| Re: AR and Smart Bombing |
Thu, 18 January 2007 04:17   |
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 iztok |
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Registered: April 2003
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Hi!
| Iconian wrote on Wed, 17 January 2007 23:02 |
Maybe AR bombers and smart bombs could be useful for something. How about in an alliance? The smarts would kill a large portion of the population, and then the AR colonizers could finish off the remaining colonists.
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Using 20000 colonizers  ? You must be joking  . IMO the only feasible approach to preserve some installations is by destroying ~50% of them, and finishing planet off with two-three packets. All other approaches are either too expensive or kill too many installations on the planet. Late game defenses are a real PITA if one wants to preserve factories. 
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Most players don’t build defenses for quite a while...
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... and those are the first to be wiped out by packet attacks. When the war starts, are defenses the second thing one builds on endangered planets, the first one obviously being an armed orbital. So attacking with ships/bombers isn't so "free" as is at the first strike.
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Before smarts:Before smarts or defenses, you could go in with 475 AR bombers
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Please tell me where the heck will an mineral-limited AR get enough minerals for 475 colonizers in this phase of the game?
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Probably the best candidate would be an HP WM with a low growth rate and expensive factories and mines with TT ...
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You can met such a strange beast only in beginners game. HPs aim at the late game. WM with its weak defenses is one of the worst races for the late game.
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Defender:And what about the enemy? ...
The best target would probably be a 3i low growth HE with tons of factories and mines and OBRM that hasn’t built defenses yet, with a low level of and expensive energy tech...
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Yeah, true, if it would exist. The real strenght of those 3-immune low growth HEs is they can afford LOTS of god things, many cheap techs being one. Since they know they're a target, they likely have the tech that provides more protection (energy) at least normal, if not cheap.
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It would be interesting to see the AR-WM-IT combination in a huge unive |
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