So how DO you 'Blockade' in AI controlled battles?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Talenn:
So, I'm guessing Blockading planets isnt something that occurs in most MP games, eh?

It certainly can be done in MP games, it's just not all that terribly effective against a human player. Blockading is tremendously effective against the AI because they don't seem to understand how to counter it, but it's easy for a human to counter.

You have to blockade a sizeable portion of the enemies planets to make much of a difference, that takes a lot of effort on your part. It's much easier to simply destroy or capture the planets.

Blockade ships have to either be given no weapons, or be given careful strategies to prevent them from glassing the target world. This makes them very suceptable to a few fighters or a few small blockade runner ships that can come in and destroy them.

Plus Se4 has a nasty habit of starting out subsequent combat rounds by placing your ships too close to the planet, within weapons platform weapons range. That's a quick way to end a blockade. Frustrating too if you are the one trying to do the blockade.

Geoschmo

[ March 01, 2003, 17:15: Message edited by: geoschmo ]