defense

Mephisto · #1 October 21st, 2002, 10:42 PM

WPs may not stop the enemy fleet but they will at least buy you time to organize a new fleet. If I attack an undefended system, I can wipe out several planets in one turn. If you have WPs I have to be much more careful as you might weaken my fleet on the first planet such that I will loose the rest on the second planet.

Katchoo · #2 October 22nd, 2002, 12:01 AM

I've fallen in love using Sats for wormhole defense. Medium Sats with Large-mount Phased weapons work great at holding enemy fleets back.

And heck, nothing beats the feeling of getting the first shot in and wiping a whole fleet out without them ever getting a shot off

HEMAN · #3 October 22nd, 2002, 02:48 AM

How i defend my Planets is, with fighters only.I wont allow any enemy ships get even near weapons range of my planets.

For wormholes too?, i use fighters, but later in the game i use mines.Gives me that time to prepare for stratige & early warning system.

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #48 The bigger the smile ,the sharper the knife.

tesco samoa · #4 October 22nd, 2002, 05:18 AM

Use Space Base yards to build the units... Put them on repeat and away they go... Since they have no supplies on the 500KT Base they drop the units right off on the planets... A couple of transports to move units to the front lines and outer systems... And soon enough you have thousands of units... For your planets... and you can convert your planets to Monolith 3 and build ships on them...

Another good ship is the 2500KT Base.

Put 1 computer core
1 Space yard
Enough fighter bays to launch 50 fighters a turn
and the rest cargo...

Have that puppy build fighters on repeat...

Have another 500 kt space base yard... Build the FIgheter Bases on repeat...

Taera · #5 October 22nd, 2002, 07:52 AM

Its too late for me to read the whole thing, but had a thought - anyone ever tried building a battlestation with cloaking and SY at warppoints to build those nice mines and sats and launch them on place? costy, but effective i think. is launching and/or SY construction is allowed while cloaked?

Fyron · #6 October 22nd, 2002, 08:17 AM

I think launching is allowed, but construction is definitely not.

mottlee · #7 October 22nd, 2002, 02:03 PM

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Originally posted by Taera:
Its too late for me to read the whole thing, but had a thought - anyone ever tried building a battlestation with cloaking and SY at warppoints to build those nice mines and sats and launch them on place? costy, but effective i think. is launching and/or SY construction is allowed while cloaked?

It will defalt to repair when you have a space yard then go to cloak