Anyone tried The Barbarian Horde strategy?

[Baron Munchausen]

There's an important difference between Stars! and SE. You can build however many ships PER TURN that you can pay for in Stars!, so it's simple to produce many more ships than your opponent as long as you have the resources. In SE, each space yard produces only ONE ship per turn. You have to resort to units to get mass-production in SE. So, in order to pursue the "barbarian horde" strategy you'd need large numbers of space yard bases, and the maintenance on these might well eat up the advantage of your cheaper ships. Or you need to use units, meaning fighters since sats and WPs cannot move. The difference in cost between a well equipped dreadnought and a LC might well let you stay ahead of the 'high tech' player on otherwise equal terms, though. Just not as far ahead as you would be if you could produce as many ships as you could pay for in a single turn.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 06 June 2001).]