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| Re: WM the unbeatable race? |
Mon, 22 August 2005 18:13   |
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| Mosser wrote on Mon, 22 August 2005 13:45 |
I'm not saying that WM is for everyone; in fact I've been in some games as WM and got my pants handed to me in a paper bag. However, if played well, and by well I mean aggressive both in playing style and in how you handle the politics of the game, I think that WM is almost impossible to beat.
Mosser 
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Unless the WMs opponents are not doing their jobs properly, there's no way this should happen in a sufficiently balanced game. Even if a WM does manage to fight its way to 1st place, taking out half the universe, by the 60s or so, the WM is going to be at a serious tactical disadvantage when it comes to mine layers and defenses. Sure you can trade for mine layers, but you'll rarely get enough to protect you. Also, minerals are always going to be a little tight, but mostly you'll have problems w/ mobility. Those big DNs that you've waited so long to build, they're great massively powerful warships, but overgating doesn't do nice things to them. A race w/ a more mobile fleet will make minced meat of even the largest behemoths of WM. Also, those tech 5 defenses are easy fodder for anyone's packets. Good luck holding onto those tactically essential beacheads on the frontier. Then, there are the lack of mine fields. Even if you manage to trade for a few, you won't be able to flood your space with enough layers to really slow anyone hell-bent on destroying you. The quickest way to stop a WM, is to simply start attacking it. Chances are, the WM will lose far more resources before any opponent will simply due to it's massive inability to defend anything.
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