Whoa boy that guy could sure give the DL a run for their money!
Starbases?

LOL i'm thinking ...."Diplomatic win might not be a bad idea after all"

Jeebus! I can easily get that high an attack, but not with 200 points of defence! Do they have 5 military resources or something?

Wow, that one ship is about the size of my moderate attack fleets...

Meh. That's actually kinda average.

How many mining bases do they have? You need to do some serious recon and, if fighting these guys, take out those first. Then, you need to dodge around those and take planets.

Oh, and those ships can be beaten. You need fleets with medium hulls, heavy on weapons and engines. The result is you can get a fleet with a much higher attack rating and easily take out the ship in the first round of fighing.

Master UAugust 7, 2006 18:28:11Reply #10Holy Carp! design some small ships with mass driver defense and beam for attack. make sure you research the last miniaturization

At the time the Korx attacked I had mediums with photon III and 20 Armour defense, large with antimatter I and 60 Armour defense and devastated the Korx fleets and took around 15 planets from them.

There was a lull for about 7 turns when the Korx then hit me with these escort doing a hundred plus damage each and those dreadnoughts. It was also at this time that their soldering went from 2 to 7 (I'm eleven) and for the next ten turns it was I lost all my mediums and large hull ships and while the Korx was taking my boarder worlds I retook them the next turn Transport with 1 advance module and Hyperwarp III engines 70mp.

I then mass produced a small hull (Beam was considered but I only laser III at the time and I had just stole the Black Hole generator from the Korx, as Armour had proven to be useless at this time I did not bother with it.

Net results in 15 turns I have taken 60 worlds, destroyed 100+ transport, escorts and other units, have cut off another 20 korx planets from their core worlds. The Korx have asked for peace twice and are now being dog piled by the other AIs.

At the start of this war the Korx ranged acrossed 3/4 of the map (Having eliminated the Terrans, Iconians and taken territory from the Dregin, Torians and Yor) and I was in the lower left corner with 25 worlds. Which means no matter how much range I put on a ship it will not reach all of their territory. Of course the first thing I do at the start of any war is take out all the AIs starbases. Those that were in range (2 economic, 1 morale and 1 research and an assorted number of economy and military starbases. I have yet to find any military resource bases that would explain that high attack/defense the korx have in this game and theres not much left to explore.
Oh just to make it clear its not the high attack or defense that I found surprising its finding ships with with both.

Oh and through all this I have 1 military resource with full modules in place.

Hell that's just a pathetic flea without a fleet, and if it's on a gigantic map with abundant planets then it's not gonna do a thing to its economy, send a fleet of frigates and get that of the bottom of your shoe.

It got pretty brutal there for a bit but in the end those dreadnought didnt help them much