Low-budget superfortress cracking

[RCIX]

Does anyone have a solution to cracking a superfortress when all you can build is MkI/II bombers? it devours anything else!

[x4000]

I have done it with that, buy the trick is to lure It away from everything else and to be prepared for a really long grind. Better to come back when better prepared, usually.

[RogueThunder]

If you have them, I seem to recall Zenith Cameleon and some bait working well. Though requiring notable patience.

XD Super fortresses are rather intended to be a pain.

[RCIX]

The problem is that it's guarding an ARS so i do want to snag it as soon as possible.  The other big problem is that it's cloe enough to ther ships that they basically shred the bombers while attempting to attack the Superfortress. I guess my goal next is to take another planet and K-raid for MkIII bombers, which ought to help. After that, perhaps i can use a transport full of bombers to lure out the fortress or something... *shrugs*

[Winter Born]

do you have to crack it?
Would it be possible to lure the superfort to one side and build a com station on the other side.
Even if the com station get destroyed just after completing and ARS dies just after capture you will still have the new ship from the ARS.

[RCIX]

The problem is that the superfort stands between me and the current command station, so i can't really pull that off.

[rubikscube]

only way is brute force mate

[orzelek]

Try to get some K for raid starships. As I noticed recently they are immune to missiles - fortress should die to them (albeit veery slowly).

[RCIX]

Try to get some K for raid starships. As I noticed recently they are immune to missiles - fortress should die to them (albeit veery slowly).

Superfortress -- equipped with flame wave or similar

[superking]

fly in a mobile builder via transport, and set a mega load of turrets building way off the edge of the map, especially higher MK beam turrets. pump in engineers to get them built fast.

superfort will slowly fly over and then impail itself

[Frozen Critical]

fly in a mobile builder via transport, and set a mega load of turrets building way off the edge of the map, especially higher MK beam turrets. pump in engineers to get them built fast.

superfortress will slowly fly over and then impale itself

your fail grammar disgusts me

also , use armor warheads

[rubikscube]

a 250 000 damage against 90 000 000 health, let me see, some 360 lighting warheads?

[ShadowOTE]

a 250 000 damage against 90 000 000 health, let me see, some 360 lighting warheads?

Nope: they heal up when you're not attacking them, so you'd need to build more than the absolute minimum, even assuming you had the resources to crank out that many LWs with all your engineers on them while dealing with the extra 720+ AI progress...

[Antialias]

Go find a Zenith Reserve and come back with some Mk.IV Z Mirrors. Those things absolutely CHEW through superfortresses.

At least, they did when the AI used them against mine 

[RCIX]

Go find a Zenith Reserve and come back with some Mk.IV Z Mirrors. Those things absolutely CHEW through superfortresses.

At least, they did when the AI used them against mine 

Yep, that worked. I packed a couple of transports full of Electric bombers, Polarizers, Mirrors, regular Bombers, Bombards, basically anything that was a bomber type. THe raid went well and i took it out!