It's lonely here! (First post!)

Mephisto · #1 June 21st, 2005, 02:25 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:
This subforum could have used a better name... "after action report" sounds wrong somehow. Seems too limited, only applicable to battle reports. I think "game stories" would have been far more appropriate.

I think that's because most other forums out there call it AAR, regardless if this is making sense.

Fyron · #2 June 21st, 2005, 02:32 AM

Strive to be different! Or something.

Kamog · #3 June 21st, 2005, 05:01 AM

Tessellates keep killing me on high bonus and high difficulty. One of these days I'll start right next to them and then I'll try to destroy them before they become powerful. All the gamey tactics and using tactical combat and exploiting the A.I. hasn't helped so far in beating them...

Hunpecked · #4 June 22nd, 2005, 10:45 PM

Interesting. How about more details on the game settings, your race, etc?

Xrati · #5 June 23rd, 2005, 11:11 AM

Maybe they should call this board "The Tactics Talk" and we could compare stratigies and ship builds here!!! I'm not familiar with the Tessellates (I've downloaded them but not played against them) so what is the general tactic that they use to defeat you?

Hunpecked · #6 June 23rd, 2005, 02:13 PM

The Tessellate won AI Deathmatch III, beating the United Flora for AI bragging rights.

In a 2000 point game I'm playing against the AIs, the Tessellate have Advanced Storage, Religious, and Crystallurgy. Their Strength is pathetic, Research and Mining are somewhat enhanced, Aggression is reduced, but Defense is improved. According to Master Belisarius, who ran the Deathmatch, the Tessellate beat the United Flora (another Religious race) by outbuilding and outnumbering them; Tessellate Construction is 120 in my game, and Maintenance is only 10%.

Given time to develop, I'm guessing a high-bonus Tessellate empire could overwhelm a human player with huge fleets of Crystalline-armored ships firing with the supernatural accuracy of the Talisman. I haven't seen that in my game, however, probably because I captured the Tessellate home system early.

Xrati · #7 June 23rd, 2005, 02:31 PM

Religious, and Crystallurgy is a tough combo. My initial thoughts would be to "long range" them with seekers, drones and fighters. I like the combo of Organic and Temporal. Organic gives you a range 3 small weapon (EP) for your fighters. Fighters are useless (for assult) till you can get them to carrry weapons and move at least speed 8-10. They need to be able to close range and then disengage. Temporal just gives you quick building shipyards to overwhelm your enemies. You can probably just give yourself this advantage in the racial traits setup.

What traits are you running? What's your "weapon of choice" stratigy for your race?