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Coyote wrote on Tue, 18 September 2012 07:56I wouldn't necessarily say that you'd lose without RS, but I would say that it's easily worth 100 RW points.
Luckily RS doesn't cost 100 pts but mostly +/- 10 to 20 pts depending on the number of chosen LRTs.
And I have to admit that I usually take it even with energy expensive. The first CC equipped with bazookas and 4 shields, even with the lowest shields, just looks so much better with RS. And armour is just too expensive and too heavy. The weight leads to 3 disadvantages:
* higher fuel usage
* moving first on the battle board and thus in danger of getting outmanoeuvred
* too heavy for gates (not really an IT-problem, though)
While shields are great: low cost, lowest weight, allows stacked shields, amd damage taken often enough is completly gone after the battle or at least a lot lower than without (stacked) shields.
Early on forts and especially docks rule for defense, they can fence off quite a lot (until fleets get bigger and even stations play only a minor role for defense). RS comes with a mixed blessing early on: absolutely great vs attacks with lasers but with a serious drawback vs torps. Torps are the Achilles' heel of forts and even docks have problems fencing off, let's say, 10 DD with beta-torps (especially when equipped with a RS-shield *grin). But for the fort/dock defense vs torps gets even more problematic with RS.
So, no doubt about RS being a great thing and usually I take it. But I can't remember a game of which I'd say that I had lost it without RS. And if RS would cost 100pts, I'd choose RS only in special cases and nolonger almost always.
Addon: I do like it to play with RS and energy expensive but when other players take it cheap. Just looked it up: My last game I finished with en9 (3 starting techs, 5 conquered, 1 researched).
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