree that a ten to one ratio on the suface seems like it should have resulted in a masacre the other way, but say for exaple your opponent had a lot of PDC to account for your missles, and shield skipping weapons, it's not out of the question that he could have done some serious damage, especially if your ships were mostly missle ships.
Can you give us some more details about the battle.
High tech doesn't always help if you enemies strengths play to your weaknesses.
First, I did the strategic battle. So, I don't know what exactly he had except that he had the organic tech tree.
All my ships had beam weapons except for the Missile ships. The missile ships had a mix of capital missiles & one other type of long range missile/torpedo (forget name). All my beam ships had one Null Phase Cannon each, and a mix of Photon Beam weapons & phased beam weapons (I apologize, I can remember the exact names right now) all at max technology (XII for Photon Beam, V for Phased, V or III for Null Phased), and, all on the biggest weapon mounts the frame could carry. I had about 25 missile ships, 10 support ships & the rest were beam ships of which about 25 were Battle Cruiser or bigger. The combat took two turns (I should have quit after the first, but, I thought I could finish him). Afterwards, I had most of my support ships left and he had 5 of his 12 battleships left.
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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium