Newbie

alien · #1 May 6th, 2001, 10:42 PM

Many thanks to all for your advice and time.

Cheers.

spacefan · #2 May 7th, 2001, 08:10 AM

You can ram ships that don't have those kamikaze or mine explosives? and it does damage?

I thought it was just if you had a ship with a explosive warhead. Thats nice to know though

Phoenix-D · #3 May 7th, 2001, 08:39 AM

Yup, you can. For some reason though, I never seem to get decent results out of ramming, even with a warhead- ESPECIALLY with a warhead, really. It never seems to do the rated damage.

Phoenix-D

Dracus · #4 May 7th, 2001, 02:34 PM

Yea, Just the other day I had a planet that an allie had parked 3 destroyers over. He keep them there for over 50 turns. Since We we partners and it looked like we had good relations,I took my fleet that also was parked over the planet and moved to the war front. As soon as my fleet was out of range my allie broke the treaty and attacked the planet. I had 2 colony ships, two small mine layer transports, 3 small sat layer transports and a large pop transport, one escort in orbit. Since the AI always attacks the strongest they started to attack the planet. MY unarmed ships actually defended the planet and took out all 3 destroyers. It was costly, 75m people died and we lost all ships except for the large transport. When it ram the ships it never exploded. The two seem to merge together and the enemy ship then could not move.
Ships with shields are alot less likely to to take any damage when you ram them. It takes quite a few ram ships to take out a shielded ship and you have to do all the hits together. (in the same turn)

[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 07 May 2001).]

Krakenup · #5 May 7th, 2001, 06:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by alien:
1) My ship warps into a system. The same or next turn it is attacked. Even though the warp point is shown on the tactical screen there appears to be no way for it to escape (being an unarmed explorer type vessel). Does it have to engage in combat with the inevitable consequences ??

One other technique: If you can get directly across the warp point from the enemy ship, you can mirror every move he makes and usually survive for the 30 turns.

Suicide Junkie · #6 May 7th, 2001, 10:22 PM

quote:
Ships with shields are alot less likely to to take any damage when you ram them. It takes quite a few ram ships to take out a shielded ship and you have to do all the hits together. (in the same turn)

That's cause the ramer's shields are skipped, but the ramee's shields stay up.