Help Kinda Newb at this wonderful game

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Hey guys my mobo outa my main comp is away for repares and my spare is limited so i decided to reinstall gal civ 2 and play it as its a cool game.

i have played it before and know how to play but not very well. i keep geting attacked and shrunk down on the "achileese heel" i think is spelled on the dread lords campagn like mission 4 or somthing. i genral a planet make a few farms maybe a lab or 2. i seem to run out of money and lose all my fleets and planets quick.

shuld i dedicate planets to one thing eg all farms ect. or keep them mixed. and what shuld be the first tree to go for wepons defence. or tech. eny help and tips you can give will help. also shuld i run my money down a bit and colonise as meny worlds as i can early?

thanks in advance.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The very first techs I go for are Sensors, Ion Drive, Diplomatic Relations, and Trade. Then I hit one line of offensive weapons tech, usually beam, but sometimes missle. If playing Dark Avatar, I work the extreme colonization techs pretty quick.

You can build planets in different ways with good results. You can either specialize or generalize them. Personally, I concentrate higher class planets on production (mostly factories) and lower class planets on making money (mostly econ buildings). Morale is a tough one so most planets get only one farm. Higher class planets that can spare the tiles for a few entertainment buildings might get two. I don't build nearly as many labs as markets, but I also run very fast tech so I don't need to. There are some extreme planet building strategies that work, but the basic production/econ strategy is where most people should probably start. I have played a few of those, but I mostly play production/econ.

Hope that helps

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My planetary development scheme is pretty much the opposite of CraigHB's. All my planets get a few factories, so they can build their other improvements. My low-quality planets are mostly factories and labs. My good planets have some factories, a farm, a morale building, and lots of market buildings. I do this because you make much money by having a high population and many market buildings on the same planet.

Against the dreadlords in the original GC2, a good tactic is to build large fleets of tiny ships with good weapons and no defenses. This is because any ship can only kill one enemy ship each round. The dreadlords will kill your ships, but losing one tiny each round minimizes the damage you take.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
thanks for the tips. i had started hit and die tactics with smaller ships vs the lord as when i tryed to max defence they still got owned. thanks for the tips guys il try them out. i was building mostly farms didnt relise
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Against the dread lords it's usually best to build all-offensive ships: your defenses won't help a lot anyway against their massive firepower + all-offense increases the chances of you destroying a DL ship.
If you have a choice between different kinds of weapons, choose the one for which the DL ships don't have any defenses (though I seem to remember you had no choice in that campaign level)
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Let me add something to this as well - if your playing the DL campaign build fleets and fleets of low tech single shot fighters (make sure that they have different weapons as well), if you do what I did and build ultra expensive capital ships you'll lose big time against the dread lords.

I had one hell of a game towards the end of one mission where I had a massive empire and they had one star system and were slowly beating me!!!   

Someone on the forums told me this - and I was able to turn the fight around, just!

Rememeber also that this works only in DL and not in DA.