DarkFour

new update, nice.

I request a must needed update on the reference excel spreadsheet. Very helpful.

you have every reason to upgrade and NOT play SP

[quote who="runesia" reply="18" id="2534932"]hordes of ilums never scares me but i do really scared on carrier+HC spams its nearly uncounterable [/quote] COBALTS

I'm constantly balancing my fleet to deal with my opponents balance. I believe thats what everyone wanted. I am seeing more heavy entrenched battles rather than numerous LRF overruns you would usually see. LF's and flak seem stronger.

Just beat a lum spammer. Update is justice. Anyone agree?

obviously lrm's and assailants are not good counters. try strike craft?

[quote who="Greyfox2" reply="4" id="2521888"]Any build order depends a lot on your surroundings/map and whether you are playing on multiplayer or single player. You can get away with a lot more on single player. If you are playing multiplayer and put 2 civ labs up with someone less than 4 jumps away then you are begging to be rushed by anyone halfway competent. [_]-Greyfox [/quote] right.

nice on zombie

Good question. I only play TEC and I would say culture is critical, but not early. I expand really really fast using Sova Akan combo, and instead of researching trade , I invest in infrastructure. Once I find the chokes, I get repair bays and culture going on the planet or stroid before I fleet and trade up. This is a 1v1 scenario, for in team play culture doesnt hurt u as much because your empire is not spread as far. Culture is also good when u breach a players empire

You have no idea the blasphemy you speak.

[quote who="BlackHawk141" reply="58" id="2495773"]Darfkfour I would offer you some advice, but after that game where it clearly said it was a 5v5 STAR vs STAR game, and you thought it was FFA (OH MY GOD), and after 30 minsutes of begging you to allie with the team in my star, which messed us up, you then took half of our map, about 12 planets, and only got 35 creds a sec, then when klmz had a fleet of 50 illums, you counter was 6 carriers, and 2 sovas, nice work bro. then you started ri

[quote who="Agent of Kharma" reply="7" id="2495549"]So kharma, were you that newb easy random in one of my games last night that couldnt kill a small fleet with sova in them? No, I wasn't in your game, because you are one of the many people on my ignore list, and I don't play with or against any people on my ignore list. I've smurfed you before, and I don't like to play with you. I know your tags - Elrosh and {SB}=>Elrosh - and I won't play with anyone who has those

[quote who="Elrosh" reply="5" id="2495502"]So kharma, were you that newb easy random in one of my games last night that couldnt kill a small fleet with sova in them? [/quote] Hey, THOSE SOVAS WERE MINE! Is kharma "easy random"?

I am a TEC player who starts out with 2 caps (Akan + Sova) then add two more Sovas and two Dunovs. I have to say I've noticed the change and I love it. I've won games with just using capital ships alone. I will say however anything over 6 is rediculous because of the price on taxation.

Ive seen a vasari player use mines offensively. Every time i would engage him mines would spread out all around his cap followed by repair cloud. Never seen anyone do that before.

[quote who="MindsEye" reply="53" id="2488990"] Depends on what your killing but thats way to many caps for me.If you go marza dont build another unless it will be extremely helpful until it hits level 6.Lrf or bombers could win you the game. [/quote] Im talkin late game 1v1 random small. I dont get much newbs 1v1 cuz they have some complex of being scared to be on their own. just played a game where the guy took 3/4ths of the map with scouts and turrets

Whats the typical late TEC fleet? I usually come out with 1 akkan, 3 sovas, 2 dunov, 30 kodiaks, 30 bots, 20 flak, with a couple stacks of cobalts moving ahead of me. Not a fan of LRF or bombers.

Fighters that block out the sun. Gaurdians, Bombers, and Illums cant touch them.

The new race should be the faction that the vasari's were running from, am i right?

From what it looks like Repulse is here to stay. I'd rather have an ability to beat repulse than just take it out. If sabotage reactor truly is the only counter, thats retarded. I had 20 cobalts running towards them and the illums just shot them down. As I understand bombers are anti-heavy, so we will see how effective they are tomorrow morning. At least we know why the TEC exiled these freaks....seriously. Death to the Unity.

Alright, I just got done playing 1v1 against an advent player. After a few skirmishes it ended up being his prog and 2 halc's vrs my akan, 2 sovas, and 1 LEVEL SIX DUNOV. I was basically unapproachable till he massed bombers illums and guardians and just split through my fleet with repulse and took out one cap at a time starting with my akan. I had bots, kodiaks and fighters up the ying yang including a few cielos, but that means nothing when there on either side of each other.

can we get an updated version?

link is broken so unpin it

[quote who="SageWon" reply="14" id="2473008"] Advent Illums, scouts, & disciples are all overpowered. The race is definitely unbalanced with the current patch. [/quote] Agreed