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Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful?

Tue, 16 December 2008 11:19

johng316

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Yes, this attitude that HE is weak is a holdover from several years ago. Previously, the 4-5% HE was considered unbeatable, and then Jason Cawley and Barry Kearns and others wrote about 25K by 2450 and proved that a HG CA, HG IS, HG WM, HG - anything could stomp the low growth tri-immune HE. From there, HE was then flip-flopped from strongest to among the weakest as play styles adjusted in the Stars community.

But there are still many situations where HE can be very effective and competitive, so I think it is a mistake to count them out or overlook them.

Personally, I think winning a Stars! game is probably only 40% race design. The other 60% is luck (some), strategy and tactical strength (much) and diplomacy (most). A great race design won't save you if you are vastly unlucky or suck at tactics OR diplomacy. I'd go as far as to say that a great race design will probably doom you if you suck at diplo.

John

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		Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 16 December 2008 08:43
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: mlaub on Tue, 16 December 2008 09:18
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: iztok on Tue, 16 December 2008 09:21
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: johng316 on Tue, 16 December 2008 11:19
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: vonKreedon on Tue, 16 December 2008 13:36
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: johng316 on Tue, 16 December 2008 16:06
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: joseph on Wed, 17 December 2008 05:57
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: ccmaster on Thu, 18 December 2008 03:53
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: mlaub on Thu, 18 December 2008 10:03
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: mlaub on Thu, 18 December 2008 10:05
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: vonKreedon on Thu, 18 December 2008 13:27
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: iztok on Fri, 19 December 2008 02:19
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: mlaub on Fri, 19 December 2008 10:08
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: vonKreedon on Fri, 19 December 2008 11:41
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 20 December 2008 00:55
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: GJScarritt on Sat, 20 December 2008 04:13
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: mlaub on Sat, 20 December 2008 13:41
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: Altruist on Sat, 20 December 2008 17:51
		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: mlaub on Sat, 20 December 2008 19:13
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		Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful? By: GJScarritt on Sun, 21 December 2008 01:21
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