So I was playing my first game, medium map vs 3 other AI. I got placed next to a back planet with no access but the one i had to it, so I took that planet over, switched my home planet and made my old home planet a major base (lots of turrets and stuff). Spent about an hour building up both planets, took some asteroid and built up its defenses. anyways so after an hour and a half I decided to start attacking people. I built some frigates, missle frigates, 2 battle ships, and went to the planet (asteroid really) in front of me. The alien guys had colonized it, so I quickly slaugterd the few frigates there and what not (im tec) and took over the planet.
Just then I got a message "incoming hostile forces" and stuff and zoomed out and saw a crap load of ships jumping in. I decided to try and fight them, and when they came in the battle begin. I took out a few of their smaller ships, a cruiser or 2, then...I got hit with some weird white...aoe spell thing. It totally disabled my ships ability to use special attacks and took down my shields. I moused over the ships and almost wet myself.
They had a "mother ship".
A mother ship?! How do I get one of those? Needless to say they killed my Kol battleship, I had a carrier jump in at the last second and with the other battle ship (colonizer one) I took out the mothership but had to retreat. I ended up loosing my colony ship as well, and all of my frigates but I made it out. I made a long range cruiser and came back and killed the stupid remaining battleship, but...then they kind of brought their whole force and uh...yeah...i kind of stopped the game there.
In anycase, my question is how do I get a mothership? Is that race specific, or can the tec get it? It looked cool and hurt like a mother.
Sorry for the lack of ability to know the different races. I just got the game today.
