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Re: What to get first: nubians or armageddons? |
Mon, 03 May 2010 05:57 |
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m.a@stars | | Commander | Messages: 2765
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I'd say Nubs are better, provided you don't fall too behind in Weaps tech.
The Nubian hull is lighter than the BB, way more flexible, durable, gateable, allows you to design all kinds of specialist ships...
OTOH, if everybody is stuck at BB tech and you have the best weapons to kill these comparatively weaker ships, you might get the win, too, but praying all the way nobody gets Nubs before you're ready for the final kill.
If you'll have only one advanced tech, either Const or Weaps, you'll do better with Const13 and great Weapons than otherwise.
But it all depends. Trading Weapons is easy. Nub tech is a great card in business deals out there. Everybody has seen FF hordes, CCs killing BBs, BBs killing Nubs...
Last but not least, most players take Weaps as their cheapest tech. They must really like that Radiation Terraforming...
So many Stars, so few Missiles!
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Re: What to get first: nubians or armageddons? |
Wed, 05 May 2010 07:21 |
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While speed is not the essential thing that some people believe is IMO it does become so when you have Nubs v BBs. If you are able to build Nubs with BS > 2 then you can get a lot of free shots v BB beamers if your opponent has R2 v your R3. If it's the other way around then your advantages are in ship cost & weight (weight will let you to get in range in the same battle round if the BB has BS > 1) but you would have to be able to withstand the first shot or spend a lot in Germ to out-init the BB. So you may be able to successfully use weapons that are a generation inferior.
If the beamer situ works out then u should be able to use chaff for long enough for your beamers to close in on the BB Armas once the enemy beamers are dealt with.
If tech exchange is allowed I would always take the cheap Con. If not then it's a gamble either way.
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Re: What to get first: nubians or armageddons? |
Wed, 05 May 2010 16:17 |
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Hi ,
If you are in the Middle - Endgame it never mind if you have weapon or Con cheap or both the one with more minerals will win.
Without techtrade always go for weapon cheap the BS with good weapon will kill you before you reach nubians exept you have only fools around you. ( He is not building ships ... why ? He research so attack !)
With techtrade you could try to go for con cheap and trade with your ally weapons ( most have weapon cheap), but you have to find an ally with weapon cheap or you are dead.
ccmaster
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