wilki24

BTW, thanks for all of the replies. This is a very friendly and knowledgeable community!

Hmm, I hadn't thought of using even smaller ships. I've got 17 in each fleet now. However, I went and researched shields all the way, and I've made a fleet with over 1000 shield defense. I figured I'd use my attack fleet to take it down to 1 hp, and then send in my highly shielded ships to finish it off, since they should be able to absorb at least one volley from the DL ship. However, after following my ships all over the map (You can lure them away from your population center

Right! It's like the "uncanny valley" thing for art. The rest of the game has been so much fun that something like this that doesn't seem to play by the rules really sticks out and detracts from the overall game experience. I'm sitting here trying to decide if I want to fire up DA and continue or not. It's really that annoying

Right, it does seems that even though I am the attacker, some odd rule is coming into play that ensures that the DL ship fires first. This thing has 800+ attack... nothing I can build right now can surive a single volley.

I'm playing my first game of DA, and enjoying it quite a bit. I'm several days into it, and thought it was cool when the dread lords showed up. There is one dreadnaught that is flying around my territory blowing up anything and everything it can, which hurts. I figured I'd counter this thread by building a lot of high offensive ships, and throw them at the big dreadnaught. However, no matter how many times I attack it, I can't actually destroy it. I can get it down to 1/123 HP