Favourite Extra Unit

[Flying_Bread]

Just wondering what everyone's favorite optional unit is. Personally I really like the rebalanced vampires and Zenith Mirrors.

[Montaire]

I use Teleporting Battle-Stations a LOT.

Build your cap in I, II and III and you can respond to threats all over your territory within 10 seconds.

They are fantastic for mop up, too.

They are even good at offense, if you manage them well. You can hop in, fire a huge volley at frigates, and hop out before the enemies shots land on you.

I'll also use them to draw off defending forces.

[superking]

for me, shield boosters are great if you like to unlock MK1 - MK3 bombers at the start, basically gives them shield levels of spacetanks (5x boost!), only with normal speed and 5x the HP

[Minty]

Zenith Beam Frigates. Those things do truly *unpleasant* things to AI turret-balls, and from standoff range too.

[RCIX]

Autocannons. Cloaked, tough as nails, faster than Sonic, and effective at turret and high value target raiding.

[Frozen Critical]

Ether Jets

"TINY CART WON'T MOVE BY ITSELF"

"What the hell? The Carts Moving by itself!"

[DakaSha]

all of the small ships that come in large numbers. I think Autocannons may be my favorite (in terms of success)

[rubikscube]

parasites for more awesome ships

[Infra_HMV]

Space Planes! great for penetrating enemy lines!

[triggerman602]

I use parasites alot. Iv reached cap on ships that i cant even build when iv used them.

[Affine]

So far, Raptors, by a fairly wide margin.

[superking]

I retract my previous answer, there is a new contender

Zenith Mirrors

absolute win!

[Ozymandiaz]

I used to like FF beares, but they are not as effective anymore now that the unit clumps are wider then they used to.


For some reason I really like teh Bulletproofs tho. They bascially double my fighterclass, while being nice in raids with ion cannons.

[NickAragua]

link=topic=5255.msg37214#msg37214 date=1273256399]I use Teleporting Battle-Stations a LOT.[/quote]
Seconded.

The benefits of defense have been outlined already, but for offense, they take the place of raid starships: blow up guard posts quickly then mop up the defenders/retaliation strike on my own terms.

[rubikscube]

really counts down on how you play