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Re: Why is HE not considered as powerful?

Tue, 16 December 2008 16:06

johng316

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vonKreedon wrote on Tue, 16 December 2008 13:36

johng316 wrote on Tue, 16 December 2008 08:19

SNIP...

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.

...SNIP

John

Indeed, if you discount and overlook the HE in your galaxy it will eat you in the late game. But like AR it has to survive to grow into that galaxy devouring monster. And in somes ways HE is even more vulnerable that AR in the early game in that it is vulnerable to popdropping. I tend to look at an HE neighbor as a crop to be harvested, particularly if I'm playing IS. The HE does me the service of producing colonies everywhere and all I have to do is produce freighters and population to harvest the planets and accumulated minerals and maybe tech bonuses, and of course factories and mines on worlds I actually want, before the HE can put up a credible set of defenses. Yum!

Yeah, I hear you, but I think that most experienced HE players won't just drop 1000 people on a planet and leave them there to await their slaughter. They might colonize with 1000, but then a year later 20-30K more people are deposited, and a year after that you're facing 40-60K pop. These are imported from adjacent breeder worlds. And if there's an agacent breeder, you'll be facing escort ships. HE empires that are too thin are easy pickings, you are right, but it doesn't take long before a good HE player can defend. There are still weaknesses though. Lack of gates, lower planet populations, etc.

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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
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		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
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