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And the tech tree varies from game to game. $20 this weekend!!!

On second thought, EadTaes and EmpReb are right. LF counter Carriers hard LRM counter LF hard But as of 1.02 and 1.16 Carriers can't counter LRMs anymore. We are missing the hard counter to LRMs. As of now it's a soft one. I'm hoping the patch that'll be out in the next few days will balance this back out Anyone care to way in on bombers? Bombers seem to be able to hard counter HCs to me cause flak can't murder them as bad. What are your

I agree for the most part. The build rate penalty to strike craft is too harsh. Because of it the cheep and easy counter is a hand full of flak. I'm glad you brought up Light Frigates. I would also like to be a little bold and say the Light Frigate is too nerfed against LRM. An LRM is more powerful and has greater range and as long as you have crystal, cheep to build. But then the LF suffers a 25% DPS nerf against LRM while the LRM gets a 50% BUFF!?!?!?!? Is it any wonder fe

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Check here for an excellent guide Entrenchment Unit Basics and Tips Only the Vassari starbase is mobile so it is the Vassari attacker of other starbases. Only Advent and Vassari can deploy mines in a gravity well they do not own because they have units to do it. TEC is stuck in their own planets making mines with their logistic constructors only.

I don't have them but you may want to check out Field Commander or R-Type Command Both are turn based and IGN rated them high. (Heck I might have to give them a look since Sins has turned me on to strategy games) If you liked the Full Spectrum Warrior series on the PC you might want to give SOCOM: U.S.

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="3" id="2223313"]First of all a common misconception: the Akkan is not a low damage capital ship; its DPS is actually just a hair below the Marza, putting it at second place overall for its faction. The catch is that it's a side-shooter, so half its firepower comes out of one side and half on the other. If there are no enemies on one side, its firepower is cut in half. Maneuver the Akkan into a good position and it easily matches a Marza for

Using 5 or 6 flak as escort can fully suppress 14-15 squads of fighters and make them almost ineffective against about 20 LRMs. Good luck getting light frigates anywhere near the flak with 20 LRMs protecting them. I agree something needs to change. If fixing LRM spam was the goal before then the 75% build penalty against carriers has reversed the trend.

How does GalCivII:UE install and launch? I got the Ultimate bundle before UE came out so I have 3 separate icons for GCII, GC:DA, and GC:TotA. I can launch either as the launcher and switch chapters if I want. Just curious. FYI SotS:U has 1 icon and launches the Murder of Crows. So far I like it. It's like SoaSE and GalCivII had a baby. Interesting how you can target parts of a ship in tactical mode.

I snagged Making History this weekend. I couldn't pass that up for $9.99.

I saw it last night finally. I'm an old school Star Trek fan. I loved the old series because it had good drama with the charactors and interesting "what if" senarios. So what do I think of this new reboot. They nailed it!!!!! They rebooted the time line so anything goes now. What I mean by that is you can't assume that everything is going to work out in the end because we know everything that is going to happen. No. By rebooting it and making a new time line they now have a new story

[quote]The TEC have the easiest time here, since their HC share their weaponry with Fighters and upgrading autocannons is quite cheap as well.[/quote] Good point. I still think going with a Mazra cap would be better than Kol even though Kol's weapons are mostly auto cannon.

[quote who="EadTaes" reply="18" id="2182554"] Also earlier i forgot to mention that advent fighters ahve the same weapon type as their LFs. So for advent: Scouts, LFs, Fighters, Support cruisers, HCs all share the same weapon type. I see lots of money beign saved on upgrades and invested in ships instead.[/quote] I had thought Advent would be the easiest race to use this way. The research tiers in Advent get to the units and weapons needed quicker. The scouts are so tough too.</

And it has a 5 activation limit DRM via Tages......woo hoo........ even with Steam. Like that makes any sense.

Ah. The devil is in the details. Thanks.

In this linked post Light Frigate vs Long Range Frigate Strategy Click on the link to user name -Ue_Mercury It will take you to the profile of user Citizen I tried to [ctrl][F5] and switched browsers but it keeps going to Citizen. Even the Karma does.

Make a demo and I'll try it. Wow. Much more buzz about this game than I thought there would be.

@P5yy Well I'll be dipped!!! THANK YOU!! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Thanks to your tips I actually got an LF fleet to beat an LRM fleet. 3 carriers with 11 LF vs 3 carriers with 14 LRMs. I ended up losing 2 LFs but I think that was only because I got cocky and turned my fleet to attack the 4 remaining LRMs. I kited my carriers one way and my LF the other. It took some micro but with some practice I hope I can get better at it.

[quote who="SageWon" reply="6" id="2179595"] Whip, you keep bringing this up. Don't you realize that they will most-likely always be incompatible. There are too many major differences: trade routes, superweapons, flak/carriers, not to mention starbases. How would a vanilla player fare against an Entrenchment player that could deploy starbases? Impossible. [/quote] Perhaps there would be a way to seamlessly see both types o

[quote who="Cykur" reply="12" id="2179487"] All things being equal, LRM will shred LF, even if you manage to get things a bit in your favor from skillful micro. This whole thread about "Light Frigate" strategies is missing the point -- you don't set your fleet composition despite what your opponent is doing, you set out to implement a fleet strategy in answer to what your opponent is doing. A light frigate strategy is not going to work in the face of an

[quote who="ChrisDavis" reply="24" id="2178810"]Give me researsh for a ship to be able to steal star ships and capital ships and let me be able to steal other races buildings so i can have a little of say tec ships and advent frigits[/quote] That sounds really interesting and doable in a micro expansion. I would love to see something like stealing bases and ships or maybe add mixed factions of Vasari + TEC, Vasari + Advent, TEC + Advent, ext.... Just drea

[quote who="P5yy" reply="8" id="2178215"]LF strategy can work... Understand that LFs sitting still firing at LRFs sitting still..theres only going to be one winner. So Start circling LFs. Move the targeted LF , then use the other LFs behind it do cheeky kills on LRFs chasing the forward LF. [/quote] I tried this last night but failed badly. My microing skills probably need more work. I could not get the LF that I wanted to use as bait to move quickly enough to ki

Thank you all for your replys. It confirms what I had been experiencing that focusing on LFs will get you killed in MP unless you have overwhelming numbers. I was hoping to hear from EadTaes too. The only early counter to LRMs is The Raging Scout Spam It does work. 2 scouts beat 1 LRM. If you go 2 scouts to 1 LRM the scouts will win and only lose half their numbers.

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="2177790"]It's worth noting that the archives created this way are specific to the OS on which they were created. So, if you made an archive on Vista, you can't install from it on XP, and vice versa. The Impulse Anywhere archives should be independent of OS and can be installed on either.[/quote] Hmm. Good to know.

[quote who="-Ue_Mercury" reply="2" id="2177714"] LF are great fleet support in the end game WITH their researched abilities. I don't know what your talking about LFs being strong against cruisers other than the support cruisers because HC walk over LF like nothing even with noticible numerical advantages.[/quote] You're right and I should clarify. LF are good against cruisers but not Heavy Cruisers. LF are given a 50% boost in firepower against heavy armor only and th