AI doesn't protect troop transports

By halby Posted July 19, 2008 15:12:57

As long as your ships are faster, all you have to do to defend against a much more powerful ai, is dodge their fighters, then swoop in and kill the troop transports...

after this happens 2 or 3 times, they should really move their fighters and troop transports onto the same tile, and bring them in together... but they dont.

This is on tough/intelligent. I was lead to believe ai behavior is the same beyond that difficulty.

Fix it

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Sending out a lone, fast troop transport can be a pretty effect strat. The AI has used it on me to good effect! It really only works if you have good intel. I usually send out unprotected transports but I always max out engines and sensors so I can see and outmaneuver enemy fleets. After (if) I get Eyes of the Universe, the unescorted transport is hard to defeat.

Yeah but probably everyone here has noticed the AI using slow unprotected transports and wiped them out with ease. It's probably not a strategy the AI will ever be able to utilize. They shouldn't even leave orbit, or be built, unless they at least have some escorts. I think it's been happening since the game first came out.... I'll stop here, obviously it's pretty disappointing.