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| Re: anybody ever try 'No Missiles' |
Mon, 21 September 2009 18:03   |
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If you go beamer only, you can expect some nasty surprises.
Retreating missile ships can seriously hurt you - you'll take several rounds of fire before you even start shooting.
*Fast* retreating missile ships will maul you and take no return fire. You can do this in the BB era with Galleons (only really worth it with high tech missiles.)
There's also some simpler problems. Starbases will always get two shots (and beam bases become an option for your opponent, since they'll actually get to fire.)
Also... You'll run out of boranium. The game almost forces you to play with combined arms, since beamer BBs cost much more boranium than anything else, and missile BBs cost much much more iron. So if you want to use all your minerals, you'll *have* to make use of some missiles or torps. Well, unless you built too many factories, with poor mines, in which case you'll be out of germ and won't be building much of anything...
I know some people use predominantly missiles on offense (big chunky fleets, don't need to gate since they're in enemy territory) and beamers on defense (gatable.)
Of course when nubians show up, you can start making gatable missile ships. Or you could play IT and gate everything 
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anybody ever try 'No Missiles'
The no-missile approach certainly works - I've won the decisive battle in one game exclusively with beamer DNs and chaff. 
I'll leave more detailed explanation (and counter-designs) as an excercise for the audience 
