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How to Fight against The Maw

June 21, 2012 11:38:34 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I tried with TEC, and only found Dunovs (Lv 4) are not fast enough to remove all the anti-matters from Vorastra. It seems when facing against The Maw, a severe loss is inevitable.

I think even carriers can't escape the fate of doom, since Vorastra can jump directly before their noses and use The Maw.

So, how do you deal with that huge vacuum cleaner? Or at least, how to control the loss as less as possible? Thanks!

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Reply #1 June 21, 2012 11:43:40 AM
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There isn't a real counter to the mini phase jump and Vorastra maw.

If the Vorastra even gets to level 6 then I think you have to re-examine your play style because it's the weakest of the titans before level 6. Alternatively you can just send capitals and titans to it alone big problem is that the Vorastra is accompined by a fleet always.

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Reply #2 June 21, 2012 11:54:00 AM
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Keep your frigates moving. The maw has a bit of a harder time against targets already in motion.

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Reply #3 June 21, 2012 1:06:59 PM
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If you see a LV 6 vorastra spread your frigs apart. Once the maw is active it cant move and it only lasts ten seconds.

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Reply #4 June 21, 2012 2:01:48 PM
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Sprint for your Kodiaks use the TECs superior capital maneuvering to keep the Maw wheeling about...break up fleets and mass only cheap and dispensable units to draw fire from the more important ones...LRFs kept in motion and at range...watch the facing of the Maw and anticipate what positions it might microwarp to...have a backup element to move in once the Maw is used...hit it with ability disrupting attacks.

 

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Reply #5 June 21, 2012 4:53:16 PM
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If your about to get eaten then your going to get eaten. 

 

{You should have killed it before it reached level 6)

 

 

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Reply #6 June 21, 2012 7:23:57 PM
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Best way to deal with the Maw is spamming massive amounts of corvettes. Assuming the one using the titan doesn't have it backed up with Sentinels...

If that is the case, well, you should try to lure the titan into one of your defended gravity wells and hope for the best.

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Reply #7 June 21, 2012 8:51:57 PM
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Might be hard with the TEC, but just use the Vasari and build a couple of Kortul Devastators and level them up so they have ability disrupting and shield recharging abilities only and they can take care of the antimatter and take a beating. Then send in the rest of your fleet to pound it home. But a lot of the other ways to beat the Vorastra posted here work well too.

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Reply #8 June 21, 2012 11:15:27 PM
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Thanks guys, so the only way is to keep moving? But I think the splash damage may also hurt... maybe.

Quoting RiddleKing,
reply 6
{You should have killed it before it reached level 6)

Well when fighting with 7 AI FFA everything can happen

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Reply #9 June 21, 2012 11:46:17 PM
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The biog trick is to get the Vasari player to "prematurely maw" on disposable forces and then hit it hard while it is maw-less.

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Reply #10 June 22, 2012 5:42:21 AM
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Quoting Sinperium,
reply 10
"prematurely maw"

Ummm... so you are suggesting to "dispose" some flaks and corvettes? Because they are cheap enough? OK I will try, thank you.

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Reply #11 June 22, 2012 11:54:49 PM
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Quoting gundamlit,
reply 11



Quoting Sinperium,
reply 10
"prematurely maw"


Ummm... so you are suggesting to "dispose" some flaks and corvettes? Because they are cheap enough? OK I will try, thank you.

That may work on an ai but no human player is gonna waste the maw on such craft unless there is a lot there, or they forgot to turn autocast off.

I would use a group of cruisers and lrf frigs as sacrifices and then hit with the bulk of my forces after, but you need to make the baitr look enticing enough for the other player to use it.

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Reply #12 June 23, 2012 2:33:15 AM
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IF your advent you can use the Illums illusion ability to make it seem like their are more of them then there are at first glance so an enemy might try and use the jump maw combo to take out what seems like a massive amount of Illums when in reality most of them are fake and the real ones are hiding in a adjacent grav well.

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