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Offline hilariouslijah

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Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« on: May 31, 2014, 01:32:27 am »
Hey all, I'm new to AI war, and I recently started a campaign with one of the AI types as "Shield Ninny". I am already regretting my decision, as a planet that I really want (It has an Advanced Research Station, a Distribution Node, and a Showdown Device) is equipped with a fortress >:(. I have launched 3 massive waves, consisting of most of my fleet (including the Campion and a lot of starships), but I just can't kill the damn thing. :'(. I am hoping someone can enlighten me about strategies against fortresses.
P.S: It's a MK III fortress, so yeah.

Offline Lancefighter

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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2014, 01:45:03 am »
bombers are basically immune to fortresses. One thing I maybe could recommend is the use of warheads - you have three choices, with varying results and AIP:

EMP warhead - Kinda nice, makes everything quiet so you can do random things. Planet-wide effect, 30s or so per

Lightning warhead - blows up small ships first, good at clearing tons of junk, not so great against fortresses

Armored warhead - super great at blowing up fortress, marginally less useful against masses of units (lower range is mostly the thing).

Either of these will really help if you absolute *must* have it. Otherwise, consider waves of suicide bombers to blow up the fortress - A fortress basically cannot destroy bombers. (or any polycrystal hull). itll be timely and kinda expensive, but eventually the fort will die.

Final option is just to ignore it. A fort's range is actually kinda small , so you can blow up what you need and take the command station and then put up your own, getting the ars and other things.
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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2014, 02:26:07 am »
Alternatively, you could spend some knowledge to unlock one of the higher mark turrets. They have radar dampening, and a max range greater than that, so if you build, say, mk2 missile turrets they should take the fort out with no trouble whatsoever.
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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2014, 02:55:30 am »
If you're using Missile Turrets, Mark I should do just fine  :)

Or Sniper Turrets for that matter.
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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2014, 04:07:13 am »
Or destroy the command station on that world and those on all the adjacent ones - it might deprive the Fortress and the shields of supply.
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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2014, 05:53:42 am »
Thanks! I'll try the warhead strategy. The problem is, the command station has invincibility and the generation is right next to the damn fortress. >:( Thanks again.

Offline vigilo confido

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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2014, 12:09:08 pm »
Fortresses are not that hard. Just send bomber starships as they take only 1% damage from fortresses.

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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2014, 07:41:22 pm »
final option not yet presented is to hack it sabotage hack will do the job if i remember right

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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2014, 05:41:11 pm »
Sabotage hack would be my reccomendation.  They really save my bacon from time to time.  If you think a Mk3 fort is bad alone, try one under a forcefield next to a bomber-vaporizing laser guard post...

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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2014, 11:18:07 pm »
Sabotage hack would be my reccomendation.  They really save my bacon from time to time.  If you think a Mk3 fort is bad alone, try one under a forcefield next to a bomber-vaporizing laser guard post...

That's easy.  Blow up the guard post first.  Non-bomber units CAN get into range of it before they all die.  Bombers, OTOH will never even tickle the shield.

Try a laser guard post under a force field adjacent to a fort.  You're fucked if you don't use bombers and your bombers are fucked.

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Re: Er... *Cough Cough.. Help?
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2014, 08:12:37 am »
In that case you will have to beachhead the planet. Use Mark >= II Needler Turrets to destroy the Force Field, then Sniper Turrets to destroy the Laser Guard Post and then Bombers for the Fort.

If I remember correctly HBCs also have radar dampening so they can be used to destroy the fort too. I think I destroyed a Super Fortress with a Mark IV HBC once.
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