Planetary Invasion for REAL Men!
J. M. Pescado:
The Grox are kinda in the center of the galaxy. It is a LOOONG way away. And Grox colonies are reportedly easier than homeworlds.
kewian:
You think mini bomb is good.. try Mega bomb . ;D It doesnt take much for them to beg for mercy.
Gus Smedstad:
I used to command a wimpy empire, pushed around by every Spodist in my spiral arm. Then I got J.M. Pescado's Free Book on how to be a real man, and now I've invaded several enemy homeworlds without calling in allied mercenaries!
Really, just knowing that ship strength depends on the number of colonies in the empire has been very helpful. Whittling away at the weak T0 colonies makes the T2s and T3s much easier when their time comes. Choosing tag-alongs from the big empires has greatly improved their survival rate. While it's true they aren't very useful for taking enemy planets, they do make short work of the interceptors that show up whenever you enter enemy territory.
It's true that the way to win is to concentrate on bombing and ignore just about everything else, particularly turrets. Though taking out defending ships is worthwhile if you can do so quickly and without much effort.
- Gus
Marvin Kosh:
Here's a couple of useful keys that weren't in the manual:
Home zooms you up out of the atmosphere, or after just a couple of presses out of the solar system entirely.
End is basically the same but zooming in the way or down below the radar.
The Page Up and Page Down keys will pitch the camera up and down, but those aren't useful for getting in and out of bombing range quickly.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2008 September 26, 19:28:29
It's true that the way to win is to concentrate on bombing and ignore just about everything else, particularly turrets. Though taking out defending ships is worthwhile if you can do so quickly and without much effort.
It's really only "quick" and "effortless" to take out enemy ships if you have things like the megalaser and megaproton, or even antimatter, and your enemy ships don't have 1K+ HP. If you can destroy them in two or three shots, go ahead and take them out. If all you have is a minimissile and minilaser, forget it.
However, did you know that you can actually destroy even very big enemy ships with your BOMB? Yes, that's right, you can BOMB enemy ships. Occasionally, they can collide with the bomb (and be killed nearly instantly because the megabomb does 1.8K HP vs. the megamissile's 120, and even the minibomb does 300). Also, if you are very low when bombing, or the enemy buildings are very high, you can drop a bomb that impacts with the building immediately, destroying all enemy ships caught in the blast. I have killed more enemy ships with bombs while invading than I have with missiles or lazors.
Also, to get additional damage in a fight, use your lazor against enemies while the missile launcher is reloading. This is useful when defending a weak colony or trying to take out a pesky defender quickly so you can bomb unopposed.
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