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Re: HE - usable? Wed, 04 December 2002 17:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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PP's are certainly not weak and they really are the planetary doom makers some noobs think they are. A PP can take out ANY planet within range and dodging doesn't help as much as some folks think it does. As PP once you have forced your opponent to start dodging, those people are not producing and enemy production starts shrinking. Although a PP's worst nightmare is fighting an IS race that has lots of orgies over filling planets so it becomes very difficult to depopulate a world. Once a world is depopulated the defenses and starbase are gone so rebuilding takes time. The cheap IS defenses means they can build back up faster.

While any PRT in right hands and circumstances can be deadly, the reality is that certain PRT's: CA, JOAT, IS (and to some extent IT) all have better power curves available. Some PRT's such as WM's SS and SD's have advantages that make them able to compete with the power curves of the other races, at least for awhile anyway. PP's and HE's while deadly, generally don't have the economics (including the cost advantages of cheaper weapons, better minelayers, hidden ships ,etc.) the other PRT's do. Additionally they are harder to play. PP's you've got to think in terms of strategic iniatives since your primary advantage is the ability to attack planets from range and not destroy the factories and mines. HE's are a massive amount of MM. Incidentally HE's can rapidly run out of fleets. If you have a hundred planets producing ships and it takes two years to gather the ship production that's three hundres fleets used up in just your ship production.



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