Strategy Articles!

[civ2buf]

Is this just strategies for simultaneous games or do you want things such as tactical mode tips (my favorite part of the game).

Plus if you play hotseat with friends they can help a lot. (Or enjoy facing the AI in battle while grossly outmatched in ships)

[spoon]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Any other feedback on Intel? Things I should add? Just wondering if this helpful.

I would add these two to the Honorable Mention list:
Technological Espionage (steals a tech level, 150k cost.) Expensive, but in the late game, if you went heavy intel, you can have enough points to do a few of these per round. Which will help since you likely don't have as much research points as the intel-lite races. Also great for sluffing points into when in order to make sure you are putting less than 5k points into your CI project.

Tech Reports: Helps with the above project by listing a handful of your enemy's tech levels.

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by civ2buff:
Is this just strategies for simultaneous games or do you want things such as tactical mode tips (my favorite part of the game).

Good question. For the most part, I address tips for strategic mode, since it is used for PBW and multiplayer (the most challenging). There may be tactical tips out there in other sources.

Originally posted by spoon:
I would add these two to the Honorable Mention list:
Technological Espionage (steals a tech level, 150k cost.) Expensive, but in the late game, if you went heavy intel, you can have enough points to do a few of these per round. Which will help since you likely don't have as much research points as the intel-lite races. Also great for sluffing points into when in order to make sure you are putting less than 5k points into your CI project.

Tech Reports: Helps with the above project by listing a handful of your enemy's tech levels.

Excellent suggestions, spoon. I will add them. Thank you.

[ May 06, 2003, 13:35: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

[Stone Mill]

Next up... Rock, Paper, Scissors – (Which weapons and strategies counter others)

I'm doing the best I can with this one. I'll need help from the resident experts to help ensure it's accurate.

With luck, I'll post it tomorrow...

[Pablo]

Stoney, very good articles! Thanx
If you don't mind (I think you don't 'cause you are a teacher in this field and every teacher wants to be usefull for as many as posible) I have copied these articles into Lithuanian forum (which was only recently started) to spread the word and help our players. I bet not all of them even know about the Shrapnel forum. Anyway, I would appreciate your feedback on letting us keep them or take them out and come here for reading. Thanx.

*I remember my in our koth game when loosing colony ships on empty planets yet mined. I even lost the count of how many...

[Fyron]

That's easy SM. Use DUCs, then PPBs (and maybe shield depleters if opponents get phased shields and you don't have APBs), then APBs + SDepleters. And always use IDs. Most other weapons are useless for general ship design (except computer viruses and a few racial weapons that are comparable to the DUC/PPB/APB line). MBs are nice, but are overpowerd by PPBs, and way overpowered by later APBs.

[teal]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
That's easy SM. Use DUCs, then PPBs (and maybe shield depleters if opponents get phased shields and you don't have APBs), then APBs + SDepleters. And always use IDs. Most other weapons are useless for general ship design (except computer viruses and a few racial weapons that are comparable to the DUC/PPB/APB line). MBs are nice, but are overpowerd by PPBs, and way overpowered by later APBs.

So what's rock/paper/scissors about that?!