I was playing the 'seige' campiagn last night. I was playing alot, over and over even. Yes, really. I got my butt handed to me many many times. I prefered 'normal' difficutly.
At first I thought that since any shot fired from a dread lord at my ship ment certain death, cargo hulls were the same as normal. They just hold more weapons and engines so they can get first shot and win before dying. Nope. Logistics limit that far too much.
So then I think (new game), why not build lots and lots and lots of tiny ships? They are far cheaper and more can fit in a fleet. Of course that worked better since the rest get to fire again after one dies. I built them like crazy. I had 7 fleets of 14 built before the Dread Lords even showed up.
I destroyed their first battle ship with 2 losses in my first fleet. Then I sent all of them to their homeworld and devistated their entire fleet in orbit one ship at a time using only one of my fleets, without loosing any ships.
At this point, I had researched the entire line of planetary invasion through shock troops, so it was no sweat to stomp on 10 million DLs.
At this point, I have a massive fleet compared to the Drengin and Yor, so piece of cake.
The wierd point about all this is that the Dregin and Yor only had shields on any of their ships. No weapons at all. They just kept building more with sheilds alone each time I blew one up. I also had no one left after a ground invasion (0 remaining on both sides) in this game. So I am wondering....
Did anyone else find this easy once they got the right stratagy, or was my game a bit too easy?
