RuariNetherwood

You can do the opposite aswell sell very powerful shield techs for example and reasearch Mass driver/missile weapons. Although I've found that the AI underuses defence until late in the game. Do you think the AI overvalues the defence techs aswell or is it just the offensive techs. I have played some games when the AI will not trade me Mass driver III even if I offer him all my planets all my techs and my money. Never had that for a defens

I completed this mission on beginner last night. I decided after about the 4th restart to go for a technological/star base victory on this one. Started off by colonising all the planets down the right hand side keeping most pretty balanced with one economy/population and another research based. Once that had been done and I had made contact with the non dread lord races I started the CIA approach to warfare. Basically I tech traded with everyone even t

I used this strategy allot in the second and third mission of the campaign. Not really a victory condition as such, but it can give you a large military advantage within the limited area of a built up star base. I used it as a attack strategy against the "dread lords" in the third mission of the campaign because they were fenced in to one star system but had much better ships than I did. They were also building two types of ship one with 40 missile att