Intelligence vs. Counter Intelligence

[WillyNilly]

My assumption is that he is taking all points available and applying them towards counter intelligence and I'm trying to figure out a way to bLast through it. Since I believe I have more then him, he might have a good headstart.

[Askan Nightbringer]

Its depends heavily on the level of counter intelligence being used.

If I remember correctly and ignoring "saved up" points, a player who goes 100% intelligence offence has to produce more the three times a player who is 100% intelligence defence with Counter Intelligence 3 to make anything work.

The only time I've ever managed to succeed with a sustained intelligence offensive was after blowing up lots of enemy planets with my ships and sending most of their planets into riot.
At that time the result is trivial anyway.

Askan

[Q]

Search this forum for the topic:
"(Counter-) Intel question"
You will find most of your questions answered there.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Stored counter-intelligence is really a pain to blow through. In my current game, I'm at war with an AI that finally is down to 0 intel point production each turn, and I'm hitting him with 200,000 points worth of ops each turn, but not a single success yet. It's been at 0 point production for at least the Last 5 turns, and I'd been hitting pretty hard for about 10-15 turns before that, but still it's been pretty frustrating.

Probably doesn't help that I have AI bonus on, which means the AI could have a LOT of counter-intel stored up. Plus that AI had been using intel for quite a while before I encountered it (the treaty grid implies that it used the Communication Mimic operation against all races encountered).

Anyway, intel & counter-intel have been discussed at length in this forum - like Q says, do a search and maybe you'll find an answer...