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Re: Meta-morph Mon, 19 January 2004 21:54 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Sotek wrote on Sat, 03 January 2004 02:36

The problem with your cloaked metamorph fleet is illustrated in the following scenario:

You have a cloaked metamorph fleet. I don't know about it. You also have enough bombers to take out my worlds in one year.

I'm foolish and have no cruisers.

First year... you hit a world of mine. Suddenly, I know about your fleet and where it is.
I lose a world, but you lose surprise. I design and build a cruiser fleet that will *crush* your metamorphs; not difficult if I have a reasonable-sized empire right now, given the limited number of slots you have left after your cloaks.

Second year: My cruisers finish. You kill another world. I still know where you are.

Third year: My cruisers gate together and kill your metamorphs. I now have a warfleet that can react to things much quicker than yours, and can go on the offensive.
Total cost: Two worlds.
Gain: The initiative.

Now, yes, you can bring more fleets in, but at this point I'm ready, and can either use agressive scanning combined with minefields, or abandon defense somewhat and take the offensive to you.

And then you'd be stuck doing what HE does very poorly; defending.
Funny how none of this is the way it has happened to me in the past. You failed to explain how you know where my cloaked meta-fleet is on turn three when you engage and destroy them. I guess you are assuming that I launched my attack with a handfull of metas without having your orbits under observation, am ignorant of your reactionary buildup and am predictably waltzing from one planet to the next. Laughing

The world is full of "foolish" people who procrastinate building warships that will soon be obsolete until they absolutely must (and I don't think that is necessarily foolish). I've never seen the opponent who can build a fleet of cruisers in two turns that will defeat my meta-fleet that it took me 10 years to build, and if I did see such an opponent I'm probably toast anyways but it's unlikely that I'd be drawing first blood with him.
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