KOTH: Attack of the Clones

[geoschmo]

In sports they call it fundamentals. If you want to win you have to be able to hit the cutoff man on a throw to home, or rebound, or tackle. It still leaves room for differences of strategy and what not. But the people who do the fundamentals will always beat those that don't. And those that do the fundamentals better will have the advantage over those that do them, but not as well.

Geoschmo

[DavidG]

Just for the record I won my first game with a negative in both attack and defense and my second now in turn 130 I have 100% in both and it has been a back and forth battle (although I suspect the writing is on the wall )

So it is possible to win. It keeps you thinking knowing how crap your ships are though.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:

They most probably exploit the training facilities/moon strat to multiply training per round.

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Please splain this to me.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:
They most probably exploit the training facilities/moon strat to multiply training per round.

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Please splain this to me.

He's no doubt talking about placing the ship/fleet training facilities on a planet with moons to get ships trained faster.

[Stone Mill]

DavidG,

It is possible to win, I agree, but it would be a rare fluke against someone who maxes out the offensive/defensive bonus. If you played with no combat enhancements, you would never hit their ships. So you would need to catch them by mining them into a corner to limit their expansion, or surprise them with masses of seekers early in the game. But this is very unlikely. If it comes down to ship to ship combat, you'll be fried. No escaping the math.

Thermo- it's very nice to find a planet with a moon (2 is even better) and build ship or fleet training on each. You will get 3% training per facility (3 X 3 = 9% training per turn for a planet with 2 moons). Not bad, eh?

I just think we should be fair to the newbies who don't realize what is going on when they get slaugtered (and frustrated) because they don't realize what the fundamentals are:

For KOTH, ALWAYS create your race with Berserker trait and +20 attack and +20 defense.

[ZeroAdunn]

That is why I use the talisman.... my ships, always hit

[Fyron]

But that is likely to not help much in KOTH games ZA. They don't Last long enough for Talismans to come into play, unless you want to fall way behind in researching the fundamentals.