easier ways to win when at war

Str8_Gain · #1 April 17th, 2001, 10:42 PM

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Originally posted by Menschenfresser:
Here's my favorite:

I believe crew insurrection is 50,000 points. I like to turn this on for what ever empire I am up against, put it on repeat, and just snag as many ships turn after turn. In my present game I have 170,000 intel points so I can have two crew insurrections per turn and still run some counter intel.

Even more fun is when you're a Psychic race going against another Psychic race, and you use Crew Insurrection and Alliegance Subverters. Last night, I engaged in Tactical Combat with the Cue Cappa. It was 4 of my ships (3 equipped with AS III) versus nine of his. I Subverted one, then had that ship subvert the ship next to it, and that one did the same to the one next to it, etc. Sweet chain reaction, and it bolstered my forces considerably.

Crew Insurrection is really cool when you take their front-line shiny new battleship away from them and glass a few core worlds with it.

dogscoff · #2 April 18th, 2001, 11:00 AM

I like the blockade / invade / surrender approach. I _never_ fire on planets from orbit (I'm just too nice)

The trick with AIs is to work out their weaknesses - In my 1plyr game I've just conquered the Terran homeworld system with just 5 ships, bcause they use nothing but cap missiles and fightrs w/ rocket pods. I'm way bhind in tech and resources but I cleared up with dedicated point defence ships, troop ships, fighters and satllites. (I recently took out an entire fleet using only a frigate carrying 4 satellites)

I'll ask them to surrender now, and start grabbing their tech by crew insurrection.

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Dracus · #3 April 18th, 2001, 02:24 PM

I have whole fleets built of nothing but crews ins. ships

chewy027 · #4 April 18th, 2001, 07:33 PM

Blaze a strategy I like to use is to close all of the warp points going into the target system. Then when I'm done conquering all of those planets I open the warp back up into the next system and then close all the warps in that system etc. This way you effectively attack one part of an empire at a time and can use your whole fleet against a small percentage of theirs. Just research stellar manipulation a couple of times to get warp open and close components

Menschenfresser · #5 April 18th, 2001, 08:33 PM

Used that one as well, Chewy, but to keep those stellar manips running around between your systems to have their parts fixed and the enemies sucks up a lot of resources, and it's also too costly to mothball them every few turns. Time I tried this, my fleet took out the entire system of say 8 planets in 3 turns.

I like it, but beware of the resource drain...after a few turns I started to panic.

[This message has been edited by Menschenfresser (edited 18 April 2001).]

TaeraRepublic · #6 April 18th, 2001, 08:39 PM

Well, well, well..
I see people using AI's weaknesses??

Heh, people! Play fair! Play as if the AI is a human player!

I know its dfifficult sometimes, but its much more fun to actually conquer/defeat an enemy instead of simply using the AI weaknesses and demanding it to give its planets and then demand its surrender.
Realy.

How to destroy an enemy soon? Well, i dont know. This is not my style of game. I enjoy building economy of my empire, and if one dares to attack me, conquer a few systems of this empire and then cease fire.

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mac5732 · #7 April 18th, 2001, 08:43 PM

another way is to set up defense of your worm holes with small BS and Groups of ftrs. this frees up your fleets to invade his systems. I found 3-4 small BS with 50-100 ftrs in support are able to defend your system at the worm hole, then your fleets are free to invade.

just some ideas mac