New Strategy: Drones with Subverters !

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Cirvol:
still, you wouldn't 'need' the religous tech...

good fleet/ship training and combat sensor 3 should be good enough

and then the subverter/computer virus combo wins everything

unfair, and unbalanced

Not in the next patch (I think somebody said that already).

And how does that combo win everything? Subverters and Computer Viruses only have ranges of 5 and 6, respectively. Many powerful conventional weapons (WMG, CSM, APB) can beat them in a flash.

[Cirvol]

bah, subverters are just too damn powerful... they ain't exactly expensive to research, and they beat any other 'normal' weapon

fighters are useless in the late game due to ppb's and pd, and ship hull's and phased shields and large/heavy mount weapons are the true 'power'...

being able to hold off someone who has researched 4 times more pure research than you just cuz you have subverters is just wrong... which other special tech gives you that?

imho, phased shields should block virus and subverters... at least then you can defend

[Cirvol]

Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by Cirvol:
still, you wouldn't 'need' the religous tech...

good fleet/ship training and combat sensor 3 should be good enough

and then the subverter/computer virus combo wins everything

unfair, and unbalanced

Not in the next patch (I think somebody said that already).

And how does that combo win everything? Subverters and Computer Viruses only have ranges of 5 and 6, respectively. Many powerful conventional weapons (WMG, CSM, APB) can beat them in a flash.

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lol, conventional weapons beat them in a flash, sure, if both people set to max range...

you know as well as i do that almost all experienced players in pbw games use solar sails and so ships are fast enough to close the distance difference without a problem, killing your conventional weapon = greater range theory

[Phoenix-D]

"you know as well as i do that almost all experienced players in pbw games use solar sails and so ships are fast enough to close the distance difference without a problem, killing your conventional weapon = greater range theory"

No, it doesn't. Even if both ships are the same speed, the other player is still going to get shots in before you can close the distance (i.e. when they run up against the combat boundry).

Phoenix-D

[Cirvol]

lol, yeah, but again i say, the person using subverters will have point blank set, if they are smart, and considering that ship movement is like usually 5+ per combat turn, your range advantage of 2 hexes will mean nothing...

not to mention that max range usually is always super high miss % with ecm3 + training...
so most won't use it anyway in 'advanced' pbw games

(btw geo, fix pbw already lol, i'm going nuts lurking here just cuz i can't play )

[Despotic Fiend]

Originally posted by Cirvol:
lol, conventional weapons beat them in a flash, sure, if both people set to max range...

you know as well as i do that almost all experienced players in pbw games use solar sails and so ships are fast enough to close the distance difference without a problem, killing your conventional weapon = greater range theory

So if everyone is using a solar sail and you are set to max weapons range and the AS/RT/CV combo player has a shorter range what the hell does it matter? There are ways to overcome it.....

[Cirvol]

[/qb][/quote]So if everyone is using a solar sail and you are set to max weapons range and the AS/RT/CV combo player has a shorter range what the hell does it matter? There are ways to overcome it.....[/QB][/quote]

please give me a way? ( one that is reasonable and plausible?;p )