New Strategy: Drones with Subverters !

[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 )

[Puke]

fighters are faster. drones are faster. longer range weapons, or missiles. AS has less of a chance of working at longer ranges. in the new patch, MCs will prevent subVersions, even when destroyed...

[Despotic Fiend]

Well the EASIEST way to do this(combat simming this combo and different counters for it on max tech start for the Last hour) that I can find is Talisman+Heavy Mount(insert weapon with range of 7 or more) set to max range while using solar sail.