Ok, this is the first of 4 threads [obviously] that I'm going to make. I'm sure others will have comments to make about their views and own takes on the stats (while pointing out how long since I last played seriously
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Terran are by any extent not the most defensive of races. They're a fairly strong race offensively. Because of their high armour and low damage, they're
meant to take losses and capture asteroids.
Destroyer Fleet.
Drake (De -> Cr)
Pegasus (De -> Fi)
Chimera (De -> Bs)
Lynx (De -> Roids)
Anti De:
Phoenix (Co -> De)
Syren (Cr -> De)
Roach (Cr -> De)
Pulsar (Fi -> De)
Bomber (Fr -> De)
Pirate (Bs -> De)
Looking at the universe, there's a lot of Anti De around.
You can mass Drakes and spend all round hitting Cathaar, if you want, or mass Chimera and hit Ziks untill they steal better ships. They're fairly simple.
You could also use Gryphons and retal Terrans with their Cr/Bs out.
Xan depend on whether they invest resources more in Pulsars or Bombers.
Bombers aren't going to be pleasant - unless you send along Wyverns like some sort of madman, it's going to be 0 loss defence and you're going to hurt quite a lot. Get out the calculator and see how much dies :-). Otherwise, depending on a Peg/Puslar ratio, you can probably scare a lot of Pulsars away (or at least Pulsar defence to others you're hitting). Pulsars aren't too strong.
Battleships:
Syren (Cr -> De)
Dragon (Bs -> Cr)
Wyvern (Bs -> Fr)
Leviathan (Bs -> Roids)
Behemoth (Cr -> Stru) (obviously optional).
Anti Bs(/Cr):
Drake: De-> Cr
Chimera: De -> Bs
Dragon: Bs -> Cr
Widowmaker: De -> Bs
Scarab: De-> Cr
Black Widow: Cr -> Bs
Ghost: Fr-> Cr
Peacekeeper: De-> Bs
Clipper: Fr -> Bs
Buccaneer: Cr-> Bs
As you can see, 3/6 of the anti Bs ships are De class, so it's often worth sending the Syren along as a helpful-but-expendable ship, to reduce losses (it also has generally better stats than the Bs ships).
You could try a Bs/Cr combo on Cathaar, use Dragons on low-Clipper Ziks (probably earlier in the round, as Ziks tend to concentrate on stealing more ships at the beginning of the round)
Terrans aren't so helpful: Drakes AND Dragons fire on your Cr (though I doubt many Terrans will have both), even though Syrens fire on hostile Chimera.
Xan will be very much dependant on fleet composition. Syrens work fine vs Peacekeepers, but it's very likely that Xans will mass Ghosts to keep both Cathaar and Terran away.
I think that Terran might be like last round - not a favourite, but not bad if played well and with decent alliance support (especially if there aren't so many Terrans around - after a while, people won't build so much Terran defence (e.g. Bombers/Pulsars/Phoenix) as they'll be concentrating on other defence).
Ship that will be most underrated: Wyvern. It'll be essential for ingal defence vs Xan Fr.
Suggested fleet combos:
Either build
Phoenix/Gryphon/De/Wyvern, or Harpy/Gryphon/Chimera/Syren/Bs.
Either way you have ships that target all classes.
With the first option, the Gryphon is ingal defence vs Co (and Xan Fi/Co fleets if you're brave
), and the Wyvern is ingal defence vs Xan Fr. The Phoenix is alliance defence for De, and the Drake/Chimera can be used for alliance defence when not on attack. Obviously this is more beneficial to your galaxy than alliance
.
The other option gives the Harpy, Chimera (and Drake if you want to build that too!) as alliance defence, and the Gryphon (and Wyvern when it's home) as ingal defence.
Now I'll let you all pelt this and I'll try another race
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