racial trait +20% and evasive armors

[douglas]

rdouglass said:
I've never found the "Star Destroyer" tactic too sucessful except on small-scale operations. Thos suckers are quite expensive and take a while to build.

I, on the other hand, have successfully used star destroyers on a VERY large scale. Of course, I did use them all at once and gave no warning of what I was planning, but all 30 of them exploded successully, wiping out well over a third of the galaxy in the Shattered Hopes game on PBW.

If you build up a large stockpile of them and some warp openers to go with them, your enemy won't have time to implement countermeasures before he's dead. Of course, this assumes that he hasn't already taken steps to defend against such tactics. A few System Gravitational Shield Facilities can really ruin your day if you were depending on star destroyers to beat him.

[Alneyan]

Note that a Star Destroyer is very cheap by the end game: it only costs twice as more as your regular baseship, and three times (or so) more than a Dreadnought, if memory serves. The actual cost will vary depending on what you put on your warships, of course, but my point remains the same: Star Destroyers are not really expensive in the later stages of the game.

For my purposes, the Nebula Creator component is used on Stellar Destroyers. If you are willing to pay extra and want to make sure the targetted systems are quite definitively dead, the Black Hole Creator is the way to go instead. Either way, nothing should prevent you from blowing up your own systems, should an enemy fleet arrive: that will save you the happiness hit, while destroying the enemy fleet, and slowing down further attacks. Just evacuate the system beforehand if you care about those suckers... your most esteemed citizens.

[Ragnarok-X]

Ty guys. Will let you know how it turned out.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

.....but all 30 of them exploded successully, wiping out well over a third of the galaxy in the Shattered Hopes game on PBW.

Shattered Hopes. Hmm. Approprite title for the game.....



Star Destroyers are expensive, but nebulae creators are even cheaper, still destroy a system, and you get an entire system in which his advantage of shielding is negated or at least critically diminished.

He said he could easily outproduce the guy, so the production capacity argument won't matter. If I'm reading this right he can produce 3 or so nebulae creators at a time and still have enough production space left over for an acceptable battlefleet.

[Ragnarok-X]

pfff 3 nebular creators are noth.ing. Actually i own about 15 planet creators. In the last turn my income, after upkeep etc is 420k-120k-130k, the income without upkeep is about 200% of that. And a lot of planets are still building ressource facilites since im in the mid/end phase of planet creation and colonizing. I could just order 10 nebular creators and make them emergency build