| Why ban IT from taking IFE? |
Mon, 19 November 2007 21:47  |
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| Soobie |
 | Officer Cadet 3rd Year |
Messages: 270
Registered: May 2007
Location: Australia | |
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Hi all,
In a few recent games I see IT is banned from taking IFE.
The advantages of IFE that I see for IT are:
* If not NRSE, start with Radram (useful for scouts imo);
* If NRSE, only research 1 prop to AD8, which is a neat early combat drive once you have CCs;
* Start @ 6 means no prop research for inf/300 gates (and CCs along the way);
* FM and extended fuel eff for going to those distant early colonies, allowing for that narrower hab which leverages the IT gate advantages;
* Starting FM/Pvt means not using Radram/Pvt which means not having to think about rad imm/extreme right shifted rad so much.
Have I missed anything?
On the flipside, IFE 'costs' almost as much as going cheap prop, and certainly as much as normal prop. With NRSE and a few other LRTs, you're easily at 6 LRTs, and even IFE+NRSE is costing you nearly as much as (no IFE, no NRSE) prop normal - and if ever there was a race that can use prop normal, IT seems to be it.
So if an IT wants to take IFE, well, 'Go for it!' I say.
I'm thinking I'd be more inclined to say "No OBRM" than "No IFE". Yeah, IT can deal with big heavy remote miners better than most, but really, who can balance planetary minerals better than IT? Seems to me IT needs remote miners *less* than anyone else. Seems IT can balance pop better than anyone too. So OBRM is actually a bigger gain for IT than most since they can exploit the positive and the negative aspects better than most - if not all - other races. And its a point mine.
But back to the question.
Is that early FM/Pvt expansion and the ease of getting inf/300 gates enough to make 'no IFE' the right choice, or is there a better choice for limiting IT?
Cheers,
S.
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