| Re: NAS |
Tue, 28 October 2003 17:13   |
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 EDog |
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| freakyboy wrote on Tue, 28 October 2003 14:47 |
on the SS+PP note...
Which begs the question: is a super mining PP race the ultimate enemy to an SD? Those minefields can't do anything about those warp 15/16 packets.
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Not really. The problem with most players who try PP is that they try to make the mineral packets their primary form of offense. Unfortunately that just doesn't work. To kill a world with 100% defenses, you need a tremendous packet traveling really, really fast. Or several packets. Either way, it's an inefficient way to dispose of a heavily defended world. Sooner or later a PP race has to get its feet dirty and go muck about with an opponent's battle group. You can't fling packets full of colonists (although the mind boggles at the idea - a W16 invasion from the comfort of your own homeworld!). You still have to go to the world you attack, destroy the defending fleet and starbase, protect your own colonists, and defend the world from others once you take it. Packets are best used in conjunction with a battle group consisting of starbase killers and LBU bombers. Timing is essential. The battle group arrives, knocks down the starbase (and pops any other foolhardy vessels in orbit), then the LBUs do their stuff and knock down the defenses. Right on their heels arrives the packet, cutting a vicious swath across the planetary population as it sheds huge pieces of mineral to impact across the surface of the planet (I get all excited about packets...can you tell). Right after the packet your invasion fleet arrives. If your packet didn't completely eliminate planetary population, your colonists will. And there's lots and lots of minerals lying conveniently on the surface for your colonists to pick up and use. Now your battle fleet has become a defending fleet until your captured world can defend itself.
Against an SD, you still have to sweep the fields before you attack. If the SD is using freighters to move population or intercept packets, it can't detonate minefields without losing th
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