October 14th, 2002, 02:48 PM
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Re: newest beta patch?
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Originally posted by geoschmo:
At one pont Mark was using Destroyers with DUC's and EASILY handling fleets twice the size of his fleets with Lioght Cruisers and suprior weapons and shield technology. And doing it against two other empires simultaneously. It's only been by intensive cooperation between several races, and a couple of strategic mistakes on his part that we were able to take advantage of that has finally brought his empire under check.
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Geo, you accurately describe the first stage of the fighting between you, me and Tesco, but you're wrong in just attributing it to the Talisman. Half your problem was not just that my DUCs were hitting, but that your PPBs weren't. The Research I'd saved by not going straight to PPBs went into ECM, whereas none of your or his early ships seemed to have Combat Sensors. Had you had DUCs with Combat Sensors instead of PPBs without, I think the early fighting would have gone as the current battles do now that you're actually hitting (or in your case ramming) - that is, the Talisman giving me an edge, but not a completely decisive one.
I say this not as criticism of your play (because I know I've grossly simplified the research choices available to all of us), but to illustrate the general point that properly planning your counter to the Talisman makes a huge difference. You know the Religious player is going to emphasise his strengths by building hard-to-hit ships and staying out at long range. So if you see him as the early game threat, make sure you can *hit* his ships before you start researching all the cool weapons.
I'm genuinely curious, by-the-way, about what you think my strategic mistakes were. Or is it too early to be revealing that sort of information?
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But the rest of what you said is right on. I believe it's only because of the ten planet start that Mark was able to get the Tailsman as fast as he did. In a simgle planet start it would have likely taken him so long to get that the advantage it gave him would not have been quite so pronounced.
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Definitely true. As it was, I only got the Talisman a turn or two before fighting first broke out, and had to carry out a frantic refitting program in order to have ships ready to fight. Normally, developing towards the Talisman would have to be a much longer term goal. You couldn't afford to commit to spending the hundreds of thousands of point necessary until you'd got several other key technologies first.
Mark
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