Very interesting observations there. We must play a game sometime

I concur, I think it would be cool if they actually had trenches you could put guys in! I would love that.

One time i accidently sent 1 platoon of stormies and a biker scout to an enemy base on Ryloth. The enemy had 2 mines(when destroyed create a platoon of troops), troop center, and a mech factory. Plus i had to fight the Twi'leks and rancor, not to mention the dust storm.

It took about an hour but i finaly won. Basically i just tryed captureing all the turret posts (luckily i had alot of money) but i made sure that before they got destroyed i would quickly sell them and build another so that i wouldnt loose the pad. My men were resistant to the dust stom so i used that along with the rancor to my advantage. I used half my men to lure the enemy into the sand storm killing them, then i used one of my bikers to lure the rancor to the enemies base then let the rancor kill him.

The rancor proved as a distraction to keep the units that spawned busy. Then build turrets near there buildings to take them out. The turrets were only by 1 mine and the mech factory. I then used my platoon and made hit and runs on the other mine and troop center until the enemy sent troops to attack, then i would send me men to the area with a anti-infantry and bacta pad so i could heal my guys and waste the enemy troops.

In the end i lost 1 biker scout. I destroyed all the Twi'Lek buildings and rebel. And killed 43 platoons and 20 tanks.

Trenches...

Hm...

*hides in secret labratory in the town of Obvious*

We seriously mus play a game sometime Pacifica. Send me an E-mail

I don't have the connection. It really sucks. While other fight actual human opponents, I am forced to amuse myself with the AI.

Though if somehow I can get the connection, and the time...

IF I had the connection, and IF my game was working I'd play both of you.

Anyway, I find turrets a lifesaver.

1 AT-ST and a platoon of stormies against 10-12 mixed Plex's and troopers. Anti-Infantry turrets ripping them apart one by one with TIE bombers wiping out their 5 barrack's.... Victory and Alderaan captured!

Yeah, although airstrike is, IMO a bit overpowered.

If Artillery and bombing run did their damage to everyone, then they would be balanced.

I completely agree. Nothing is stupider then seeing both your armies engulfed in a tremendousa explosion and then have one totally untouched.

Bombing run is also the only way to counter this. His artillery get slaughtered before they can delpy by your artillery. And everything else(except AT-AT's, which are so slow you cna plan a defence) just gets killed by the artillery or turrets.

You could try building AA turrets unstead of AI turrets. I mean, those turrets are more for spotting that doing damage anyway, since your artillery just EATS the infantry.

Of course, with my personal experience with enemy bombers, two AA won't do jack squat to them -- they'll take everything out before they go down. :-P Strange how one enemy AA turret seems to be able to take out a whole wing of my bombers sometimes.

Here's another possible counter: Use an equal amount of your own artillery. Get a scout in there, select your artillery, and tell them to attack the furthest enemy artillery unit. Then, simply make sure you have some friendly infantry and armor screening your own artillery as they go in. The screen will get detroyed, but your own artillery should nail the enemy artillery before they get the chance to hit back. If they didn't bring reinforcement artillery, you've broken them. If you manage to keep a few infantry in reserve, you might even be able to rush their insertion point.

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[This message has been edited by BigJMoney (edited 06-11-2006 @ 00:23 AM).]

Actually, screening artillery won't work, as both MPTL's and SPAM-T's do Area of Effect damage. And now that I think about it, Anti-Vehicle turrets would be more effective. I've seen a Rebel AV turret take down an AT-AT(that was a costly skirmish).

You know, there is a way to create trenches in this game...

And yeah, I feel the AA turrets are spotty defenders... sometimes they hit, sometimes they don't. But, like BigJMoney, they always seem to knock down my bombers.

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