Winning huge maps against 9 hard AI can and has been done, it's just that after a set point it starts to become a grind. With 9 AI I usually wipe out the first 2 fairly quickly and just when I'm finishing off the third or fourth it starts to get tricky. You cannot effectively defend all your front line planets and attack at the same time as one or two AI's are going to attack while your away and you either retreat and deal with it of press your attack and take two planets and then return
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Multiple home planets has been dealt with as well, You have 40 planets in each system and you place your capital near the center but the edge planets have horrible loyalty and corruption reducing your income from these planets to a pittance. You then take another star system with 40 planets and because of the two extra jumps (You moved your capital to right beside the star right?) the edge planets in your new star system are revolting and getting hit by pirates all the time right? T
NapalmEnema This question came up before and in response the large fleet option was added, it's not a perfect solution but it has made things a fair bit better, imagine being in the position you are right now but with half the fleet it was next to impossible. Unfortunately due to the fact that maps can be up scaled to absolutely massive sizes it has just postponed the issue. Don't bother with the fleet size scales with number of planets owned or population this has been tried and argued
Hi archpsi could you do me a favour and test a situation for me, it's going to sound crazy but I hear the spreadsheets don't lie. 20 TEC LRM's VS 40 Advent Scouts Scouts take up 2 pop, LRM's 4 so 2:1 sounds like the best match up. Going by the 3:1 crystal/metal:Money rule you can buy 242% more scouts though. Scouts get a 200% damage bonus V Light armour, LRM's get none against light Scouts-Hull-Shield-Armour-DPS 200$---400---425-----2----3*2=6 LRM's<br/
I've been playing for a week now and decided to up my game so came looking for the game stats. [link="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7xc_snd9Cc-6o2UwvPEWUg&gid=4"]Google Document Link[/link] Best site for me, the Damage Types section was the most enlightening of the lot and is a must read for all new players. [link="http://roe.totalgamingnetwork.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire%2C_Ships"]Wiki Link[/link] This one was way to dense for my tastes