Mining Golem - How?!

[MaxAstro]

Just looking for some advice on how to take this bastard down.  It triggered on my ally's main resource planet (not to mention a planet with a Zenith Power Plant) and if we lose that planet we are probably out of the game.

I read about a strategy for kiting them with Fortresses, but we don't have the knowledge to unlock Forts at the moment (or the time to devote to such a trick; we also have a clock ticking on a human resistance base we have to go save).  Are we SoL, or is there a force sufficient to overpower a Mining Golem?  For the record, we have tier 3 autocannon minipods, tier 3 grenade launchers, and tier 1 armor ships for our "special" units; I have tier 3 fighters and bombers and my ally has Spire starships.

[x4000]

I think that those tier three bombers, grenade launchers, and spites would do the trick nicely.  If you are getting down to the wire where it is really close to being a loss, then it is also closer to the planet center -- so you can do things like put turrets in its way, or stuff like that.  You could also use some Zenith SpaceTime Manipulators (if you unlock them) to make your ships faster and able to get out there and kill that guy quicker.

Having him spawn on such a key planet of yours is really unlucky, so I'd focus on that before the rebelling human colony.  You might also be able to get tricky with either transports to get ships right up next to him and then hitting him (force fields are pointless against him).

There aren't any ships with special bonuses against golems in general, so what you want are ships with a high degree of damage output in general.  The spire and other starships that hit hard may be a good idea, but they will also be taking heavy damage.  If you are ready to retreat them for repairs, they might have some success MRS with starship space tugs is even better, if the space tugs stay close.

The main thing to remember about defending against him (in terms of your ships) is that he hits really hard (10,000 damage) but only against a single ship.  So he is inherently weaker against large groups of ships.  If you group ALL of your autocannons againt him that might provide some good effect.  Certainly, keeping lots of little ships around him to distract his shots may also help preserve your larger ships if he takes that bait.  Anything that is cheap, numerous, and does a lot of damage is the best bet, though most ships only have two out of the three of those qualities.

Hope that helps!

[Don Carsto]

Hello,

a few minutes ago, killed my first mining golem.
Its really possible but first I thought its impossible.
Loaded two transporters with mark I, mark II, mark III and mark IV Bombers.
Cause dont have so much ressources and time I only have at all 400 bombers.
Go in the system, fly in the outer space to meet the golem early enought to can kill him before
destroy the system.
He began to fire on my transporters.
But only shoot one down to 2.000.000 before I open the gates and give him what he never will forget.

But then......
He kills my bombers not very fast but constantly and first the mark I, then Mark II and he will do so on before I
can low his health to 35.000.000.
I think.. oh my god.. Impossible with my super strong bombers. What can I do.
I remember 2 hops away I have some Mark I Zenith ships for defence.
Think okay. Send out the transporters, get them here and look what they can do.

Waiting for coming back of the transporters still bombing on the golem.
About down to 33.000.000.
Very quick, I got my Zenith ships to the golem and began to attack him.
Not very much of them only a mix of less than 200, But I saw one type of them kill his health extremly.
In short tim down to 25.000.000, then 20.000.000 and so on.
Thought the Z-Mirrors, but they are all killed at first.
No... The Zenith Polarizers done the job.
This Mark-I-Z-Polaryzers killed this mining bastard..
51 go in the battle, 32 come back home.
I was very surprised about that and very happy done this impossible job..
My fleet was not crunshed to much and the planet is solved.

Another great victory for the human race..

Cu,
Don Carsto...

[RCIX]

Yea, keep this in mind:
 * Impulse Reaction Emitters shred high energy ships
 * Polarizers shred high shield ships

They can save your bacon if you have to take out a mining Golem or Superfortress or something

[Frozen Critical]

Polarizers all the way

but the problem is getting close to them , but still , Since you got this far , you'll find a way to get close to that thing and .leave it in pieces

[Ancestral]

I destroyed a mining Golem with a Super Fortress one time.

[Don Carsto]

Polarizers all the way

but the problem is getting close to them , but still , Since you got this far , you'll find a way to get close to that thing and .leave it in pieces

get close to them is no problem.
yesterday I did it again.
at left 30 minutes of his arriving
send out 4 Transporters.
2 full with bombers.
1 with 112 polarizers mixed mk1 and 2.
and one empty transporter cause
maybe one can be killed.
the system was 2 hops away from my
system and so the transporters got some
damage to arrive the system.
than flight straight against the Golem.
followed by some KI ships from the system.
my bombers killed them and go on to
meet the golem.
at the meeting point get out the
bombers and polarizers. killed the Golem
in about 30 seconds.
all stuff back in the transporters and
flight back home.
Most of the guys came back home cause
it was a very short fight.
the bombers only was used to protect
the polarizers and kill the enemy KI ships.

but after all I must say, killing a mining golem
is really easy.

[superking]

Impulse Reaction Emitters shred high energy ships

they fail against shielding though, they are almost useless vs electric bombers