brianeyci wrote:Well just guessing, if you want to take down 50k phased shield points, and weapons do around 50 damage, it'll take around 30k kT to bring down a planet or 30 1000 kT ships... I would think that a fleet of 100-200 smaller ships could do it with planetary napalms.
Trogdor's played the AI so he knows how many you need for sure.
Brian
--If you make it to my home system please go ahead and try that....
Do you even need to take down planetary shielding to land troops? I thought you didn't.
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How're you going to land with a dozen weapons platforms shooting up the transport as it's coming in range?
Yeah, you can land without bringing down shields.
<edit>I also want to say, since this point of being busy's come up, that if anybody needs to take a break and quit, just say so and no questions asked you could leave, maybe let the AI or another player play your turns for you until you come back a few weeks later. This is more important now that we have three games and two RP threads running, and we're going into exam time so it might happen. Nobody is going to think less of you if you put RL ahead of a game, but better to outright withdraw than dither around.</edit>
brianeyci wrote:How're you going to land with a dozen weapons platforms shooting up the transport as it's coming in range?
-I didn't know you could land with sheilds up; that makes invasions much more doable ... not that isn't a death trap for anything, but a massive fleet.
brianeyci wrote:Nobody is going to think less of you if you put RL ahead of a game, ...</edit>
-Sacrilege! Yeah, my PI would kill me if I let gaming get in the way of writing...
GuppyShark wrote:To stand atop the burning remains of the enemies' homeworlds, the survivors kneeling before their ruler. Kneeling before Zod!
Which may come sooner than later. Especially since I think the Kryptonians and I share a cluster, and he needs to go through my system to get out. Ouch!
--You guys aren't the only ones sharing clusters....
-Personally, I suspect this game won't be over very quickly. I've got the best research so far and it will be ages before I have sufficient tech to threaten a home system. Although I guess you guys might have methods to speed up research that I don't know of....
Nah, me neither. Site must down for some reason. It's happened before, and I'm sure it'll be up again soon enough.
On troop landings on home planets, keep in mind that home worlds house several billion citizens. If if there are no defensive troops to speak of, you're still going to need one HELL of a big army to make an invasion successful.
As far as I can tell, we seem packed very closely together. Personally it wouldn't surprise me to discover that one of us has like half to galaxy to himself or something.
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Trogdor wrote:Nah, me neither. Site must down for some reason. It's happened before, and I'm sure it'll be up again soon enough.
On troop landings on home planets, keep in mind that home worlds house several billion citizens. If if there are no defensive troops to speak of, you're still going to need one HELL of a big army to make an invasion successful.
As far as I can tell, we seem packed very closely together. Personally it wouldn't surprise me to discover that one of us has like half to galaxy to himself or something.
We're all concentrated to the Galactic South-West, it seems. I've located 4 players already and am running low on breathing room.
Poor Guppy too. He's in an even worse jam from bad luck. I envy anyone in the upper right.
Unless the center was hugely empty. In which case any giant Mega Evil Empire would share borders with like 6 other people.
Gups got screwed again? Poor guy. Who's the lucky bastard(s) that has access to most of the empty space?
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"The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force."--Darth Vader
--Actually, the upper right sucks too (not so many systems and at least one player). My home system is bordered by a nebulea and another player, there are only two unoccupied systems within two jumps and two within three (both of these will be whole or partially colonized another player). None of those systems is good for my race although they aren't horribly terrible either. I've already met four players. It's looking like the upper left is vacant or perhaps the middle.
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CaptBooyah wrote:Refugees better start learning to suck up to the Reiji Federation
So...who's up for all ganging up on Booyah?
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"The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force."--Darth Vader
. How do you like my turn one scouts?