Strategy Questions

posted on May 16th, 2010, 1:37 am

I was just doing a mission in STA2.  At one point during the mission, I decided to send artillery platforms to bombard a nebula that could hide ships.  I saw a cube enter that nebula earlier, and because I saw that cube as I decimated the nearby base, I decided to use my artillery ships to try to destroy the cube.  What would be the probability of escape for the cube if it was still inside the nebula?  The nebula disables shields and sensors, slows down ship movement, and is capable of hiding ships.

Has that strategy been tried before?

posted on May 16th, 2010, 1:49 am

Aye, it's a nice one - and still applicable now if you use Serkas to bombard the Borg inside nebulae 

posted on May 16th, 2010, 2:02 am

I'm talking about the stock STA2.  Not the fleetops mod.  What is a "serka?"

posted on May 16th, 2010, 2:03 am

I was aware of that I just said it's still possible to use a similar strategy in Fleet Ops 

posted on May 16th, 2010, 2:43 am

if were talking about normal cube and not tactical cubes, the artillarey will win

posted on May 16th, 2010, 2:54 am

You can probably even get an instant kill on that cube if you have more than 5-6 of those arties too as I recall 

posted on May 21st, 2010, 12:44 am

Here's a question.  What if I built a turret for every station that I built?  When I'm able to get torpedo turrets, I simply add put those near the phaser turrets.  Would that help me last a while or would I run out of resources?

posted on May 21st, 2010, 1:42 am

I'm guessing this is for stock A2.  Against the AI which doesn't know how to counter turtling I suspect it would work well, though you should make sure you're expanding your resource production at the same time.

posted on August 30th, 2010, 9:12 pm

The big problem you'll run into is a heavy drain on officers, that will cripple your ability to produce a viable fleet.

posted on August 30th, 2010, 9:21 pm

Not if I increase the officer limit by a factor of 100!  Then it would be impossible to run out of officers.