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Re: Defeating the factoryless race

Thu, 02 April 2009 01:41

pydna

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Messages: 131
Registered: April 2009
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to Stars and am only playing in my second game. I got totally trashed in my first game (lasted a mere 21 turns) before getting swallowed by a -f race.

This time around I did some reading and I'm really glad I did, I'm doing much better but have run into a -f again! He was pretty aggressive right from the first encounter(turn 7).

What I've found works well is a scorched earth style war. Raid worlds, especially those that are red to you take in extra empty freighters, steal all the minerals and leave nothing, then leave them empty with nothing but a picket above them. If you play your cards right he will them have waste time re-colonising them. I've found this really annoys a -f player.

They usually are little bit more cautious about pop bombing, remember his pop are more valuable to him because they are his resource. Choose where you occupy, if you do take a world off him if you have over 70,000 he is very unlikely to attack you and if he does, that means he is starting to feel the squeeze.

Also do some intel, work out his hab range asap(suicide scout to his HW if you aren't a JOAT). I worked out what he likes hab wise and now am systematically making him work tooth an nail to get what he likes.

Finally if he isn't a JOAT, then use it your advantage. Planet hop into his rear NEW colonies with a few bombers and destroyers and waste his new colonies if you can. Sure you will be shot down but hopefully you have taken out 3 or 4 of his colonies before he catches you.

Make his life miserable. Make him waste resources having to garrision worlds that only have 5000 pop on them, make him waste time escorting convoys. Generally make him waste resources on everything except building fleets and researching. Becuase if you are a factory race all you need is time and you will overtake him.

The game I'm playing is difficult because it looks like has done a deal with two other players before the game started (we all know each other outside the game) it looks like they have built their races to compliment each other tech wise.

Although now I've taken worlds so they have run a gauntlet through two of my destroyer squadrons if they want to link up.

Oh don't expect this to hurt a -f straight away. It is gradual, in a way it is a slow death of a 1000 cuts.

Just remember if you manage to trip him up and he is on the ground put your boot on his neck and squeeze.

You have to play agressive against a -f but don't challenge him directly. Starve him out.

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