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Robbing planets Tue, 17 October 2006 09:41 Go to next message
knightpraetor is currently offline knightpraetor

 
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I'm confused, how do SS go about this. Er rather i know you can, but i was wondering is there any way to have a battle plan where your ship will sit where it is, fight armed ships that come at it, and then disengage?

it seems you have a choice between fighting the starbase and enemy ships or disengaging while the enemy ships fire on you

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Re: Robbing planets Thu, 02 November 2006 06:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Micha

 

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Try a battle plan with "disengage" as tactic and do *not* change primary and secondary target to "disengage". Your ship will fight armed ships that come at it and disengage after 7 moves. It will not sit still but move backwards and it might not kill all enemy ships (if that is what you want?) since it won't wait for that before disengaging ...

So something like:

Prim Target = Armed ships
Sec Target = Any
Tactic = Disengage
Attack Who = Enemies

Your ship will not move forward and try to kill the starbase this way.


However you can just sent in an unarmed superfast rogue/galleon with a robber scanner and get out off the battle ASAP without bothering to kill anything, as long as your ships survives you can pick up his minerals and run away next turn ...

mch

[Updated on: Thu, 02 November 2006 06:46]

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Re: Robbing planets Thu, 02 November 2006 23:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ptolemy is currently offline Ptolemy

 
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Another good thing to do with your Robber Baron Rogues is ahve some hanging around with your battle fleets. You hit a planet, blast the station and defending ships then upload all of one mineral - preferably the one that the planet has the lowest concentration in. There won't be any starbase getting buit again very soon this way. When using this strategy, use a Rogue that has a weapon. I usually put a gatling weapon on the rogue for sweeping. This way the rogue can't be hit by the defender having a couple ships set to target unarmed ships first.

Lastly, what you do with enemy planets that you can't live on is turn them into slave mining labor. Don't bomb the hell out of them. Park some missile ships in orbit to kill any orbital that ever gets built and pick up all the mined mienrals each turn. I generally like to bomb them down some to reduce their resource output then make the survivors slave miner. But that's just me because when I play SS I'm just plain mean. Laughing

Keep in mind one thing with the robber baron - you cant use the waypoint one zip orders to load on arrival. You CAN set the ship specifically to load iron, boranium and germanium on arrival and it will.

Ptolemy

[Updated on: Fri, 03 November 2006 00:51]





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Re: Robbing planets Fri, 03 November 2006 00:44 Go to previous message
Marduk is currently offline Marduk

 
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Ptolemy wrote on Thu, 02 November 2006 23:00

But that's just me because when I play SS I'm just plain mean. Laughing

Come on in, the evil's fine...

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