Weapon of coice for glassing a homeworld?

Claymore 2002 · #1 June 26th, 2002, 04:11 PM

Hi all,

In early-mid game (low-tech start, high-tech cost) what is/are the weapons of choice for anihilating an opponents home world as quickly as possible.

I am not interested in capturing or saving anything. I want them to cease to exist.

This time, it is personal....

SMB

sachmo · #2 June 26th, 2002, 04:28 PM

Well, I found that two ships with planetary napalm can toast Norakians pretty well early in the game...ouch!

PDF · #3 June 26th, 2002, 04:37 PM

Well, in standard game nearly anything glasses a planet in 1, 2 turns max... This is quite ridiculous but that's it !
Put a pair of "large" bombs on a Lt Cruiser should be largely enough !

Tenryu · #4 June 26th, 2002, 04:38 PM

After you clear the area, just about anything that can whomp on planets works.

The AI is pretty stupid. I was once able to clear a home world early in a game with a single ES mounting a DUC 2 I think. Pretty lame, but you have to ATTACK several times in a row maybe over several turns.

A human player never would have let you get away with that.

Atrocities · #5 June 26th, 2002, 04:38 PM

Custom weapon: Transphasic Torpedo. One shot one kill. Very expesensive though. Only a Base ship can carry one. And one only. Its destroyed after use.

mac5732 · #6 June 26th, 2002, 06:15 PM

For just one world any of the aforementioned weapons, for a system a Star Destroyer

just some ideas mac

Phoenix-D · #7 June 26th, 2002, 09:51 PM

"Well, in standard game nearly anything glasses a planet in 1, 2 turns max... This is quite ridiculous but that's it !"

Not a homeworld.. takes a little more pounding than that.

Phoenix-D

Baron Munchausen · #8 June 26th, 2002, 11:12 PM

Yes, it has always been unrealistically easy to destroy a planet with standard weapons. While I don't like the 'kludge' used by many games of requiring special ground-attack weapons to do any damage to a planet, I think we need something changed. I've been requesting MM to create a special power to cancel the planetary damage ratio for certain weapons. Then we could crank that ratio up very high and make it very difficult to completely destroy anything but a very new/small colony with standard weapons. Planetary weapons would then really be worth something because they'd be 100+ times more efficient than standard ship-to-ship weapons for ground attack.

Gandalph · #9 June 27th, 2002, 01:48 AM

I agree with Baron that this needs to be changed. Because of the planetary destructive power of normal weapons, I don't even bother to research planetary weapons. I either take the planet with troops, or glass it with APB's.

Krsqk · #10 June 27th, 2002, 04:25 AM

Why not create a weapon-platform-only emissive armor with a decently high emissive level? It could start out around, say, 65 or 75 at level 1, and work its way up to around 400-500 at level 6. At max tech, normal mount PN, and heavy or massive mount big guns, like WMGs or TKPs, could still damage planets, but even massive APBs/PPBs couldn't, or would have to be at point-blank range, which can be fatal while fighting planets.