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Re: Defeating the factoryless race

Fri, 27 March 2009 11:42

magic9mushroom

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DaYng1 wrote on Fri, 27 March 2009 06:12

The best way to defeat a -f race is to stall him until your econ can provide a decisive advantage in tech and production.

You can do this by having a farther border than usual w/gates and frigate minelayers.
you will lose some orbitals and planets combating a -f, that is inevitable. You will slow him down some and be able to gate out or in before a attack.

Another tactic is shipping interdiction. Remember a -f races econ is pop. Killing pop freighters hurts bad. Cloaked minelayers don't hurt either.

The most lethal tactic a -f can use in early game is dd blackjack swarm for sb killing. These swarms are built using shell spacedock hulls with gates only usually.

Killing one also hurts. Watch for the swarm and have fleets ready to knock down these docks. this will delay him usually 5 dds per dock.

Every thing you can do to slow down the -f in the long run will help. Their cheap techs will stop helping them compete sooner or later. Eventualy you will be able to make 4 ccs or more for his 2 per 50 percent hold world.

The problem with all that is that you doing those things will cut into your economy, whereas the -f has no economic spending and can hence counter you with ease.

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