The non-warship challenge

[jim]

Quite a few threads over the years have involved how to play a different and challenging game against the AI. I wonder if anyone has done the one I had fun with a bit ago.

Never put a weapon on a ship.

[Spoo]

Did you win?

[Suicide Junkie]

Child: "How did we win the Great Drushocka war, Grandpa?"
Grandpa: "Well, we let them shoot at us till they ran out of ammo. You had to be pretty good at dodging in those days, but my navigator was the best. Anyways, after they were through and all their weapons were dry, we were still there. Those Druk had nothing left to do but panic and surrender."

[jim]

Sometimes, but not at first.

I think some of the strategies are obvious, but there are quite a few. I did not state any in the thread leader post in hope that someone would come up with ones I did not try.

[parabolize]

Originally posted by jim:
Sometimes, but not at first.

I think some of the strategies are obvious, but there are quite a few. I did not state any in the thread leader post in hope that someone would come up with ones I did not try.

ram ships
capture planets (troops are not ships )
intel lots of intel

[Baron Munchausen]

Are there any other strategies in this circumstance than units, units, units? If you don't count stellar manipulation as 'weapons' I guess you go go for broke and try to get planet and star destroyers, and cloaks, as early as possible. But you'd still need the units to feed off the enemies until you got them.