Anti-Raid starship...

[Mánagarmr]

So..what is most efficient against these things? They tend to come into my planet and instapop my command station...grr. Mark 3s seem to be immune to most things I toss at them.

[keith.lamothe]

I haven't checked, how are heavy beam cannons against them?

[Mánagarmr]

Well, in my last game, hilariously enough my Beam cannons wouldn't even fire at them, so...not good at all?

[keith.lamothe]

Oh, right, they were made immune to aoe, weren't they?

Hmm, what about Fortresses?

[Mánagarmr]

Fortresses might work. Too bad in this game I have no possibility to unlock them. (No knowledge and too little time to build them). Why on earth were they made immune to AoE? Too easy to counter with beamies?

[keith.lamothe]

Dunno.  And I don't think the beams were in mind, rather other forms of radial aoe.

[Sunshine!]

Lightning/armored warheads?

[Mánagarmr]

Lightning/armored warheads?

It seems a bit overkill to build a silo and spam warheads (because you will NEED to spam them against a starship with hundreds of thousands of hitpoints) to kill one ship :/ Especially if it's sitting under my forcefield shooting my command station xD

[keith.lamothe]

Well, they won't work anyway with the aoe immunity

[Mánagarmr]

*hates Raid starships*

Speaking of starships, holy crap Spires and Zenith ships are dangerous now. With their massive HP buffer they can do quite a lot of damage before getting destroyed. Had a couple of those sailing through my homeplanet after a vicious fight.

[RCIX]

*hates Raid starships*

Speaking of starships, holy crap Spires and Zenith ships are dangerous now. With their massive HP buffer they can do quite a lot of damage before getting destroyed. Had a couple of those sailing through my homeplanet after a vicious fight.

They're not so scary for me (any of them); i have just about every turret i could research, plus a few MRS and a Fortress MkI on a chokepoint planet. It's amazing how much damage a fortress can do to a spire or zenith starship if you give it time

[Trezamere]

But that's like saying it's amazing how much damage a single eyebot can do if you give it time 

[RCIX]

But that's like saying it's amazing how much damage a single eyebot can do if you give it time 

True, but an eyebot doesn't kachink 1+ percent out of a 14 million health unit with every salvo

[quickstix]

Here's a link to a previous discussion, there's a lot of good strategy in there:

http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,6532.0.html

[Loops]

This is a little strange, but I've noticed that a big group of deflector drones does excellent damage to raid starships.  They have relatively good speed and range for a fleet ship for chasing them down too.  Of course, getting these is a luck-of-the-draw thing, as I can't imagine anyone picking them intentionally.