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LBUs, cherries, or both?

Wed, 03 May 2006 12:58

rowenstin

Crewman 1st Class

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Registered: December 2005

In a game I�m playing (2.7i version) I�m close behind the 1st race, who�s declared war on me. We�re both HE. Since we�re in opposite corners of the (medium size) universe, colonizing his planets would be difficult, so I�ve decide my strategy would simply be to hit his economy and win by tech or score count.

For that, I�ve thought on small fleets of overcloacked beamer battleships and bombers, backed up by cloacked minelayers. I have penetrating scanners and dozens of minicolonizers flying around like headless chickens, so I�ll soon have good info on his space. The idea is to make a mess of his space with surprise minefields and one or two year bomb runs. The goal is not to bomb his planets clean, but to hit his economy; if takes a planet longer to recover than it takes the fleet to prepare another attack, or simply force him to spend a lor of resources protecting his planets, the attacks will be a success.

The tech I have available at the moment allows me to build b-17 bombers with the most advanced conventional and lbu bombs. Should I load the bombers with 8 cherries, 8 LBUs, or 4 of each? I�m planning on having around 7 bombers in each "ghost" fleet. Note that the objetive is not to sterilize a planet in the smallest time possible, but to do the most damage to the econmy in one or two years of bombing. They are not exactly the same thing, thoug obviously wiping the planet clean would be great.

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		LBUs, cherries, or both? By: rowenstin on Wed, 03 May 2006 12:58
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: iztok on Wed, 03 May 2006 13:58
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: LEit on Wed, 03 May 2006 21:11
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: PricklyPea on Sun, 09 July 2006 20:36
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: LEit on Mon, 10 July 2006 11:54
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: iztok on Mon, 10 July 2006 15:23
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: Kotk on Mon, 10 July 2006 16:34
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: LEit on Mon, 10 July 2006 20:30
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: PricklyPea on Tue, 11 July 2006 02:21
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: m.a@stars on Tue, 11 July 2006 18:06
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: vonKreedon on Tue, 11 July 2006 18:38
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: PricklyPea on Mon, 10 July 2006 13:04
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: PricklyPea on Mon, 10 July 2006 15:55
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: JasonC on Fri, 28 July 2006 01:18
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: PricklyPea on Thu, 17 August 2006 05:00
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: multilis on Thu, 17 August 2006 08:40
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: Kotk on Thu, 17 August 2006 08:57
		Re: LBUs, cherries, or both? By: knightpraetor on Sun, 15 October 2006 14:26

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