A few comments about the Romulan

Master Belisarius · #1 May 27th, 2001, 10:30 PM

First all God Emperor, I want to say that I really liked your work with the Romulan and the Klingon. Both are great races and usually, are fighting the first places in my test games.

I have tested mostly the Romulan, and I believe that you could improve some things, for games with full tech from the start.

1) The small attack ships are useless in games with full tech from the start. A frigate without Combat Sensors and without ECM, can do anything fighting against other ships.

2) The large attack ships (Dreadnought), only have 2 Wave-Motion Gun III, but too many shields and too many Point Defense Cannons.

3)A similar problem with the Weapon Platforms: a lot of shields and PDC, but only one Wave-Motion Gun III.

Usually the Romulan in games with full tech, can create really large fleets, but the problem (in my view), is that their ships have not enough fire power.

PsychoTechFreak · #2 May 27th, 2001, 10:40 PM

I have seen no Romulan ship equipped with self destruct devices. This makes them very vulnerable, because they are easy to enter.

God Emperor · #3 May 28th, 2001, 01:20 AM

Master Belisarius,
I am unsure of what you mean by full tech from the start. What techs does this include?
I appreciate your comments and have been working to up the offensive power of Romulan and Klingon ships by cutting back on Shields primarily. I may have to create a large class ship to get the equip out right though.

PsychoTechFreak,
Thanks for your observation, I have never really been sure whether inclusion of self destruct devices is a good tactic - do they only detonate if a ship is captured, or if it is boarded? Look forward to your advice.

Regards,
GE

Suicide Junkie · #4 May 28th, 2001, 02:23 AM

Self-destruct only kicks in if you lose in a boarding party battle.

And, if you have a SDD, i think the AI will not attempt to board a ship.

Against wily humans, the SDD may be used to trade a Boarding frigate for the enemy dreadnaught's destruction

God Emperor · #5 May 28th, 2001, 02:57 AM

Thanks for that.
Will update my ship designs....

dominion · #6 May 28th, 2001, 05:37 AM

Full tech from start includes all technology. I was building Battle Cruisers during my initial turns while the Romulan was sending frigates against me.

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