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Re: When to build up defense? |
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Still think beta torp DDs are a viable tactic?
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Yes. I have done it. Of course you WANT delta torps. If we are talking about WANTS I would much rather have Jihads on Battleships.
If we are talking stacks... You have a stack of ships shooting as well so you kill ships. Bigger stacks actually favour beta torps over beamers compared to single ships, you can't kill 10% of a single ship.
You usually don't bother with battle computers, germ is worth too much at that stage. Your destroyer of frigate tends to have 2 beta torps on it (on a frigate 2 beta torps gets .25 movement over 3). You do an average of around 10 damage with the 2 torps.
For the first number of turns, your ships are doing damage and your opponents aren't. So his ship counts are going down.
There are tricks such as retreating decoy flak to stretch this out. By the time his stack reaches you (if it is big enough to survive), you may have disengage retreated out of the battle. Lots of fun, best enemy can hope for is really fast engines and/or a warmonger to transfer the ships to.
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Hull musings 2
By: multilis on Thu, 01 April 2004 11:01
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Ptolemy on Thu, 01 April 2004 11:18
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: alric on Thu, 01 April 2004 12:24
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Thu, 01 April 2004 13:31
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: alric on Thu, 01 April 2004 17:47
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Thu, 01 April 2004 18:22
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: LEit on Thu, 01 April 2004 20:39
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By: Ptolemy on Thu, 01 April 2004 21:31
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By: Ptolemy on Thu, 01 April 2004 21:45
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: xdude on Thu, 01 April 2004 21:53
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 01:34
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: iztok on Fri, 02 April 2004 04:16
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 09:17
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By: Orca on Fri, 02 April 2004 10:42
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 11:27
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By: LEit on Fri, 02 April 2004 12:14
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By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 12:48
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Orca on Sat, 03 April 2004 11:07
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Sat, 03 April 2004 11:28
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Kotk on Sun, 04 April 2004 11:59
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Sun, 04 April 2004 12:56
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Kotk on Sun, 04 April 2004 14:52
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Sun, 04 April 2004 15:31
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Kotk on Sun, 04 April 2004 17:34
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Kotk on Sun, 04 April 2004 18:01
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Sun, 04 April 2004 19:00
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: LEit on Sun, 04 April 2004 20:54
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Orca on Sun, 04 April 2004 21:41
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Kotk on Mon, 05 April 2004 08:26
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Mon, 05 April 2004 09:30
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Thu, 08 April 2004 12:38
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: iztok on Thu, 08 April 2004 14:27
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Thu, 08 April 2004 14:47
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: iztok on Thu, 08 April 2004 17:58
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Thu, 08 April 2004 18:59
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: iztok on Fri, 09 April 2004 03:27
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: iztok on Fri, 09 April 2004 04:33
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Kotk on Fri, 09 April 2004 07:31
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Fri, 09 April 2004 12:31
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: Kotk on Sun, 11 April 2004 12:43
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Sun, 04 April 2004 16:29
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: iztok on Fri, 02 April 2004 13:38
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Re: When to build up defense?
By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 17:16
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Re: Hull musings
By: joseph on Fri, 02 April 2004 14:13
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Re: Hull musings
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