| Re: Cruisers vs Battleships (Re: Maybe i am a little thick but...) |
Wed, 17 March 2004 18:46   |
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| Orca wrote on Wed, 17 March 2004 14:41 |
GACK. BET is HORRIBLE in the nubian era. And sucks everywhere else too.
... It doesn't even provide that large of a point bonus.
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BET plays different. Just as -f, AR, etc.
And it does give a huge bonus in certain areas.
I just won a game with my HE with BET. I took out the other strongest player, a JOAT NAS (non BET). For a while he had the #1 score.
Cost savings... get 16 techs above something like a starbase or a conventional battle computer and it costs 80% less (compared to 64% less). That means a ship may cost 20 resources or minerals rather than 36 in the ideal BET range. Suddenly shielded flak has bite for cheap and starbases can instantly pop up.
Things like bombers and large freighters cost less.
My gateable doomsday missile metamorphs with 12 regular battle computers didn't get a chance to have their day, but would have been effective if they did against ships that jammed for my budget jihad battleships (that were less attractive than my budget multirange beamers).
My budget multirange beamer horde ate up some high tech range 3 beamers with the help of a few budget older missile metamorphs.
Low tech destroyers held their own against higher tech cruisers, and sometimes did more than held their own.
And that is with my gateless HE having a delay in getting ships to the front.
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