| Re: When to build up defense? |
Wed, 31 March 2004 22:24   |
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 Crusader |
 | Officer Cadet 2nd Year |
Messages: 233
Registered: January 2003
Location: Dixie Land | |
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LEit replied to your tough questions with some excellent answers, and I'll certainly not dispute a single one of them. I will expand on them just a tad with this simple little statement. The best way, as LEit does state mind you, to avoid these annoyingly early attacks is to make them too costly in the first place.
Never leave a colony with only 2500 colonists. Follow up immediately (or very shortly after) with a couple of medium freighter or privateer loads of colonists, if not even more. Shipping a few minerals to help get an orbital platform up quicker also provides a bit of extra defense, because now your enemy must send some warships along with the invasion force. You might overlook a freighter or two. But a 6-pack of destroyers tends to make one sit up and notice.
It might not always be a good idea to start shooting up scouts, but by golly no says they should just be allowed to waltz right in a look around. Challenge them. Start up a dialogue. Ask their intentions. Perhaps ask, no, maybe even insist that there are certain areas that are restricted to non-allies. (Hey! It could work.) Of course, you would want a few warships of your own in your own space to help make the saber-rattling look real.
One little trick that works ... SOMEtimes ... is using destroyer hulls for fuel boosters instead of scout hulls. (Another topic if you don't know what boosters are.) I'm not trying to start another arguement over which hull makes the better fuel booster, but if you use the destroyer it makes it a bit harder for most players to know if you are ready for early war or not, except for that pesky WM you were talking about. He'll figure it out pretty darn quick!
Just remember. Perception is often the only reality. If your opponents perceive that you are stronger than you are, your real strength, or lack of it, is immaterial.
The Crusader 
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