Dread Lords ship not killed after loosing all Hit Points!

By mikkie998 on August 9, 2012 8:10:12 PM from

mikkie998

Join Date 08/2012

Hello,

I send many ships vs a Dread Lord ship and finally got it down to a few HPs.

I then sent a fleet of 3 small ship, which did enough damage to kill the enemy ship (it showed as 0 HPs in the combat view).

Yet, it still destroyed all my ships, and when combat ended, it had 1 HPs left!!!

Is this a bug, or do they have a tech that allows them to 'revive' their ship at 0 HPs?!?

Thanks for the help!

Mike

There is a 'tie rule' in the combat system. If both sides kill each other in the same round, the stronger ship survives. To beat the dreadlords, you need to bring either a ship strong enough to weather their attacks, or a swarm of weak ships large enough that they can't shoot them all down in the one round it takes to finish them.

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Geez.. not fair!!

I think that dread lors has like 10 weapons - does it means I need 11 ships to really 'kill it' ?

It there a way to DISABLE that 'tie rule'?

THANKS for replying!!! I though I was going NuTz...

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Quoting mikkie998,

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I think that dread lors has like 10 weapons - does it means I need 11 ships to really 'kill it' ?

That is one way, yes.

It's a core part of the combat system and cannot be disabled.

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However, if you are lucky, it probably will not take 11 ships, if one of their weapons does extremely badly on a roll (ex. a Doom Ray dealing 1 damage on a damage range of 0-22).

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