Worst place to start a combat...

oogs · #1 March 4th, 2004, 10:21 PM

i know what you mean. it just happened again... me vs a planet. i had 50 ships in a compact formation, they didn't have anything except 80 weapons platforms... and i started 9 spaces away from the planet.

in the amount of time i typed this message (2 mins) they've wiped out my entire fleet.

Roanon · #2 March 4th, 2004, 10:34 PM

Were there more than 2 races participating in the combat? Weird things do happen when there are more.

oogs · #3 March 4th, 2004, 10:47 PM

nope, just me vs the ferengi.. they didn't even have a fleet present.

Maerlyn · #4 March 5th, 2004, 08:55 PM

well, the following happened in a PBW game to me. I warped with an attack fleet of mine through a warpgate which's other side was guarded by three different allied races trying to defend the gate against me (se5a was one of these opponents, I bet he remembers the battle)
now I expected all of their fleets to be located right around the warpgate to get a free first hit at my ships, well, wrong.
what happened was: all my ships started in the middle right next to the warpgate while their three fleets were parted and were sitting in three corners of the map. (the fourth corner was were my minesweepers were heading too)
well, guess what happened, my fleet killed there three small fleets with ease, while I would have lost if I 'd have had to fight them together at once.

geoschmo · #5 March 5th, 2004, 09:03 PM

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Originally posted by Maerlyn:
what happened was: all my ships started in the middle right next to the warpgate while their three fleets were parted and were sitting in three corners of the map.

Yep yep, and your opponents learned a hard and valuable lesson that day. Don't try to guard a warp point with ships from an ally.

In fact if it's an important warp point, I'll insist my allies not even travel through it if they can avoid it because of the off chance an enemy fleet could come popping through at the same time as them, totally screwing up my defensive advantage.

Sivran · #6 March 6th, 2004, 04:06 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yep yep, and your opponents learned a hard and valuable lesson that day. Don't try to guard a warp point with ships from an ally.

In fact if it's an important warp point, I'll insist my allies not even travel through it if they can avoid it because of the off chance an enemy fleet could come popping through at the same time as them, totally screwing up my defensive advantage.

Erk!! I'll have to remember that, glad I found it before it was too late! Does it also apply to units? ie, two allied empires both dropping sats on a warp point?